The story of a voicless ghost

Chapter six

I picked up my phone to check what the time was, I had totally forgotten that I had spend nearly an entire day in the mansion, as soon as I turned it on I had at least ten missed calls from Sack and like twenty messages asking where I had been. To be honest I really needed to return home, change and eat before coming back. I told Abel that I was leaving for a few hours but that I would come back, his eyes showed a bit of sadness but I guess he knew that he couldn't keep me here forever.

He grabbed my hand as he always did and accompanied me towards the tree where I had left my bike, I said goodbye and he showed a small smile. After a while of ridding my bike I decided to call Sack to let him know that I was okay ( by now he would've gone to the police, I just know it ). I was amazed of how quick he answered:

"WERE.THE FUCK.HAVE.YOU.BEEN?!?"

"And good morning to you too Sack"

"AAAAHGGGG I swear to god! Next time your fancy vanishing please have at least the decency of leaving me a note. I've been spending the hole day worrying, I missed work ( I am really close to getting fired thanks to you) and your lucky I didn't call the police dammit. You better have a really good reason and I demand an explanation"

"Right so I don't think my reason for vanishing will enter your qualification of good reason"

"You went to the forest didn't you?"

"Yeah. Look I'm really sorry, I woke up early and visited my grandma after that the idea of going to the woods just came to me and I..."

"Forgot that you have a friend that actually worries for you"

"Look I'm really sorry, you know how much this assignment means to me"

"I know, just don't ever dare to do it again okay? So you've found something?"

"Hell yeah"

"What?"

"I'll tell you when I get home"

"You vanish and then you leave me with the intrigue, one day I swear I'll kill you"

"Yeah but you'll miss me"

"Yeah"

We hang up. I look up at the sky, its grey. I get on my bike and start making my way through the road, I'm really not in the mood of getting wet. I arrive home and Sack gives me a combination of a punch and a hug, I just laugh. I shower and get changed, I head to the kitchen and see that Sack made me breakfast. As I ate I told him all about the mansion and its beautiful rooms but not about Abel, I know he is my best friend but I keep all these things about ghosts in private, I'm still not ready to tell him. He watched the pictures I took with amazement and didn't believe that I actually found that place,

"Odette you're going to be on the top of your class with these photographs, I love them! I will print them and hang them all over the house and when people come and visit I will say that you took them"

"Thanks Sack but I'm still not finished, I have lots to explore"

"I thought you would say that" he said as he went into his room, grabbed a backpack and handed it to me.

"Here. I made it for you when you where away, it has food, lanterns, matches and a blanket. For your crazy adventure"

I smiled as I looked through the bag, this was a lot coming from Sack. I stood up, hugged him really hard and thanked him.

"Just please let me know how you are once in a while, I tend to freak out a lot"

"Believe me, I know"

He offered driving me to the woods and told me that at any time he would come and pick me up. I waved good bye and walked towards the mansion now that I was ready. I found Abel leaning in the bridge looking as the river flowed, he looked so peaceful and happy. As I got nearer he smiled even bigger, excited for the adventure to continue.

"So I'm now going to stay here with you for a while, well until I run out of supplies"

"I'm glad, I still cant tell you how grateful I am for you helping me remember what I was too selfish to bother remembering"

We hold hands as we head towards the mansion, something about holding his hand makes me feel safe and confident, I like it. We arrived to Walter Dawson's office to make sure that we weren't forgetting anything, after that we walked through the corridors of the third floor and noticed that we had forgotten a room. It was at the end of the corridor where we had found the book stained with blood, as I tried to open the door I noticed that it was locked. We tried to remember if we had found any keys in the other rooms but there was none. After a while we gave up the search and decided to head to the second floor, there where more rooms which I guessed were the guest's rooms. 

They where all very beautiful, each room had its own color, we searched the violet, the green, the white and the yellow but there was nothing there but furniture, we had only three more rooms left, the red, the blue and the pink. When we entered these they looked like if they had been habited, on the red we found a leather suit case with the initials R.H in it. In the blue one we found a small book with the name Julien in it and a broken mirror and in the pink one we found a hair brush with the letter C on it. These had been the rooms that the Hughes  used when the came to visit the Dawson mansion, as we entered them I tried reading Abel's expressions, in the red and the pink one he showed none but in the blue one he blushed a bit although he didn't know why until he noticed the mirror, it had been the one he saw in his "dream".

Then I remembered that we hadn't really searched two rooms on the third floor. We headed there and I searched the one that I guessed had belonged to Melodie and Abel searched the other, we couldn't guess to whom it had belonged to. Melodie's room had clear blue walls, a dark wooden desk with mirrors and a huge bed that had blue sheets with flower patterns. I looked through the desk first but didn't find anything, then I decided to look in the bottom of the bed, there I found a wooden box, it was filled with letters.

"Hey Odette, I've found two things...no three. Come here"

I entered the room, this one was dark blue and in the roof where painted the constellations. I found Abel sitting near the bed with his gaze lost in his thoughts, I sat beside him and waited for him to speak.

"Right, so I found a box full of letters and found out that this room belonged to Charles. There are six bedrooms in this floor right? Three of them belonged to my brother and sisters, lets say one belonged to my parents and the other to my grandparents...the one that is locked would be mine. I know it because I would recognize it and I have the feeling that the only one that we haven't been able to get into was mine"

"But why would someone want to look your room?"

He grabbed the box and handed it to me.

"Maybe we can find something here"