Spooky Business by Creek Addison

Author:Creek, Addison [Creek, Addison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-20T23:00:00+00:00

By the time I went up to my attic room that night, I had all but forgotten about Lady Oakley. When I stepped inside and turned on the light, her voice set me straight immediately.

The room was still musty, with cobwebs in the corner.

“What do you think you’re doing?” she demanded hotly.

“Nothing much. Just coming into my room,” I said, sighing inwardly.

Lady Oakley was standing by the window at the far end of the room, staring out at the dark grounds with her hands clasped gently in front of her.

I flicked the light back off so I could see her shifting form more easily in the darkness.

“Can’t you do that somewhere else?” she demanded.

“No, this is my attic now,” I said.

“Crying shame,” she said. “Maybe I’ll try to get rid of you yet.”

“I wouldn’t,” I said. “You won’t like whoever my mother sticks up here next any better.”

“Will they leave the light off?” she asked.

“I doubt it,” I muttered.

“Oh, very well,” she grumbled. “By the way, you should really figure out what happened to those skeletons. The ghosts aren’t happy,” she sniffed. “In my day this never would’ve happened.”

“Oh, no? Why is that?”

“We managed the property better.”

“Don’t let my mother hear you say that.” My mom worked hard and did a great job. I never liked hearing anyone, ghost or living person, imply otherwise. “In your day you didn’t have anywhere near as many ghosts and skeletons to contend with,” I pointed out.

Lady Oakley didn’t appreciate this observation. “Maybe not. Still, skeletons getting attacked never happened in my day.”

“Did anything strange happen when you were running the mansion? Right when the haunted house opened?” I asked.

“Of course not,” Lady Oakley started to say. Then she paused thoughtfully.

“Something did happen?” I said, getting excited despite how tired I was.

“No, I don’t think so. It’s certainly nothing.” But her eyes widened as she said it.

“Now you have to tell me,” I insisted, crossing my arms over my chest and waiting.

Lady Oakley drifted over to where I was sitting on my bed. “Something did happen a long time ago. When we first started here, obviously the basement was empty. It wasn’t such a network of passages and tunnels that we couldn’t go into it before it was taken over by ghosts and skeletons.

“The first ghost to go into the basement and disappear was when I was still here. One day he was working at the haunted house as usual, and the next day he had vanished. I was never sure why, but I thought it had something to do with one of the skeletons. Fudgy, the ghost who disappeared downstairs, was named Fudgy Bail.”

I frowned. “You think a skeleton drove him out?”

“Something sure did, and it wouldn’t surprise me if that something was still here. The skeletons have always been the most hostile. You live at a year-round haunted house and you didn’t expect there to be spooky things?” Lady Oakley turned up her nose at my foolishness.

“Spooky and attacking the Skeleton Trio are two different things,” I said defensively.

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