Happy Strider Halloween ch 5

As the door flies open the three of you brace yourself for the worst. At least you and John do, you are not sure if Dave is scared or not. He rarely shows any emotion at all, and the shades don't really help either.

You step inside the dark, dusty room and you turn the lights on. You are way too curious to even ponder the availability of such things as electrical light switches though. The same goes for your friends, who are currently investigating the bedroom. Or the guestroom, you don't really know which of the two options it is.

You notice that John basically just follows Dave around, while Dave is the one doing all the investigating. John seems rather scared and nervous, and he is constantly glancing around the room, as if he's expecting something to happen. As soon as Dave pulls something out of a drawer John shrieks and comes running towards you. He hides behind you and you turn around, finding the poor boy trembling like crazy.

"What's wrong?" You ask him with a rather worried expression. You have never seen him this scared before in your entire thirteen years of existing, really.

"G-ghost-" Is all he is able to say before he starts glancing around like crazy again.

"Wow Egbert you look like you have seen a ghost or something man, hehehe." Dave laughs, examining the green amulet he is holding up in the air.

"Dave it's not funny! Your best friend is becoming paranoid and you are laughing at him, straight in his face!"

"No Harley that isn't true." He answers you, now hanging the amulet around his neck.

"Oh, you mean you are laughing WITH him or something?"

"No of course not Harley, I am laughing at him, but I am at least two to three meters away from him I can't laugh at him straight in his face." Dave says, bending over to look for more valuables in the big, wooden box on the floor.

"You are such a jerk Dave!" You just don't know what to think of the guy anymore. "Wait. Are you stealing their stuff?" You pull John with you as you make your way towards Dave.

"Well, it's not like they can still stop me or anything, really." He replies. "Besides, they can't use it anymore anyways, so I don't really see why they wouldn't be happy with me taking their stuff and selling it."

"You are going to sell it too? Dave that is just rude!" You say, as you take a glance at the contents of the box.

"Yeah whatever Harley, none of your business." Dave says as he takes an old watch from the box and then closes it rather clumsy, resulting in a loud clash that makes John jump of fear.

You sigh and you take another look at the picture on the nightstand. It is a photo of a young girl and her mom on the beach. Actually they seem really familiar, like you know them. You then realize you are staring at a girl that looks almost exactly like your other friend, who is currently at home because she isn't feeling too well.

"Hey guys-" You start your sentence, but before you are able to finish it the light switches off and a loud laughing fills the room, followed by a faint scream.

"Hopy shit." Dave says while he makes his way towards you, while John comes running at you even faster. John hastily jumps on the bed, covering his head with the pillow. Dave is now sitting next to you, staring at the entrance of the room.

"Hopy fucking shit." Is all he manages to bring out before he jumps in the air of fear when a silhouette suddenly appears in the entrance, huddled in a faint silver glow and with piercing, purple coloured eyes.

You scream on top of your lungs when you realize the ghost-like humanoid, but the silhouette disappears as fast as it appeared at first, and the light switches back on again.

You sit in silence for a while, until Dave finally opens his mouth. You wait for him to say something, but just like that he closes it again. He does this for a couple of times and you start giggling at him.

"Dave you are being ridiculously silly right now!" You tell him, still giggling loudly.

"I-is it gone?" John asks from underneath the pillow.

"Yeah it is Egbert."  Dave tells him while pulling the pillow off his head.

"Hey guys, look at this." You say while you are holding the picture in front of the faces of your friends.

"That looks exactly like rose and her mom!" John shouts out, grabbing the picture to examine it more closely.

"Wow you are right Egbert, this does look like Lalonde." Dave says, now holding this picture in his hands after receiving it from John.

"And you know, that ghost thingy just there looked pretty much like the girl in the photo, didn't it?" you add.

"It really did, I wonder if this is the ghost John didn't tell us about." Dave says, turning to John.

"wait, how did YOU know about that Dave?" John replies, raising an eyebrow.

"Put that eyebrow the fuck down, right the fuck now Egbert. And please just keep it there for god's sake." Dave crosses his arms. "Fine I'll fess up. Me and bro had planned to scare the shit out of you guys and Rose, but he seems to have planned something behind my back, like he fucking always does."  Dave is now standing again, holding the amulet in his hands.

"Hey Dave, wasn't that amulet green?" You ask him, looking at the now purple amulet.

"Wow fuck, probably Bro's ninja shenanigans I guess. Look he even attached a note." Dave says while he tries to pull the tiny note off.

You grab the amulet and you easily take the note off, and you open it to read the contents.

"Uhm, maybe you understand this Dave, but all it says is 'HEE HEE HOO HOO HAA HAA'." You say, tilting your head at the silly little note.

"Oh fuck, well that's great. Now let's get the fuck out of here. We can go through that door." Dave replies while pointing at the door on the other side of the room.

"Sure." You reply, and you, Dave and John make your way to the door.