Kara's POV
When we got home, it was a little time before lunch so I went to my room to chill for the meanwhile.
I opened the door to meet Gavin right in front of me.
"Hey. How ya doin"
"Oh I don't know, peachy . Now get outta my face" I reply snarkily
He raised his hands to signify he means no harm.
I plop down on my bed and he does the same, only the bed doesn't go in.
"Sooo what's that on your wrist?" He asks lazily and stares at the ceiling. Only then did I notice the blisters on his neck and his arms. Well he did say he died through arson.
"Its a gift. From Mona, you know her right?"
"Yea duh, I've lived with them in this house for about a hundred years or so, I know every single one of 'em. Damien, the sad and lonely first born, Mona, the peppy and always cherry second born, Casper the mute but cute last born. And finally Mrs Mongul, well Millie, the awkward and overbearing talkative mom" Gavin listed off with his fingers
"Hey what about Mr Mongul? My supposed dad?" I ask. I haven't seen him or heard of him at all.
"Well..he's abroad. He's never home. Like out of the hundred years I've spent here, I've seen him like only ten times. And that's saying a lot" He replied
"Well okay. So..how exactly did you die?"
He chuckled "Your always full of so many questions, Kara"
"No I'm not, it just started when I moved here. With all your weird stories and names" I state in a matter of fact tone.
"Whatever. Well as I've told you before, I died of arson. But ya see, it wasn't a normal fire. It was a raging fire that couldn't be quenched by anything . You know why? Because the gem that I gave Lydon, she turned it into a wishing Stone for fire. Unquenchable fire. So it was never ordinary. So at the end, she used it to kill me so there won't be any evidence. Right now I'm the only one - and well you - that knows the true story of how Lydon got her powers back" He finished. He was already standing up and walking around the room.
Wow. " Wow" I said voicing my thoughts.
"Yup. Now my question, why would Mona give you a wishing stone?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
"What? No, its a normal charm bracelet. Not a wishing stone silly"
He laughed "No it is a wishing stone. Did I forget to mention to you that lucky humans found the wishing stones after Amille scattered them around the world and turned them to jewelry? Oh well now you know"
"Anything else your forgetting to tell me?" I ask slightly angry
"Not that I remember right now...any who, let's get the stone charged!" He said using his 'ghostly manipulation' powers to bring the Prohexis to me
"What the hell?" A voice boomed from the door
"Damien?" I said as he looked from the floating prohexis to me
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"Wait wait, slow the hell down! So your telling me, that There's some ghost named Gavin, that's lived in my house for the past century, using his ghostly manipulations to give you this prohexis thingamabob so you can charge this wishing stone that Mona supposedly gave you?" Damien summarized with an eyebrow raised
"Yea. I know I know. Its hard to believe, but everything I just told you is true Damien" I said. Trying to explain to him is a lot of work, now I know what Gavin felt like.
I'm only telling him because Gavin said I could. For some reason.
Gavin groaned from across the room. "Shut up" I said to him. I am so frustrated right now!
"I'm not talking!" Damien said
"Not you"
"Why did you say I should tell him?" I say looking at Gavin as he hangs upside down from the ceiling, revealing only his head.
"Because he also has a wishing stone, ask him about it so we can charge the darn thing and so he can see me" Gavin said with an eyeroll.
"118 or not, I will smack your ghostly rear" I warn. He is getting on my last nerves.
"Okay this has to stop. Just stop lying and tell the truth or I'll tell-"
"NO! Damien you can't tell anyone!" Both Gavin and I yelled, just that he heard only me.
"Okay okay. Just chill. If you can convince me, I won't tell a soul" he promises
"Okay. Ask him about his ex's earring" Gavin says.
More wishing stones?!?
"His ex's what? Why would he have his ex's earring" I say almost about to laugh until Damien interrupted
Damien frowns "How do you know about Debbie's earring? Or that I carry it around?"
"See, more proof. Just give it" I say
"No way. I don't know what you wacko and your weird ghost friend want with it"
Gavin and I look at each other. I know what he wants me to do.
"Fine. Ugh. Here, take my amulet so you can see my 'weird ghost friend'" I frown as I take off my amulet, Gavin disappearing all of a sudden.
Then I hand it to Damien "I don't want your tacky jewelry" I was offended.
I glared at him and he rolled his eyes then wore it.
After it was safely on his neck he yelled "Whoa what the hell!"
"Yup. Now I'm not so wacko am I?"
Damien gets up and walks over to where I assume Gavin is and tries to put his hand through him.
"Coool" I rolled my eyes
"Does he talk?"
"Oh, my bad man. I'm sorry its just Kara sounded Looney. I mean can ya blame me?"
" I know right!"
"Can you stop with the one sided conversation and hand me Debbie's earring!?" I know he's talking to Gavin but its annoying! God knows what their saying about me.
And I want my amulet back!
Damien rolled his eyes and laughs at whatever Gavin said and hands me a silver earring with a purple stone in the middle.
He gives me then I grab the prohexis and put it in place so it can charge.
And I'm the weird one. I'm not the one who carries my ex's jewelry and watches videos of us in the home theater!
I put the prohexis down and groan as Damien and Gavin start talking about football and sports.
I'm honestly surprised that their already friends. I thought Damien was a sad loner but turns out he's just cold to only me.
A knock on my door stops their stupid conversation and my train of thoughts.
"Hey Kara, its Mona! I know I shouldn't knock but you knocked on my door so whatever. Lunch's ready and can I come in?"
"Just a minute, I'm uh, lacking clothing" I say as my eyes and Damien's widen and he quickly takes off my amulet and passes it to me. I wear it and see Gavin once again.
"Door's open" I say then Mona comes in.
"Damien? What are you doing here out of your room?" Mona asked clearly surprised.
"Yeah why did you come here?" I ask remembering he never told me
"Oh uh, I just, came to welcome Kara into the family formally, seeing as I've been uh, rude" He replied lamely.
Who's gonna believe that?
"Oh, cool. Well Lunch's ready anyway" Mona said believing Damien's stupid lie.
We both nod and she leaves, before she does, she gave us one last suspicious look.
We both breath out heavy sighs. "That was close"
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