Death isn't an experience I recommend. At all
All that really happens is a whole bunch of people crying and doting over you. Half of them you've never even met or spoken to and a eulogy that sounds nothing like you. The only reason they cry is because their thinking "That could have been me". Nothing more nothing less, unless they've known you for years. Then on top of all that you're completely and utterly ignored.
Well, at least that's what happened to me. Some may get to the 'Great Beyond'.
Me?
I was left behind, like when Peter Parker missed his school bus at the beginning of the movie, only the bus didn't stop for me.
If I was being exact, which usually I'm not, I died on October 31st 2008 at about 4 minutes past midnight.
I think.
To be honest I was a bit too preoccupied with the knife sticking out of my gut to look at my watch and count down to the second my heart stopped and brain died.
I'd only just moved to Cross Academy a week ago as well. Hardly knew anyone, except for Yuuki and Zero, and only a little as they were mainly made by Chairman Cross made them show them around. Yuuki was nice, very cheery, but Zero...well he just acted like and Emo to be honest. I wouldn't be surprised if he was the ones that cut his wrists or listened to depressing music.
I also knew some of the Night Class, only because I kind of got lost on my first day and wandered on in. Weird bunch, let me tell ya. Some guy led me back, Ichijo I think his name was. Meh, I wasn't really paying attention anyway, to busy thinking about lunch. Which reminds me, I need food...
Anyway, I was found in a pond outside of the school grounds. See, I kind of snuck out to a Halloween Party. I wasn't really a party person but there was free food involved and the fact that I was going insane being locked up at school and it was Halloween my favourite time of year. A Halloween party is the only party you'd ever see me caught dead at though.
I was missing for about four days before one of the Night Class fished me out of the pond in the town. The first thing I remember after my little 'sleep' was seeing the Day Class holding some sort of service type thing for me, I was confused at first, I didn't even know I was dead. So confused in fact that I went right up to the priest and shouted in his face.
Didn't even flinch.
Couldn't move when I realised. When I realised what had happened to me. That I was...Dead.
I was in denial at first. Went around shouting in everyone's face, hoping, begging at least one of them could hear or see me.
None of them did though.
You'd think that at least one student in the school would be psychic.
I ran after that, into my room. I just wanted to be alone, to think.
Then they started giving my room to other people, but I was still so confused so I...scared them...a bit.
Only a little!
Though, acting like Samara Morgan or Sadako Yamamura from the Ring/Ringu movies may not be other people's idea of 'a little'
It wasn't for two weeks until I realised that I was being silly, I was beginning to act like Zero for Pete's sake! As my mother always used to say, 'No use crying over spilt milk'. So instead of moping around like a Mini Zero I walked round the Sun Dorms, mainly taking uneaten food off people or listening into private conversations. Just the random stuff anyone would do if they where invisible. It wasn't till a week later I left the Sun Dorms and wandered around the grounds. It was while sitting at the fountain, eating a bag of left over Doritos that I was left almost speechless. Almost being the main word in that sentence.
"Hey! You can't be out here at night. Get back to your Dorm." A voice called from behind. At first I ignored them, thinking they were talking to someone else which they always where.
"Hey!" they said again, closer this time. It turned, just in time for them to fall through me into the fountain.
Turned out it was Zero, though I should have guessed, only he has the, I'm-only-doing-this-because-I'm-told-to-or-I'm-pissed-off voice. I didn't help him up, couldn't even if I wanted to. I just stood there staring at him like a kid who just got a new puppy or one that had been told they were going to military school.
"What the hell!" he exclaimed, standing up in the water glaring at me.
"You can see me?" I asked, looking at him wide eyed. Zero frowned, looking both bored and chessed off at the same time.
"Why wouldn't I be able to see you?" He stopped, realisation slowly coming to him,
"Can you see me do this?" I asked, jumping up and down on the spot, Doritos packet still in my hands.
"You're dead." He stated more that asked.
"Holy shit you can really see me!" I exclaimed, covering my mouth with a hand to stop myself from shouting out.
"But you're dead." He stated again, getting out of the fountain and shaking the water out of his hair. He really needed to work on the whole, 'happy' thing.
"Shut up your ruining my mood." I said, ignoring him and continuing to jump up and down in joy.
He was about to say something else when I saw some Night Class students walking up to Zero and Zero quickly whipped out his gun.
Whoa! Wait! A Gun!
"Decide to take a midnight dip Kiryu?" The one I think was called Aido, or Idol as his Fangirls called him, said. Zero sighed, turned.
"What do you want Night Class?" Zero asked hostilely.
"Why does Kaname-sama show consideration to a human like you? I can't allow it." One of the female Night Class – I think was called Ruka- hissed at Zero. I shrugged, knowing that I was going to be ignored for a while now and sat back on the fountain, finishing off the Doritos. Another Night Class student –Kian – or 'Wild' as he was called by Fangirls (it's amazing what you hear classes) sighed looking bored.
"Don't be too jealous Ruka and the rest of you. If President Kuran found out he would reprimand you." He told them before laying a hand on Zero's shooting arm, trying to make him put the gun down.
"You put that away too, Kiryu." Unfortunately Zero didn't take the action as a pacifist one seeing as he grabbed Kian by the shoulders and flipped him onto the ground.
"Whoa! Now that was cool." I grinned eating more of the nacho cheese goodness, which in turn made everyone turn to me, either frowning or wide-eyed.
"Where did you come from?" Ruka asked sharply. I looked around, confused. Was she talking to me?
"The UK?" I said warily, putting a Dorito back in the bag and wiping my hands on my dress. Ruka hissed at me.
"You know what I meant." She growled. Well somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
"Hold it right there!" a voice called from above. I looked up the see Yuuki jump from an upper level and land on the ground elegantly beside Zero. Whoa! I didn't know she could do that!
"Fighting if prohibited! It says so in the student handbook!" she shouted, standing and motioning to the band round her arm.
"If you really want to fight I will fight you first as a member of the disciplinary committee!" she told them. I smiled as she said that. Go Yuuki!
It was then though, of course, that the 'Powers that be' decided to muck me around a bit.
Something wet seeped down my stomach and as I looked down I saw blood running down my grubby white dress from the now non-existent wound that killed me. Looking up I saw everyone looking at me in shock.
"Imogen! How- " Yuuki exclaimed and cutting off when she saw the blood. "Imogen what's going on!" Yuuki asked. I looked at the blood then back to Yuuki.
"I'm...I'm dying." I whispered, before I felt the gut wrenching pain in my gut again as the knife was yanked out after being turned sharply to the side once again. I shouted out in pain and fell to my knees and more blood seeped through my hands fell to the ground. Flashes of the man that killed me flickered through my mind at a pace to much for my brain to handle.
"What the hell is wrong with her!" one of the Night Class shouted at either Zero or Yuuki.
"Imogen? Imogen!" I heard Yuuki call as she ran over to me and tried to put a hand on my shoulder. Tried being the main word in that sentence.
Instead of touching the pasty white and blue skin that lay there her hand went through me, just like it did with everything else.
"What on-!" she exclaimed looking back up to me in shock, just in time to see blood dribble out my mouth onto my already grubby, formerly white dress. Then....
I disappeared.
My name is Imogen Harper.
And I am a ghost.
