I glanced behind me. "I'm just hearing things". I whisper to myself. I start walking faster. "Miya! Come back!" I turn completely around. "Melony?" I call out. I hear quiet footsteps and suddenly something that appears like a misty fog appears. I slightly tilt my head and struggle to see exactly what it is. Suddenly it lurches towards me calling my name. I try and back up, but I trip over the curb. As I struggle to get up, the mist reaches me and stands over me. I shield my eyes.
"Who are you?! What are you?!" I yell as I try and pull myself away. The mist follows me. "Look at me" it whispers. I slowly uncover eyes and see the face of my long lost friend. "No. It's not you! It can't be!" I exclaim to the mist.
"But it is Miya. It's me. Melony." The mist becomes more prominent and I can actually make out a human figure. It reaches out to me and I just stare. I reach out one hand and I touch her. Or it? My hand goes right through it. I jump bak a few feet, yet she follows me again.
"Miya! It's me! Please dont run. I don't understand why you are so scared?" She looks around as she talks. "Why are you on the highschool campus? We are only in 8th grade? Are you like getting a book or something?"
I look up questionably. Maybe it really was here. She died 8th grade year. "Melony. You... You died 8th grade year." Her eyes widen. "I.. I'm..I'm dead?" She exclaimed. I nod slightly.
"No I'm not! Miya you freak, you're so weird there's even such thing as a ghost." I shake my head . "Well you are here. You are ghost. So clearly ghosts are real. And my hand went through you when I reached out for your hand. Melony you're dead. You died in October of last year." I slowly stand up to walk away. She's probably just my imagination anyways. I just miss her too much so my brain is trying to make her come back.
I grab my books and look at my phone. The bell is already about to ring for the next class. Man, I was REALLY late. I guess I just won't go to this class, I didn't like Math anyways. I turn around to walk to the commons area and Melony's figure is there again.
"Miya. Please help me. I don't know what happened. I'm so confused, please oh PLEASE tell me what happened to me!" I watch a faint tear fall down the figures face. I open my mouth to speak as the figure lurches towards me again. I jump back. "First of stop doing that." I sit down at a nearby table and she sits across from me.
I never thought about Doing this, telling my best friend how she died. Nobody ever thinks that they will do that, but obviously it happened to me. As I explained it all to her, her eyes got wider and wider. When the bell rang I got up to go to my next class.
"Miya don't leave me! I don't know what I am supposed to do!" She examined through powerful sobs. I felt my eyes swelling up. "Come to my house after school." After I said that, I walked to class.
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I sit in English, drawing randomly as the teacher rants on about what we are learning this year. English is my best subject and I usually always listen, but today I had other things on my mind, like how to tell my dead friend what she was supposed to do. My life sounds like one of those weird movies where nothing goes right for the main character. I hate those kinds of movies, it just shows how miserable someone's life is. I feel like I'm in their situation right now.
When I look back at these last 2 years I find so many things that I wish could have happened differently. The first thing is Melonys death. After that, everything went downhill. My older brother had a car crash and was paralyzed, my dad left a for another woman, grandma was diagnosed with cancer, Aunt Sarah got depressed because her daughter died, Mom.. mom is depressed too.. Everything is going wrong.
Suddenly my teacher walks past me and snatches my notebook away, turns out, I had been writing about all of this while I was daydreaming. How stupid can I be? My teacher took it and began reading it. She glanced at me over the top of her glasses and wrote a little note in the corner and sat it back down.
"Go see the counselor after class."
I sat my head on the desk. Great. I saw the teacher go to her desk and turn on her computer. I glanced up and see that she wasn't smart enough to turn the smart board off. Her email to the counselor about me showed up on the screen.
I felt everyone's eyes on me. I even hears some people laugh at me. Then I heard the teacher gasp and the screen went dark. I stand up and grab my stuff and walk out the door. I hold it open as I whisper back inside, "II'll just go now." I let the door go and almost the whole class starts laughing, except James Gotwin, Melony's boyfriend. He stares at me as I stand in the hallway. I shake my head at him as I turn to walk away.
We used to be friends. He started ignoring me after Melonys death. Actually he started ignoring everyone. He was once popular like me, but without Melony, he seemed useless, just like me.
I shake my head and try and blink away the tears as I slide down the wall in the hallway. I look at the clock. I had 20 minutes to get this over with. I'm not going to the counselors. I'm not a manic. I'll be fine. For now.
