So... How /do/ you explain to your families that you're going to investigate ghosts? Also, was that chemistry I spotted Allison and Isaac?
Well, for Stiles there was no need to explain. He’s been obsessed with this stuff for as long as I can remember. When he told John he was starting this whole thing up he just nodded like he’d been expecting it. By extension, telling my mom was pretty easy. She just said “Where Stiles goes, you go. I’ve leaned to except it.”
To be honest, we’re all fairly lucky that we have a lot of support behind us. Derek’s sisters are two of our biggest fans! I think they get a little freaked out (especially after what happened at Cal State with the whole poltergeist thing) but Laura did just ask to come along on a hunt so I guess she’s not that freaked out. It’s exciting for them.
Allison and Lydia have been doing stuff like this for years so it wasn’t a huge jump for them to go from where they were to doing the full on investigations. Chris (Allison’s dad) even gave us a few pointers when we first started out.
I guess, with Isaac it was a little bit more difficult. He has a…rocky relationship with his dad. They don’t really speak much but Isaac did make a point of telling him what he was doing. His dad has always had this issue about Isaac being a camera man(not stable, living in a dream world blahblahblah…us film makers get that a lot) but this was steady work. The row got pretty heated and in the end, I just told Isaac to hang up the phone. His dad had just decided that it was another way that Isaac was wasting his life. He doesn’t believe ghosts are real, he thinks everything we capture is an illusion, a trick of the light, a stunt. We would never do that, but there we go.
All in all, telling our families wasn’t that hard…it’s when they watch the footage back and see some of the shit we go through that we have to do damage control!
I’m not touching the chemistry question with a ten foot pole…let me see if I can grab one of them…
Yeah, so I guess I’m ferrying this question as Allison’s not about…
Catastrokey, I can neither confirm nor deny the presence of…chemistry between me and Allison…
(Honestly, I’m not sure myself. One minute I think ‘yeah, she likes me too’ the next minute I’m wondering if it’s all in my head or if she’s just such a lovely girl that she’s that nice to everyone and I’m just reading too much into it…I guess, watch this space. Hey, when I know, you’ll know :P)
And on the other part of your question, I can see Scott’s already answered it but I just wanted to add this. Telling my father that I was going to be investigating ghosts for a living was one of the worst conversations of my life. My dad is not a very supportive man in general but this was something else. Still, I have a new family now. Once you join the pack, you kind of get accepted into everyone else’s families. You gain sisters and parents who look out for you and call to check up on you and send texts to tell you they’re proud. I never had that before. So, telling my dad was hard but getting away from him and joining these losers was the best thing I ever did.
