Chapter Eleven

Secrets Revealed

Chapter Song: Wires by Athlete

It was a Sunday afternoon and I comfortably sat on my bed listening to my iPod and finishing up my homework when my phone started to ring.

"Hello?" I answered, forgetting to look at the caller ID.

"Hey." Danny plainly replied over the phone.

"Hey, what's up?"

"Nothing, can we meet up somewhere so we can talk?" He sounded serious.

"Yeah, sure. Can you give me like twenty minutes?" I looked at the clock.

"Ok. Is the park okay?" His nervous voice got me concerned.

"Yeah, the parks fine. Danny, are you okay?" I finally asked.

It took him a second to reply. "I'll see you in a few." The phone went dead. My eyebrows rose and fell once I looked at the dark screen on my phone to see that he hung up. I plopped the phone down on my bed and got up to get ready. I fixed my makeup and brushed out my hair. I wonder what Danny had to tell me, and why was it so important? Why couldn't he just tell me over the phone? And most importantly, why did he sound so nervous? I threw on a pair of my black sneakers and walked out of my room.

"Jeremy, I need the keys." I called but there was no answer.

"Jer?" I yelled but again, there was no answer. I opened his door but his room was dark with no one in it.

"Shylee? Dad?" I called out but then I noticed that I was talking to myself. No one was home. Of course. When I went downstairs, the first thing I did was I checked for any cars. There was none in the driveway or the garage. Everyone was gone, and now I had to walk. Great, I sarcastically thought. I shut the door behind me and went straight to the park to see what Danny had to tell me. Once I was outside, I realized I had forgotten my phone on the bed. I was in to much of a rush to go get it.

I walked on the sidewalk; the big oak tree's being my cover and temporary shade. Taking a deep breath of the air, it relaxed me and took my mind off how nervous I was about Danny. During the whole walk, I had been deep in my thoughts. They were consuming me, eating away at my brain. Turning from the sidewalk and onto the grass, I headed towards the street to cross over to the park. I sashayed my way across the street until I heard someone scream my name and then screeching tires and an engine roaring. Had someone been calling me this whole time? Was I too caught up in my thoughts to pay attention?

"Alexa, watch out!" The familiar voice screamed. I turned on my heel to see a dark blue sports car speeding towards me. I gasped, in a matter of seconds I was going to be run down. In half a second, I saw the ghost boy flying towards me, fly into me and grab me. My hazy vision watched as part of his ghost tail get hit by the car, but while we were tumbling and flying backwards, the sports car just sped away and out of sight. We rolled over, stumbled, and flew straight down onto the ground. We both hit with a thud and I could already tell that wherever I fell on would be bruised in the morning. It took a few seconds for me to actually regain my thoughts and get myself up to see if the boy was okay, I was hurting and my hand felt like it was on fire. I took a glance at my left hand to see blood on my hand and a gash across it. A groan escaped the ghost boy's mouth; I had to get up to see if he was okay. He did save my life, the least I could do was check up on him. But, the real question I wanted to know was how did he know my name? Before the car almost hit me, he screamed Alexa...how did he know my name? Soon enough, I sat up to see the boy lying on the floor not moving. His eyes were closed and his hair was messed up. Suddenly, a white ring appeared around his body. The ring split in two and they both went their separate ways: one going up towards his head and one going down towards his feet. It was transforming him into a human. The moment that he transformed, my heart dropped. The ghost boy was…Danny. My best friend was the ghost boy? The ghost boy or Danny or whoever he even was blinked his eyes and opened them. His eyes, they were blue again; they weren't a piercing green anymore. It was Danny's eye color. His hair, which was once white, was now raven black. It really was Danny.

"Oh my god." I whispered covering my mouth with my right hand, which thankfully wasn't cut. He propped himself up on his elbows and looked at me confused why I was so afraid and upset. How could this be happening? Was this even real? For a split second I questioned my stability. Danny broke the silence, disrupting my thoughts. My heart was pounding in my chest and I could hear it echoing in my ears.

"Your hand's bleeding." He informed me. At this point, I really didn't care if it was or not. Realizing that I was on the verge of tears and a breakdown, Danny tried to figure out what was happening. Then he looked down to his body, realizing he wasn't in his stupid ghost costume.

"I'm sorry." He started.

"Your, you're the ghost boy? Wha—how—what?" I was at a loss for words. I was speechless. What was I supposed to say? I stood up feeling a little lightheaded. I could feel tears flowing down my face.

"You're a ghost?" I said in disbelief with tears impairing my vision.

"Alexa, please let me explain." I looked at him with a broken heart and I began backing up. Danny was the ghost that Jenna had talked about? He was the ghost who had hurt all those innocent people and other ghosts? He was the ghost that never saved me from that ghost attack?

"Alexa, wait." He knew I was about to run from him. I shook my head with tears flowing down my face, and I ran as far as I could from him.

"Alexa!" He yelled my name but I ignored it, I kept running far away from him without even looking back. He called my name multiple times and didn't even bother running—flying after me. My trust towards him was broken off and my friendship had broken along with that. I ran all the way home, thankfully not having any cars in the driveway. Running inside, I locked the door behind me. I was hurt; my heart had just broken into a thousand pieces. I broke down right then and there, I slid down to the floor, propping my back against the front door and I cried my eyes out.

(A/N PLEASE READ: there you go! Alexa now knows Danny's secret! Do you think she'll ever trust or talk to him again? What do you thinks going to happen? Feel free and please share your thoughts! And if I were you, I would listen to the song for this chapter. It's my all time favorite song, it's a master piece and I thought it would be perfect for this chapter! This chapter was so fun to right, I had a blast doing it. I took it upon myself to think of what someone would do in Alexa's position—her emotions, thoughts, feelings. But anyways, here's the IMPORTANT PART of this note I'm giving you all. #1) I want 3 or more reviews so then I'll upload the next chapter, which is extremely dramatic! Already wrote it ;) and #2) Would you like me to go this chapter in Danny's point of view and see how he sees and thinks out the situation? I have a ton of idea's for that so please review or inbox me if you want it or not! (I would prefer inbox) Okay well anyways, have a nice day!)