Bring on the Poltergeists by T Paulin

Author:T Paulin [Paulin, T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Khan and Eli climbed the wooden staircase, moving toward the scratching sound.

When they reached the top, Khan nodded for Eli to turn left. “You do a visual check the bathroom.”

“Visual? Check it for what?”

“Poltergeists, Eli.”

“Let’s say I find one. What next? Call for you?”

“No.”

“Then I don’t understand. In horror movies, bad things happen when the people split up and go separate directions. I should go with you.”

“Then you’ll never develop your skills.”

The skittering had stopped, almost as though the paranormal entity were standing there, listening to them argue.

“Fine,” Eli said reluctantly. “I’ll go look on my own. But if I do see something, what next?”

“Look at me. Can you do this?” Khan widened his eyes and stared at Eli with a very watchful expression. The stare was so intense, Eli had to look down at his socked feet for a moment. When he looked back up, Khan was still staring, his dark green eyes wide and recriminating.

Eli couldn’t take it anymore and said, “Stop staring. You’re creeping me out more than the ghosts.”

Khan kept staring, not blinking. His eyes were watering now, and still he didn’t blink or look away.

Eli made a guess. “I’m supposed to stare at the ghost?”

Khan’s dark eyebrows lifted ever so slightly, encouraging Eli to keep going.

“I stare at the ghost and make it feel awkward? Then… I wait for it to hide inside an object? I check the temperature of the object with my hands, then we put it on the hexapod doohickeys and zap-zap?”

Khan blinked and softened his expression. “That’s exactly what you do.” Then he turned to the right and went down the hall toward the first door.

Eli felt so happy with himself for figuring out the plan of action, he forgot to feel nervous as he entered the potentially-haunted bathroom. A shower curtain was drawn across the interior of a restored claw-foot tub. Eli walked right up to the curtain and whipped it open in one sweep.

No ghost.

With his eyes wide open and ready, he yanked open cupboard doors and checked inside all the cabinets and then the drawers. He found spare toilet paper, bath toys, and waterproof picture books. He paused in thought. Waterproof picture books were a thing? Would wonders never cease.

He turned around, faced the toilet, and carefully lifted the padded toilet seat lid. He wanted to find the ghost, but not here. Please, no, not here. If poltergeists hid inside toilets, he didn’t know what he would do. Surely there were some boundaries, like the secret gangster code that criminals follow, and ghosts respected the sanctity of toilets. Haunting churches would be fine, but please, not the toilets.

Eli held his breath and gave it a test flush.

No ghost.

He checked behind the shower curtain again, felt all the objects on the counter, then left the bathroom.

He could hear Khan talking in the other room, but figured he was just talking to himself. Eli moved on to the next room, a home office. There was a computer desk, a set of golf clubs, and a stack of cardboard filing boxes.

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