"Jason's such a meanie!" Alayna exclaimed, breaking the silence. The two stopped walking.
"Yeah and he laughed at us!" Jenny said, and they remembered why they were standing across the street from the old Victorian house.
The two girls gave each other one last glance before crossing the street and entering the old house.
~~~
Ten year old Jason smiled and his eight year old sister, Alayna, and her friend sat. Jason promised to tell them a story, and they were going to get what they wanted!
"You know the old house at the end of the street. It's haunted."
Alayna and Jenny gasped.
"A long time ago, a family lived there. A mum and a dad and a boy and a girl. They moved into the house and only lived there a couple of months before a strange man came and chopped them all up with an ax while they were asleep in their beds. And they were just a normal family, just like our family."
Jenny covered her ears and Alayna glared at Jason. "Jason that's gross! Tell us a real story!"
"It is a real story. But I'll tell you a long story with princesses and fairies and dragon-slaying knights if you can stay in the haunted house by yourselves for a whole hour!"
"But Jason that's scary!" Jenny has apparently heard what he said from under her hands.
Jason laughed. "Me and my friends did it! But you're just a couple of scaredy-cat girls, I bet you can't!"
Alayna was mad. "We're not scaredy-cats! We can do it! We can even stay two hours!"
"Alayna!" Jenny complained.
~~~
"Jenny, honey, what happened to Alayna?" the police officer held the little girl's shoulders as she cried.
"She was pushed out the window. I saw the ghost push her out the window!" Jenny started crying all over again.
The paramedics loaded the girl into the ambulance and the ambulance's sirens screamed as it drove away. Jenny's mother ran up to the police officer.
"Stay away from my little girl! She didn't do anything to Alayna!" Mrs. Creed said through puffy eyes.
"We never said she did. We just wanted to know what happened. This house has been sitting empty for years now, and as far as I know, nobody's even set foot on this property in months."
Up in the tower of the house, a ghostly pale figure watched the scene unfold. A smile crossed her translucent face. Finally, those kids would leave them alone.