Here's another chapter. I've finished the story now so it's just a case of updating when I get the time. Enjoy.
Chapter Four
Ghostly Apologies
It had been coming up to a week or so since I had spoken with Tommy about the boy who went missing and I hadn't had much luck finding the answers to my questions. The truth was, I didn't really know how to go about it.
I didn't know the name of this guy or where he was from or what he was even studying. All I knew was that he lived in my dorm and went missing. I didn't even know when.
I told the guys about everything that Tommy had said after Rose asked about the electrics and if I had found out what the problem was.
Alice was unbearable. "See!" She shrieked, "I told you, I told you!" She danced around her and Rose's kitchen making me dizzy.
Rose shook her head at me, "I really wish you hadn't told us that. This," She indicated to Alice with her head, "Is going to go on all the way up until Christmas."
I gave her an apologetic grimace.
"Oh, Alice, will you please sit down? There could be a whole number of things that could explain the T.V." Rose said.
"Really?" Alice smirked, "Tell me one of them."
Rosalie just stared blankly at her for a while, scrunching up her face, looking as though straining to lift a heavy weight before "tutting" loudly and folding her arms crossly.
Alice giggled and skipped into her bedroom.
Rose shook her head, "You know, she's been all bubbly like that all day."
She looked puzzled and that surprised me, "Isn't Alice always bubbly? If I was asked to describe Alice that's probably the most perfect way of summing her up."
"Well yeah…maybe bubbly isn't the right word." She pondered for a bit before exclaiming, "Giddy! She's been giddy all day."
I frowned, now that she mentioned it, Alice did seem a bit more prance-y and giggly than usual. I had just assumed it was due to the high and satisfaction of being proved right.
Alice came back in a while later in a little green dress that screamed "Alice" with a little green bow in her hair.
"You look nice," I smiled as she twirled, asking what we thought. "Where are you going."
"Oh, you know," She shrugged, "Just out." She was being totally blasé because she was desperate for us to ask.
Rose and I exchanged a smirk.
"Come on, Al, tell us." I grinned.
"Oh alright if you must know," She paused for dramatic effect but couldn't hold it in long enough and squealed out, "Jasper asked me out and he's taking me to dinner!"
"Ahh! Why didn't you tell us earlier?" I asked jumping up to hug her, excited for her.
"I knew you were all giddy!" Rose gasped, hugging her too.
I laughed. Alice really was giddy. She was practically buzzing with excitement.
"I'm sorry I was just waiting for the right time to make my little announcement." She beamed.
"Ha!" Rose scoffed, "That and your need to drive me crazy wondering what the hell was up with you all day."
Alice shrugged, "Yeah, that too."
"When is he coming?" I asked.
Alice glanced at the clock, "In about ten minutes."
"Do you know where he's taking you?" Rose wondered.
"No, it's going to be a surprise."
"Ooh, you have to come back and tell us everything." Rose demanded.
"Of course!" Alice said as though it were obvious.
A little while later we waved Alice out the door, aww-ing and cooing when Jasper offered her his arm.
Rosalie sighed, "Our baby's all grown up."
I laughed.
The boys, like Rose, weren't too convinced about the whole ghost thing. Though Jasper would never tell Alice that. And despite my sure but shaky belief that something…supernatural…was going on in my dorm, nothing had really happened since the night we spent with Haley Joel Osment.
That all changed a couple of nights ago.
I had just got in from work, I had had a very stressful day at the restaurant. An annoying colleague of mine named Mike wouldn't stop following me around. Literally. I think he thought it was his "cute" way of trying get me to like him. Please. What was he? Ten?
Well, a very pompous stick-up-their-ass customer who had been doing my head in all afternoon decided to send her meal back as it wasn't "quite to her satisfaction". I turned around to head back to the kitchen only to crash straight into Mike. He swerved to avoid me and I tripped over his foot, sending the plate of food flying. To say I returned home irritated was a bit of an understatement.
I let my bag drop to the floor of my bedroom and collapsed into my desk chair sliding my folded arms and slumped head onto the desk. The magazine, which I had been using for my English course, slid to the floor but as I bent to pick it up a page ripped out. I sighed heavily picking up the sheet of glossy paper and gasped almost dropping it again.
Certain words on the page were circled from different paragraphs and different sentences and it was definitely not something I had done.
And then I read the words.
Sorry. about. Sunday. Night. didn't. mean to. scare. You.
My hand flew to my throat. If my belief of the supernatural was shaky before, it was rock solid now.
I sat and watched my friends dig into their Thai food that we had ordered all sitting in the boys' kitchen. Alice was snuggled up close to Jasper and he was feeding her food from his plate. Rose and Emmett were laughing at their antics and pretending to wretch into their own food.
I had been sat there for the last fifteen minutes and for the life of me wouldn't have been able to tell anyone what they had been talking about. I was too wrapped up in my own thoughts of the "note" I had found.
Surely if this ghost or spirit was apologising then it couldn't have been set out to cause any harm.
Maybe it really was the boy who went missing. Maybe he really was dead.
Suddenly snapping fingers in front of my face broke me from my reverie and I looked up to see all four pairs of eyes staring at me in amusement.
"Hello," Emmett called, "Anyone home?"
I shook my head, willing myself out of it, "Sorry," I gave a weak laugh, I was a million miles away."
"Yeah, we know," Alice giggled, "You've been staring at that curry for about half an hour."
"Yeah are you actually going to eat that?" Emmett asked eagerly, eyeing my food.
I passed him my plate, "You can have it. Don't really feel like eating at the moment."
"Seriously Bells, what's up?" Jasper asked, concerned.
I bit my lip, wondering whether to tell them or not.
"Is it about the ghost?" Alice whispered warily.
Rose and the boys rolled their eyes at her but gaped when I slowly nodded.
"What happened?" Alice asked, "More "electrics"?"
I shook my head. "I think it tried to…communicate with me."
They all stared.
"What? How?" I could see Alice's excitement boiling to the surface and could see the others scepticism.
"Bella, are you sure you're not just getting a little paranoid?" Rose asked soothingly. Though how she thought that question to be soothing I didn't know.
"Maybe you really are cracking up, Bells. I mean, if you're hearing voices now." Emmett chuckled.
"I didn't hear anything," I said.
Jasper frowned in confusion, "Then how did it communicate?"
"It sort of left a…note?"
"Have you got it with you?" Alice squealed.
I nodded and rummaged through my bag, "I left my magazine out on my desk. I dropped it and a page fell out and some words were circled. They were in a order that actually made a sentence and I sure as hell hadn't done it."
I passed the folded piece of paper to Alice and her eyes raked over it, her hand covering her mouth as she glanced up at me, her eyes wide.
Jasper took it from her loose grip and he gaped as he read it too.
The sheet was passed around and by the time Emmett had given it back to me my friends were all sat absolutely speechless.
"Oh my god." Rose muttered in total shock.
"That's no coincidence," Alice was shaking her head furiously.
"Oh my god." Rose muttered.
"How?" Jasper gaped.
I shrugged, "I don't know."
"Oh my god." Rose muttered.
"This is crazy. Bells I think you might actually be being haunted." Emmett gasped.
"Oh my god." Rose muttered.
"Will you please stop saying that?" I whined.
Rose was staring at me, her blue eyes sparkling with disbelief, shock and fear, "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god! Bella this is insane."
"Believe there's a ghost now?" Alice asked, smugly.
Rose turned her eyes to Alice and slowly nodded. "How is this possible? There is no other explanation. There has to be a ghost in your house."
"Thank you," Alice sang.
"Bella," Rose sat up on her knees facing me, "You need to do something about this. I think…I think maybe you should try and communicate with it too."
"What?" I gasped. This was a complete and total one eighty for Rose. One second she's telling me I'm paranoid the next she's telling me to have a chat with the damn thing.
"Bella, what if it is that boy? The one that went missing? Don't you think you should find out?"
"Yeah!" Emmett exclaimed, "Rose is right, you should talk to it. Ooh! Get a Ouija board!"
"No!" I all but shouted. "There is no way I'm letting a Ouija board in my house. Do you know people go crazy messing around with those things?"
Jasper chuckled, "Bella don't you think this is all pretty insane already?"
"Bella, I really don't think this spirit of whatever is trying to hurt you. I mean, the little message tells you at least that much, and you even said the other day you want answers." Rose said reasonably.
I sighed heavily, looking around at all of my friends faces, all willing me to do this.
"Where the hell am I going to get a Ouija board?"
There you have it :)
A picture of Alice's dress can be found on my profile.
As I've finished this story I was thinking of starting another one - this is basically the summary:
They all smiled at me like they knew me. They all spoke to me as though we'd been friends our whole lives. They laughed and bantered with me as though we shared private jokes. But they didn't know me, and I definitely didn't know them.
Bella Swan is forced to stay with her father one summer at his stables and she's under the impression they all know something she doesn't. Especially that odd boy. What was his name? Edward?
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