My sleep was interupted because I had to have a coughing fit. I got up and got some fresh water. While I was waiting for the water to get cold I heard someone yell, I filled my glass and then shut it off. I went back to the bedroom
Where's Zak? I thought
I layed back down, took some Mucinex, and then I heard the water shut off in the bathroom. About a minute later Zak entered the room and his chest was red like a lobster
"What happened to you?"
"Is Nick and Aaron in the room?" he asked irritatedly
"No, why?"
"Because someone turned the water on and made the shower freakin' scolding hot"
"I'm sorry Zak, I didn't even realize you were in there when I got my water"
"Are you feeling better?" he asked in his normal tone
Not really, but I want to get out of this hotel I thought
"Yeah"
"Are you going to go to the interview?"
"What time is the interview?"
"In about two and half hours" he said and started getting dressed
I looked at my phone
It's 5:16am I thought
"I think I'll pass, I need alittle bit more sleep"
"Do you want to go down and get some breakfast?"
"Zak I'm not really hungry yet"
"'Alright, well I better see if the others are up...If you need anything call me"
"I will"
he then came to my side of the bed and kissed my forehead
"Are you sure you're ok? Because you've got a fever"
I sighed and then got up
"What are you doing?"
"I'm going to take some of the fever reducer so I can go to sleep"
"Alright, I'll see you later"
"Ok"
he then left and I took that nasty medicine and crawled back into bed
I hate being sick, that medicine is horrible I thought
And about 15 minutes later I fell asleep.
I then woke up to some people talking
"Where are we going to go eat for dinner?"
"Aaron, Candy's still asleep...be quiet" Zak hissed
"But-"
By the way Aaron said but and then stopped abruptly, I didn't have to see the scene, I knew Zak growled and glared at Aaron. I just chuckled at that scene playing in my head. I finally got up and went to the bathroom to do my normal routines, shower, getting dressed ( www. polyvore untitled_47/set?id=58863411) (take out spaces), brush my teeth, brush my hair, etc. When I walked out into the little living room I was greeted by the guys
"Hey Candy, How are you feeling?" Nick asked
"I'm feeling better"
Or at least half way better I thought
"So you're ready for the lockdown?" Aaron asked
"Yep"
"Candy I need to tell you, we're not going to be alone in Linda Vista"
I looked at Zak waiting for him to continue
"Well, were going to have our EVP specialist Billy with us, a nurse named Kimber, and the one and only Chad Linberg"
"Ok...Chad? Supernatral Chad?" I asked squinting my eyes and tilting my head alittle
Zak nodded
"We were about to go get something to eat, do you want to come?" Aaron asked
"Yeah"
"Are you sure?" Zak asked
"Yes Zak and if I don't get out of this room I'm going to go insane"
"Hey, you weren't cooped up in here, you snuck out when I told you that you needed to rest, did you forget?" Zak asked crossing his arms
"Candy's a bad girl, going against Zak's commands" Nick said snickering
"I didn't go against him, he wasn't specific on where to rest"
"Where'd you go?" Aaron asked
"I went to the spa"
"How'd you pay?" Aaron asked
Really Aaron? I thought
"I paid with Zak's credit card" I said shrugging
"You what!?" Zak screeched
"She's already using your money and you two aren't even married yet" Nick said laughing
"How much was it?" Aaron asked
"$1,500.00"
"CANDY! Are you nuts?" Zak sreeched again
I couldn't take it anymore, with the way Zak looked, he looked like he was going to pass out, I started laughing
"What's so funny about you spending $1,500.00 on my credit card?"
"I was kidding, I used the Travel Channel card and it was only $125.00"
Zak calmed down a bit
"You guys actually bought that, come on, Zak never lets those cards out of his sight, he treats those things like their his babies"
"I do not"
"Do too...So where are we going to eat?" I asked changing the subject
"Well since it's almost lockdown time, we were going to go to Denny's" Zak said
"Are you guys ready?"Nick asked getting up from the couch
"Yeah"
We started heading out of the room and before I could make it out of the room Zak brabbed me by my waist to stop me. I yelped out of surprise and Nick and Aaron turned around
"You guys head on down, I need to talk to Candy for a second"
Nick gave that 'Oh boy' look and Aaron gave an 'Eww' look
"Zak whatever it is it can wait" I said
"No it can't" he whispered in my ear and pulled me close to him
"OH! But yes it can because I can pull a certain card too" I said looking at him as sternly as I could
"What might that be?"
"You know that one card, where I tell you that you're sleeping by yourself while I get a different room, so you better calm yourself down"
Zak pouted and Nick and Aaron laughed at him. He then let me go and we headed to Denny's.
Once we arrived at Denny's we got our seats and ordered our food
"This is an early dinner" I stated
"Don't worry, we've got food at the base" Aaron said
then I saw Zak motion some people over. I looked and saw Chad and Billy and they sat down
"I haven't seen you since you and Zak went to the club, how are you Candy?" Billy asked
"I've been better"
"What's up?"
"I've got a slight cold, but it's getting better"
"Candy? Is that your real name?"
I looked at Chad and saw that look, you know that flirtatious look, yeah his doing it right now. I scooted closer to Zak
"No, Candy's my nickname"
"What's your name then?"
Then our food came and we started eating. I was half way done when I felt a hand on my knee, I looked and it wasn't Zak's hand. I growled alittle and Zak looked at me
"You ok?"
"Chad, I'm going to advize you to get your hand off of me if you know what's best for you, because if you haven't realized I'm not into you and I'm already taken, you wanna know who?"
"Sure"
"He's the one that invited you to come on this lockdown and I'm sure he'll kick you out of it too"
"You mean..."
"That's right...So keep yourself in check"
After that, we all finished our food and went to our lockdown. I was still ticked off, not only at Chad but at Zak too. He didn't tell Chad to back off, glare at him, nothing. Billy went inside Linda Vista and I followed
"Where are you going?" Aaron asked holding a camera
"To the base"
"You're not staying out here to help us?" Nick asked
"No, I think you guys have it under control, I'll see you when we start investigating" I said and ignored Zak's look
I then went inside and sat down infront of the monitors with Billy. About 10 minutes later Billy asked me
"Do you see that?"
I looked at what he was pointing at on the monitor and I saw this pinkish looking dot moving. He called for Zak and pretty soon they all came into the base
"What's up Billy?" Zak asked as he entered the room
"Me and Candy saw this small pulsating round mass, it's not warm" he said
Zak examined the footage and then called the security guard for his K-9 unit.
"Candy, can you go with Aaron and the K-9 unit?"
I got up without saying a word, got a camera and followed Aaron and the K-9 unit. While following the K-9 unit we turned into a room and there were no exits or holes
"Aaron, go tell Zak that there's no exits in this room"
Aaron nodded and went to tell Zak. And a few second later I heard a couple of footsteps
I said tell him, not get him I thought
Aaron gave me a 'sorry' look and whispered
"He wanted to check it out"
I then handed the camera to Aaron and went back to base
"You ok Candy?" Billy asked, even though he knew what it was about
"I'll be fine" I said sighing and sitting down next to Billy again
"It's going to be ok" Nick said putting a hand on my left shoulder
"I know"
Then Zak and Aaron came back in and the K-9 unit left. As soon as the dog left we offically started
"Let's go do a spirit box session, Candy are you coming?" Zak asked
I just shook my head and I heard him sigh and him, Nick, Aaron, Chad, and the nurse left. I got up and went to the snacks. When I'm mad, I snack on something. I found some chilli cheese fritos and I sat back down next to Billy and opened the bag
"Want any?" I asked putting the bag in his reach
"No, I good, thanks though"
I then ate some
"Billy can I ask you something?"
"Shoot"
"You're married right?" I asked and then put some fritos in my mouth
"Yeah" he said slowly
"Would you stand up for your wife if some other guy was hitting on her?"
"I love her, so of course I would, I'm guessing this has something to earlier"
I nodded
"He's probably just star struck, I'm sure he'll talk to Chad when the lockdown's over" he said reasuringly
"I hope you're right"
"Well, if he really loves you like he says he does, then he'll talk it out with both of you"
We then heard footsteps coming towards the base, and a second later Nick opened the door
"Candy, we're about to do our experiment, do you want to come?"
"Sure" I said unenthused
I grabbed a camera, got up and followed Nick to the room where the experiment was. When I got there I turned the camera on and stood next to Aaron and Zak started the spirit box session. We were in the room for 20 minutes or so and no voices were coming through. Chad went out into the hallway first and he felt something and Zak turned the device back on and we followed him out into the hallway
"What do you want?" Zak asked
For you to protect your girl I thought
we then heard a female come through the box. Nick and Kimber went back in the room to communicate with her and I stayed near Aaron. Then I heard Zak ask
"Can you tell me the name of the nurse that's in this room?"
And a few seconds later we heard 'nurse' coming from the speaker. I then jumped when I heard something
"What's up Candy?" Aaron asked
"I heard something"
"I heard it too, it sounded like something was being thrown ghis way" Nick said
Zak walked to where we were looking and stopped and asked
"Is somebody down there?"
He then turned the device on again. And as soon as it came on it said 'help yourself'
That's alittle freaky I thought
"Who's the nurse here with us?" Zak asked
It responded with 'Marge'. Then Kimber asked a question about a doctor being on duty and she got 'hi'. Chad started asking questions as we were slowly walking down the hallway. Zak then asked
"Can you say one of our names?"
and it responded with 'Chad', which he freaked out alittle, but who wouldn't?
The guys let the nurse out of Linda Vista and I went back to base because I wasn't feeling good again.
"Are you ok?" Billy asked
"I'm not feeling to good"
"I wouldn't either if I ate a whole bag of Fritos" he said with a chuckle
"But there so good"
"I know they are...Do you think you could put this teddy bear in the hallway with this?" he asked handing me the teddy bear and a little box
"Sure, is this thing on?"
"Yeah, there both on"
I went into the hallway and set them up and went back to base to sit down. A few hours later we heard the guys coming back and I heard this mechanical speaking sound so I got up and went into the hallway and found the guys by the teddy bear
"What's up?"
"The PX just went off and it hasn't gone off all night" Aaron said
"Is there a patient down there?" Nick asked
and it went off saying 'hide'
Hide from what? I thought
Nick started asking questions and going into a room, Zak started snapping pictures, Chad was doing a spirit box session again, and Aaron was recording it all
"Out of all of us, which one do you not like?" Zak asked
and it responded 'why are you talking?'
"Do you remember Nick?" Aaron asked
and immedantly it responded with 'I do' then the PX said 'help'
Maybe I should go back to base I thought
but I couldn't go anywhere because I was curious on what was going to happen next. But it was time to wrap up, so I had no choice but to go back to base while the bromance was going on in the hallway. I helped Billy put everything back and the owner let us out and we packed everything into the SUVs.
"Ready to head bakc to the hotel?" Nick asked me
"You have no idea"
We piled into the SUV and went to the hotel. Once we got to the hotel me and Zak went up into our room and as soon as the door was shut Zak turned to me
"Candy, what's going on? You weren't you tonight"
Did you already forget what happend at Denny's my mind screamed
I rolled my eyes and went to the bedroom and he followed
"Why are you acting like I've done something wrong?"
I truned and glared at him
"Did you forget Chad touched me? And it wasn't on accident Zak"
"You're still mad about that?"
"No not anymore, what I am mad at is that you didn't say ANYTHINGor DO ANYTHING about it, I guess you don't love me because if you did you would've done something about it" I said and then left the bedrom and went to the door
"Where are you going?"
"Does it matter?"
"Candy..."
"Goodnight Zak"
I then left the hotel room and went to Aaron's room. He answered after I knocked a couple of times
"Can I crash here?"
"Sure"
He opened the door more to let me in. I went and layed on the couch and he came to me
"Are you sure you don't want the bed? I can sleep on the couch" he said
"No, I'm good Aaron, thanks though"
"Alright, see you later"
"Ok"
he then went into the bedroom and shut the door so he wouldn't disturb me with his snoring. And I felt my eyes burning
Me and Zak never fight...What's wrong with us? I thought as a tear slid down my cheek.
About 25 minutes later I finally cried myself to a dreamless sleep.