Chapter 4

What if Suze had a younger sister and she could see ghost but wasn't a mediator? Some of the things that happen in the original book will happen in this fanfic.

I do not own mediator cause when I look in the mirror I don't see Meg Cabot.

Dinner at the Ackerman house could be described in only one word. Disgusting.

It started out fine. I set the table, while Suze, Brad, and David brought food to the table. Then when everything was set, everyone took a seat at the table.

The seating arrangement was Mom at one head of the table to her right was Suze, then me, and then Andy at the other head of the table and to his right was Jake, then David, and then Brad. Andy gave everyone a plate full of Surf n Turf and when everyone had their food the horror began.

As soon as Andy gave the OK to start eating, the three boys ate as if they had been starved for weeks. They broke every table manner rule in the book. It was a nauseating site to see that I had to look away to keep my food down. It was horrifying.

I looked at Suze to see that she was holding up better than me and was actually eating but eating in small amounts.

My Mom, being completely oblivious to the nauseating site before her, started a conversation to fill in the quite.

"So Terry, what classes did want to take this semester? I know you wanted to major in English, but that doesn't mean you can't keep you options open and I hear that Northern California state college has a lot of courses to choose from." I hadn't really thought of what courses I wanted to take this semester. See I want to become a writer. It's always been dream of mine and I have been taking mostly English courses to help me become one. So I hadn't really thought of what I would take with it. "I'm not sure. I was thinking maybe Art or I could take psychology. From what I heard about psychology it seems pretty interesting. I'll just ask the admittance office about what courses are available and pick the ones I want to take on Monday."

By then all the boys looked up from their plates with a confused look. I was wondering what they were confused about when Brad asked," Why are you talking about college courses now when you only ten?" Jake and David nodded their wondering the same thing.

I rolled my eyes. This happens all the time, especially when someone hears me talking about a test I was studying for or sees my notebook. It gets annoying after a while cause I have to explain it each and every time. It really gets on my nerves.

"That's because I am in college." I answered going back to my dinner.

"Terry skipped a lot of grades when she was younger and ended up being the only 5 year old in the 6th grade. Now she's in her 1st year of college for every course except science where she is in the 12th grade." Suze explained.

When I looked up from my plate, I saw that my step-brothers all had wide eyes and their jaws were hanging a bit. They were looking at me as if trying to find a stamp that said genius on me.

"How come you don't act all that different then a normal 10 year old and aren't spouting scientific nonsense all the time like David?" Jake questioned, giving me a look that basically said 'prove it'.

I answered the only way I could, truthfully, "I would but that would be troublesome ( 2 bonus marks for the person who can figure out which anime character said this all the time :D) and I have better things to do then say things to people in a way that they not only would not listen to but would be too stupid to understand." Then I gave him a smile as if to say' You're one of the stupid people'.

"Terry, that's enough." Mom said. She must have seen my smile. Hey, it's not my fault it's true. Most people don't understand a thing when I speak smart. Seriously I have to dumb down everything I say.

"Hey, I may not be a genius, but I am not stupid." Jake said in an angry tone.

I shrugged; I mean if I said what I was thinking, that I thought that his I.Q. was lower than a frog, I would have been in serious trouble with Mom.

"Terry tends to be really quite so don't let it get to you." Mom said to Jake when he looked pissed that I didn't answer him.

I started to ignore the conversations around me. I started to think about how much candy I had left. I had 3 chocolate bars, 2 bags of starburst, 5 ring pops, and 2 fruit roll ups. Huh, I thought, I need to go buy more soon, I'm almost out.

After dinner, I decided to escape from everyone and go into the sanctuary that is my new room.

So while Mom was trying to get Brad to take Suze some place, I started to creep out when someone grabbed onto the back of my shirt. I looked behind me to see the person holding my shirt was Suze. "Come on we're playing some video game with Brad." She said as she pulled me towards the den.

I sighed; it seemed that I wasn't getting out of it so I decided to enjoy myself." What game are we playing?" I asked. "Cool boarder."

Never heard of it. Oh well can't be that hard to play.

And it wasn't because, unless Brad was letting us win or just sucked so much, me and Suze won every game against Brad and I won a couple against Suze.

Afterwards when Brad got tired of losing, he suggested we watched a movie instead. But I was getting tired so I said good night to everyone in the house and started getting ready for bed.

When I came out of my bathroom, I saw something that made me sigh.

"Why can't I get one day of peace?" I asked no one in particular.

There sitting on my bed innocently was a note with a black rose on top of it.