Disclaimer: I do not own the charters or any passages I take out of Haunted. Meg Cabot owns it, she rules.
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And now on with the story
JESSE'S POV
School ended an hour ago. I was waiting for Susannah, in the parking lot.
No she wasn't meeting me here for a date, sadly. She had gotten a detention for punching Brad. For some reason she didn't tell them why she punched him.
I saw the detainees being released from their servitude. I scanned the crowd for Susannah. There were her emerald eyes with a fire that told me she wanted to kill Brad.
I walked up to her trying to look cool, calm, and collected while on the inside my stomach was doing little flips
"Susannah" I called to her.
She walked over to me. "Hey Jesse, what are you doing here?"
"Well I heard you have no car and after what you did to Brad I doubted he'd be giving you a ride" I said.
This of course was a blatant lie. I had sort of gone to her little brother and asked some questions. He didn't suspect I was doing it because I liked her though. No, I made up a lie about how I wanted to figure out why she punched Brad. That kid has an encyclopedia for a brain, seriously. Get him started and he'll just talk forever.
In the end though I only learned a few things a couple things like she has no driver's license, she hates malls, and she loves her designer clothes. Which really doesn't help me. Except the no license thing.
"So would you like a ride?" I asked her.
She let out a sigh of relief. "You saved me from having to walk two miles, thanks"
"No prob" I said casually. Inside I was screaming 'yes!'.
Pathetic, I know.
We walked over to my car- a green jeep. I went to the passenger side and opened the door for her. No, I was not just doing it because I'm crushing on her. I actually believe in being chivalrous.
Once we were in the car I asked "ok so which way's your house?"
She pointed the way. We had just gotten on the road when I say a shimmer in the backseat. I suppressed my groan. Not another ghost.
Maybe I should explain, I'm a mediator. A liaison between the living and the dead. I have the ability to see, speak, and touch ghosts. I help them move on, whether they want to or not.
The ghost in the backseat was a little girl about five years old. She had two little pink tails in her hair and was wearing a jean jumper over a white tee shirt. Poor little girl, it's always so sad to have to mediate ghosts who died so young.
"Suze" the girl moaned. "Did you tell my mommy yet?"
Wait a minute! Pause that and rewind, what did she say? Was she talking to Susannah?
"You can see her!" I yelled.
"You can see her!" Susannah yelled back.
I immediately pulled over. We just stared at each other mouths agape.
Susannah got over the shock faster than I did. "We got to go back to the mission." she said.
"Why?" I asked still in shock that I'd just met another mediator. Not only that but said mediator was Susannah.
Susannah was a mediator. She's just like me. This was probably only gona make me like her more.
"We got to talk to Father Dom" she said.
"Why do we need to talk to our principle?" I asked one of my eyebrows raised.
"He's like us." She said as if it was obvious.
We were still very close to school so it didn't take long. When we got to the office Susannah said "Hey Marge can we talk to Father D"
"Sure Suze" the secretary said.
Susannah must down here a lot. I mean she's on a first name basis with Father Dom's secretary.
Father Dominic was thrilled to have another mediator here. He gave this long lecture on how not to use violence on the spirits we are meant to help. He was giving Susannah this look through most of the lecture. She must beat the ghosts up a lot.
After we left the mission I said the lamest thing that I probably could say. I said "Do you want to hang out sometime and talk about our experiences with ghosts?" Why did I have to add that last part? I couldn't have just said hang out? Oh no I had to make myself look like a complete idiot.
"Sure" she said chuckling.
Great now she's laughing at me. Wait, she said yes!
She took out a piece of paper and wrote her number on it. "Call me" she said as she got out of the car. "And thanks for the ride" she yelled from the porch.
On the drive home all I could think about was Susannah. When I got home I took out my homework but my mind kept drifting back to Susannah.
"Who's Susannah?" my sister Marta asked. Marta is the youngest of my sisters. She's ten.
"Um what are you talking about?" I asked a little nervously. The last thing I needed was for my sisters to find out I liked someone.
"Susannah, you wrote her name on your paper" she said pointing to my homework.
I looked down and realized she was right. Without thinking I had written Susannah's name on the paper.
"Just a friend" I said quickly.
"Yeah a friend, whose name you write inside of a heart." she said smugly.
"Um" I said. She was right again. I could feel a slight blush creep on to my face.
"Jesse's got a girlfriend!" Marta squealed triumphantly. At this my other two sisters- Mercedes, and Josefina- came in. Mercedes was fourteen, and Josefina was eighteen.
"Did I hear right?" Josefina asked. "Does my little brother have a girlfriend?"
Before I could answer- or hide my paper- Marta grabbed my homework. Then she gave it to Mercedes and Josefina and said "Yep, see"
Two evil grins graced the faces of my sisters. Nombre de dios, I was in for it now. "She is not my girlfriend" I said defensively. "I met her today and she is just a friend".
"Hmm, and that's not a heart around her name, and I'm a lemon." Mercedes said. Mercedes sense of humor never really made any sense to me.
"So what's she like?" Marta asked giving me a big toothy smile.
"She is very nice, she doesn't take anyone bad mouthing her, she can back up any threat she dishes out, and she IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!" I said.
"Oh and how may I ask do you know she can back up her threats?" Josefina asked with one of her eyebrows raised.
"Well the way she punched that Brad guy in the gut was a pretty good demonstration" I shrugged.
"Oh my god. The Suze Simon!" Mercedes said her mouth open.
"Um yeah but last time I checked she didn't have a 'the' at the start of her name." I said a like she was crazy. Which after fourteen years of living with her I have realized she is. Crazy I mean.
"You don't even know who she is do you?" she asked. Without waiting for a response she continued "She is the only person to ever stand up to Kelly Prescott and on her first day she saved a guy's life. She is like a total legend."
"Whoa" I said.
Looks likes Susannah is a lot more than I first thought.
Ok so that's chapter two.
I know that Jesse has five sisters in the books but I couldn't remember the other twos names so I said he only had three. I always envisioned Suze as sort of a legend at the mission to the younger grades, so I decided to make her a legend.
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