Extreme Coincidences; A Hunting Ghost Story

Chapter 17 - Moving on, moving forward

Jaay went outside Nicole's room and proceeded to his room, preparing for his bath. Jack went to the living room and relaxed since he did everything else earlier. He watched the news and saw them there, him, Jaay and Nicole, inside of a building where Dave and Lucas was.

'Guys!' he shouted, 'You might wanna see this!'

'What?! I'm in the middle of finding clothes!' Jaay shouted in his room, while dressing up for the day.

'Still in the shower.' Nicole's voice echoed through the corridors.

'Just hurry up and get here, now!'

'Coming!' Jaay shouted as he opens the door and went outside to meet Jack.

'Go on, I'll catch up later.' Nicole shouted.

'What is it?' Jaay asks, half angry and half curious in his towel.

'I thought you dressed up?' Jack started the coversation with a question.

'I was, but you called and rushed, remember?'

'Oh yeah. Well anyways, look at the television and see for yourself.'

Jaay, in his shocked state, tries to recuperate the situation. 'Are those us? In our school?'

'Yep.'

'Was that why you took a picture when we first got there?'

'You saw that?' Jack asked, shocked too because of Jaay's unwilling discovery.

'Yeah, why do they have that picture?'

'They asked me for it when I reported the case, they flagged it with murder.'

'Who does that? Well, did they find out who the suspect was?'

'Yep, look at the headline.'

'Wow.' Jaay finished their conversation as Nicole entered the room.

Nicole sat on the other side of the face, with a questioning face. 'What is going on? What is it? she asked, 'Also, why are you still shirtless in your towel, Jaay?'

'Well, I wasn't able to dress up because of this news, look.'

Nicole looked at the their 60 inches television and tries to understand the situation.' Why are we there in the television?' she asked.

'Well, like I told you, we're promoted and delegated because of our discovery.'

'Oh, that is surprising. How did they know?'

'I called 911 and they helped us recover. I told them half the truth I saw, they don't know about Joy, just that Jesse's death is connected with Dave and Lucas' case. I do think that Joy might've possessed the guys and attacked them both.' Jack explained.

'Why do you think so?' Jaay asked while the water droplets on his body dried off.

'Maybe because the suspects have no recent case and they never went to jail.' Jack answered.

'Interesting.' Nicole said as he stares at Jaay.

'What's interesting? The case or me?' Jaay asked.

'The bo..- the case, I mean.'

'Well, good news is we don't have to worry about anything else now, we can relax.' Jack tries to change the subject.

'Yeah, wanna go out for a trip? Let's try not to stumble upon other spirits.' Jaay said hurously.

'Yeah, we should.' Nicole said, still staring at Jaay.

'Where should we go?' Jack asked.

'To a carnival? To the mall?'

'To the carnival it is!' Jaay shouted.

'Okay, I'll drive. Let's grab lunch and dinner on the way.' Jack said.

'I will just get dressed and follow down to the car, you guys should go and wait for me.' Jaay said, Nicole feeling disoriented and irritated because he is going to get dressed soon.

'Okay, let's go downstairs now Nicole.' Jack said, 'Are you going to get something before we go?' he asked.

'Just my wallet and phone.'

'Okay, I will just wait for you.'

Nicole went to her room, as did Jaay and they both get ready. When Nicole went out, she saw Jaay get out of his room as well. Nicole is starting to feel affection towards Jaay, it starts to bug her.

'Hey.' Jaay said.

'Hi, where's Jack? I thought he will go down with me?'

'Oh, he went down just now, he forgot he has to prepare the engine.'

'Okay, lets go down.'

'So how've you been? Are you feeling okay?' Jaay asked as he opens the door.

'Yeah, I'm doing great. Just curious, have you ever had an ex?'

'No, single since birth. Why? It's not like you can't know if I do had one, we live together.

'Okay, as I said, just curious.' Nicole said and they went in the elevator.

'You have a nice outfit today.'

'Thanks, I bought it in target.'

'Oh, I had a rough history with that mall. I was suspected as a shoplifter, I got hit by a baton on my lower back.Would you like to see it?'

'Yeah, sure. That's terrible. Never knew that before.' Nicole said, feeling excited to see Jaay's back.

'It's still there, do you see the bruise?'

'You never told us about that.'

'It's my little secret.' Jaay said. Nicole looking so interested about him.

'Checking me out?' Jaay jokingly said.

'No.' Nicole blushed and looked away.

The elevator doors opened and they went outside. They went out the entrance door and saw Jack waiting outside while inside the car. Jack was fixing something so he was distracted. Unknowingly, Jaay and Nicole were holding hands, Nicole noticed Jaay's warm hand and they let go.

'Hey Jack! You okay there? Need help?' Jaay shouted.

'I am okay, get in.'

Jaay entered the back seat, Nicole was struggling to think what seat she would sit on. In the front with Jack or the back with Jaay?

'You should go at the back, it's messy on the other front seat.' Jack requests Nicole so she doesn't have to struggle her way in the seat.

'Hey, I dropped something, can you wait? I'll have to go get it. Please?' Jaay pleaded.

'Go ahead, we will be here.' Nicole responded and so Jaay goes outside.

'How are you?' Jack started the conversation in the car.

'I'm fine, just a little excited.'

'I don't like how you looked at Jaay earlier.'

Nicole thinks 'Is he getting jealous? Should I be worried? Why are they only telling this to me now? I am really concerned of their reactions.' She says, 'What? Why?'

'It's just, ugh. Nevermind.'

'Are you okay?'

'I am fine as ever, its just, you know how I feel right? I hope you understand.' he says and Jaay appeared and knocked on the window. Nicole opened the car door and allowed Jaay to enter.

'So should we go?' Jaay asks.

'Sure.' Jack answered with a timid voice.

Author's Note

There's no February 14 in my calendar but I do hope you're going to like the romance in this horror story. Enjoy it while it last.