#hauntingmeverse

The next morning Thea awoke to half unpacked bedroom and vague memories of a ghost. A ghost? What a weird dream! Thea shook her head as she uncovered her legs and headed to her bathroom to change. She sighed as she looked in the full length mirror on the back of the door. A prep school again. Why couldn't her parents just ever send her to a normal school? She hated these preparatory schools. The students were always so stuck up and they never understood why Thea didn't play their games.

"Thea!" Her mother called from downstairs shaking Thea from her negative outlook, "You don't want to be late for your first day." Actually, the eighteen-year-old didn't really care if she was late or not, she was going to be the talk of the elite school no matter when she showed up. She might as well make an entrance, right? "Thea!"

"I'm coming! I'm coming!" She called with a sigh as she pulled open the bathroom door. She grabbed her backpack off the top of the boxes piled by the door and made her way to her bedroom door. As she turned back to close the door, she froze staring, but not really seeing anything. Memories of her weird dream, the handsome ghost man, flooded her as she looked at the empty room.

"Thea!" Her mother shouted again, her voice closer then before. The young girl jumped, startled out of her daze rudely. She shook her hea, disappointed in herself for being so distracted by a mere dream. Ghosts, how ridiculous!

By the end of the school day, Thea hadn't forgotten her nocturnal imaginings as she had hoped. Oh no, it's impossible to forget something that keeps coming up in conversation. For her first two classes everyone treated her like she was an ill alien and they didn't want to risk exposure. By third period though everyone was telling her that they were the first Queens to live in that house in forever! Or, and this was most frequent, was she unnerved to be living in a haunted house? Had she met any ghosts yet? She had laughed all of the inquiries off, of course, and held her head high as she dealt with being the shiny new toy. 

As she arrived home once more, waving her driver goodbye as she opened the front door. "Mom?" She called, as she stepped into the foyer and closed the door, "Dad? Anyone here?" There was no response...and if she was being honest with the herself, she hadn't expected one. She made her way into the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of water befor heading up to her room.

01) "The Kiss" by: Karmina

"My heart is getting loud I'm trying to keep it down I wish the world could hear But I can't help but fear that they'll take you away Then you kiss me and suddenly I don't care any more Something in me tells me you're the one I'm looking for Then you kiss me and suddenly I don't care any more Something in me tells me you're the one I'm looking for From the kiss"

02) "Better Dig Two" by: The Band Perry

"Here lies the girl who's only crutch Was loving one man just a little too much If you go before I do I'm gonna tell the gravedigger that he better dig two It won't be whiskey, it won't be meth It will be your name on my last breath If divorce or death ever do us part The coroner will call it a broken heart"

03) "My Heart Is Broken" by: Evanescence

"I can't go on living this way I can't go back the way I came Chained to this fear That I will never find the way to heal my soul And I will wander until the end of the time Half alive without you

04) "Just A Dream" by: Carrie Underwood

"Baby, why'd you leave me? Why'd you have to go? I was countin' on forever, now I'll never know I can't even breathe It's like I'm lookin' from a distance, standin' in the background Everybody's sayin', he's not comin' home now This can't be happenin' to me This is just a dream"

05) "The Other Side" by: Evanescence

"I am so lost without my place inside your heart I won't survive I need to know you hear me Awaken and release my love Counting the days to meet you on the other side I will always be waiting until the day that I see you on the other side Come and take me"

06) "24" by: Jem

"Now I can see what matters to me It's as clear as crystal The places I've been, the people I've seen Plans that I made start to fade The sun's setting gold, thought I would grow old It wasn't to be And I can't believe, how I've been wasting my time In 18 hours they'll be laying flowers on my life It's over tonight I'm not messing, no I need your blessing And your promise to live free, please do it for me"

07) "Hands Of Time" by: Rachel Diggs

"You can't turn back the hands of time Just let it go and you'll be fine What's done is done and its alright You cant turn back the hands of time Another day is gone Washed away with sorrows that you dwelled upon And as the moon is rising, you think to yourself I could be gone, if I go now"

08) "I Knew I Loved You" by: Sabrina

"I knew I loved you before I met you I think I dreamed you into life I knew I loved you before I met you I have been waiting all my life There's just no rhyme or reason Only a sense of completion And in your eyes, I see the missing pieces I'm searching for, I think I've found my way"

09) "Someone's Watching Over Me" by: Hilary Duff

"So I won't give up, No, I won't break down Sooner than it seems life turns around And I will be strong even if it all goes wrong When I'm standing in the dark I'll still believe Someone's watching over me Seen that ray of light And it's shining on my destiny Shining all the time and I won't be afraid To follow everywhere it's taking me"

10) "Building A Mystery" by: Sarah McLachlan

"Oh you're so beautiful A beautiful fucked up man You're setting up your razor wire shrine 'Cause you're working Building a mystery Holding on, holding it in Oh yeah you're working Building a mystery And choosing so carefully"

11) "Never Alone" by: BarlowGirl

"And though I cannot see you and I can't explain why Such a deep, deep reassurance, yeah you've placed in my life Oh, oh, we cannot separate, you're part of me And though you're invisible I'll trust the unseen I cried out with no reply and I can't feel you by my side So I'll hold tight to what I know, you're here and I'm never alone"

12) "If You Want Me To" by: Ginny Owens

"'Cause I'm not who I was when I took my first step And I'm clinging to the promise You're not through with me yet So if all of these trials bring me closer to you Then I will go through the fire if you want me to It may not be the way I would have chosen When you lead me through a world that's not my home But you never said it would be easy You only said I'd never go alone"

13) "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" by: Celine Dion

"There were moments of gold And there were flashes of light There were things we'd never do again But then they'd always seemed right There were nights of endless pleasure It was more than all your laws allow Baby, Baby, Baby When you touch me like this And when you hold me like that It was gone with the wind But it's all coming back to me When you see me like this And when I see you like that Then we see what we want to see All coming back to me The flesh and the fantasies All coming back to me I can barely recall But it's all coming back to me now"

14) "Past Lives" by: Ke$ha

"There's just something 'bout you I know It started centuries ago, though You see your kiss is like a lost ghost Only I would know But I, I keep on fallin' for you Time after time Time after time I'll make you mine Time after... Time after time"

15) "Let Me Go" by: Avril Lavigne feature Chad Kroeger

Thea grumbled to herself as she watched the black Lincoln Town Car drive off into the distance. It wasn't fair, she thought as she turned around and headed back towards the grand estate. Who drags their daughter away from everything she knows and then leaves her to do the unpacking? Thea thought uncharitably, her gaze sweeping over the palatial manor as it drew near. And at the start of senior year no less! Thea had already decided to allow herself three days to be teenage girl angry about their decision before she'd act like an adult and get over it. Today was day three...and as such, she did not care that their father had been required to move company headquarters to Starling City. She also didn't care about the mysterious uncle that no one had known existed who had gifted the manor to the Queens on the day of Thea's birth. That fact that the house was gorgeous didn't impress Thea at all because she was angry. She totally did not believe it was a pity that such a pretty, grand residence had stood vacant for so many years. Nope. It was day three of her angry time and she was mad. Totally.

She sighed as she opened the front door and reentered their new home. At least she didn’t have to assemble any furniture by herself. All she had to was clean and unpack the small stuff. As a passive aggressive revenge, Thea decided to start with her bedroom. She ignored the boxes sitting in the foyer and those she could see within what would be the living room and instead took to the stairs, grabbing the cleaning supplies on the way.

She paused outside the door to what she had chosen as her bedroom. It had been odd, how she’d come to the decision. She hadn’t even gone into the room, just come to a stop outside of it and declared it hers. She hadn’t even been inside yet; Walter had gone in, uncovered the furniture, and put her boxes in the room for her. Thea shook her head, uncertain why she was hesitating, and opened the door.