Haunted Halloween A Chalkie Tale
As Nancy watched Keith Olbermann’s show on MSNBC, the rest of the group split up and went into their various rooms.

Rose and Tippy were on the east side. Tippy looked out the window and was treated with a bizarre sight.
"Look at this." Tippy said. "Isn't that weird?"
"What’s weird?" Rose said joining her friend at the window. "Oooh we got an ocean view."
"We got beachfront property near the sidewalk all of a sudden and we are nowhere near an actual lake."Rose squinted. "There is a wrinkle in this scenery." Rose touched the window. She reached down out to the bottom of the window and yanked on a string. The "beachfront"rolled upwards to the top of the window and rolled around a plastic rod. It was a window shade.
"Its a shade." Tippy said
"The scenery is a bummer to look out at, so I can hardly blame her for wanting to cover it up. Beyond her yard is a spooky forest." Rose pointed.
"A perfect playground for any Scooby gang." Tippy smiled. She pulled the shade down. Rose looked at her with questions in her eyes. "Mrs. McMartin would have wanted it left that way."

Jean and Desys room was bigger and had two small beds. The aero bed that Jean lugged into the room was all of a sudden going to be unnecessary. The beds were by the window which had a sunny sun outside. The rain storm had passed over some time ago, so Harley was able to take Jeans car and go into town for edibles. Jean and Desy explored the room.
"God I think my grandmom lived in this room when she went to high school. She was very into Victorian era stuff." Jean said as they explored.
"Wow, that is a big closet." Desy said looking at a large wooden cabinet.
"It's not a closet, its a wardrobe." Jean said as the got near it. It was maple wood with intricate flower designs in the door.
"Wow." Jean sighed.
"I feel like I'm on a dull episode of Antiques Roadshow." Desy thought out loud. "This looks like it was redone." She opened the door. There were some coats in it. Two of them were a fur like substance but at the same badly moth eaten. "It wouldn't be worth much." She got a smile on her face. "Its very CS Lewis."
"Oh god, you aren’t going to....you know that’s the kind of silly thing Nancy would think of." Jean rolled her eyes.
"I heard that." Nancy said at the door.
"What’s up?" Desy said. "Don't tell me you are done with Keithy-poo already."
"Cut that out." Nancy said. "And you know I would never call him that."
"To his face maybe." Desy laughed. "You did call Micky Micky-poo once."
"Uh....uh I take the fifth, in case I might incriminate myself." Nancy blushed. "So there are two beds?"
"And a wardrobe." Jean said. "Desy thinks she’s going to meet Aslan."
"Grrrr." Nancy made a clawing gestures with her hand.
"I think its silly and she will bump into the back of the wardrobe." Jean said.
"And I say Jeannie should live a little." Desy said.
Nancy shook her head, cause she had no idea what "live a little" had to do with walking into the wardrobe. "Fine but I call no coming out of the closet jokes."
Desy stepped into the wardrobe and she moved the moth eaten coats aside. She walked back a few inches and felt mothballs crunching beneath her feet. Two seconds later she was gone.
"Des?" Nancy called out. "Where are you?"
Not long after she said that a thump came from the back of the wardrobe. Desy came out a few seconds later.
"Yeah, its just a closet...I mean wardrobe." Desy said. "And I may have made a dent in the wall. I kicked the back to make sure there wasn’t like a secret panel."
"That would be neat. A house full of secret passages like in Clue." Nancy sighed.
"Again with the Clue references." Jean sighed. "I think we're done in here for now."
They heard the door slam downstairs. Jean, Nancy and Desy went to the hallway where they almost ran into Tippy and Rose coming from the east side.
"Ok, might need a traffic light up here." Nancy cracked. "After you." She said as she let Rose and Tippy go down first. When they reached the bottom they saw Harley head toward the kitchen.
"We got food!" Harley said dumping her load on the table.
Jean checked the bags. "The last time you went out for food you got a jar of vegemite And a loaf of bread."
"I was making a joke!" Harley said. "What ever happened to the rest of it?"
"A squirrel took it." Tippy said while avoiding Harleys eyes. Harley raised an eyebrow, but laughed instead.
"Ok we got moo shu pork, chicken fried rice, pork fried rice, squirrel fried rice?" Desy said emptying the bag. The other girls looked at her. "Not my fault! She put the squirrel in my mind!"
"I hope you got fortune cookies." Nancy said opening a small bag. She took one out. “It says 'get out!"
"No way." Harley said looking over Nancys shoulder. "That only sorta happened at Amityville!"
"What does it really say?" Jean asked.
"You will travel and have great fortune." Nancy said reading it. "It has lottery numbers on the back."
"Yes, you will travel to store and get lotto numbers and lose small fortune." Rose said. "That’s what it says really."
"Yea." Nancy said.
"Big bad haunted house." Desy scoffed. "It aint so bad so far."
"Nothing else weird will happen." Jean said. I'm secretly let down."
"We have a few hours left." Rosie said.
"Nothings going to happen." Nancy said through a mouth of noodles. Some of them fell on her shirt. "Dang."

Around eleven, Rosie rolled over in her bed. She sat up and looked around.
"Dang." She said. "I'm hungry." She slipped on some slippers and headed for the bedroom door. She had bunnies on her pj top and bottom. She slipped outside the door as she heard Nancy muttering something about squirrels.
She stepped quietly down the stairs but found the quieter she tried to walk, the louder it ended sounding. She finally reached the bottom of the stairs without waking up the whole house. She went to the kitchen and got her leftover moo shu pork out of the fridge and sat in front of the TV. Nancy had turned it off after watching "House", but had apparently wanted to watch MSNBC later so she turned it to that station before shutting it off. Tucker Carlsons show was on. He was wearing a brown suit jacket with a bright green bowtie.
"Dang, does your wife dress you?" She muttered. She reached forward and dusted a little dust off the screen. A sudden bright light came from the screen and surrounded her. "What the?"
A few minutes Nancy came down the stairs. She had trouble sleeping, the Chinese food she ate had turned her into a fart factory so to speak. She went over to the tv to turn it on but noticed it was already on. Nancy shrugged and sat down on the couch. She sprung up a second later. "Oh my god." She said quietly. "Oh my god!" She said loudly. The second time she said it so loudly the girls came to the top of the stairs.
"Whats up Nancy?"
"I got something to show you." Nancy said.
"Ok." Jean said. "Where's Rosie? If we have to pretend to be interested in this when we want to sleep, she has to as well."
"Then you really should see this." Nancy said.