Midari threw water all over my face.

,,Wake up Luna” I heard Mily say. Someone “inhaled” next to me.

,,WWWWWWAAAAAAAAAKEEEEEEEE UUUUUUUUUUUUUP!”

I jumped up at this. Midari and Mily were sitting on chairs next to me. Or at least Mily was. Midari had stolen my rotating chair and was now spinning on it.

,,WAKEY WAKEY! WAKEY WAKEY!” she was singing.

,,I’m up…what happened…?”

,,Well Betty messed up her spell a bit and you were in a trance more than you’re supposed to be. So she brought you to your room and we’ve been assigned to watch over you.” Mily explained.

The memory of her screaming in pain flashed through my mind again, so I decided to be nice.

,,Uh yes…well, what did I miss?”

,,NNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOThing” Midari informed me as she stopped spinning.

,,It’s almost dinnertime” Mily informed me ,,Carter’s bringing a friend over by the way.”

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Mily opened the door for us. Turns out, Erika cooked instead of Mily. It felt weird to see Erika all pink and smiles again. She was threatening Lord with a ladle.

At the dinnertable Saki was playing with a spoon. When he saw Mily he patted the spot next to him so she knew where to sit. Mily sat beside him. On Saki’s other side there stood Kevin and in between him and Wendy, Millie was standing not so happy.

In front of them Carter was talking about something regarding some gardening. Midari jumped next to her cousin and joined the conversation. I decided to sit next to Wendy.

Then I noticed the guest Carter brought. He was standing next to our favorite middle ranked ghost and he did not look very pleased. More like, he looked tired.

,,Oh Luna joined us!” Carter exclaimed.

His friend, who looked like the long lost sibling of Klara (aka the purple-hair-and-sunglasses girl) because his hair was also purple. Though Klara’s was dyed pastel purple, his was a darker shade.

Before he said hi, he started yawning. He gestured with his hand to wait till he finished.

,,I’ll introduce him to you!” Carter said ,,This is my housemate, Leo!”

,,Like the zodiac sign?”

,,I actually prefer to be called by my full name…” Leo said.

,,For us to call you by your full name, you have to say it first.”

He raised an eyebrow.

,,Isn’t it obvious…?”

Midari raised her finger like a nerd.

,,Actually, there are multiple possibilities! For example…”

,,Yeah yeah. It’s Leonardo.”

,,Like the ninja turtle?” My sister joined the conversation.

,,NOT like the ninja turtle. Like Leonardo DaVinci.”

,,Actually Leo from TMNT was named after that painter…” Millie corrected him.

,,Listen, I’m too tired to think. The only reason why I’m here is because he dragged me after him.”

Leonardo stared at Carter. The black haired fiddled with his side tail.

,,Well, you’re always busy. Seriously, does Tsuki even give you breaks?”

Leonardo looked like he wanted to die a second time. He simply resumed at sighing instead of actually answering.

,,Dinner’s readyyy!” Erika placed the food in front of us. Pasta for dinner was my favorite (because they taste like red souls and those are yummy).

We started eating without talking. Until my sister made the mistake to open her mouth.

,,So…purple dude. You work for Tsuki?”

Mily choked at the question (she’s still dead don’t worry).

Leonardo pointed at himself. Apparently he did not understand that he was purple dude.

Millie nodded in his direction.

,,Oh..myeah I work for her. Not fun at all. At least she pays me.”

,,And…are you a Reaper?”

I choked on the food this time. Millie had for sure figured it out.

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,,Yeah. Are you? But I mean…no. That’s a stupid question. Of course you aren’t. You would’ve gotten a letter from Tsuki if you were.”

Millie’s gaze darkened and she lowered her head.

Mily let out a happy sigh.

Then Millie raised her head, her eyes turning white. She pointed at them and asked:

,,Then why do they look like this?”

Mily held her non existent breath.

,,Oh…why didn’t you get a letter?” Leonardo asked.

,,I was hoping you’d tell me that.”

Mily’s eye shone a bit and a note appeared in my hand saying: ,,We screwed up. Your sister figured it out. Oops.”

I was sure that Mily’s inner child had written this.

,,I…I’m not sure why Tsuki didn’t send the letter? Why don’t you come with me and we’ll ask her.”

Millie stood up. I was sure she had given me a side eye.

,,You want to go now..? Can you wait till I finish my pasta.”

Millie, who was having her main character moment, sat down, frowning.

Then Mily contacted me via telepathy. Her voice rang loudly in my head.

,,IF SHE ASKS, YOU DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHING, UNDERSTOOD??!!”

,,YEAH! TELL ERIKA THAT TOO!”

,,WHY DID SHE HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT?”

,,DO YOU THINK ELIZABETH HAD SOMETHIG TO DO WITH THIS?”

,,CAN YOU TWO SHUT UP?!” my evil self joined the conversation. Because no one wanted to deal with her, we ended the talk.

Millie finished her food in no time. When both her and Leonardo finished, they left. Poor guy looked very tired and not very in the mood to see Tsuki.

The moment Millie left, hell was raised.

,,HOW DID SHE FIND OUT?”

,,MAYBE SHE STOLE YOUR BOOKS?”

,,I HAVE ALL MY BOOKS, HAVE YOU GOT YOURS MIDARI?!”

,,I DON’T HAVE BOOKS I HAVE PAPERS!”

,,MAYBE SHE WENT TO THE GHOST LIBRARY?!”

,,I BANNED HER LIBRARY CARD!”

,,HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!”

,,I DON’T KNOW!”

Just then the couple of the school (Betty & husband) entered.

,,Why is everyone yelling?” Edgar asked.

,,MILLIE FOUND OUT SHE’S A REAPER AND SHE’S ON HER WAY TO TALK TO TSUKI HSDBIUSHFIOEAIOJSD!” (was that Midari?)

,,NO! WHAT?! NO TSUKI! TSUKI’S FORBIDDEN!” Betty yelled ,,SHE CAN’T EVEN TALK IN PUBLIC, LET ALONE TAKE CARE OF MILLIE!”

,,It’s all my fault!” Mily was legit shaking ,,Now we’ve lost Millie.”

,,Tsuki’s so…infuriating! She can’t do anything! What if something happens to Millie?!”

,,And now” Saki added ,,she figured out we lied to her. This is the worst. She won’t trust us ever again.”

Mily raised her head.

,,I’ve got an idea! LET”S DELETE HER MEMORY!”

,,Mily, you can’t erase the memory of a ghost. That’s like the first rule of memory erasing” Betty reminded her.

,,Would it hurt to try?”

Betty patted Mily’s shoulder.

,,What’s done is done. We’ll just have to anxiously wait for her to return.”

,,Uhhh…sorry to assist to your family drama” Carter said ,,Want me to call Leo to ask how things are?”

,,YES!” we all yelled at the same time.

Sadly, Leonardo did not have any sort of signal in Hell.

,,I TOLD Tsuki to install a Wi-Fi rooter ages ago! Why does she never listen to me?!” Midari yelled.

,,She’s going to hate me, she’s going to hate me!” Mily kept repeating.

,,Uhh” Carter got curious ,,What did you guys do? I don’t understand.”

We CALMLY explained what had happened and how everyone lied to Millie. Carter kept nodding and saying: ,,I see, I see.”

As we finished he got a text from none other than his purple haired friend.

,,Ohhh so Tsuki installed the rooter after all…” was Midari’s only comment.

We gathered close to see what Leonardo had texted. I mean, us in one side and Mily, who needed personal space on the other.

The text said: Tell your friends that Millie got accepted into working for Tsuki.

And yes, Leonardo did indeed write a period at the end of the text.

Mily ran out of the kitchen and Saki followed her (Mily and Saki’s nr. 1 rule: stay next to the other at any time).

Midari left after that saying that she would research a method that would allow her to erase Millie’s memories. I wanted to join her until she mentioned the word chemistry. I did not like how that sounded so I gave up.

Betty and Edgar went to their room. They invited me over but I declined saying that I had stuff to do.

And that stuff was finding out what happened in Salem without the help of Betty (I was trying to find something to keep myself occupied).

Kevin and Wendy didn’t go with Millie. So now they were bored out of their mind. When I entered their room I saw Wendy playing on her phone. Kevin was crouched next to Millie’s bed, watching MY TRUSTED companion, Eric, draw something.

When I opened the door, Kevin yelped and moved meters away from Eric.

Wendy spared me a glance.

,,Hey” was all she said.

I looked around the room for a bit. Millie’s desk was filled with drawings. Some were hers and some were Eric’s. The two of them were working on a children’s book that Millie (Eric was too shy to do it) was supposed to present next week at the local ghost library.

,,Hey Eric, when’s that presentation?” I tried to make conversation, even though I already knew the answer.

Eric flinched but then replied:

,,Next week.”

Noticing that the conversation was slowly dying, I changed the subject.

,,Soo…Wendy.”

,,Wait a minute, I need to level up this character.” Wendy then pressed her screen with her thumb several times. She then let out a pleased hum, but instead of paying attention to me, she pressed on the screen some more.

,,Wendy!” I reminded her that I was still there. She jumped up a bit then stared at me with a very not pleased expression.

,,What do you want?” she closed her phone and then threw it on the bed next to her.

,,Whoa. What’s with the angry stares and mean tone…?”

Wendy scoffed.

,,You should’ve prevented Millie from finding out what she was.”

Kevin interrupted.

,,Actually Luna…remember that book at Wendy brought Millie from Salem?” I thpught about it for a bit then nodded.

,,Well turns out, that inside, there was an introduction on Reapers, because, in fact, the book itself was a manual for Reapers. That’s how Millie realized it. Wendy didn’t bother to look inside the book and accidentally gifted it to Millie. And now Wendy’s trying to blame someone else for what happened.”

,,Am not!” Wendy smacked her cousin’s head lightly.

,,So now the three of us are trying to come up with excuses to tell Millie” Eric said.

,,What does this have to do with you?”

,,Well I told Millie like a week ago that she was totally a ghost and not a Reaper and basically invented this lie and…”

I stopped him from talking any further. This had really turned into a big mess.

,,But I assume you’re not here to discuss that?” Wendy checked the time ,,It’s getting late. Say what you have to say.”

,,I was actually trying to distract myself from the whole Millie is a Reaper drama, so I came to ask stuff about Salem.”

Wendy rolled her eyes and the rolled herself on the bed, turning her back to me.

,,Is this was concerns you at a time like this?!”

,,As I’ve said, I’m trying to…”

Wendy turned to me.

,,To distract yourself? Oh for fuck’s sake! You’re so…random! Just shut up! And leave Millie alone! When she gets back don’t you even dare speak to her!”

,,What did I do…?”

,,Let’s all calm down…” Eric tried.

,,No! She’s…she’s…Luna’s so annoying! She’s so selfish and only cares about herself! Distracting herself? What a good joke. She only cares about her own needs! When has she ever cared about others, tell me Eric!” Wendy snapped at him.

,,When she saved me?”

,,And who was she doing it for? Was she protecting you or herself?!”

I was left there, speechless. This felt more like a fight between Wendy and Eric, not between me and Wendy and yet I was the fighting subject.

And so, I did what any other normal Ghost would do.

I ran out of there.