Haunted by Amber Lynn Natusch

Author:Amber Lynn Natusch
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Amber Lynn Natusch
Published: 2012-01-29T13:00:00+00:00

22

“Ruby,” she said with an edge of curious condescension. “I can think of about a million captions to go along with this picture, all of which are award winning for sure, but I'd really rather you just tell me why you're laying face down in the middle of the store. If you can that is.”

I was looking up, extending only my neck to see her. I smiled, realizing that if she hadn't been the classy kid she was, a picture of me plastered to the floor of my shop would have ended up on the internet for sure. After I peeled myself off of the knotty pine floor and dusted myself off, I made a mental note to mop the floor before leaving. Ghost or no ghost, I needed to have a presentable space.

“There was, uh, an incident,” I said, hesitating to find the right words. “Our not-so-friendly ghost was here again while I was alone.”

Her expression darkened as I filled her in on the basics of what had occurred. I tried to pretty it up as much as I could to keep the creepy factor down, but she needed the facts. Kid or not, Peyta was on that thing’s radar and she deserved to be kept in the know.

As I pondered how best to keep that delicate balance in the future, something hit me – maybe people weren’t being haunted at all. Maybe it was the space. Maybe my building had something dormant attached to it until Cooper showed up. He did have an uncanny knack for being mildly irritating at times, and maybe Casper the unfriendly ghost just wasn't having it. I shared my idea with Peyta who seemed to think the idea had merit.

“It's totally plausible,” she informed me. “When my mom and I were moving around a lot, back when I was a kid, we lived in about a dozen different places. At least a couple of them had entities attached to the home, or a room.”

Interesting…

“So what did you do? I mean, can anything be done at all?”

“Depends,” she answered, sounding mildly aloof.

“On?”

“On what it is, and why it's there,” she said, pulling a lollipop from her knapsack and unwrapping it slowly.

“And how would one venture to gain such information?” I asked, mildly perturbed. I didn't like having to drag conversation out of people.

“Depends,” she said with a shrug, popping the sucker in her mouth.

“Say 'depends' one more time and I'm leaving you at home alone while Cooper and I check into a hotel for the night.”

“It depe—” she said, cutting herself off before saying the “d” word. “It revolves around whether or not the entity is sentient. If it's a residual being, they tend to do things on a loop, like they're a skipping record just playing out the same event over and over again infinitely. However, if it is indeed aware of what's going on in present time, you could technically ask it, but it needs to show itself for that to happen. That doesn't seem to be happening here.

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