Keith and Melissa were living with Mrs. Owen. Mrs. Owen used to teach ballet at her own studio at Kenosha downtown. She was also a member of Kenosha Knitting Circle.
Keith was assigned a project by his History teacher about industries of Kenosha before the Second World War. Mrs. Owen had many books about dances, arts and culture in her personal collection, but those were of no help to Keith.
Social distancing and lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak shortened the library hours since the day after Ms. LeRoy’s gown appeared in the library. The library’s digital repository was not much open to the children under eighteen. Mrs. Henkel or the librarian, Mrs. Atkins, like earlier, could no longer override the VPN access password for the children, if they thought fit. Borrowing Kindle, for accessing digital resources, seemed impossible, too.
After much discussion, Keith and Melissa found themselves desperate to access the library for at least one half of a day. They cooked a plan.
They entered the library during its opening hours, then sneaked into the library reference section, remained hidden there till the library was closed for the public and all the staff left. They had planned to surrender to the janitor at night, making an apology for being locked inside, reasoning that they were working in rapt attention oblivious of the library closing time, and expressing surprises for not being noticed by the library staff before closing of the library.
They were almost done by late evening. Their ears were up to hear the janitor entering the library. Their work was being disrupted intermittently by lights being turned off by the motion sensors. To keep them on, Melissa was strolling around the table where Keith was working.
She saw a woman roaming in the history section of the library. She whispered to Keith. Together they approached the history section to get a closer peek at her. The lights along their path were turning on as they proceeded.
Suddenly, all the lights turned off, altogether. Moving to and fro, Keith and Melissa were confirmed that the motion sensors had stopped working. Trapped in darkness, they lost direction.
They had heard the rumor that Ms. LeRoy could have died inside the library and her ghost could have remained confined thereof. Especially, many guessed that her ghost had hung the gown in the classic literature section.
The ghost hypothesis sparked first into Keith’s mind. He muttered it to Melissa. They turned numb in horror. Then, using flashlights of cell phones, they crawled to an emergency exit.
As soon as their feet touched the grounds of Library Park, they started running towards the nearest streetlights. As they opened the emergency exit, the library’s electronic security system raised the alarm.
Nathan heard the alarm. He was in Library Park, measuring the times required to reach any of the drivable roads around Library Park from the library building. He ran towards the library building to check for break ins before patrol cars appeared. Keith and Melissa ran into him.
He took them to a nearby Waffle House. After sipping some hot chocolate, Melissa got her colors back. Keith was still panting. By and by, they spilled their plan to Nathan and how it went sideways.
Nathan noted, “Keith and Melissa were escaping a ghost in the library! Must pay a visit to this ghost.”
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