Stuck (Venturiantale)

Surprise Surprise

Everyone quickly showered and got ready for bed wanting to get as much sleep as possible before we were back on the road in the morning.

Gertrude and Papa Acachalla were on one bed while Sally and Billy slept on the bed next to them. As siblings they were fine with sleeping in the same bed so I, thankfully got a big bed all to myself. I smiled blissfully as I drifted off to sleep on the soft silk sheets.

Thank God for hotel workers with crushes on Papa Acachalla.

CRASH!

The sound of breaking glass woke me from my slumber. I shot up in my bed and saw the others still asleep. The noise seemed to have come from the opposite side of the room where our bags were.

I looked to my left to find two figures. One was shorter with dark brown hair that looked like he wrung his hands through his hair frequently, and a gray hoodie. He was rather pale and scarred. Next to him was a taller handsome figure, not that the other one was terrible on the eyes either, with tousled lighter brown hair. He was similarly scarred and wore a tan jacket. He carried a strange device that kind of looked like a barcode scanner.

It was Johnny Ghost and Johnny Toast.

"Sir, where exactly are we?" I sat in shock as the two conversed.

"I'm not sure Toast. What readings are you getting on the Detector?"

"I'm not picking up any paranormal entities sir, but we seem to be in some kind of hotel."

"Why would you say that?"

"Well sir, there's a list of food available from room service on the desk and there appears to be a girl laying in the bed by us staring at us." Now they both turned to stare at me and I froze under their gaze.

Dang. Toast really was a looker.

I waved awkwardly at them pulling the duvet over my chest as I sat up. Ghost and Toast wasted no time coming over and introducing themselves.

"I'm Johnny Ghost and this is my partner Johnny Toast. We're paranormal investigators."

"I know." I blurted out before I could stop myself.

"How do you know? Did you kidnap us? What do you want with us?" Ghost stepped closer with each question until he was right in front of me. Toast pulled him back with a nervous chuckle.

"I think what my partner means to ask is where exactly are we miss? And who are you?" Toast extended a hand out to shake.

"I'm Rowan and you're kind of in my hotel room. Which is somewhere in Colorado. I'm not exactly sure where." I took Toast's offered hand and was surprised when he brought it up to his face and kissed my knuckles. Oh my Lordy I may swoon.

"Where is Colorado? Is it in the 13th Dimension?" Ghost asked.

"Not exactly. It's in America on Earth."

"Toast make note of that." Toast took a notepad out of his pocket and jotted it down.

"Why have you brought us here?" Ghost asked.

"I didn't bring you here!" Suddenly I realized where they had come from, "But I think I know what did." I got out of bed wrapping myself in my blanket since it was rather cold in the room. I motioned for them to follow me into the living room area so that we wouldn't wake the Acachallas. Thankfully they were heavy sleepers.

I grabbed my laptop and opened it. A P.I.E. roleplay video had been pulled up.

"The Acachallas must have pulled this video up by accident when they were watching videos on here." I realized.

"What are you talking about?" Ghost asked.

I quickly explained to them how they had come to be here, how I knew who they were, and what was going on. They listened attentively occasionally interrupting to ask questions such as, "Are you sure a ghost didn't cause this?" "Are you sure your laptop isn't haunted?" "Do fangirls really like Toast more than me?"

After I had answered all of my questions Ghost had wandered off mumbling something about checking the hotel for ghosts, and I was left in awkward silence with Toast.

"If you know who we are do you also know about Sir's 'blackouts'?" Toast asked seriously.

"If by blackouts you mean how he sometimes turns into a psychotic serial killer named Jimmy Casket then yes, I do know."

Toast looked somewhat relieved by the fact that I already knew and was about to say something when Ghost burst back in.

"Toast, Rowan, looks like we have a ghost on our hands."

Author's Note:

So what did you think of my surprise?

I've been excited to add these two to the story for awhile. If you have any other characters you'd like to see in the story don't hesitate to comment who!