THE CRAZY HOUSE.

CHAPTER 2

Everyone's heart was pumping so fast that it was about to escape from their bodies except for Cherry who seemed to have turned her faint into sleep. The ghost telekinetically gathered its shattered flesh to its normal self. A figure of a moving dog that looked to have maggots protruding from its body sloped downstairs." I think that's the dog that was making the creepy noise." said Craig. The whole house started to tremble to its foundation the bulbs started to fall from the ceiling and everything in the house looked to be moving violently. The ghost was angry and uncontrollable - Chloe tried to find ways of fainting but her brain looked like it wasn't interested. Patrick would no longer hold his bravery, Cherry felt heavy to him. After a good 5 minutes silence be fell the room and this left the whole house Breathless Joe then started to cry and Allen held her little toddler in her arms and handed it over to Craig. " Gather around the, Linquests we have to look into this matter." He called." I'm so disappointed in you Chloe, you could have ended our lives today." he continued. "I used to believe that ghosts we're no longer in existence...I thought my father hunted them down but I am surprised to they are more than a work done." Just then Allen received Cherry from Patrick." Honey, there is one thing that bothered me a lot and that is when you told me not to say the word "ghost" and when Chloe said it, Cherry cried I want to know what's behind all this I sometimes found out that she feared that word so much." "There is nothing behind all these, everything is of evidence as you had seen." he replied."Do you mind if I speak to you away from the kids, you know, privately." They excluded themselves, Cherry was still asleep."The truth is that I am a dad who likes interesting things and..." "wait a minute!" She interrupted."Is that what you always tell our children every night?!" she said curiously." Well, no I thought such bedtime stories were the best." You really don't know what it takes to look after children, do you?" she replied. She angrily left the kitchen where they always talked from. It was nearly midnight when Craig again called the family members and he had got some torches." We are no longer calling this place our home... unless we are busterds, we are moving out tomorrow. So pack all your belongings as I call Tom to come pick us tomorrow morning.. if we are to continue to stay in this house, people might think we run crazy at night so we are moving to the next town." he continued." To be honest, I am not prepared enough for this journey we are about to have." That same night everyone who was old enough started to pack his and her belongings as they also helped the young ones Allen placed cherry on the couch together with Joe since the upstairs were not safe to climb. In spite the good decision of moving to the next town, Chloe never liked it since she had fallen in love with her neighbor Bim and Patrick too had a friend who was crazy with science as he was. When it came to parking, Chloe parked her golden mini cup she had won from her Mega beauty contest at school, her favourite clothes, piano and her handbag for makeup. Patrick packed his guinea pig, his crazy book of Science and nature, his first invention of a machine that could conserve energy for a week, the glowing stone he had picked during his summer camping thing the previous year until he was sure nothing had remained. Allen too upstairs started to pack but she first started with her too young angel's belongings, she parked their toys, their clothes until she came to a box of books which she had no idea how it came into her angel's room one by one she read the title on each book, HOW TO HUNT A GHOST FOR BREAKFAST, THE GHOST AND THE LOST PRINCESS OF HELL, HAUNTED HALLOWEEN, THE BABY WHO CRIED GHOST, HOW TO MAKE GHOST BREAD FOR BREAKFAST, every book she read was much dumer than the previous one until she couldn't bear the sight anymore. She hurriedly sloped down the stairs where she almost tripled with the books which she threw right in front of him luckily the children were asleep and soon she bust into a hot quarrel " I can't believe you want our children to live in fright every time they look at darkness - last night, I heard them scream and yell from our bedroom but I had no idea what you were feeding them... with...with your crazy ghostly fantasies and Adventures. I assure you, as long as I'm their mother, don't ever repeat those ridiculous bedtime stories!! those aren't even big time stories, they are for eight and above your old children." he was silent as he continued repairing the main switch until Allen left him and went to continue with the packing. The the following day a moving company packed by the house the doorbell never worked so the door was knocked simultaneously until Craig opened it. To his surprise a fat looking man with a broad nose ,red eyes, fat neck and bonny jaw scared the sleep out of him. "Tom, my friend!! long time, you look so weird?!!" "I saw your text and I came immediately." "Better be quick old friend it's the same reason as always every home I go to is either haunted or creepy." the luggage was loaded in the van until everyone was ready to go, not even breakfast could make them wait and soon the van blasted off to the road .It was 8:00am.

"Mommy, I am hungry." cried Cherry " oh! my babies are hungry! I'm so sorry everyone, I thought maybe waking up very early was my intention but my phone ran out of power. I'm going to make sure that you get something to eat when we reach the gas station, okay?!" Before anyone could say a word Tom broke the conversation "Is anyone going to sponsor me breakfast?" " I am paying you once we have reached the new home." said Craig. "I'm not sure I can hold on much longer with this starvation"." Tom responded Craig looked at the back seat, he was in front with the driver, Allen and her two little angel babies were in the middle row of the van meanwhile Patrick and Chloe were in the back seat and beyond that were their luggage "I wonder how the next home will be, most of the houses we have been have had the same problem but why??" Patrick asked curiously." That's because of me."replied Craig "Ever since my father passed away, your grandfather, I couldn't be able to practice what he had always taught me of being able to capture ghosts. most houses in this side of the country Groverville are haunted and I tried my best but I wasn't strong enough I was still a young boy to him he never trained me enough to fit in his shoes I'm still scared as always but at least I tried and found my courage back there thank you for believing in me he turned his head at the back seat and said "I love you all my children my wife Allen ,you are the best." she blushed. " Honey, I would like to humbly apologize for the rude way I talked to you, I was just so hungry back then but now I believe and I know why you had wanted your way and not mine. I just want you to know that they need simple stories with pictures and toys to make them sleep, I know you really do your best to be a great dad and I like that." Chloe just wore her headsets on not to hear the sound of her polite mother. "Honey, no matter the quarrels you make, it will never be compared to how much you mean in this family and besides it's too much pressure to look at all these angels." His words were not much but they meant a lot and soon the couple was back together as they had always done. "Wow this bunch of sobbings and apologies are way outdated. I had no idea this is what happens in marriage. I am glad I wasn't that interested! Your family is your greatest treasure and vulnerability keep that in mind. Woe Mr. Tom how dare you interfere with my family business, I am your friend but I won't tolerate anything that deprives off my respect as a married man, I have the responsibility that you don't have just because you're gaining weight doesn't mean that you go around showing off how much space you occupy on earth." He wasn't settled about the way his friend had changed in behaviour. "I am sorry sir, but I am not sure why you left that home, you had moved there 6 months ago. Craig was silent for a while. Tom tried to sweet talk him to tell him about the whole situation until he finally started to narrate after about 10 minutes he wasn't able to speak according to the way he narrated he said "oh! my God! a dead corpse moving! I wouldn't waste any time inside such houses...I have never tried to move from place to place but you have shown me that is something miserable.