"Okay," Sunshine says. She's standing in the living room, holding the camera with a black beanie over her head. "I'm starting the camera...now after Colin has gotten over his initial...freaking out stage."

She turns the screen around to show Colin staring at Victoria. He turns to look at Sunshine, but there's still a look of shock on his face.

"He seems better now," Sunshine remarks. "Right?"

Colin nods with a pleasant smile. "Yes."

"You look—you look fine, you're lookin' good."

"I'm good, I'm good."

Sunshine continues. "And, uh, Victoria's here, that's why he was about ready to pee in excitement, so. Yeah. Victoria, go ahead."

Victoria looks at Colin. "I need you to relax." Colin nods and exhales, smoothing out his shoulders. "I just want to see if there's any possibility of me getting any connection—anything to Nolan—from you."

Colin laughs. "Cool."

They all stand in silence.

Eventually, Colin speaks. "...anything?"

Victoria doesn't answer. Just stares.

"How's it goin'?" Sunshine asks her.

Still no response.

Finally, Victoria blinks, turning to Sunshine. "No. Nothing."

"What?" Colin asks. "Oh, come on!"

Sunshine laughs. "Okay, well...oh! He brought that thing."

"Oh, yeah yeah yeah," Colin says, picking up a pale navy pullover from the chair. "This is Nolan's."

"Are you gonna sniff it?" Sunshine whispers. "Like a dog?"

Victoria doesn't sniff it. Instead, she handles the jacket with care, running her hands along the edges and squinting her eyes. It appears she's trying to locate Nolan.

Sunshine and Colin look at each other as the awkward silence continues.

"No," Victoria says after several more heartbeats.

"What?!" Colin exclaims. "Come on!"

Victoria opens the front door and leaves.

"Oh. Okay..." Sunshine says. The door closes. "Bye, Victoria. It was great seeing you too."

Colin wheezes. "Does she always do that?"

"Yep, pretty much."

"Oh, my gosh." He shakes his head. "She's still so creepy."

Well, that is why she was called Creepy Lady.
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It's dark.

"I know you guys can't see me," Sunshine whispers, "but...I heard something."

It's also night.

She hates noises at night.

Sunshine leans over to turn on her lamp. She jumps out of her skin when she sees Victoria sitting in a chair across the bed. "Jesus!" She shakes her head, surprised. "Victoria?"

"I need to tell you something," she says.

"Okay?"

"Anna is..." Victoria contemplates. "She's going to be with you for a while."

"Here?" Sunshine deadpans. "At the house?"

"Yes."

"Anna?"

"Yes, Anna. She's not going to hurt you—you know this."

Sunshine nods. "Yeah, no, I know."

"I just wanted to let you know."

"Okay...thanks?"

In her usual fashion, Victoria exits the room without another word.

"She...always leaves," Sunshine sighs.

Looks like Anna's back.
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So, some updates. That aren't really updates.

Sunshine's still worried about Nolan. Of course. And she's been hanging out with Colin more recently—and no, there's nothing happening—but they've been talking about Nolan.

He's a funny kid. Nolan. And Colin, she guesses.

She really has nothing much to share except that Victoria's been about and around, but hasn't really been doing anything crazy. Just been...her presence has been here. Not much scary ghost activity.

Either way, things are going well. Everyone's just hanging out, living life, but it's different without Nolan. It always is.

At least she got to hang out with Uncle Tommy the other day, and she'd tried to make a video but he was too giggly. Pretty sure he giggled the entire time. And he was sassing Sunshine about Colin, all, 'You guys are hanging out? Oooo' and she was like 'No, watch yourself' and that was really all. Such a good story.

Ugh. Worst update video ever.

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Victoria is at the door. Knocking. Wonderful.

Sunshine hesitantly opens it and blinks up at her friend. "Hi," she smiles.

"Hi. I have something important I want to talk to you about." Charging into business, as usual.

"Okay." Sunshine shrugs. "Why do you sometimes knock and other times you—like—?"

Victoria shakes her head. "That's not what I wanted to discuss."

Sunshine steps aside to let her in. "Oh. Okay, just...coke in." She seats herself on the couch across from Victoria, raising a brow.

"Sunshine, I've been thinking a lot about Nolan recently and..." She pauses. "I'm trying to think through this. I've been thinking about where you guys have been together, and I think I've finally come to this."

Silence.

"Oh...okay," Sunshine acknowledges.

"He's fine," Victoria says.

"He's what?"

"Fine."

"He's fine," Sunshine scoffs.

"Mm-hm. Now, there's something I need you to do."

"Okay?"

"But you have to turn off the camera."

Uh, okay. Plan time?

next chapter is going to destroy me here we go