As they walk down the paved road, hoping to be the last place they’ll be until they can go home, Casandra and her mother carried bags and bags of luggage to their new hotel. Casandra wanted to live in a luxury hotel but it was the opposite. They entered a town where everything was really old, rust was forming in most of the cars parked outside, some of the windows were shattered. Most of the houses were one story, except for the middle house that looked abandon with lots of plants sprouting from every inch of the house except the front door. It was the last hotel that Casandra’s mother could afford.

  “ This is it.” said Casandra’s mother.

  “I don't want to live here mom, which house are we living in?”

  “The middle one.” mumbled her mother.  

They approached the white house and Casandra could feel that everyone was coming out of their house to watch them.

  What was so good about them that made everybody stare at them when they just entered the old house, that was supposedly their hotel.

Casandra and her mother found out that the rooms were so small, they had to sleep in different rooms. Casandra slept in the room closest to the end of the house, and her mother slept in the room closest to the stairs downstairs. They were about to sleep when Casandra took a candy bar from her backpack and started munching on it while looking out of the window to see if the people were back in their houses not watching them. She  saw a man that was about to knock on their ‘hotel’ to tell them something, but then when he made it to the front door, he hesitated, and went back to his house in a fast sprint. Casandra looked back down and lie down on the dusty bed, like the bed that have not been used before.

  Chapter 2

As Casandra slept in the middle of the night, she hears some kind of rubber duck noise and it woke her up. She looked around and saw another door that was not the exit of her room. But she only remembered one door, and that was the exit of the room. The door was brown with some dust. Casandra touched the door knob silently and began to go back to bed when a loud squeak came from the room, louder than the sound a minute ago. There was also a bright light coming from the door. Casandra could’t help opening the door to reveal itself. Slowly but carefully, she opened the door that was making such noise with caution. 

  There she saw an empty corn field with nothing else. The noise was gone, there were no bright light only an empty field. Casandra was about to go back to her room because she was sleepy but when she turned around she saw that the door that was her room to the field was gone. She started to panic. What am I going to do, what am I going to do. She thought.

Then Casandra took a step to the field, felt the corn, the corn felt like a  solid rock she then sat on the ground with her nightgown on and for a sudden moment, everything went black and she had no feeling of anything anymore.

Chapter 3

The bright sunlight woken Casandra’s mother. She went to Casandra’s room to wake her up when she found out that Casandra was gone. She searched the house but no sign of her. She asked the villagers, they told the truth but didn't quite believe it yet. “You should know that, that house is haunted.” said one of the villagers. Casandra’s mother was horrified, so that night, in tears, she walked to a town, called a taxi and it drove four hours straight to their home.

  “Hi welcome to City News, I am Jesse with top news.”

  “ A girl disappeared in the haunted house again.” “Didn’t think it would happen  again.”

  “A series of officers are looking in to see what has caused the disappearance.” said another news person

  “I’m not sure if it is safe for anyone to live there.” Jesse continued  

  “Officer Chris is going to be searching the house.”

  Officer Chris crept silently through the empty house holding an old flashlight and waiting for something to come out.

But nothing did.

 It didn’t make sense how could it happen again in fifty years. He thought of his dad doing the same job fifty years ago when a girl called Melena that disappeared.

Officer Chris came back with no evidence that Casandra really disappeared.

“So Officer Chris what did you find?”

 “I found no trace of the girl and where she went, I think it is the safest for nobody to live there yet.” 

“Alright thank you for sharing those kind words, and may I excuse you we will have another search”. Officer Chris then left.

Chapter 4

Casandra felt like she was having a bad dream, she was laying on the bed and started to sit up to see what had actually happened that night. And she froze, her body was transparent, she could see through herself.

  “Are you happy?” asked a girl. She had a sweet voice.

  Casandra turned around and saw that there was a pretty girl with a nightgown, and since she was transparent too, she couldn’t see what the color of her nightgown was. .    

“Where -where, am I?” muttered Casandra nervously

“You are back at the house.” answered the girl but didn’t look at her.

"Can I leave this place?"

"I'm afraid not.

“Why not?” asked Casandra now sitting up, a little angry.

“Well... Um... Anyway what do you want to do?” interrupted by the strange girl.

“I’m Melena by the way, what's your name?”

Casandra didn’t feel like telling people that she didn’t know her name, but by the sad expression on Melena’s transparent face, she replied,

  “Casandra.” 

“Where’s my  mother?” Casandra asked thoughtfully. She wanted to go back to her mother.  

“I don’t know.” replied the girl.

“Want to see where I sleep at night?” said Melena, but by the sudden change of subject Casandra knew she knew what had happened to her mother.

Chapter 5

So Casandra and Melena explored all day long, to where Melena’s bedroom was, to where she spies on people, and even every passageway to in and out of the house.  

Once again Casandra asked why they couldn't leave the haunted house.  

“Because once we are ghosts, this house will not like us to leave.”  replied Melena now looking down.  

It was really dark, close to midnight when Casandra realized that she haven’t ate or even felt like sleeping

“Why don’t we feel like going to bed until we actually do it, and why don’t we feel like we are hungry?”  asked Casandra.

“Because ghosts don’t age, I’m already 60 years old if you say so, and I don’t even look like an adult, and we ghosts, are forbidden to eat, also you can sleep, you just don't feel like it. answered Melena.

The night was getting really dark when they had to turn on the light to actually see.  

Chapter 6

“Do you see that?” asked the man to his wife.  

“Oh yes.” whispered the woman.  

         “Why do you think the lights are on, in the,  haunted house?” the man paused while saying the haunted house.

“Nobody lives there right?”  

And the police did come searching every corner, but skipping the spot where Casandra and Melena were hiding.

“Do you think they’ll ever find us?” asked Casandra.

“No we can see him, but he can’t see where we are hiding, it’ll just look like an empty closet or something.” whispered Melena quietly.

“I’m sorry sir, I didn’t find anything, but now it is forbidden for anyone to go into. The government will attempt to destroy the house."