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Hannah had been sitting on the couch in the living room watching Disney's Tangled wrapped up in a dark brown fleece blanket still in her purple and green pajama's when she heard a soft knock on the front door.

"I GOT IT" She hollered to her parents.

Hitting pause on the DVD player remote, the periwinkle haired girl got up, sliding her feet into her fuzzy slippers before walking across the hardwood hallway floor to see who was there. First unlocking the deadbolt then the handle, Hannah twisted the knob and opened the door just a crack to see who was there.

"Hello?...Delilah! Hi!" Seeing her raven haired friend standing outside she quickly opened the door all the way and stepped aside so she come inside. "I didn't know you were coming over. Come in, come in! Is everything okay?"

Once Delilah was inside, Hannah closed the door and re-locked the deadbolt "Haha, yeah. Today seemed like a good lazy day." Even with it being a beautiful day outside, she just needed a day to get some rest and relaxation without the burden of school, homework, or thinking for that matter.

"Though I would love to go on a walk with you. Let me just run upstairs and get changed and tell mom! Mi casa es su casa." Hannah winked at Delilah before taking off upstairs. No she did not know spanish, but there were enough movies out there which used that saying for her to know what it meant. My house is your house.

It took a few minutes but once she was ready - dark blue jeans, white turtle neck, black long-sleeved droopy necked shirt. Cyan scarf in hand, Hannah dug around the coat closet by the front door for her white suede button down coat. "Mom gave the go-ahead just to call if we plan on making our own plans for dinner."

Pulling her coat on she turned to Delilah "Shall we?"

Making sure to grab her house keys off the hook, Hannah linked her arm through Delilah's "We shall!" she replied "That it does." she added following her friend outside - only stopping for a brief moment to lock the door behind them. There was so much good the two of them could do together especially now that they were both senshi.

Side by side, Hannah let Delilah lead the way to the park. Though the destination was known, the path was not which was half the fun of going on a walk. "I was watching Tangled, such a good movie, plus the music is amazing"

And at last I see the light♪♫♫
And it's like the fog has lifted♫
And at last I see the light♫♪♪
And it's like the sky is new♪
And it's warm and real and bright♪
And the world has somehow shifted♫
All at once everything looks different♪
Now that I see you♪♫♪

Hannah smiled at her friend, unable to help herself when it came to singing the chorus to her favorite song in the movie"Sorry. Any who what have you been up to, I haven't heard from you in a few days." She figured that her raven haired friend had been bush with school work and didn't want to bother her too much since they had a tendency of going on tangents once they got on the phone.

"Nah, I don't sing around anyone but you unless I'm in church. Can you imagine the kind of looks people would give me if I started singing that while we waiting for it to finish?" 'It' being the yellow light portion of her renew ability. Talking in round about ways while not powered up while in public was amusing at times but she knew Delilah knew what she was talking about. "But don't worry I've been doing more than just watching movies. Aside from the periodic hospital visits I have two presentations, one group project and a midterm test due sometime next week. I have everything done except for the group project."

Hannah's expression turned into one of those annoyed disapproving half smiles when Delilah repeated what her father had apparently told her. He wasn't a bad man just had very strong opinions on things such as her friends future. "Have you considered looking into fashion scholarships? Or double majoring, using your electives to fulfill the requirements of the second degree?"

Hannah paused next to Delilah for a few moments in front of the abandoned house. Boarded up windows and shattered glass littered the facade. Wood rot evident on the siding while the heavily moss covered roof caved in various places. The yard was littered with overgrown plants and dandelion weeds which were fortunately, or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, no longer in full fluff mode. It was a wonder why the house still remained despite the painfully obvious neglect and the fact it was in no way shape or form inhabitable. "I haven't a clue, but with all the stories floating around about spirits or ghosts haunting the hallways and or bedrooms, I'm not surprised it's gone neglected for so long. Definitely seems to have done a good job at keeping potential buyers at bay."

Giving Delilah's arm a light squeeze Hannah tilted her head, motioning for them to keep walking. So busy, I don't know how you manage to make time for me. Hannah thought, a bit guilty for taking up so much of her friends valuable spare time. How she managed to have any sort of social life between, school, work, senshi responsibilities, family, and sleep was beyond her but somehow she managed it. "How is work going? You don't talk about it all that much, everything going okay?"

To be completely honest she had no idea who the owners were, for as long as she could remember the house had always been vacant. Though she was happy to hear that things were going okay work wise for her friend. As it was the periwinkle haired girl didn't have a job, more so for medical reasons as well as getting caught up in school, and thus couldn't quite relate to the hours and tedious tasks; but she did sympathize with the long hours.

Hannah's eyebrows knitted when Delilah abruptly stopped talking and fell silent. "No" she replied with a hesitant shake of her head. Unfortunately her attention had been fully on her friend at the time that she was pretty oblivious to anything else.

Then again this could just be Delilah trying to scare her with all this talk of a seemingly haunted house... and to be completely honest it was working. "Why? What did you hear?" she questioned with a suspicious tone in her voice.

”Okay, that’s enough. You’re really starting to spook me out now.” Fear ran up Hannah’s spine leaving in its wake a trail of goose bumps. Without meaning to her arm tightened around Delilah’s. She had heard it, the sound that is, though with it being light outside she knew powering up was not an option and pursuing the sound would be very unwise… ”We can’t go in there Delilah.”

She didn’t for a moment miss the alert look on her friends face. She was thinking of going in there… a house that has been abandoned for how long? Oh the number of things that could go horribly wrong. ”We should call for help or something. Unless we power up there is nothing we can do. Delilah… ’ she tugged the raven haired girls arm to get her attention and in a hushed voice added ”We can’t power up… what if someone sees us?”