The Haunted_Edit Copy 4-7-17

Susannah. As in, Tucker’s friend who had the haunted dorm
room? I couldn’t help but grin and wonder if they’d ever hooked up.
He was so dorky and she was so ... well, hot.
Jotting on a mental post-it to interrogate him later, I reached
out to shake her hand. It was super soft and perfectly manicured.
“Nice to meet you.”
“I’m Ethan,” the next occupant of the black car piped up as
he approached. His hands were busy holding two bulky black
equipment cases, but he nodded at me. He had a mane of blond hair
that fell around his shoulders and a scruffy beard that made him look
an awful lot like a really short, much-less-jacked version of Thor.
The last two members of the group were an older man with
thinning silver hair named Brad and a tall woman in her thirties with
a sleek brown bob named Adrian.
Once the introductions were made, Tucker handed me an
equipment case. “Here you go, Chelsea. Anything in there, feel free
to use. They’re all my extras.”
“Thank you!” I figured that he would give me one or two
things to use, but I hadn’t expected an entire case full. I reached out
to take it from him and my arm dropped a few inches from the
sudden weight. “Gosh, what’s in here?”
“Two flashlights, a digital camera, a digital voice recorder,
two different EMF meters, and a lot of extra batteries.” He grinned
at me, and then he turned to face the rest of the group. The sun was
tucking itself into the horizon and the sky around us was painted
different shades of pink. I was standing on a sidewalk surrounded
by a group of very normal looking people. All of them seemed
friendly and enthusiastic, and the one in charge was quickly
becoming a good friend. It was definitely not at all what I had
expected.
“Alright, everyone. I think that both Mr. and Mrs. Mason
will be home tonight, but I made sure they know they need to sit
quietly and not follow us around while we’re working. We’ll go in
and set up base camp in the kitchen, and then we’ll do a walkthrough
of the house and figure out where everyone wants to start. Ethan and
Susannah will be one group, and Brad and Adrian will be the other.
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