Paranormal Investigations: No Situation Too Strange by EH Walter

Author:EH Walter [Walter, EH]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-12-07T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

The Halloween Collective

I walked in the door and was greeted by the now familiar smells of Bob’s cooking. My stomach rumbled.

In the kitchen Bob was just plating up his latest concoction. He smiled warily and held out a plate to me. I was starving, so I took it and sat down on the sofa. I ate it quickly and without much thought. It was typical Bob fare, 'fusion' you might call it if you were being kind. He had never really gotten a sense of what food went best at which time or what went together properly. I think breakfast that day was jam with curried rice and hash browns. With every mouthful Bob watched me in trepidation, awaiting approval, wringing his hands on a tea towel.

"Is it good?" he asked.

“Well I waas very, very hungry and it nicely filled a gap," I said honestly.

Bob seemed happy with that. He was easily pleased. He flung the tea towel over his shoulder and busied himself with more cooking - it looked like a cake mix from where I was.

After I had eaten it was time to sign off Miss X’s case. It was just late enough to call Miss X without the danger of waking her.

I plugged my mobile on to charge and dialled back the number she had called me on the previous night.

Her phone rang twice before she answered it.

"Hello!" she answered frantically, "Have you got news for me?"

"I do. There's nothing to report. He was ill, I spoke to one of the cleaning staff who said he kept to his bed with 'flu or something."

"No one was there?"

"Not a living creature. Let him recover and I'm sure he'll make it up to you."

"You think? Are you sure?"

"One hundred per cent. This case is concluded. Shall I invoice you the final amount?"

"Yes, yes do."

She hung up. I didn't feel bad about charging her - I had fought a sex crazed ghost to save her boyfriend from succubus style sex. That was worth something plus expenses.

I could probably have done with a shower, but instead I crawled straight into bed and wrapped up warm in my duvet.

What a fucking day.

*

When I awoke later my face had crumpled sheet marks embedded into it. I didn’t know what time it was, but I felt dirty and tired. I plodded straight to the bathroom and climbed into the shower. When I got out I noticed my bottles were arranged neatly on the shelf, labels forward, and I hadn’t done that. When I went back into my bedroom I found that the short period I had been showering was long enough for my bed to be made and all the clothes I had left lying around to be put away in the wardrobe or in the laundry basket.

I dressed in comfort wear – tracksuit bottoms and a t shirt – and went through to the living room slash kitchen towel drying my hair. I stopped short in the doorway. The whole room had been cleaned and tidied.

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