Chapter 5

Lany and Randy were still in the the cafe listening to Tonia's story.

"Summer who? You didn't get a house mate yet. That's what landlady Rosa told me" Tonia used her hands to elaborate on the story. Lana and Randy gasped in unison because what sort of creepy stuff was that. Land lady Rosa literally said she didn't have a roommate.

"That's not all guys, we used to have a few classes together, I asked the teachers who took our attendance about summer, guess their response ", Tonia leaned in further on the table,so did Lana and Randy.

"Summer? Summer who? There's no one like that in the class, that's what they all said and what's even weirder is all her social media, photos and phone convos, everything also disappeared as if she never existed", Tonia said all this in a whisper-like tone as if she didnt want other people to hear her creepy story. Lana and Randy gasped in unison once again.

"Nothing proved summer's existence, I even assumed I went crazy and started going for therapy but still, the events still creep me out, I moved the hell out of the fucking place", Tonia slammed her hands on the table . Silence fell, they didn't know how to respond to this.

Randy looked over to Lana who enjoys horror movies, she wasn't smiling at all.

"Everyone forgot, why do you remember still her?", Lana said with a stern look like it was an interrogation.

Tonia was short of words as she thought about the question and sighed placing her folded arms on the table and resting her chin on them.

"Everyone else saw me as a loser and even treated me like one but not summer, as creepy as she was, she was kind to me", Tonia looked extremely sad like she was about to tear up.

By this time, Lana had a mischievous grin on her rosy lips.

"You had a crush on her, it's obvious", she abruptly Said.

"I-i mean she wasn't even real, you can't have a crush on an imaginary being!", Say that to Lana's 20 anime husbands.Tonia looked so nervous, she rubbed the nape as her cheeks blushed. Tonia was bisexual, I mean not until she met summer.

When Tonia started feeling things for summer, she thought it was just normal friendship because she hadn't really experienced that. But as time passed, she realized she really liked summer but she was just too shy to speak up until it was too late.

"Anyways Tonia, I don't think summer was imaginary because I am seeing the same boy summer described before her disappearance"

Randy looked over to Lana again and this time she was smiling.

Tonia's face went pale as her jaw dropped.

"Why would you tell me that now? It took months of therapy to make me believe I was hallucinating", Tonia said holding her head like she had a bad headache.

"Sorry?", Lana shrugged.

Tonia picked up her bag immediately and moved to walk away but she stopped;

"Well I advise you to move out of that place before you evaporate too miss"

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As Lana and Randy walked back to the park there was complete silence between the both of them until Randy finally broke it.

"I'm sorry Lana, I know that apartment is a dream but you have to move out"

"Believe me! I want to but my lease demands a replacement before I can leave the contract. Never mind the crazy penalty fee I can't afford, I'm literally endangering the person I transfer the lease to, I can't do that"

Lana looked genuinely worried.

"Lana.... I don't care, I don't give a shit or a fuck. If you hadn't signed the damn contract, they would have found someone else anyways, what difference does it make if you transfer the lease to another person now Lana?tell me ", Randy couldn't hold back, Lana was like the most important person in the world to him and he wouldn't want anything to happen to her.

"Damn Ran that was ice cold like those eyes of yours, you handsome psycho", Lana gasped holding her chest pretending to be shocked by his words.

"Thank you crackhead", Randy said like he actually thought of it as a compliment.

" Well.... Money can be made I guess, I don't want to evaporate like Tonia said. I'll still find someone to take over the contract if they are still willing to after being told what he just heard".

Even though Lana felt sorry for the person, she saw this as a necessary step so she can live a peaceful life away from that 'ghost'.

"They'll probably think you're joking or crazy to be honest", Randy ran his hands through his messy curly hair and sighed.

"Well until then I have no where to go, I can't afford rent In two different places", Lana shrugged.

"Ughhh my dorm is very strict about overnight guests, otherwise you could just stay with me for now princess"

Randy rubbed his chin like he was deep in thought.

"Don't worry Randy, I'll figure something out", Lana sighed and patted Randy's shoulder .

"Well I've got a test in 5 hours, I have to run", Randy said apologetically.

"Whaaat? You have a 3 hours drive back. Off you go", Lana commanded with her tiny voice which was not even intimidating one bit.

"Bloody fuuuck, I left Monica alone in the apartment with that thing", Lana squealed in horror as she remembered her cat which she had left with the ghost in her apartment.

"Bye Ran, good luck on your test! Thanks for everything, I love you so much", Lana yelled as she ran off.

"Waaaait Lana, keep me posted on everything, don't go missing on me, I'll kill you! I promise ", he yelled back.

Randy stood there watching her running off as an ominous feeling flooded his mind. They've said good bye tons of times but why did it feel like The last?

The next thing he saw was Lana's small figure running back.

"Holy shit.... Never mind, ohh why did you come back?" He asked wiping the beads of sweat off his forehead with a slight chuckle.

"Uhmm you gave me a ride here, remember?", she said with a giggle.

"Oh yh, thats right, haha"

Yupppp they're both stupid.

"If you're late, I can just use a taxi"

"Nope it's fine princess, You're my dumb best friend afterall, let's go".

*****

Lana's thoughts couldn't help but trail back to what Tonia said earlier.

'I had a house mate named summer... it began with her seeing a boy around the apartment...then that housemate vanishes without a trace...if I were you I'd move right out of that place before you evaporate '

Whatever is in that house is DANGEROUS!!