Twenty Six

Story Title: Ghosthunters

Chapter Twenty Six

Damian was in his room when Laura showed up. "What are you still doing here?" Laura asked coming closer to him.

"Leave me alone old woman. Can't somebody rest in peace in this house?" Damian asked trying to walk away but Laura pulled him back.

"No body walks away from me." She said as Damian turned to look at her, he removed her hand from his clothes as he looked at her. "Well, I'm not nobody." And with that he walked out of the room.

"Damian!" Laura called following him outside as Andrea came to meet them.

"And what's going on here?" He asked when he noticed the tension in the air. But no one said anything so he decided to ask them one after the other. "Damian?" He asked looking at Damian.

"I was in my room and she came and started shouting at me. No one does that to me...just because you adopted me doesn't mean you have control over my life." Damian said turning his gaze to Laura who was looking at him in disbelief.

"Can you believe this boy? Who the hell do you think you are?" Laura asked as she came closer to him, she was this close to slapping his face when Andrea held her hand.

"Laura, stop?!" He said as they watched Damian leave the house.

"What's the matter with you? Ever since Damian came to the house, you've been really hard on him." He said as he took her to a chair, Laura sat down and turned to face her husband.

Andrea understood what that look meant. "Listen honey, I am not agreeing to that."

"Don't you miss her?" Laura asked.

"She's my daughter so you should know I do miss her but when I decided to send her off, I knew the decision I was taking. Let's just love Damian and forget about Amelia."

"What has gotten over you?" She asked her husband who was trying to calm her down. "She is our daughter... Our flesh and blood and you just want me to forget her like that?" Laura asked. "How is it so easy for you to forget her? If it's easy for you...it's not easy for me...I'm going to see her and I might not come back." With that she stood up and left her husband even when he tried to call her back.

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Amelia and Xen entered inside the house at the same time and everyone turned to look at them. Xen ignored their stares and went to his room. Clarissa came to meet her holding her hands. "This is the first time I'm seeing him socialize with another gender. What did you do to him?" She asked.

Amelia looked at her not understanding what she meant. "What are you talking about?" She asked.

"I'm talking about you and Xen, what's going on between you two?"

"Nothing. We just sat outside together and that was it." Clarissa looked at her in disbelief.

"Liar but it's cool if you don't want to share." She said folding her arms and staring at Amelia.

"Nothing is there to share... Stop making things up."

"Amelia." Devon called as Amelia looked up at him. Clarissa also stared at him too and she couldn't forget the look she saw in his eyes when he saw them together.

"As much as I would love to stay here and listen to this, I think I'll skip." Clarissa said as Amelia tried to hold her back but Clarisss was swift so she couldn't grab her in time.

"Hi Devon." Amelia said smiling.

"It's been quite a while we spoke to each other...why don't we spend more time together to make up for those years." Devon said as Amelia looked at him.

"Um..we have other things to worry about...like Carlos, Clarissa's mom and other ghost seers like us out there who needs our help, trying to build a bond now...is way out of the picture." Amelia told him as Carlos nodded in agreement.

"Then can you promise me that when all this are over, you will give me a chance?" Devon asked as Amelia bit her lip.

She really wasn't expecting this. "Well, what do you say?" He asked as he gestured her to pinky swear.

It's just to build our bond as friends right? I can give him that. She thought as she pinky swear. A smile crept Devon's face and immediately he left.

"Guys, come check this out." Jason whispered like he didn't want someone to hear him.

They came to him as he showed them a picture of a woman who hung herself in a hospital. "Former Nurse Christen woods commits suicide." Tamara reads.

"That's Clarissa's mom." Amelia said when she looked at her photos. "What date?"

"March 21st, 2021." Jason reads.

"That's a year ago...this is not good." Amelia said.

"I think we should keep it away from Clarissa for now." Xen said as everyone nodded in agreement.

"Keep what away from me?" Clarissa asked coming from the kitchen with chocolates in her hand. She stared at all of them and everyone had a worried look on their faces.