The Great Peach Experiment 2: The Peach Pit

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Why Lucy asked spinning away from the bookshelves bookshelves You love this house I love this house yes but it's a pit Aunt Lucinda said gesturing to a patch of peeling wallpaper and the light switch that everyone in the family knew didn't work It's too much for me to keep up And frankly I'm lonely All I've got is these dogs to keep me company day in and day out and I'm just not putting the place to good use So what are you saying You want us to put the place to good use Dad asked What does that mean exactly Move in Make it great again and bring the place back to life Before Aunt Lucinda could finish what she was saying a loud clank sounded somewhere upstairs Then something clunked and vibrated inside the walls The dogs all started barking at once and Herb squeezed in closer to his dad That's just the ghost upstairs Aunt Lucinda explained with a casual laugh One of many as you know You'll get used to all the racket they make Herb gulped Aunt Lucinda had joked about her house ghosts before but Herb had never really paid much attention After all he'd never had to sleep in the mansion alongside all those funny noises But now it was sounding like that might be changing