The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

Chapter 40

Sunshine is... confused. She's sitting on her trampoline, dark gray clouds rolling over her head. The wind swaying branches back and forth nearby drenches her in an icy calmness. She isn't sure how to feel, not after... well, y'know. That.

So. Nolan. LeMaster, or, maybe LeMaster. She doesn't even know anymore. It's all just really weird.

First of all, Nolan had been struggling with something the days prior — he'd hesitated explaining everything about his past, and Sunshine is determined to figure it out. On top of that, it seemed like Nolan knew LeMaster. Seriously? What's that all about?

Shit. Don't even get her started on the whole gun thing.

She supposes she's less stressed because— well, no one was really hurt. Sure, Nolan had put a few bullets in demon(?) LeMaster, but then he'd literally jumped from his place on the floor and acted insane. Shouting things at her, trying to destroy her...

Ugh. Maybe Nolan's been right about all of this. Sunshine's starting to believe she's a Luiseach. Starting to believe that there's actually a— don't laugh— paranormal war going on. That has to be it. Seriously.

And on top of that, both LeMaster and Nolan had just— poof! Disappeared! Wonderful. Amazing. Now Sunshine's left with no answers and absolutely no one to help her. Her mother's still shaken up about the whole thing, granted, but Nolan's expertise in the field does help. Now... well. She feels just as alone as she did when Kat was possessed.

Maybe it didn't happen. That would be, well, nice. A drug trip. Maybe Nolan drugged the camera, too. That would be better than believing all of this shit.

Even worse, she hasn't been able to get a hold of Nolan since. It's... it's weird, she doesn't like it, and she needs some fucking answers.

There's only one lead she has to follow. Better now than never, right...?
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Sunshine arrives at the warehouse. She's bored, tired of thinking, and honestly needs something to give her a little action in her life. It looks the same, dull and lifeless, but it seems like people are actually working here.

Still. There's nothing going on, and no clue of any stray cars Sunshine might need to chase.

Yeah. Bad clue. This place sucks.
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Uncle Tommy's here.

So, apparently, he's— upset about something? She's not quite sure, but sits down on the couch anyway, facing Kat and her not-uncle.

"What are you doing?" Kat groans.

"Nothing," Sunshine says.

"Uh. Camera in your hand? Having a conversation? Family?" She waves her hand between she and Uncle Tommy.

Speaking of. "Grown up... time?" he tries.

Kat drops her arms and glares at him. "Grown up time? It— it involves Sunshine, she has to be a part of this."

"Okay." He sighs and looks at Sunshine, frowning. "It's just— I don't know a lot about this stuff, okay?"

"Neither do we!" Kat insists.

"Well, you're the ones that keep inviting it into your house!"

"We did no inviting—"

He leans forward. "Like, you busted out the Ouija Board back—"

"We never even did the Ouija Board and stuff happened." Kat nods, staring at him. "It is all coming to her." She points at Sunshine. "It— it's all her."