*Washington Lodge: Library* *23:00*
"Look, Maria..."

"I'm sorry fo..." Luke started to apologise to Maria as the group set up the table with the oujia board.
"It's fine, Luke. Just please don't it again" Maria answered and held out her hand to him.
"Deal?" Maria asked.
"Deal" Luke said back and took her hand, shook it.

"Maria"

Josh, Chloe, Luke, Noah and Maria gathered around a wooden table.
"you don't have to do this you know. No one is forcing you" Josh told Maria, making the girl shake her head.
"No, I want to do this" Maria assures him.
"So it says here: starts "to communicate with the spirit world you must free your mind of all preconceptions, drop all inhibitions, and generally give yourself over entirely to the will of others, sublimating your every desire to the whims of the Spirit master, which is me..." Luke read out, but was interrupted by Chloe.
"It doesn't say that..." Chloe argued rolling her eyes, protesting and Luke put his finger on Chloe.
To shush her, Chuckle
"and all present will remove their garnets at my sole discretion..." Luke continued.

Sigh

"Luke, come on. This is serious..." Noah stated, trying to chill him down.

Laugh

"Oh I'm deadly serious" Luke responded with a accent of an old English man, continuing to joke.
"Luke, stop it. I just want play already" Maria tells him.
"Yes please" Josh agreed with a smile at her.
Maria smiled back as the five place their hands on the counter.

"Okay then..."

"let's see what happens" Luke said and turns to Chloe.
"Chloe, since you're a recent convert, why don't you be our medium for today?" he suggested.
"Ok" Chloe replied with a nod of her had.
"Um..." she trail off, thinking of a question to ask.

"Anyone there...?" Chloe asked with hesitation as the five have their fingers on the wooden planchette.

Then suddenly...

The planchette starts moving, making all their eyes widened.
"Holy shit" Noah whispered.
"Wait a minute..." Luke said in disbelief as they kept their eyes on the planchette.
"Did you do that?" Josh ask Chloe.
"I didn't do anything!" Chloe responded in defense.
"Guys, it's moving again!" Maria called as the planchette moved to a letter.

H

"What's it spelling?" Noah wondered.
"Hold on" Chloe replied.
"How's this happening?" a pale Josh questioned, shaking with fear as Maria and Noah glance at each other.
"Are you moving it...?" Luke ask Chloe, looking at her.
"I swear it's just moving" Chloe assures him as thy watched the piece moving across the board, to each letter.
"Noah, are you doing this?" Maria ask him.
"Of course not" Noah answered, denying he's doing anything.
"Help?" Chloe said the word that the oujia board formed, confuse about the whole situation happening right now.
"How are we supposed to help?" Luke asked, answering with another questions.
"I don't know" Chloe replied, shrugging her shoulders.
"What does it mean?" Maria asked.
"We need to know who it is. If we're supposed to help them" Luke suggested and Chloe look back at the board.
"Who are you?" Chloe asked and the planchette started to move again.
"What's it spelling now?" Noah asked as the five watch the planchette forming letters=words.

Sister

"Sister?" Chloe repeated as Josh, Maria and Noah exchange a look at each other.
"Whose sister?" Noah asked.

"Oh, come on"

"is this for real?" a skeptical Luke scoffed, shaking his head.
"Shut up!" Josh snapped with a strange edge of anger in his voice before turning to Chloe.
"Which sister?" Josh ask her.
"Josh...it's...it's..." Maria trailed off, trying to calm him down by rubbing his arm.
But Josh cuts her off, "No!" he yelled.
Maria wince and remove her hand off his arm, Deep Breath
"Whose sister?" Josh asked in a calmer tone.
"Chloe, who it is?" Luke whispered.
"Who are we speaking to...?" Chloe started to say.
"Beth...? Is that you?" she asked and the pointer moves to yes

"Oh God!"

Noah pulled hand away from the wooden piece, "Noah?" Maria said as he stood up from the chair.
He turned and slowly excused himself, leaving the room.

Footsteps...Footsteps

"This is so messed up" Luke commented, still not believing it.
"Josh...Are you..." Maria said to him as his emotionless face stares down into the heart shaped wooden piece.

"I'm fine" Josh answers in a firm voice, emotionless.
"Are you sure, because we can stop..." Chloe said before Josh cuts her off.
"No" Josh insisted, pushing away whatever attempts to bring this session to a halt.
"Dude, it's cool..." Luke tired to say to his friend.
"I want to hear what it says" Josh tells them as his eyes has an dark sinisterly.
"I don't where to start..." Chloe trails off, not sure where to go to next.

"Think about it"

"If this is actually Beth, I mean, we can find out what happened that night..." Luke suggested as Maria gave Josh hand a squeeze.
"Oh...kay..." Chloe replied as Josh gave her a small reassuring smile.
"

Um..Let me think..." Chloe said as she tries to think of what to say next.

Deep Breath

"Beth...We want to know what happened to you to that night. Can you tell us" Chloe asks her.

H...A...N...N...

"It's spelling Hannah" Luke said as he look down at the board.
"Wait it's still going" Chloe stated.

K...I...L...L...

"Oh my God!" Chloe exclaimed in shock.
"Killed?" Josh said as he look at the others.
"Guys, guys, what's she talking about?" Josh questioned in confusion.
"I-I don't know if I can keep doing this" Maria admitted in sadness.
"We have to" Josh replied.
"Just...stay calm...I think it's saying that someone killed Hannah" Luke stated.
"I don't know" Chloe trails off, unsure.
"Okay. How about asking something else?" Maria suggested.
"Alright. Okay" Chloe replied with a nod of her head.
"Who killed Hannah? Who was it?" Chloe asked and the planchette started to spell words.

L...I...B...

"Library!" Luke exclaims, clicking together the letters like puzzle pieces.
"Maybe there's something in the library here" he suggests.

P...R...O...O...

"Proof, there's...there's proof" Luke stated.
"In the library?" Maria questions.

Then suddenly...

The spirit board started to shake, shaking violently by a force unknown.
It shook for a moment, before the planchette went and swung off the table.

"Watch out!" "Whoa!" "Holy shit!"

Josh, Chloe and Luke all stood up from their chairs in fright.
Then Josh realise something and look around for Maria.
Until she sees her on the floor, "Maria!"
Josh immediately rush on over and crouch down, Sobbing
"You know what? This is bullshit. This isn't real..." a upset and piss off Josh said, shaking his head as he helped Maria up from the floor.
"Josh..I don't know what's going on..." Chloe began to say before he cuts in.
"Listen..." Josh began to say.

Deep Breath

"I don't know...I don't know if you think messing with me, us is somehow going to help with grief or whatever but this is not cool" Josh tells them.

"Josh no!"

"You wanted to use the spirit board..." Chloe tried to explain to him, to calm Josh down and reason.
"Hey calm down, it's not Chloe fault!" Luke tells him, defending the girl.
"I don't need this right now, okay?!! You guys are full of it!" Josh yell at them, anger taking over him before leaving the room with Maria.

Footsteps...Footsteps

"Sh-should we go after him?" Chloe asks Luke.
"Ah man...I mean, he'll be okay" Luke assures her.
"Let's...let's just give them some time" he suggested.
"I don't blame them...that was crazy" Chloe comment, crossing her arms.
"The pointer flew right off the table! And hit Maria" Chloe stated.
"I mean if-if you were faking it, you were doing one hell of a job" Luke tells her.
"I wasn't faking anything..." Chloe argued.

"But I think we should do what it says" she tells him.

*Imagine Chloe and Luke standing up*

"We should look in the library"