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who was twisting the bottom of his shirt with both hands. “Listen, I<br />
promise you that you have nothing to be scared of. We’ll make sure<br />
you’re safe. Mr. and Mrs. Johansson, you did the right thing by<br />
calling us.”<br />
He didn’t look up at me, but he nodded.<br />
With that, we donned our hoods again and opened the door<br />
to face the nasty winter air.<br />
Once we were in the car, I spun a dial on the dashboard to<br />
turn the heat up as high as I could. <strong>The</strong>n I plopped the folder into<br />
Susannah’s lap and raised my eyebrows at her. “Well.”<br />
“Dude. <strong>The</strong> husband? Complete creeper.” She ran her<br />
fingers through her hair to fix it after having been under the hood<br />
for thirty seconds.<br />
“Even the mom. <strong>The</strong> woman is absolutely convinced that<br />
there can be nothing wrong psychologically with her son.” I rubbed<br />
my hands together and held them in front of the vent, letting the hot<br />
air rush over my skin.<br />
Susannah bobbed her head. “Oh, totally. She doesn’t<br />
understand how this works at all.”<br />
“Did you get any weird EMF spikes while you were down in<br />
Timmy’s room?” I asked.<br />
“Nope. A few natural hotspots from some wires here and<br />
there, but nothing strange. I have to admit, I didn’t get any<br />
paranormal feelings anywhere in the house. And I swear I am not<br />
just saying that because I want that woman to get over herself.”<br />
I gazed past her at the quaint bi-level. “I was a little psyched<br />
out by the demon thing. So I can’t tell if I had any concrete feelings<br />
of ‘holy shit there’s a ghost in here’ or if it was all in my head.”<br />
A tinkly laugh bubbled up from her throat. “Please, girl. You<br />
did fine. Most people, especially the religious families,<br />
automatically think a ghost is evil. But we don’t even know if<br />
something was there.”<br />
She had a point. When people interacted with something<br />
they couldn’t see, their fear did have a tendency to convince them<br />
that it was evil. Case in point: pre-Tucker moi. “Did you get<br />
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