Nel lays on the bed in the doctor's office cradling her now noticeable stomach while she talks to Dr.Betty.
"I've been taking the B6. It's just not helping. And I'm fine when I'm at my house. It's just when I leave my house, I get so sick." Nel explains.
She just doesn't understand it.
When Nel was pregnant with Mitch she never had this many problems, but now that she's pregnant with the twins, it's a totally different story.
"Maybe it's your body's way of telling you to stay home." Dr.Betty says.
"I think I'm just worried that there's something wrong with these babies. I really...I want to take that CVS test." Nel says.
"You've already had the amnio. It may not make you feel any better."
"It'll make me feel better. I'd like to. Let's schedule it for this week. That'd be great."
Dr.Betty gives Nel a dirty look for going against her advice not to get that test done after she already went through an amnio test after things came back okay from that test.
Betty nods walks out of the room.
**
Connie walks through the Grassi's basement door from the outside of the house and closes the door behind her quietly.
She walks around and stands right in the one spot she knew she could get a certain person's attention at.
"I got you flowers." She says.
Connie chuckles and shakes her head.
"They smelled of the gas station where you bought them." She says.
She continues to walk around in the basement and look in and out of the empty rooms as she explores.
"Red roses? Could you be more of a pathetic, cheap cliche? The card said to meet you at our house." Connie laughs.
She sighs and starts to walk back towards the door.
"This was never our house. It was my house. And then it was yours. You got something to tell me? Then do it. Up close and personal." Connie says.
She walks into one specific room and then hears a noise coming from another room in the basement.
Out walks Rick from behind the water heater in the corner of the room.
Oh. Oh, I've seen you. Skulking around outside. Have you seen my new beau? He's so handsome, isn't he?" Connie asks.
Rick nods.
Connie looks at the floor and then back up at Rick.
"Come here. I want to see your shame." She says.
He then inches closer to Connie slowly.
"Come closer. So I can get a good look at you."
He walks closer and shows Connie his half burned face and his blinded eye.
She takes a good look at him and laughs.
"I bet the kiddies scatter like little buggies when you walk down the street." Connie says.
Rick smiles at her and looks her in the eyes.
"I love you."
"Ugh. You're disgusting."
Connie walks around him in a circle, looking him up and down in disgust.
"You're weak. You let this place get the better of you." Connie says.
Rick turns around and looks at Connie.
"The house didn't do this to me. You did this to me." Rick spats.
"If I catch you peeping in my windows one more time, I'm gonna send Darrien out to ruin the other half of your face." Connie fires back.
She goes to leave, but not before Rick could stop her.
"They're selling the house."
"No matter. I've told you. No one can own this house."
"No one ever will. He's tearing it down. Then who knows what will happen to all the ones who reside in here?"
Connie looks at Rick with wide eyes as she can't believe what she is hearing.
What is going to happen to Scott?
What is going to happen to Beau?
She can't lose all of her children.
Not again.
**
Mitch walks down the hallway towards the bathroom, when he hears something rolling around in the attic.
He stops dead in his tracks, under the ladder to the attic and looks up at the ceiling.
As he stops, so does the sound from the attic.
But as Mitch continues walking, the sound from the attic begins again.
Mitch turns around and walks back towards the ladder to the attic and pulls it down to check out the sound.
As Mitch walks around to find the light, he finds there to be a bunch of stuff left there by the previous owners.
"Hello?" Mitch says.
Just then, a small red ball comes rolling out from the corner of the attic where a old bed lays.
He picks it up to examine it, when Beau scares him.
"Play!" He yells.
Mitch screams and backs away and bumps into Scott.
"You're scaring him. Go away!" Scott says to his brother.
Mitch cries into Scott's shoulder as he holds him close.
"Mitch, it's okay. Calm down, okay?" Scott says.
Mitch turns back around still breathing heavily and finds that Beau is no longer there.
He sighs and looks back at Scott with tears in his eyes.
"I feel like I'm totally losing it."
"They're from the past. The ghost of people who've died here. They're appearing to you now because you're evolved. Don't be scared. All you have to do is tell them to go away, and they will." Scott explains.
Mitch just stares at Scott as he explains what to do if he gets scared by one of the ghosts.
"You really know your way around this house."
"I guess I do. I've been exploring after my sessions. Don't tell your dad."
Scott then goes over to this small hole in the wall and starts pulling out all this stuff out of it.
"Look at all this great shit I found." Scott says
he reaches his arm into the hole and starts to pull out all this stuff he found in the attic.
First he pulls out an urine.
And the next thing he takes out causes him and Mitch to crack up.
"And check this out." Scott says handing Mitch over gay magazines.
"I think he's hot." Mitch says pointing to the guy on the front cover.
"Totally." Scott says.
Scott continues to dig around trying to get everything else out of the small spot.
Finally, Scott pulls out an out turn of the century box full of old surgical tools.
He then pulls out a smaller, similar box and examines it before opening it.
Mitch looks at the tools in awe and almost kind of scared out them.
"What's in the other box?" Mitch asks turning his attention back towards Scott.
Scott sighs and hands it over to Mitch for him to open.
Once he opens it, he finds all these old photos of the Olusola family from the 1920s.
**
The first picture Mitch picks up is of Stephanie and Kevin's son Tyler Oakley Olusola.
He continues looking through pictures and examining them very closely.
Mitch then catches someone off the corner of his eye walk past him.
He turns around and sees one of the nurses that was killed in the house in the 1960s.
"Look what he did to me." She says.
Mitch closes his eyes tightly and grasps the back of his chair until his knuckles turned white.
"Go away!" He yells.
Once he opens his eyes back up, she was gone.
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