The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

Chapter 2

Sunshine can't play guitar.

Why does she even try?

She sighs, leans over and sees something out of the window. She can't exactly put her finger on what it is, but it's freaking her out.

So, what's the next best thing to do? Go downstairs and explore.

Sunshine looks around outside with her dogs, and when she turns to walk back inside, she realizes the door is closed.

Great.

Now she's being messed with.

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Her mom sits in front of the camera, looking slightly disgruntled and almost — scared?

"Okay, so, um..." Kat leans back, lips tight. "I just.. uh, kind of got on the YouTube page here and watched some of my daughter's videos. And I'm kind of, um, I'm a little bit freaked out. There's a lot of stuff that I didn't know that was going on, and — she would tell me, y'know, some of it, but a lot of it I really.. I really had no idea about."

She shakes her head. "I mean, I didn't even know about the lady that — like, that's just standing —" Kat lifts her body and looks out of the window. "She's not there right now, but, you — you know, this strange woman is just standing outside of our house, outside of our gate, just, I don't even know, I don't even know what to do. I don't know if I should stay home from work and try to catch her and ask her what she's doing, or if I should call the landlord and ask them if they know who she is, you know, I — I don't even know where she comes from, we live on a dead-end street and she walks towards the dead-end and — where's she going?"

Kat sighs and looks serious. "I don't know if I should call the police, I don't know if I should leave my dog outside, I mean, he's kind of a wuss but... I guess he could come in and protect us or something. I — I'm really not sure what to do so I'm kind of, a little bit, worried and concerned. I wish there was someone I could talk to about it. I feel like they could help me with this. But... there's really not anyone..."

She turns the camera off.
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Sunshine and her mom are sitting on the couch, watching TV.

"Legitimately," Sunshine begins, crossing her arms, "she was like, 'You know what shirt I'm gonna wear today?' This one."

"The ugly one," Kat chimes in.

"This really ugly one. Seriously, her boobs look huge and — I — I shouldn't be looking at her boobs but seriously, look at that —"

Kat wheezes. "How can you not though?"

"I mean — OHHH she — she's a drug addict!"

Kat laughs and nods along. "That's... sexayyy.."

"Oh, my god," Sunshine sighs and slaps her hand to her forehead, "I can't watch this show, we need to change it."

Sunshine watches her mother change the channel, but Kat becomes serious and looks over. "So, do I need to worry about the fact that the camera is always recording now?"

"No," Sunshine snorts, running a hand through her fuzzy hair, "I have friends over — no, I don't, actually."

A door slams.

Both women exchange glances and turn their attention toward the source of the noise.

"Did you.. leave a window open, upstairs?"

"No.. Mm-mm. No, I didn't." Sunshine smirks and almost looks snobbish.

"You must've."

"No! I — It's winter, why would I have left a window —"