Giovanna expined everything to Bartolomeo and Nico. Everything that the ghosts are. Everything that ties the ghosts to the realm of the living. And the most important thing. They can let the ghosts escape their torment.

  The brothers seemed moved. They had no idea there was such a yer to ghosts. To the beings they were recording about for quite a lot of time while treating them like simple catalysts of adventure. Scary, intimidating, but wild and unlike people they once were. They had trouble forming thoughts on all of this.

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  As they all were leaving the Skeleton Hotel Angelo sighed.

  “I wanted to see more drama,” he said.

  Finding the family house of the Huxleys was easy. They lived on an uncomplicated street and their house was standing out. Its walls were brown and it was surrounded by orange and yellow houses. Its doors were painted white.

  The six from the Skeleton Hotel were standing on the opposite side of the street. Six pairs of eyes looked at the house and then at themselves.

  “I’ll go with our guests. You stay,” said Giovanna. “There’s no reason for you to come with us. We shouldn’t make too big of a crowd.”

  “Yeah, that would be a lot of guests for one house,” said Sarah.

  Giovanna then looked at the Italian boys.

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  Nico and Bartolomeo tried to find a counterargument to that. But after their experiences from the Skeleton Hotel they couldn’t find a single one. Maybe they were beginning to understand the ghosts. Maybe they were starting to reflect on their actions.

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  Giovanna took the visitors with her and they strolled to the front door of the house. She knocked on the door. Soon they heard a voice from behind it.

  “Who’s there?”

  “Hello,” Giovanna said. “We are looking for Kate Huxley. Did we come to the right pce?”

  The voice from the house sounded less friendly all of a sudden.

  “And what do you want from her?”

  Giovanna tried to think of some logical way to say what she needed to say.

  “Look… It’s not going to sound believable I think. We’re here because of James Huxley and…”

  “How do you know this name?” the voice asked upon hearing the name of the dead builder.

  “Well… You see…,” said Giovanna. “You have all the right not to believe us…”

  And she paused. The story about the ghost didn’t seem believable enough to actually use it. She needed to come up with some clever half-truth.

  “We have talked with somebody who knew him,” she tried to expin. “An old colleague from work. He mentioned that James had a daughter and wanted to know if she’s alright. That’s all.”

  The voice went silent. Everybody became nervous.

  “Look, a simple yes or no will be enough,” said Giovanna. “And then we’ll go away. I promise.”

  “Alright,” said the voice. “Whoever told you to come, just tell them that she’s alright. And please don’t come back.”

  “Thank you,” said Giovanna. “Goodbye. We’re leaving now.”

  She turned away from the house.

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  They joined the rest.

  “For a moment I thought this might not end well,” said Sarah. “I’m gd I was wrong.”

  “It hasn’t ended just yet,” said Giovanna. “There’s one st person to visit.”

  Giovanna, Bartolomeo and Nico were back at the Skeleton Hotel. Sarah, Ursu and Angelo decided to wait for them outside. The brothers have summoned the ghost of the dead builder.

  “So did you talk to Kate?” he asked.

  “We’re not quite sure,” said Giovanna. “But we did visit her home. And we’ve been told that she’s fine.”

  The ghost looked relieved.

  “Thank you,” he said. “That’s great to hear.”

  “We hoped you’d feel better,” said Giovanna.

  “I do. Thank you. I think I can move on now.”

  “We won’t stop you if you feel like it.”

  The ghost started breaking into bizarre see through smoke.

  “Thank you once again,” he said. “Goodbye!”

  And soon he disappeared into the afterlife.

  Nico and Bartolomeo were mesmerised. By the view of a relieved ghost leaving the realm of the living and by all the experiences of the day.

  When everybody reunited outside Sarah was the first to speak.

  “So how did it go?”

  “I think it’s alright,” said Giovanna. “I think they understood.”

  She turned to the guests.

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  “E che ora?” said Angelo. “Geto?”

  Giovanna chuckled.

  “Perche no?” she said.

  Sarah was so surprised.

  “You know Italian?” she asked Angelo.

  “Well…,” he answered. “Sometimes you do learn some basics from a significant one.”

  The newest video from Fratelli Orrori was surprising and interesting to watch. It started as usual, but soon delved into the adventure they had with Giovanna and the lessons they learned. At the very end there was an interesting part spoken by Bartolomeo.

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  Giovanna was gd they were seriously into changing. She was assured that it’s worth it to believe in second chances. And she actually rooted for them.