I DO NOT OWN GHOST WHISPERER! ONLY THE CHARACTERS I'VE CREATED.
INSPIRATION: "It's Never Too Late" was inspired by the song by Three Days Grace. Leigha Keller, 16 is in high school and she's friends with Ned. Her mother died when she was younger and a year ago, her sister died from a tragic accident. Her father is always busy and neglects her. So, hope you like.
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It's been raining since the afternoon in Granview and Leigha Keller, a beautiful young woman with past the shoulders wavy dark brown hair is sitting in her bedroom cornor, crying. She's holding onto her legs, curled up into a ball. She's been hearing things lately and she can't understand it. She has her music loudly so her dad can't hear her cry. She gets up and walks to the bathroom connected to her bedroom, she dries her eyes and looks at herself in the mirror. She hasn't been fine since her sister died last year, she was shot to death and Leigha hasn't been able to get over it. She gets upset and picks up a razor blade off the sink, she puts it against her skin where they have scars and she starts crying as she cuts herself. She keeps turning her head so she can't see the blood. When she's done cutting up her left arm, she cries harder and grabs a towel and puts it on her arm. "Ahhh" She screams, cries and falls to the ground against the bathroom door. "I hate you. I hate you. I hate you." She keeps repeating in a whisper almost to herself.
The next day, Melinda Gordan and her bestfriend/co worker Delia are putting some objects away in the store where they work, it's a vintage place called Same As It Never Was that Melinda started off before she met Delia and her son Ned. Melinda is looking at an old jewelry box with carvings on it, and the initals LK on it. She runs her fingers over the carving of an angel on the box, she then tries to open it. "Uh...this box isn't opening." Melinda says to Delia, who's standing by the counter doing something or the other. "What's wrong with it?" "I don't know, it just won't open." She stays still struggling to open it, she turns around and sees a woman standing there. She can tell she's dead. The dress she's wearing has a red stain on it, where she was shot, her blonde hair is mangled up, she looks messy. Melinda jumps when she sees her, she then looks around the store and no one is in there. "How can I help you?" Melinda asks her.
"You can't help me. You have to help her. Before it's too late." The woman says and then disappears. Melinda turns around looking for her, she then walks by the counter and looks at Delia. "I saw just a ghost and she was being very vague." Melinda says with concern a little. "What did she say?" Delia ask with curiousity. "You can't help me. You have to help her. Before it's too late. What does that mean?"
"She'll come back and give you more information, isn't that how it works." Delia says. "I guess so. Is Ned coming in after school today?" "Yeah, he's suppose to be bringing a friend for me to meet so they can study at the library together." Melinda looks at her. "You check out study buddy's." Delia looks at her. "I security check and run finger prints for study buddy's. I need to make sure if its a girl that there's no chemistry between them so they won't do...anything..." "Right, he's at that age."
Just after Melinda says that Ned walks in with Leigha Keller, wearing a white long sleve shirt under a black shirt. She has her hair up into a ponytail at the nape of her kneck, she's has a shoulder bag with her books and stuff in it. Ned walks by his mother. "Can me and Leigha go to her house? We're just going to be studying." Ned says as Leigha gets distracted and starts looking around the store. She walks to the jewelry box that Melinda was looking at and looks at it. Melinda walks by her. "Hi, I'm Melinda. Do you like the jewelry box?" Leigha looks at Melinda. "Leigha. It's pretty. And it looks fimilar, like i've seen it somewhere before. How much?" Melinda looks it over, "I'm not sure yet... $20." Melinda says surely. "Really?" Leigha says while Ned is talking to her mother. "Yeah." Melinda picks up the box, Leigha looks at her, "Can I come back for it?" Leigha ask. Melinda looks at her "Sure, i'll put in the back." and brings it to the register and puts it under the counter. Delia looks at at Leigha.
"So Leigha, is your father going to be home?" Delia ask with a concern voice. "My father's going to be at work, it's just going to be me and Ned. I also have my friend Issy coming over with her sister so we can all study. I can promise you, that's all we're going to be doing, there's a huge test tomorrow." Leigha tells Delia. "Ok. That's fine." Delia says believing what Leigha's telling her. Leigha looks at Ned. "Ready to go?" She then adjusts the strap on her bag. "Be home before 9, ok?" Delia asks Ned. "Got it mom." Ned and Leigha than leave the store and head to her house. Delia looks a little worried but gives into her son.
Later at Leigha's house, Ned and Leigha are sitting on the couch, there books on their laps and the coffee table, studying. Ned notices dark circles under Leigha's eyes. "Haven't been sleeping good lately?" Leigha uses the sleves of her shirt and wipes her eyes. "No. I've been having trouble going to sleep." She says while looking at her book. "Is there anything you wanna talk about? I'll listen." Ned says with concern, she hasn't always been like this. She was once really popular, happy and was dating the captain of the basketball team, but after her sister died, things with south. "I'm fine. It's just, things have been weird lately." Leigha's cell phone beeps, she picks it up off the couch and reads the text message she just recieved and it's from her friend Issy. 'Sry we can't make it, flat tire.' "Great. Issy's car has a flat. Now she and Missy can't make it." Leigha tells Ned.
"So it's just us two..." Ned ask. "Looks like it," Leigha replies, "Want popcorn? I'm getting kinda thirsty. You want anything?" She ask putting her books on the coffee table and then getting up and heading to the kitchen, Ned does the same thing. "I'll help." "Ok." When they get into the kitchen, Ned looks at her. "Popcorns in the pantry behind you and you can find the microwave obviously." She says jokingly as she walks to the fridge. "Want rootbeer?" She asks as Ned grabs a bag of popcorn opens it and puts it in the microwave. "Yeah." Leigha grabs two bottles of rootbeer and grabs the bottle opener magnet off the fridge, she opens them and hands one of them to Ned, he takes it. "So, what happened to you and Misha?" Leigha grabs a bowel from the cabinet an d puts it on the table, she sits down. "Me and Misha broke up. People change." She tells Ned.
"Like you? You've changed a lot since your sister died. Last year before the accident you wore bright colors and make up all the time, and you seemed more happier. Now you wear long sleves and walk around like your invisible." Ned says sitting at the table with her. "I might as well be." Leigha says, trying not to make eye contact with Ned. He's right, she's changed drastically since her sister's death. Before she would go shopping with her friends and sister in her spare time, now she's cutting herself just to feel pain.
This is what I have so far, i'm going to work on Chapter 2 and see where it goes. Please enjoy and please comment or I might not continue! Depends on if anybody likes it enough!