It's Hard to Make It Look Easy

I woke up to my alarm on my phone going off, so I got up, took a shower and got ready and I put my hair into a ponytail. When I walked out of my hotel room I ran into Zak

"I'm sooo sorry Zak"

"Bri, it's ok...aren't you up kind of early?"

"It's only 9:30, that's early?"

"For me it is" Zak said chuckling

and I laughed alittle

"I usually get up at 7:30, anyway when are we going to the location?"

"About noonish...Bri do you want to go to the cafe that's two buildings down to get some coffee?"

Classic I thought

"Sure, I need something to keep me awake"

"Didn't you get any sleep lastnight?" Zak asked as we walked to the little cafe

"I had one of those nights where you can't find a comfortable position to sleep, so you toss and turn
all night"

"I know what you mean, I've had plenty of those, that usually means something's on your mind"

I sighed

"So I was right...You wanna talk about it?"

I shook my head

"Is it something one of us did?"

You, Nick, and Aaron...No, Billy Yes I thought

"No, you guys didn't do anything"

Zak then opened the door for me when we arrived at the cafe

"Thank you"

"Not a problem" he said

and we walked to a table

"What can get for the cute couple today?" the waitress in her mid 50s asked

I just blushed alittle

Us a couple? Not just that but a cute couple? Now that I think about we would make a cute... I thought

"Bri, you know what you want?" Zak asked pulling me out of my thought

"Could I have a regular coffee?"

"Sure can sweetheart, and for you sir?"

"The same"

"Alright be right back"

"If you want something to eat, go ahead"

"Ok, Zak can I ask you something?"

"Sure"

"Why did you choose to hunt ghosts as a career?"

"Here ya guys go" the waitress said handing us our coffee

"Do you two want anything to eat?"

"I would like the blueberry pancakes"

"I will have the homestyle waffles"

"I'll get that on for ya" she said and left

"The reason I hunt ghosts is because I had an experience in my apartment I was living in at the time"

"Really? What happened?" I asked taking a sip of my coffee

"There was a female ghost that always called my name at night when I was trying to sleep and one night she really made herself known..."

he then took a drink of his coffee. Then the waitress came back with our food, handed us our food and then left to get the orders from another table

"She pretty much pinned me to the bed and that's when I realized what I should do, hunt ghosts and try to catch them on film and show everybody, including skeptics that ghost are real"

"Wow, but you do know you can't convience everybody right?"

"I know but I can try, were you a believer or a skeptic?"

I took a bite of my pancakes and tilted my head in thought to his question. He then took a bite of his waffles

"I would have to say I was in the middle until I met you guys"

"Really now?" he asked smirking

He's even hotter when he smirks I thought

"Um...yeah, I knew there were things out there that was unexplained and when I met you guys and had that experience at the prison it made me not 100% but more of a bleliever"

"Well that's good, so Bri what were you thinking about just a second ago?"

"What do you mean?" I asked trying to play dumb and taking another bite

"You know what I mean"

"No I really don't"

"Yeah you do" he said and then stole part of my pancake

"Hey"

"Tell me"

"No"

he then tried to get another bite of my pancake and I stopped his fork with my fork

"Well, it looks like you guys are getting along great" Nick said smirking

I looked to my right and saw Nick, Aaron, and Billy

"It's nothing like that Nick"

Zak then stole another bite

"Will you quit stealing my food, you've got your own"

he only smirked and the others sat down. The waitress came back and got there orders and we all talked and ate. When we were done we went to the location, which was the Villisca Axe Murder House.

"Aaron's Vlog, we're headed to our next location, Nick where are we going?"

"The Villisca Axe Murder House"

"It's said that someone got into the house one night and slaughtered the entire family and the kids's
friends" Zak said

What a phsyco I thought

I then felt a hand start rubbing my left shoulder. I looked and saw it was Billy's so I looked to my right with an eyebrow raised. He mouthed 'Are you ok?'

Am I ok? I thought

"Well, we're here, time to see if we catch anything" Aaron said into the camera and then shut it off

Billy stopped rubbing my shoulder and opened the van's door and got out, then me, then Aaron, and then Nick and Zak got out at the same time

"Am I ok? Why would you care?" I asked raising my voice to Billy

"Bri, I just want to know, I know how you are with this kind of situation" Billy said

"I'll be fine" I said grabbing my camera

"Hey, hey, hey, calm down" Zak said with his hands up

While Aaron and Nick were just staring

"I am calm"

"You sure?" Nick asked

"Yeah, I'm just...tired"

"Alright, just make sure you keep your cool, ok?" Nick said

"Don't worry, I will"

just then two older women came to us, one had blonde hair and the other had brown hair. Zak gave me 'we'll talk about it later' look and then looked at the two women

"Hello, I'm Zak Bagans and you are..."

"Linda Cloud and this is my sister Patty Williamson"

"Glad you two could come back to this place to tell us what happend" Zak said shaking their hands

I started taking pictures of the outside while Zak was interviewing them one by one, Nick and Aaron were following him and Billy was doing inventory on all the equipment. I then went inside and snapped a few pictures of the rooms and Zak interviewing Linda. Once I was done I went back outside and went to the van

"Bri?"

"Yes Billy?" I asked trying to keep my cool

"What's wrong with you today?"

"Like I told the guys, I'm tired and I didn't get much sleep lastnight"

"Ok? That still doesn't give you a reason to be acting the way you're acting now, what did I do?"

"Do you want the complete list?"

"Bri"

I heard my name get called so I looked over towards the porch to find Linda and Zak trying to comfort Patty

"Yeah, what's wrong?" I asked with concern

"Could you bring a bottled water?" Zak asked

"Hold on a sec"

I then went into the van and got a bottled water. I then walked up onto the porch and handed it to Patty

"Thank you"

"Not a problem" I said smiling at the distressed and scared Patty

How in the world can a house scare you so much that you go into a panic attack? I thought

just then a car pulled up

Who's that? I thought

Then a guy with gray hair and a mustache with glasses got out

"Alright, Linda, Patty, it was nice meeting you two and I would like to say thank you for coming back" Zak said

They then left and Zak greeted the man

"You must be Roy Marshall"

"Yes sir"

"I interviewed you yesterday when we got here and you agreed to come on the lockdown with us"

"Yes I did"

I just walked back to the van and got in

"What are you doing?" Billy asked

"Waiting"

"For what?"

"I have a feeling after he gets done talking to Roy we're leaving to go eat"

and a few minutes later Zak came to the van and said

"Alright, I'm starving, let's go eat"

I smiled at Billy

"Told ya"

We all piled into the van and headed to Dave & Buster. Zak then asked alittle annoyed

"Bri, Billy, what is going on with you two?"

"Noth..." I was trying to say

"And don't say nothing, it's something, and if you two don't start telling me what's going on one of you, if not both of you will be out of a job once we get back to Vegas"

Nick looked in the rearview to me and Billy for an answer and I then looked over at Aaron and he gave me the 'It's not my place' look. I then glared at Billy

"Tell em' I've already told the story of how you hurt me, it's your turn"

"What do you mean he hurt you?" Nick asked

"It's not like that Nick, me and Bri dated and I left without telling her where I was going, which
happend to be at a club in Vegas to DJ and then I met you guys and started working with you to"

"Tell them the rest"

"What rest?"

"You know the part where you didn't call to tell me you were alright, I was worried sick, do you know how worried?"

By this point we were just sitting in the van in the Dave & Buster parking lot. Nick, Zak and Aaron were just watching me and Billy argue

"I don't know, why don't you tell me?"

"Well, if you would've called you would've knew that I was to the point of being physically sick because I thought something bad happend to you" I said with tears in my eyes

"Bri..."

"Save it, I don't want to here you say 'I'm sorry' you know why? Because I know you're not, what did I ever see in you?"

Zak winced, Nick squinted his eyes and his mouth went into the 'oooh' look, and Aaron done Zak and Nick's reaction

"Bri if you don't like me, then why are you wearing the necklace and earrings that I got you?"

"Because half of the jewelry I have you bought and you know what..."

Aaron opened the door and got out and waited by the door and Nick and Zak got out and stood by Aaron

"Aren't you going to stop this?" Aaron whispered to Zak

"There almost done" he replied and Aaron gave him a weird look

"You'll see in 3" Zak whispered watching me and Billy

I started taking the earrings off and then the necklace

"2..."

"Bri don't" Billy said

"1..."

"You can take it all back, here's some of it, I'll give you the rest when we get back to Vegas and then you can give it to your fiance that doesn't even love you" I said handing him the jewelry and then got out

And Zak looked at Aaron with a 'I told you so look' while smiling. I started walking to the entrace of the building with Nick next to me and the others followed. Once we got in and got our seats I said

"I'll be back, tell the waiter I'll have a Diet Coke"

I then went to the restroom. I splashed my face with some water a couple of times to calm myself down

Bri, calm down... his across from you on the other side of the table, you don't even have to look at him I thought

I then went back to the table and sat down next to Zak

"Glad you could join us Bri" Zak said

"Not a problem" I said looking at the menu

I'm not even that hungry now I thought

"What are ya thinking about getting?" Aaron asked

"Probably just a salad, I'm not that hungry"

The waiter came and took our orders. We talked and ate when our food came. And before I knew it, it was time for the lockdown

"Bri, are you going to stay?" Nick asked

"I guess why?"

"Well..." he started and his eyes shifted to Billy

NO! I thought

"I'm going to have to be with him" I said pointing to Billy

"Yeah, are you going to be ok?" Nick said slowly

Do I have a choice? I thought

"Yeah, I'll be fine" I sighed

We all went to the Base and Aaron gave me a pat on the shoulder and a reasuring smile and went to the house, Nick gave me a 'It will be over soon' look, and Zak gave me a 'Don't start anything look' and left me and Billy alone. Billy was sitting infront of the monitors and I was standing by the door that was 5ft away from him. A few minutes past

"You can come sit down" Billy said not looking away from the monitors

I just stood there a couple of more minutes and then my feet started hurting and I sighed and sat down next to him. Billy then got up and walked into another room and came back a few seconds later with a coke, a Twix, water and a sucker

"Here Bri" he said handing me the coke and Twix

"Thank you" I mumbled and took it

A few hours later Zak came over the the Walkie-Talkie

"Billy we're being let out to review the recorder"

"Alright" he said

Why not wait until we get back home? I thought

And then I heard the door open and Zak, Nick, Aaron, and Roy that we met earlier came in

"This is Roy Marshall, he's a former law enforcement officer, he's here to listen to see if we caught anything" Zak said

I then got up so he could sit by Billy

"You don't have to move sweetheart"

"I was about to get up and get something, you can take my seat" I said smiling

"Ya sure"

I nodded and he sat down and they started reviewing the recorder. I went to the snacks and got some cheese cracker sandwhich bites and went back. While Iwas on my way back to where Billy and Roy were I took a bite and I heard Roy say

"I don't remember hearing that"

So they did catch something I thought

I then entered the room

"Bri, take a listen" Billy said

he then played it over again

What the... I thought and swallowed the cracker

"What was that?" I asked

He then played it again and and I leaned on Billy's chair as we listened closer

"It sounds like it said 'I killed' and I can't make out the rest" I said standing back up and folding my arms

then Zak brought in two guys, one was a paranormal investigator and the other was a tour guide. And the one with the dark hair and the goytee listened to it and said

"I killed six kids"

we all listened to it and that's exactly what we heard

What a freak, Who would kill 6 innocent kids? I thought disgustedly

We then finished up the review and the guys went back to investigating

"Bri are you ok?" Billy asked with concern

"I'm fine" I said

"Bri when we get back to the hotel I need to talk to you"

"Why can't you just talk now?"

"Because I'm doing my job right now"

I let out an annoyed sigh and out my head on the table. A few hours later I felt someone rubbing my back and I looked up and saw Nick

"Hey sleeping beauty it's time to go"

I got up an went to the van and we drove to the hotel. Once I got to my room I changed and then I got a text
We need 2 talk, come 2 my room-B

I groaned and walked out and to his room and knocked. Hee opened the door and I went inside

"Billy, can you make it quick, I'm beyond exhausted and I just want to go to sleep" I said with an actual tired voice

he then walked us to the loveseat that was in his room and we sat down

"First, take the necklace and earrings back, it was a gift" he said putting the items into my hand

"Why? I gave them back to you so you could give them to Pam, it's a 'gift' from me that was from you"

"Bri that necklace represents the love we have..."

"Had" I corrected

"Have for each other, I still love you"

"Yeah ok" I said blowing him off

"Bri, I'm serious"

"If this is all you're going to say I'm going back to my room and going to sleep, here" I said handing him the things back

"Bri it's a symbol of how much we love each other" he said putting the necklace on me and held my shoulders gently

Yeah right I thought

I then looked into his eyes and saw what I saw when he asked me to be his girlfriend 3 years ago. He then slid his hands down my arms and rested his hands on my hands. We then started to lean closer

"Billy we..."

he then kissed me and I started kissing back and his left hand touched my cheek

Wait I thought

I then broke the kiss

"I'm sorry, but I've got to get some sleep" I said getting up and headed to the door

"Bri"

"Goodnight Billy" I said and walked out of his room and went to mine

Once I got into my room I layed down

How? After 3 years and he still loves me I thought

I then fell into a deep sleep.