
The first confuses her, so Susie makes a second one, freaking Samantha out when she feels the air shift around her.

Susie draws a three part story for Samantha.

Susie doesn’t remember where she had hid Gretchen and tries to get Samantha to help her. Samantha feels better, but when Susie blows into her ear she goes silent, having felt it.

Before she was killed, Susie had told Samantha she was going to find a better hiding spot. Rhonda informs Samantha that her mother plans to send her somewhere else, and she decides to reveal what she’s been holding back: Her and Susie had a fight over a doll named Gretchen, as Samantha wanted it to study while Susie wanted it to play. A boy named Drew approaches Samantha to ask if she’s seen Susie’s ghost, as he believes ghosts are real and thinks they hang around if they want something. She has gone to counseling and her best friend Jeanie also helps, and Patricia has slowly been getting better, although still needing to take pills in order to sleep, however Samantha has made little progress with her therapist, Rhonda, who says that something is stuck in her head. Patricia, their mother, blames herself for Susie’s death, believing that if she discouraged Susie’s vivid thoughts she wouldn’t have been easily lured away. As the two leave, Susie feels herself fading away until she is suddenly back at her house by morning. Every night at midnight, Chica comes to the house and will take Susie’s hand, leading her away from the house. Susie's spirit lingers throughout her house during the day, with Samantha and her mother unable to see or hear her. Susie's tragic death broke her family apart, with her dad leaving her mother and Samantha to deal with the grief by themselves. This is because, one year ago, Susie was lured away and murdered at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza by a serial killer. Her godmother, Jeanie, had told her she was “plugged in” and felt things others didn’t, and she begins to feel as if there’s something rotting or going stale. Three years ago, when she was four and Samantha was three, Susie was distraught upon seeing the leaves of an oak tree falling off, and she decided to name it Oliver. Meanwhile, Samantha is a smart and serious girl who uses her interest in learning to calm her own vivid imagination, which leads to bullying. Susie is an empathetic young girl with a vivid imagination, always anthropomorphizing.
