The Haunted_Edit Copy 4-7-17 no reviews

try and give this a chance. It may not be exactly what you think.” He
winked at me.
I actually had to smile a little at the chick flick reference.
Being a female, I had seen my share of girly rom-coms and dramas,
and I actually agreed with him on that one. They were total hell to
sit through. “I’ll try it. Thanks.”
“See you later, Chelsea,” he said as I turned to follow my
dad down the aisle. I realized that I didn’t know his name; he hadn’t
been wearing a name tag like they did in big commercial stores.
Mental note: be sure to ask on the way out. It was the least I could
do in a desperate attempt at politeness after calling him a weirdo.
It turned out that the store had a back room that was only
partially filled with books. All of the walls were pretty much
papered in stacks, but the middle of the room was a clear space with
a few rows of chairs set up. In the front, beside a table loaded with
equipment on display, were a man and a woman wearing black t-
shirts that read, “Lark Hollow Paranormal Research.” Lark Hollow
was a few towns north of us in central Massachusetts. I’d been there
plenty of times to go to the mall, but I’d had no idea they harbored
a creepy group of …
Knock it off, Chelsea. Stop being so judgmental. Fear was
not an excuse for being a bee-otch.
Dad had taken a seat right in the front — why was I not
surprised — so I sat down to his left, favoring the end of the row.
“Look at all their gadgets!” my dad gushed, pointing
blatantly at the table. “How cool is this?”
“Very cool, Dad,” I mumbled. My fingers toyed with my
phone in my pocket, tempting me to pull it out and text Michelle.
When I’d told her that my dad wanted to go to this, she said, “Wait,
is that where they dance around a circle and sacrifice animals?” I
explained to her that no, ghost hunting was not some kind of
ritualistic cult activity. At least as far as I knew. But at least she
shared my wariness of it.
The room began to fill up quickly as people filtered in
through the doorway and selected seats. Before I knew it, there were
a good twelve people besides us filling up the chairs. Twelve people
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