Chapter 1

"Why, Jaden? Why?"

The boy gazed at the apparition before him. She was small, brown haired and befreckled, about seven or eight years old. The ghostly vision floated feet above the cold dormitory floor. " I'm sorry, Emiko! I...I..."

"Why Jaden?! Why did you let me die?!"

"I didn't mean to! I was only ten!" Jaden was frightened beyond anything he had ever felt. The ghost's white, unseeing eyes cried tears of blood.

"You're a monster! You should be dead, not me! YOU! My own brother... let me die..."

She reached out her cold, dead hands around his throat. No matter how Jaden tried, he couldn't pry Emiko off. His eyes rolled back into his head as he sank to the floor.

"Now you're dead, just like me."