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Chapter Three
Okay, so I freaked out.
Wouldn't you if you just saw your friend's dead body pretty much destroyed right in front of your eyes? Way to be positive Suze.
My face started heating up. I could feel one of those outbreaks of tears coming on. I couldn't help myself, what else was I supposed to do at a time like this? I just couldn't get it through my head.
What was Gina doing here? Here of all places…in Carmel, California? Wouldn't she tell me if she was coming to visit?
All these questions going through my mind and I was getting absolutely no answers.
I was crying so hysterically I didn't even hear the sirens in the background.
Jesse was soon there to comfort me.
He pulled me to the side of the curb and started shushing me, kissing me on the cheek every once and a while.
Only when I saw the ambulances pull up and nurses getting out did I really lose hope. They took one look at Gina and started moving their heads side to side ever so slightly. I didn't even want to look at the expression on their faces.
I knew.
I knew Gina was dead.
My life seemed like it was going down the drain. All I can recall is Gina…my very first best friend...being hauled into an ambulance and driven off the safety and Jesse talking to the police. I couldn't summon up the strength to stop crying and talk to them myself. The police I mean.
Jesse and I climbed the stairs silently up to his second story apartment. Well, it was silent besides my weeping of occasional tears.
Jesse tried changing the subjects once we settled down on the couch…making sure not to slip on any tea from the incident before. I could tell Jesse was at least trying to help. It wasn't working though. He tried talking about my "creepy feelings" with Paul.
I didn't answer.
The phone suddenly rang and I nearly jumped 2 feet.
Jesse got up to answer it.
"Yes, she's here." He looked at me, then at the phone, then back at me and said, "It's for you."
I nodded and he handed the cordless phone to me gently.
"H-hello?" I said.
"Susie! It's me honey, your mom. Dinner is starting soon and I was wondering where you were. I called CeeCee and she said you went with Jesse after school. So here I am talking to you." My mother was a little on the cheerful side right now. "Susannah are you alright?"
"Yes mom, I'm fine." I lied. What was I supposed to say? "Uh mom, I'm completely horrible at the moment. But only because of the fact that I just saw Gina in bloody shreds." I'm sure that would go over well.
"Well I want you home soon. I have great news!" She said.
"Okay mom, I'll be home soon, bye." I hang up.
Jesse stood me up and kissed me lightly on the forehead. "Come on, I'll drop you off."
"Great." I replied.
Driving home wasn't as great as I thought it was going to be. Not that I expected that it was going to be great or anything.
We were just riding along. Slowing down rarely to watch as the confused tourists tried getting around without stoplights. We learn to deal with them.
"Susannah." Jesse paused. "I'm sorry…you know…about this…accident." It took him nearly a minute to say that with choosing his words carefully in all.
"GINA!" I screeched. Gina, of all people was there, right there. Just wondering beside the side of the road. But there was something…different about her. She had a glow. She definitely died in that tumble of hers.
Jesse saw as well but instead of screeching he pulled over to the side of the road calmly.
I jumped out of the car so fast it might as well been because I was on fire. I really didn't care if anyone saw me. I was practically running toward Gina yelling her name over and over.
As soon as I reached her I fell into her arms.
I could feel her just staring at me…in shock I bet.
"Damn Suze you can see me!" Gina broke the awkwardness.
"Yeah yeah, I'll explain to you later, right now I really don't have the time. I'm just glad I get to see you again!" Yes, I know, totally selfish of me to be thankful she didn't move on, but come on, she was…is… my best friend.
"So it's true? What that psychic lady said? You can talk to the dead?" Gina said, still very interested in my little abilities.
"Yes, Gina." I responded. I wasn't in the mood to be put through the "You can see me!" conversation again, with yet another ghost.
"Whoaaa…that's crazy!" Gina said. Peaking around me, by then I'd already let go of her, she saw Jesse. "Who is that?"
Jesse walked over toward us, stuck out his hand, and introduced himself. "Jesse. Jesse de Silva."
"My boyfriend." I whispered to Gina, just so she wouldn't get any ideas.
Gina smirked. "Whoa."
Jesse pretended like he didn't hear her. Instead he looked down at his arms until he noticed the time.
"Susannah, it's already 6:00, we must get going." Jesse said while looking at his watch rather astoundingly. Unlike me, he actually wore a watch. I couldn't believe he wasn't afraid of getting it all busted up from all the mediator business. On the other hand, we did have different techniques on dealing with the dead.
Then we all climbed into the car heading straight toward my house. I filled Gina in with the usual speech about me being a mediator and she being dead. She seemed to take it just fine.
She didn't even look frightened, like the normal ghost. Well, unless that certain ghost committed suicide.
I was just about to ask about why and maybe even how she got in this crash of hers, when we pulled up on my street. There wasn't, I knew, going to be enough time to pop a question like that in a second or two.
Jesse and I went into my house. Gina came along too, but unlike Jesse and I, nobody could see her. Well, besides Max, who hightailed it upstairs as soon as we stepped it.
"Stupid dog…" Brad murmured. Yes, I got rid of the nicknames a long time ago.
Everyone was just now sitting down at the dinner table. My mother was the only one to actually greet me though. She jumped up and hugged me immediately.
When she finished, she smiled wide and said, "Suze! I can't wait to tell you. Gina called! She said she was in town!"
I froze.
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