The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

Chapter 58

It's been two months since they moved out of the house.

Sunshine is feeling... surprisingly happy. Okay, yeah, the exorcism was terrible, and what happened with Victoria and Nolan was a travesty.

But she's graduated now. She has full time to push toward the paranormal — save for getting a real job, not just posting ghost videos on YouTube — and is looking forward to going on new adventures.

Since the old house, Sunshine and Kat visited a cabin in the woods, which turned out to be haunted, and have now successfully moved into their new house. It's spacious, has two stories, wide rooms, and Sunshine is in love. Yeah, she misses their old home, but to new beginnings! As Victoria said, this is a new chapter in her life. She might as well make the most of it.

Until... well.

Epic beyond epic news.

Nolan called.

Yeah. He left a pretty strange message, and Sunshine feels weird and has absolutely no idea what to do. She's telling her fans — but not her mom, because, just no — and hoping to get some feedback on what the hell she should do.

Looks like her next little adventure, huh?
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Nolan's been calling a LOT. Like, way too much for any normal person.

Normal Groundling?

Anyway, Sunshine's decided to play one of his voicemails for the camera. This should be great.

"Sunshine, hey," Nolan's voice comes over the speaker as she raises the phone to her ear, raising her brows at the camera. "I, uh... I understand we've been out of touch for a while, but I think I made a lead on something paranormal and awesome."

She rolls her eyes.

"Uh, call me back, okay?" And there it ends.

Sunshine shakes her head. "See?" she tells the camera. "He has to say things like, 'I have a lead on paranormal something,' and I don't even remember what else he said, but anyways, he knows how to get to me. Remind me to never give my phone number out again." This should end up looking just wonderful if she decides to actually meet up with him.

Oh, so many choices. At least Mom's not up her ass on this one, though.

For now.
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Sunshine's not allowed to film in the house, so now she's filming outside. On the roof. Hah.

"So I know that you know," she begins, positioning herself to get comfortable as she sits outside her window, smiling softly at the thought of her fans so eager for Sunshine to contact the weirdo, "that you all want me to call Nolan back and talk to him, and I totally plan on doing that and filming it and everything, but then he... sorta took me by surprise."

She squints, turning her head to shield the sun from her eyes. "He called me while I was driving and I pulled over and I answered and—" Sunshine sighs. "I didn't have the camera with me so I kinda didn't record it. Sorry."

Probably best, anyway.

"You can all be mad at me I guess, whatever. But I talked to him and everything, and it went... really well, I think. And he really wants to see me. Like, now. Not now, but, soon." Sunshine can't control her small smile, because okay, he did betray them, but he could've done worse and, like, dragged her to the....underworld or something. She doesn't know how these things work.

"I... don't know what to do," she finishes, blowing through her teeth. "I don't really wanna see him, but I feel like I should. Mostly cause a lot of you are bugging me about it." Sunshine gives a little glare at the camera, then smiles sweetly. "But... I dunno. I need your feedback."