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Shortly after We Came as Romans blared from my phone as<br />

it rang again. When I picked it up, his voice echoed with the same<br />

enthusiasm as it had when he first found the EVP. “Dude. He’s right.<br />

This is dead on.”<br />

“I know!” I giggled, suddenly feeling giddy. It had to be<br />

from the discovery, right?<br />

“We should celebrate,” he decided. “Do you want to hang<br />

out tonight?”<br />

“I’d like to, but I’m working until eleven.”<br />

“Oh. Well, we’re doing another investigation on Saturday.<br />

Would you want to come along again? Susannah was asking for<br />

you.”<br />

In spite of my inhibitions, I really did want to go on another<br />

investigation with them. <strong>The</strong> first one had broken out a part of me I<br />

hadn’t even known existed, and I wanted to get to know her a little<br />

better. And besides, this whole evidence-of-the-paranormal thing<br />

was becoming a little addictive. I’d actually plugged my recorder<br />

into my car so I could listen to it on the way to and from work and<br />

search for more EVPs. I hadn’t found anything yet, but that only<br />

made me more eager to come across another.<br />

I couldn’t keep avoiding Tucker forever, anyway. Maybe I<br />

felt a little awkward now that I realized how hot he actually was, but<br />

that was okay. I could be attracted to him in the heat of the moment<br />

without hurting anyone.<br />

“Yes. I’d love to come.”<br />

Over the course of the following month, I went on three more<br />

investigations with his group. Each time, the people in the team<br />

changed up. Tucker wasn’t always the team leader; once there had<br />

been another man in charge. But I still got to pair up with him every<br />

time. More than once, I caught myself just sort of gazing at him and<br />

wondering what it might be like to kiss him. But I always managed<br />

to shake it off and refocus. I was doing a good job of convincing<br />

myself that it was still just fueled by the excitement and all the<br />

emotion being tossed around inside me during investigations.<br />

As far as evidence went, we didn’t gather anything else solid.<br />

Some of the group members were more sensitive to the spirit energy<br />

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