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Chapter 3 - Ghost?

Screams. Lot's of screams. Kim screamed, then the hobo screamed and Harlan screamed.

Kim turned around to run. But the corner of a table jammed into his gut. He fell over writhing in pain. Through tears he turned around to see the Hobo had also fallen over and was trying to crawl around. 

"It's a Hobo Ghost!" yelled Kim.

"Agh, the Koreans are after me again!" yelled the Hobo

"The Ghost can talk!" Kim yelled

"WOULD YOU GUYS JUST CALM DOWN!!!" yelled Harlan. 

Kim was startled. He turned around and looked at the Hobo, who was also crawling away, deeper into the pantry. 

"What the hell are you kids doing in my house!?" asked the Hobo, scrambling to his feet.

"This is your house? really?" Kim asked, grabbing onto Harlan to get up.

"Alright, fine! But I get the feeling you ain't supposed to be here either"

Kim shared a look with Harlan.

They reconvened in the Living room. The Hobo started a makeshift fire in a metal trashcan he had brought in. He threw in some newspapers to feed the fire, also pouring in some grease he got from somewhere. Kim and Harlan joined him, warming themselves. 

"So what's your story?" asked Kim.

"Who me?" the Hobo said "What's to tell? No name manager at a no name bank who got sick of their crap. The hobo lifestyle suited me better. Enough about me. What are you dumb kids doing here?"

"We're on a school trip" said Harlan "We're staying in a dorm they set up for us. Kim here heard somewhere that this mansion was haunted and wanted to come here and record ghosts"

"Wait... there are ghosts here? Shit... I best be moving on then"

Harlan pulled out his phone to look at the time.

"It's getting late, we should be going back Kim"

The hobo shifted closer to Harlan "That's nice phone you got there kid- No need to back away kid, I ain't gonna steal it. Ain't that kinda Hobo. I was thinking you should play some music. It's been a while since I talked to anyone. Let's get some pizza and make a night of it"

Kim shared a look with Harlan again. Kim shrugged. Harlan put on some dance music and they started dancing with the Hobo.

"Here's some moves I learnt in North Korea!" shouted the Hobo.

"What were you doing in North Korea" asked Kim

"I ain't allowed to say"

Kim called the pizza place and ordered a couple of pizza's. By the time the pizza guy got there the party was raging. 

Kim opened the door to get the pizza, the pizza guy peeked in while he was signing for it. He could hear the Hobo and Harlan talking behind him.

"....I couldn't shoot my best friend!" said the Hobo crying "So I shot at the sky! I emptied the damn chamber"

"Isn't that the plot for point break?" asked Harlan.

"Oh, yeah!"

"This is a nice party you're having here bro" said the Pizza guy.

"I guess yeah" said Kim. "You wanna join us?"

"For real?" asked the Pizza guy. "Hell yeah bro!"

The party continued. Before they knew it the Pizza guy had his shirt off and was breakdancing in the living room. He was a chubby guy, so the moves he was pulling off was kinda impressive. Harlan was doing his own weird dance next to him.

The Hobo was standing in the corner enjoying the show, eating pizza. Kim walked upto him. 

"Not bad huh?" Kim said. "But, isn't it hard living like this? Not the pizza, but living in this old manor don't you have a family"

"Nah, I hate myself less these days" said the Hobo, his accent slipping. "I used to feel like I was in a race. I felt like if I slowed down, I would die. I just couldn't take it anymore. I wanna live at my own flow. Even if it means running around empty houses. As for family..."

The Hobo just looked at his feet and said nothing more. Kim patted him on his back. 

He checked his phone. The sun would rise soon. They should go back soon. 

"Harlan, let's go!" he shouted. 

"Ah no lil' dudes. Let's keep it going. Gotta relax once in a while" the Hobo said.

"I wish, but our teacher would kill us. We gotta go" said Harlan.

"I get it little mans"

"Hey we'll be sure to come back another time" said Kim. "Not sure when though"

"I probably won't be here anymore. But I enjoyed our time together. It was fun as hell!

Just promise me one thing Kids. Keep doing dumb goofy shit. Don't let them hold you down! Don't go with the flow" 

"Exactly, you gotta go out and have fun". Chimed in the Pizza guy.

'We won't' the replied.

And they left, walking back to the hotel.

"That did not go how I thought it would" said Harlan.

"Life rarely does apparently" said Kim.

"At least, now we can go back and relax" 

"About that... Apparently, there's this ancient artefact that was unearthed quite nearby recently"

"Don't-"

"What say you and me-"

"Don't say it!"

"-go check it out?"

"Aw, dang it..."

"Is that a yes?"

".....sure"

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