HAUNTED

Welcome to Nora's Nightmare

Dinner with spectral hunter should be fun. Shit. Breath. She could do this. Come on, Nora. You can handle one night with spectral hunters. She lectured herself.

Nora sat at the end of the bed and took a breath. She had looked the Lloyd Brothers up again. These guys were real and they were good at their job. That was just great, she thought sarcastically.

They weren't some guys in it for the money or the fame, they were hunters. Real hunters. They were in it for the hunt and the kill. They didn't just look for ghosts but they searched for everything supernatural. Even phantoms, she assumed, and killed them.

They had hunted in actual haunted places and found the ghouls and killed them. Nora didn't even know a ghoul could be killed, but the Lloyd Brothers managed it. Damn it. Where was Hyde?

Nora heard the doorbell. They were here! Damn it. Hold yourself together. Come on, Nora. Go downstairs and be normal. Normal, right. Okay. Normal. Human. Don't be a ghost right now. Calm. Stay calm. Nora lectured herself.

Nora walked into the living room and stopped in the doorway. One was looking at Janice and talking and the other was silent and looked straight at Nora when she walked in. Damn.

"Nora! You are right on time. This is Soren and his brother, Ryker. The spectral hunters." Janice was clearly excited.

"Hi." Nora tried to say and smiled. She was so nervous. She figured they would find her secret and kill her any time now. She took a slow breath. She really hadn't looked at either of them. She couldn't work up the nerve.

She hated what they did and she was terrified they would hunt her down. Nora didn't get scared very often but she was definitely scared right now. She had to stop herself from shaking.

"Hello, Nora. It's a pleasure to meet you." One of them said. Ryker. He walked up and reached out a hand. Nora had her gloves on. Thank all of the ghosts. "You weren't in the files we read."

She grabbed his hand and shook it. Nothing so far. Still alive. "Hello." Nora didn't want to look up at him. He was taller than her and very attractive. Pretty dark green eyes. He had short hair. He was cute. Very handsome. "I'm just visiting. I go to school with Hyde. I just came for Thanksgiving."

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Nora. I'm Ryker and that brooding mess is Soren." Ryker winked at her. She was really cute. Pretty.

Nora saw the wink and smiled.

Soren looked at her from across the room and stared at her hard. He didn't make an effort to move to her. He was studying her because she wasn't in the file. He was pretty good at reading people and she was very pretty. He wanted to stare at her.

She was shorter than him by a few inches, nothing ridiculous though. She had beautiful skin and pretty eyes. Blue-green, greenish-blue...

pretty. He noticed that she looked nervous and figured she wasn't comfortable either. They had that in common.

Nora stared back and Soren didn't break eye contact. It was getting intense. Neither of them moved or blinked. Nora took this as a dare. She could stare at him all day. This wasn't a challenge because he was very attractive and it gave her a reason to stare at him.

She could tell that he was more wild than his brother. He was very sexy and that surprised her. She never found people attractive, let alone sexy. She let her eyes roam over his body and then put herself in check.

Nora had seen him on TV just that once but he was very....hot. He kept his dark, blonde hair longer and he had a wild look in his eye. She didn't know how else to described his eyes. They were blue. Pretty. Wild.