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CHAPTER 5

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

I had agreed to let Rachael stay for a couple days. She reminded me a lot of Gina in a way, my best friend from Brooklyn.

Sure, it was hard for her to adjust to being dead, but she was having a better time than the past couple of days, as she had informed me.

Although I had nearly had a coronary this morning, when I sat down at breakfast. This was because, the minute I sat down, I saw her sitting next to sleepy, chatting a mile a minute. Only she seemed pretty peeved at him.

"Hello?" She was saying, waving a hand in front of his face. "Hey, you! I'm talking to you!"

I had to kick her under the table, and signal to her to come into the kitchen, where I had to lecture her about how I know it was sad and all that she was dead, but that I was the only one who could see her. She seemed to find this pretty upsetting, but put up with it.

Finally, we were pulling into the Missions' parking lot. Where I had another unpleasant encounter. Only this time it involved Paul Slater.

He was leaning against his silver convertible BMW, waiting for me. This time, he didn't come up to me, as he would have, any other day. This was because I was heading straight towards him. He looked surprised. Normally I avoided him like the plague.

"Hey." I said, as I approached.

Rachael was looking at me funny. "Suze? What happened to Jesse? I thought he was the one?" I made a face.

"Ew! Me and him?" I squealed disgustedly, looking in Paul's direction. "No way!"

Paul grinned. "Paul Slater, at your service," he said, sticking his hand out to Rachael.

"You can see me too?"

"Yeah. But I'm the only person with the exception of Suze here, Father Dom the head of out school, my grandfather – he made a face, and my little brother Jack."

"Paul," I said, "this is Rachael."

Paul grinned at Rachael, transfixed. She grinned back. I could tell she was falling for Paul.

"Er…" I said breaking the silence. Not because I minded Rachael falling for Paul. Far from it. But we were getting weird looks, mostly from Dopey. I suppose we did look strange. I mean, Paul was grinning at an invisible person, and I was looking from him to the invisible person and back again. "Assembly starts in two minutes; I guess we should get going."

Paul looked as if he'd rather be standing there, and risking detention, just to talk to Rachael, but luckily he didn't. Rachael followed me into my line, standing next to me, completely unaware that she was standing through someone, she was that excited.

"Oh my God." She kept saying, over and over again. "I think that's him! The one and only."

"Rachael," I said quietly "You've only known him for one minute."

"So?"

Luckily assembly started then, so I didn't have to answer.

"Susannah, I'd like to see you in my office." Father Dom said, as he breezed past my locker. "Alone." He said, pointedly looking in Rachael's direction.

I wondered what Father Dom wanted to see me about. All I knew wasthat it wasn't good.

(A/N: I know its really short, I'll add more as soon as possible! Please review