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car behind hers and got out.
    “I was just going to call your cell,” said Elizabeth. “Oh, wow, you look like death warmed over.”
    “I haven’t eaten yet. I probably just need to eat. I had to rush around and pick up a Halloween costume for Trenton.”
    I led Elizabeth in to the cottage and once again, found the house unlocked.
    “You really shouldn’t leave your house unlocked,” she observed.
    “I am positive that I locked it this morning. The same thing happened to me yesterday.”
    “That’s weird. Maybe the ghost did it.” She began to laugh.
    I looked around the house again to see if anyone was there. It was the same thing as the day before: no one was in there. I shook my head. “I’m starting to think I’m going crazy.”
    Elizabeth put her arm on my shoulder. “You’re fine, Jodie. You are hungry and probably stressed.”
    I agreed and made myself a sandwich. “Want a ham and cheese sandwich?” I asked.
    “No, I’m good. Okay if I look around?”
    “Sure. Make yourself at home.”
    Elizabeth made her way around the cottage, looking in the all the rooms. “I have to say this place does have an eerie feel to it. There are cold spots. Drafts, but no windows open.”
    “Are you sure you just don’t think that because I said something?”
    “No, come here for a second.”
    Elizabeth was standing in the corner of Trenton’s room, I joined her. “See it’s really cold right in this corner. But when you move to the other side, it’s a normal temperature.”
    I walked to the other side of the room and realized she was right. The temperature in the corner of the room was a great deal colder than the rest.
    “Gah! It’s freezing over here!” She shivered.
    “So, what do you think? Is there a ghost in here?” I asked her.
    “I’m not sure. I really don’t know too much about this kind of thing. I just remember Margaux telling me that when a spirit is in a room, it’s extremely cold.”
    “In just one spot?”
    “I don’t know. It seems weird. Your cottage is both crazy cute and very creepy.”
    I shook my head. “There’s got to be a reasonable explanation for all of this…coldness and seeing things.”
    “You said yourself you saw a ghost last night.”
    “I thought I did.” I took a bite of my sandwich and started to feel better after I ate about half of it.
    “But you aren’t totally sure?”
    We meandered into Trenton’s room. “Yeah, I thought I knew what I saw, but I wasn’t completely positive. You know I don’t believe in that kind of thing, Liz.”
    I looked up at Trenton’s dresser and glanced at his Elmo doll. I thought I had seen it slightly move and then dismissed my fear. Nothing would happen because Elizabeth was here with me.
    “What’s up, Elmo?” I joked.
    Before I could look away, Elmo was heaved at my face and bounced off my nose and hit the floor. Then it skittered across the floor on its legs, as if walking. I was in utter shock.
    Elizabeth screamed. I screamed. We ran into the kitchen and hugged each other, practically crying.
    “What the hell was that, Jodie? Are you playing some sort of trick on me?”
    “No. Are you kidding? How would I do that, and why?”
    “I want to go home,” Elizabeth said.
    “Please stay with me. I’m petrified.”
    “So, come to my house.”
    “No, I can’t let them run me off. I pay $500 a month to live here.”
    “You’re officially crazy, Jodie. You’re staying in this…this haunted cottage?”
    “We’ll stay up all night.”
    She grabbed a blanket off the back of the couch and wrapped it around her shoulders. “Gosh, Jodie, the things I do for you!”
    “Thank you, thank you. You’re a real friend.”
    “Yeah, a real friend. If anything like that happens again, I’m out of here.”
    We hung out on the couch for the rest of the night watching Disney videos and trying to calm down.
     
     
     
    Chapter Six
     
     
    For the next couple of weeks, the cottage was peaceful. I saw nothing out of the