Through the crack in the door, Luke watches as Randy and the other two begin scouring the lobby for them. Surprisingly, security for the hotel appears...rather quickly and round them up.“What’s going on out there?” Candace whispers.“It looks like my tip went through quick,” he replies. “They must have told security to round them up.”“You think they’re looking for us?” she asks.“What? The government?” he asks.“Yeah,” she confirms.“I doubt it,” he answers. “But if they are, maybe we should lie low. "I never...what I mean is, I like...Iwant to...but..." Let's just say that Cynthia Michelle will always be with us then shallwe? Now, I think your parents have something to say." Cindy," dad said with a quaver in his voice, "you know that this is notwhat we had planned for you, it was only a party after all, but we haveboth been watching you very carefully lately, and even though it's asplain as day that you like being a girl, we're telling you that you canquit any time, and we'll never mention. She folded her arms and looked away."You look upset" I said, "if I can help you"I learned from her that she had been sent out by her mother to buy some shopping. She had been given ten pounds and lent the money to her boyfriend who had to pay the money to someone else.I said to her that I could find ten pounds and solve her problem. Her face looked at me in a kind of wonder and doubt. I said to her that if she would meet me in five minutes across the bridge we could get the ten pounds. I walked. My sister, too, had seen the blobs of light flying through the ceiling, in her room, but my parents refused to believe the ghosts were there. But I knew. And my sister knew. And the ghosts, they knew. And that was enough for me.Fortunately, the ghosts in my house were not malicious spirits. They were only present. Remnants of the former owners, probably. Such is usually the case when one lives in a 100-year-old house. I never feared them, those ghosts, and simply accepted them as fellow.