23 - Contract

The next morning the family was up and had just finished breakfast.

"Sweetheart, go get ready for school." Sarah told Angelica.

"Okay!" Angelica excitedly hopped down from her chair and ran to her room.

"No running in the house!" Sarah sternly yelled at her when she saw her run out of the kitchen.

"Sorry, mommy." Angelica shouted back while she slowed down.

David shook his head with a wry smile watching this familiar scenario.

"Sigh.. that girl never learns." David said.

"It's your fault for spoiling her all the time!" Sarah reprimanded while glaring at her husband.

"Yes, Yes, it's always my fault" David didn't argue with her and chuckled.

"I'll take Angelica to the school bus stop today since I'll be taking off today for the investigation." David said after seeing his wife glare at him even harder.

"Can you clean this place up a little for the guests while I do?" David asked Sarah.

"Of course, by the way, what are we going to do with her while they're here?" Sarah asked David while thinking about if her daughter should be here while the investigators are.

"I was researching while at work yesterday and the investigators usually do their thing at night so we are probably going to have to stay somewhere else for the night."

"Maybe we should drop her off somewhere else after school?" David stated and then asked Sarah.

"Hmm, We could stay at my mom's." Sarah remembered how her mom had been desiring to see Angelica as she started packing Angelica's lunch box.

"Sure, she has been wanting to see Angelica." David nodded and agreed.

"But we don't know for sure yet, they will probably go over it with us later." David said since he doesn't want to assume.

"Here, since you're taking her you go make sure she's ready." Sarah handed David his daughters finished lunch box and ordered him with a smile.

"Alright, I'll see you in a bit when I come back." David said as he got up after taking the lunch and started walking to get Angelica from her room.

Jack meanwhile was anticipating the fresh blood and hopefully another level. He restlessly walked about the house and prayed for time to pass faster.

.....

Later that afternoon David was back and was watching TV when he got a call.

"Hello, James how are you." David saw that it was the same number that called him yesterday and answered it.

("Hey, I'm good. just calling to let you know that we're almost at your place.")

("Can you be outside with your wife waiting for us? We're going to start recording and take shots as we pull up.") James informed and then asked David.

"Sure no problem we will be out there right away." David immediately agreed.

("Thanks a bunch, we are just around the corner, see you in a few minutes") James said as he hung up.

"Honey!! The investigators just called and asked that we wait outside for that so that they can record us." David yelled for his wife in the kitchen who was cleaning up after lunch.

He then got to and walked to the entryway.

"Okay, I'll be right there!" Sarah yelled back.

Soon she was with David and they both walked outside to the end of the pavement as Jack followed them to check out the fresh blood.

A few minutes later they saw a van and a few other cars pull up.

Four men and a couple of cameramen and women came out after and started recording the crew approaching the family.

"Hello, We've met but I'll reintroduce us for your wife."

"I'm Zachery, please call me Zach." The leader Zach said as he shook David's hand and he introduced himself to Sarah.

"This is James." Zach pointed to his left.

"And they are Adam and Billy from the closest to me to the furthest respectively." Zach then pointed to Adam next to him and then Billy next to Adam.

"Hello." Adam said as he shook their hands.

"Nice to meet you." Billy waved to them.

"Hello, I'm Sarah nice to meet you all." Sarah said with a small smile.

'Yeah yeah, come inside fresh blood stop standing just outside of the property.' Jack who was standing in front of the door watched them and impatiently thought.

"Do you mind if we go in and chat about some things first." Zach asked.

"Sure thing." David agreed and led them in and to the kitchen where

they all took a seat.

"Okay to start with there are some contracts you have to sign that allows us to record in your home and broadcast it." Zach pulled out some papers and put it in front of them.

"As you peruse that we can talk about how we work." Zach said.

"Okay." David started looking it over as Zach continued.

"Good. So to start with we need a night where we can investigate. you can sleep here but we would prefer you to be able to find other accommodations for just one night."

"Sure we already planned to go to my mother's." Sarah said as she nodded to him.

"Great. Now, first, we start the live broadcast and we are going to require you to bring us around the house and go through the experiences you have had here." Zach informed them.

"And then you will vacate and we investigate for the night and tomorrow after we go through our evidence we will show you what we found. Okay?"

The couple nodded.

"Are there any questions you have for us?"Zach asked after he saw that they understood.

David had stopped reading the contract and looked at Sarah who shrugged before David answered.

"The only questions we have is if our daughter is safe here with the spirit and if we can help it somehow but can you tell us more about ghosts?"

"Well, we can hopefully get some answers about that while we investigate."

"About ghosts... From what we know there are two kinds of hauntings residual and intelligent."

"Residual hauntings have no intelligence, they don't know they are dead, and they basically repeat certain parts of their life, so they would not be too harmful."

"Intelligent hauntings are souls who recognize they are dead and live in the present." Zach explains a bit about what they know about ghosts.

Seeing the family was thoughtful about the information he shared and had no other questions Zach asked a question of his own.

"Is tonight good for you guys to vacate and let us do our thing?" Zach asked.

"Yeah, honestly we had already prepared any night for you guys."

David replied as he started signing the contract since it was quite basic.

"Great. Are we ready to get started with the live broadcasting and the tour?" Zach asked when he saw David sign.

"Yeah, whenever you guys are." David confirmed as he handed the contract back.