Fiction: The Ghost in the Library

This month's Words for Wednesday prompts are supplied by Sean Jeating and are hosted at River's blog here. This week's prompts are: countenance, favourite, once, pillow, regret and/or bags, faces, machos, steps , swearboarding (makeup but related to waterboarding or skatingboarding and cursing). Another optional prompt is Charlotte's colour of the month - Smoky Rose. 
    The aim of Words for Wednesday is to use one or all of the prompts to write something - ie, a story, a poem, an essay or any forms of writing, fiction or nonfiction, basically write anything you want.

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Fiction: The Ghost in the Library
No one knew who the ghost was in Madam Maxim's manor library but all were certain there was one. Madam's housekeeper, butler, maids, relatives and visitors to the manor all claimed they saw it.
    At the beginning of the spring season, James Washington Maxwell, a friend of Madam's granddaughter's friend's cousin, was invited for a long visit at the manor. Ghosts to him were all nonsense and catawampuses. He had no fear of encountering them. 
    After two evenings of behaving himself, James faked a buggy stomach and turned in for the night. When all was silent, he snuck into the library.

Draw Something Oct. 26 - 9

Name: Lauralucia 'Lala' Catalina Ramirez
Age: 13
Loves: Mending clothes & things, cupcakes especially the strawberry-vanilla variety, acorns
Hates: Being late, hard cookies, the scent of lavender
Ability: See future events seven minutes before they happen
Curious Tidbit: Lala was blind at birth until her fairygodmother gifted her a pair of magical glasses and she was able to see.

Do you wear glasses? Do you think people look smarter wearing glasses?

Draw Something Oct. 26 - 8

This particular character is based on Hermione from The Harry Potter series.

Name: Hermony Eloise Redhart
Age: 13
Loves: Cafe latte with whip cream, history of anything and everything, time travel
Hates: Sour candies, bullies, unfairness
Ability: Make herself invisible whenever she wants
Curious Tidbit: When Hermony was five, she accidentally turned her baby sister into a walrus but they didn't find Hermony for a week so they didn't know if she had done anything and she was never punished.

What would you do (incriminating or not) if you can't be punish for it?