Fears by Kaitlyn Garlets (free ebook novel txt) 📖

it, though," Zeth said.
"What do you mean by that?" Mia asked.
"Well, people say that there was this family that lived there a long time ago way before there was a cemetery in your back yard. They say that when the person built the house, there was only two people, a man and a woman and they were just married and they soon had a daughter and not long after came another child, a boy this time and he was crazy when he got older. People also say that he talked to the devil and worshipped him or something like that and the devil told him to kill his family and they never left after they did die."
Mia's heart was racing, but it wasn't because she was arm in arm with a cute guy, but because of what he was telling her. They turned another corner and now she couldn't see her house anymore. "You mean he killed his family and they stayed there, even after death?"
"Yeah. Or so people say. No one has been in that house since the sheriff closed it for investigation."
"What do you mean?" Mia asked.
"Well, there used to be a museum in the house you live in now and one day a woman went in there and never came out. A boy found her body a couple of days later, on the floor in the living room covered in blood."
"Who was the boy?" Mia asked.
"No one knows. The sheriff closed the museum and didn't let anyone in it until a couple of months later where its been for sale ever since then. Pretty scary huh?" Zeth asked, raising his eyebrows at her.
She nods, not sure what to say. "Did the boy who killed his family die?"
"Not that I know of. Why?" Zeth asked, looking at her. "You okay? You look like your going to pass out."
Mia stopped on the sidewalk and looked behind her, looking for her house, but she couldn't see it anymore. "I don't know. Do you know what year it was when the family died?"
"Uh, I'll have to ask my teacher or someone. Why do you want to know?" Zeth asked, holding Mia up from falling. "You sure your okay? You are looking really pale."
She nods. "I think I should go." She started running in the direction she had come from.
"Wait! Will I see you again?" Zeth calls to her. "Are you going to go to my school tomorrow?"
"Yeah! See you then!" Mia calls and starts running faster. She couldn't think straight and almost stumbled as she ran.
She tripped over a rock and fell to the ground, scraping her hands and knees..
"Hey, you okay?" Zeth said, panting as he ran up to her to help her up. She shakes her head.
"Can you walk me home? I need to talk to me dad. Please, just walk me home." He nods and helps her up and takes her home.

Back at home after Zeth leaves

Inside her room, Mia sat on her bed and tried to wrap her head on everything that Zeth had just told her about the family that used to live in the house. Was it possible that her new nanny was right about the spirits being in the house?
She didn't know.
Suddenly, a knock came at her door and Kyle's head pops around the door.
"Hey," Mia barely gets out.
"Hey," Kyle said. "You okay? I talked to that Zeth kid and said you freaked out or something and fell so he brought you home."
Mia looks up at her brother, wanting so bad to cry. She didn't know why, but she needed to.
Kyle's eyes widened and saw tears swell up in his sister's eyes and he sat on her bed and let her cry on his shoulders until she fell asleep.


The next morning

Mia awoke to the smell of bacon. She loved bacon. She smiled and yanked her covers off of her body, not even remembering putting any on her bed.
She walked out of her room and into the kitchen and saw Kyle standing over the stove, cooking.
"Morning," Kyle said, turning around to look at her. "You awake yet?"
"I'm awake. I didn't even know you cooked, Kyle. When did you learn?" Mia asked, sitting down at the table.
"I don't know how, but I thought it couldn't be too hard since I watch you cook all the time. Want burnt bacon and burnt toast and burnt OJ?" He asked sarcastically.
Mia laughed. "I love burnt everything, so give me two of each. So you ready for school today?"
He nods and goes back to burning the bacon on the pan. "Yeah. Are you going to tell me what happened yesterday when I left you with that guy named Zeth or whatever?"
Mia frowns. She didn't want to think about him right now, no matter how cute he is. "Uh, I don't know. It was about this house and who used to live here. I'm starting to think that something pushed those dolls over yesterday."
"Well, I sure didn't," Kyle said, putting burnt bacon on her plate. She grabbed one and took a bite out of it. Not bad for his first time, Mia thought. "Hey, did you happen to get into my boxes of stuff and put my covers over me last night?"
Kyle turns to look at her. "No, why?"
"Well, I awoke with them on me. Not bad, the bacon, Kyle," Mia said, just to be nice. It wasn't that the bacon was bad or anything, she just felt like she should tell him that. "So, I thought Nannies were supposed to cook for us while dad is gone. By the way, is he at work right now? When did he leave?"
"Oh, I don't know. I awoke to a note saying see you after school, so I assumed that he left for work." He looked at his watch and groaned. "Looks like we're going to be late for school. We slept in too late. And speaking of our nanny, dad told me last night that she quite. She grabbed her things or something and went to talk to dad while I was in the room and started speaking in Spanish to him or something like that. Lets get to school before we're marked absent."
Mia frowned. She wondered why Hally quite. Maybe it was because of the 'spirits' she was talking about yesterday.
She shrugged to herself and stood. "We might as well be late than not at school at all. I need to get dressed and set my alarm so we both wake up before school starts. Meet my outside in ten."
She walked back to her room and sat on her bed, wondering which box she put all her clothes in.

Ten minutes later, outside

Mia closed and locked the front door with the spare key and shoved it underneath the porch stair on the very bottom so she could find it when she got back home from school and Kyle and her began walking to the school that Zeth had pointed to yesterday.
They walked fast and when they hit the school's street, they jogged onto the campus and yanked open the front door to the school.
Immediately, Mia and Kyle were welcomed by a staff member.
"Hi, you guys must be Mia and Kyle!" said a tall man with a wig on to hide his bald spot.
Mia and Kyle waved. "HI."
"So, I will be taking Kyle with me to his classes today and my secretary Maggy will be taking you, Mia. Oh, by the way, I am Principal Jenkins."
"HI, Principal Jenkins," Mia said, looking at his secretary. She was very short and had very long hair.
"Hello, Mia," she said to her as she put a hand on her back to guide her. "I hear that you live in one of the oldest houses in town, am I right?"
Mia nods. "Yeah, people have already said that its haunted or something. I don't really believe in that kind of stuff." She laughed nervously.
“How come?” Maggy asked, smiling. Mia could tell that she was trying not to laugh at her.
“Well, it never happened to me, so why believe in something that I have never seen before?” Mia said, shrugging. She didn’t know what else to say.


Sometime after school at home

Mia didn’t have a very good day at school, and she wished she had seen Zeth, but unfortunately, she didn’t have any classes with him. She did see him at lunch, but he didn’t see her, and she didn’t want to go over and ask to sit with him, so she sat with Kyle and ate her lunch in silence.
Mia sighed and flopped on her bed, making the bed shift from its spot in the room.
Suddenly, she heard something from another room and she sat up, listening to whatever was making the scratching noise. She held her breath as she suddenly got a strange, but familiar feeling and she stood up from her bed and walked out of her room. She peeked around the corner of the hallway and saw nothing, so she slowly walked into the kitchen where she still saw nothing out of the ordinary.
“Kyle?” Mia called, hoping it wasn’t Kyle doing anything to scare her.
“Hello, Mia,” a familiar voice said from behind her. She twisted around to see Lucas standing behind her, wearing all black leather again as when he had when they first met.
“Oh, geez! You scared me, Lucas! How did you get in here? I locked the door behind me when Kyle and I came home,” Mia said, shaking her head.
He shrugs. “I have my ways. So, do you still want to get back at your little ex-boyfriend?”
Mia frowned. She hadn’t even thought of Jake since she moved here. She didn’t want to deal with him right now, or ever, for that matter. She didn’t really care about him as much as she thought she did. She shrugged.
“Hmm,” Lucas said, frowning. “I thought you would surely want to…but I can see you have other things on your mind. Would you care to have a cup of coffee with me later tonight?”
Mia hated coffee. Why was he asking this? Mia hardly knew him and he was acting like he knew her all his life. He even walked right into her locked-up house without a key and acted like he’s been doing that for ages now. And something about him just didn’t add up. He had said once to her that he grew up in this house, so he had to know who the other Lucas was outside in the cemetery.
“Uh, I don’t know,” Mia said. “I have homework to do.”
Lucas frowns again. “Hmm. Well, maybe I was wrong about you after all.”
Mia narrows her eyes at him. What was he talking about? “Huh? What do you mean by that?”
He shrugs. “Nothing really. I just thought you were those kinds of girls that liked to be on the edge, but I can see that your not.”
“What are you talking about? Who said that I was one of those kinds of girls?” Mia asked, suddenly getting angry.
“Well, for one, when your boy-friend ran off at the sight of me and you didn’t told me that something was different about you.”
“Uh, I’m just a regular girl. Nothing more. I wasn’t thinking straight then because I was in shock, that’s all!” Mia said, defending herself. “And who are you anyways? And what are you even doing in my house? Don’t you know how to knock?”
Suddenly, Lucas’ face went white with anger. “Well then. I can