First ghost hunt story =)

it sounds soooo much better in my head then it does on paper/computer... hehe

chapter 1

Surprise! Surprise!!

Mai's View (kind of)

(the underline words are Mai's thoughts)

She sighed......

Another normal, nothing happening Monday afternoon at work... she sighed again

she looked at the home work that was on her desk, might do extra credit work as well, picking up the pen.

Mai looked over to the clock with a small smile , three minutes past five and noooww... Monk-san enters the room with a smart remark.

The front door opens without even a knock "Hey my very! beautiful!! and Single!!! friend, Mai!"

and now Ayako...

"Oh!, My!, God!, Bou-San" walking up behind him, smacking him on the head with a very heavy looking book, while still walking past the monk, "show a little restraint" and ends up sitting on one of the couches.

Well... not a normal afternoon...

monk-San was bent over,I hope that hurt, with a hand to his head. ''oh, come on Yako'' ( meant to be spelled that way) straightening his back ''I'm just having a little fun''

''Well have your fun somewhere else'' snapped Ayako.

Mai sighed ''Good afternoon you two, still in the fighting couple stage, are we?'' with a smile.

she put down her pen and got up from her desk to walk over to the door that was still open.

''Yeah like she'll ever go out with me,'' the monk joked, he placed his hands over his heart and did a girly twist of the hips, so his top half was still facing the girls "I'm too young for the old hag" said with a happy giddy smile.

...silence... ....annndd.... Mai turned to watch...

"WHAT!?"as the very heavy book flew towards the monk.

The monk of course new the book was coming and dodged it,''Ha...Ha" the book flew past his head to the direction of Mai, she saw it coming as well and moved to the side to see that the only one that didn't see was John-san, that was walking though the front door "Good-day Mia, we hope we're not intru-... "

THUMP...

The spine of the book hit John on his forehead making his head fall back, then crumbled to the ground.

Everyone's talking now.

"Oh, shit John!"

"Oh my god I'm so sorry John"

"Are you ok? How many fingers am I holding up?"

"I'll get some ice"

"I'm really really sorry John-San"

"Two, three or more? come on John, snap out of it!"

"bring him over to the couch, hey! Give him some room to breath, ok?"

"Here's the ice"

Everyone moved over to the couches, now with John's head in Mai's lap. She noticed that Masako and Yasuhara were here too. they must of been walking in with john-San

Now everyone was sitting on the couches, silent with worry...

"definitely not a normal Monday" Mia mumbled, still looking down at John-san with concern on her face.

All around her, she could hear giggling or coughing, when she looked up, Mai could either see a hand over someones mouth, a face turned away or their face was scrunched up in a grin.

she had to smile at them all, I'm glad I'm still here with everyone, her smile got bigger, even if I'm stuck with him.

Lin had come back from the shops grabbing supplies and asked what had happened, Yasuhara explained. Lin nodded, placed the supplies in the kitchen and walked over to Naru's office,opened the door and closed it behind him.

About ten minutes later John came too and sat up from Mai's lap, Ayako was saying sorry to him again, again and again, until monk-san told her to be quiet. Ayako ''hmmfftt'' and crossed her arms in a small fit, mumbling to herself. And everyone laughed.

Naru's door opened and both Lin and Naru walked out, ''Glad your all here everyone'' he said in a monotone voice.

"We have a case" and in a couple more seconds Naru will start calling out for...

"Mai, tea"

"Hia..." man, i hate him...

Mai walked in to the kitchen and got all the cups ready, waiting for the tea to boil. she stood, leaning on the sink, looking out the window. No ones said 'happy birthday' to me yet. she blinked a lot, trying to get the tears out of her eyes. I'm eighteen now, i should be happy. Mai tried to smile but failed.

"Mai, tea!" Naru said more forcefully, "coming!" replied Mai.

The water had boiled, so Mai put everything on a tray and walked into the room. They mustn't of started talking about the case yet... she put the tray on the coffee table and poured everyone a cup of tea, but not for herself and sat on one of the couches arm chairs. "First of all," said Naru "what day is it? "

Mai brighten and said "July third" with a big smile towards Naru. He just stared at her for a moment "Thank you" looked down and opened his book.

Mai looked so miserable now, everyone saw this (even Naru but didn't show it) and they all were worried.

"The situation is this, there is an estate that is owned bye a very rich family and is always bombarded by the press. Whats happening at the the estate, is most unusual "

Lin flipped open his laptop and started typing.

"There is the usual happening of this house the screaming and then the whispering of : 'What do you wish?','Anything else?' and 'Cherry blossoms are her favarite' they are the main ones anyway"

Cherry blossoms? Anything else?? Hmm... Mai thought with a frown

"There is also a strange accorance that has been happening for over 40 yrs. If someone wishes for something it happens but... after the third wish the person dies..."

DIES?? Mai gasps "but how could you know that??"

"Quite easily" Naru said with a matter of fact voice

"The family has written down all of their history down from the birth of the next head of the family, to the death of a servant" everyone was taking this in deeply, while Lin's still typing.

"We're going to the estate tomorrow to set up bass and find out more information of the place" Naru said "I believe we will be there for a long while"

Everyone exchanged glaces.

"So good night to you's all, Lin will tell you where we will meet" Naru got up walked up to his door and opened it "till tomorrow " and closed it behind him.

Moron.....

Walking home wasn't sounding very appetizing to Mai, so she asked Bou-San for a ride. He agreed.

The ride home was confronted with comfortable silence, from both persons. The radio was going and the monk was swaying to the music while tapping the wheel to the beat. Mai had to smile ha-ha this is the life.

She started to sway, at the same time as the monk, a little and looked out the window. The sun was starting to go down and the streets began to light up. Bou-San stopped the car at a red street light and started to bounce up and down, making to car bop up and down.

Mai smiled and looked out the window again, she saw a play ground which looked like there had been a small party there. It was being packed up, people were saying good-bye and some children were still running around laughing and playing. Mai looked over at the banner that was attacked to two trees which said "HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANNA!!!", Mai's smile disappeared At lest someone is happy on their birthday.

Mai sighed as Bou-San started to drive again (the monk noticed). Bou-San stopped the swaying but kept his thumps tapping to the beat. They got to Mai's apartment in no time flat, as Mai was getting out of the car, Bou-San touched her sholder, she turned to see his face.

"you know we're all here if you need it" he smiled

"yeah, I know" Mai returned the smiled and slipped out of the car and closed the door. She waved as the car drove off and sighed. Mai walked towards her building, her apartment and put her hand on the door knob...

what away to end a birthday

...

she sighed, unlocked her door, opened it and walked in

"Hey, Mai! watz happin coz!?"

thanks for reading :)

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