Angel of Light (A Zak Bagans Story)

Chapter 25: Watching Live Nightmares

Chapter 25: Watching Live Nightmares

"Man, nothing beats a home cooked meal by a beautiful woman," Aaron said, leaning back in his chair.

"You said it bro," Zak commented.

Cheryl blushed.

"It's about time someone else blushed for a change!" I said.

Cheryl, Zak and Aaron all laughed.

"Seriously though, thank you Cheryl. That was awesome," Zak said.

Cheryl smiled and nodded.

"You're welcome," Cheryl replied, standing up and started to gather up the plates.

I started to stand to help her.

"No, you sit! You're supposed to be taking it easy," Cheryl said.

"Oh for petes sake, I'm not an invalid," I replied.

"You will be if you don't sit your ass back down," Cheryl warned me.

I sighed as I sat back down, Aaron and Zak both laughing.

"No, not you two either," Cheryl said, noticing the guys starting to get up. "You're our guests. Besides, don't you have to set up gear or something to show us the footage from Goldfield?" Cheryl added, carrying some dishes over to the sink.

"Oh, yeah," Aaron started as he stood up. "I'll get it," He added, walking over near the front door and grabbing the laptop bag he had brought over.

"You need help bro?" Zak asked, standing up and walking into the living room.

"Nah, I got it. Just gonna hook the laptop up to their TV and we can play it through that," Aaron said, taking some cables out of the bag.

"Alright, I'll boot the laptop up," Zak replied, taking the laptop out of the bag and sitting down on the couch, setting the laptop down on the coffee table, and then opened it and hit the power button.

As Cheryl took a second load of dishes to the sink, I stood up, gathered up the condiments from the table, and carried them over to the proper cupboard and put them away.

"Ali! What did I tell you?!" Cheryl exclaimed.

"I can't hear you," I jokingly said, pretending to be deaf.

"Ugh, Zak, make her relax," Cheryl said, slightly raising her voice to be heard across the open space.

"Hey, he's not the boss of me!" I said, pretending to be mad.

"Hey Ali, come here for a minute, I want to show you something," Zak said, holding up his cell phone.

Not thinking anything of it, I walked over to him.

"What do- ah!" I yelped, feeling Zak suddenly pull me down so I was sitting on his lap, with his arms tightly wrapped around my waist.

"Sorry doll, I lied," Zak said, grinning at me.

Cheryl and Aaron laughed.

I huffed like I was mad, folding my arms across my chest.

Zak laughed, then leaned up near my ear and softly said, "Sit here with me and just relax, please?"

I looked at his pleading face and jokingly sighed.

"It's a good thing you're cute, Bagans," I replied, turning so I was sitting sideways on his lap and slouched down a bit to rest my head against his shoulder.

He smiled as he set his cell phone aside, and then lifted the laptop from the table and set it on my lap, opening up a program and preparing to play the footage.