Janet McNulty - Mellow Summers 08 - Trick Or Treat Or Murder by Janet McNulty

Author:Janet McNulty [McNulty, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery: Cozy - Paranormal - Ghosts - Vermont
ISBN: 1489566597
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-05-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

I trailed after Alice hoping she hadn’t had a chance to completely disappear while I talked to Jack. I checked the door she had gone through.

“Hey!”

I jumped nearly crashing into the door and alerting everyone to my presence up here. “Rachel,” I hissed, “don’t do that. You scared the daylights out of me.”

She laughed. I really hoped Alice hadn’t heard her. “You should have seen your face! You were like—” she made a rendition of what I apparently looked like, “—and then you were like—” she made another “copy” of my actions, “—it was hilarious!”

She had such great timing sometimes.

“What are you doing anyway?” Rachel asked. “And where are Greg and Jackie?”

“Downstairs,” I replied. “I’m trying to spy on Alice.”

“Well you’re doing a terrible job. Making all this noise.”

“Most of the noise is coming from you.”

“Oh. Wait! Alice is alive?”

“Yes,” I said, annoyed, “If you hadn’t disappeared you would have figured that out at the same time the rest of us did.”

“So you’re trying to spy on her?”

“That’s the general idea.”

“Well, you’re doing it all wrong,” said Rachel. “Just walk through the door like this.”

She strolled through the door with ease. I groaned. Sometimes Rachel liked to point out how she could almost do anything she wanted, while I was still subject to the laws of physics. I slowly turned the doorknob and went inside. There was no sign of Alice. Rachel busied herself with rifling through the items on the shelves, tossing them all over the place.

“Rachel,” I hissed, “we’re not supposed to ransack the place.”

“Well, how are we to find what we’re looking for?” she asked, as though her reasons should have been obvious.

“People are going to notice that this place has been ransacked,” I said, “What am I supposed to tell them?”

“Tell them a ghost did it,” Rachel flung a pile of papers around.

Well that wouldn’t be far from the truth considering that a ghost was currently making the mess. However, I knew that I would be blamed. “Find anything?” I asked.

“Nope,” said Rachel as she looked through more stuff.

“What exactly are you looking for?” I asked.

“Anything that will give us a clue.”

“Well, have you seen Alice?”

Rachel turned and looked at me with a blank expression. She had forgotten who we were following.

“You know, Alice? The dead twin that is back from the dead. The one I was trying to follow.”

“Uh, she’s not here.”

No kidding. “Well, I can see that. Did you see where she went?”

“Oh, out the window,” Rachel pointed to the partially open window that I had failed to notice.

I ran to it. I thought I saw someone running across the lawn, but in the darkness I couldn’t be certain. Lightning flashed in the distance followed by a soft roll of thunder. It looked as though we were going to get a storm after all.

“It was a dark and stormy night,” said Rachel in a raspy voice.

“Will you stop?” I said.

“What”

“We don’t need the narrative.”

“I was just having a little fun. Oh, look! Skittles!” Rachel dove for the candy jar on the mahogany desk.

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