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JESSE'S POV
"Wha..." I said groggily.
"Wake up, wake up, wake up!" Marta said jumping up and down on my bed.
"Ok, ok I'm up." I said my holding up my hands in defeat. Marta's not the nicest at wake up calls. If it already wasn't obvious.
"Good 'cause we got to leave in five minutes" she said giving me a big toothy grin.
"Five minutes!" I said rushing up.
I made it to the car in ten. Pretty good time if I do say so myself.
"Finally" Mercedes groaned. "You know if you weren't the one driving we'd have left without you."
"Why'd you oversleep?" Marta questioned. "You never oversleep."
"He was probably dreaming about his girlfriend." Mercedes said teasingly.
"Shut up" was the best I could come up with. I glared daggers at her.
The car ride was silent except for Marta's light humming of "Jesse's got a girlfriend".
We finally made it inside seven minutes late. Just as we entered the PA came on and said "Jesse de Silva please report to the principle's office."
"Oooooooooo" Marta said.
I walked down to Father Dominic's office. When I got in I saw Susannah already sitting there.
"Hey Jesse" Susannah said giving me a smile. My stomach did a flip.
"Hello Susannah" I said trying to match her smile. "So what's up Padre?" I asked.
"I wanted to know if you and Susannah would please mediate a ghost that came for help last night. She refuses to speak to me because …… well I don't know why she refuses to speak with me. But she seems to be about your age children, so maybe she will speak with you."
"Father D you know I'll do it, you don't need to ask. Can't speak for Jesse but I assume same goes for him." Susannah said.
"Of course" I said. I knew we had no choice but regardless I would help.
"Jesse would you be cool mediating her at my place?" Susannah asked.
"Of course querida. My three sisters might make it hard anyway" I replied. I believe I stayed relatively normal in my demeanor but inside my stomach was flipping at the prospect of spending the afternoon with Susannah.
Nombre de dios, if my sisters find out I'm almost afraid of what they'll do.
By now we had left Father D's office. "Cool" she said. "Meet me outside at three."
We entered homeroom. Some of the guys gave me suspicious glances, while Kelly Prescott – the tanned girl from yesterday- glared at Susannah. She was probably still bitter over the whole break-your-fingers comment by Susannah.
After school I saw Susannah waiting for me in the parking lot.
"Hey Jesse" she called. As if I hadn't already seen her. She was so beautiful, espesicially those deep emerald eyes.
"Ready to go Susannah?" I asked.
"No Jesse. I want to stand in the parking lot for the next ten minutes then go." She said very sarcastically.
"Let's go then." I said walking to my jeep.
When we got to her house I was attacked by a very large dog.
"Bad Max, down" Susannah said. I gave her looked that I hope asked 'why did that dog attack me'. Apparently she got the message because she said "That's Max, he probably thought you had food" she shrugged.
When we got up to her room I was very surprised to see pink. Lots and lots of pink. She never really struck me as a pink-person. My eyes must have been bugin' out of my head since she said "don't ask, not my decision". I don't think I have ever seen so much pink in my life.
Then a ghost appeared in front of us. She was around our age, must be the ghost father Dominic told us about. She had chocolate brown hair with blue streaks, and was wearing jeans with rips at the knees. That and a tee shirt.
"Mikey!" Susannah yelled at the girl.
"Suze!" the ghost yelled back.
Both looked shocked to see the other. Suddenly Susannah's shock turned to sadness.
"What's wrong querida?" I asked.
"She is- was a friend of mine from back in Brooklyn" Susannah said holding back tears. "Jesse this is Mikey. Mikey this is Jesse." She said making introductions.
"So Suze, this is why you got in so much trouble back in New York" she said more to herself than to Susannah.
"Yep this is my big secret, I see dead people." She said with a small chuckle.
I knew Susannah would not remember to ask so I did. "What do you think is holding you back?"
I think she finally realized I was in the room. "Um, I don't know. Oh wait yeah, I never got to ….say goodbye. To one of my best friends, and I never apologized." she said. Then she turned to Susannah, "I'm so sorry for how I acted when you left. I was sad you were leaving and I thought it would make things easier. Easier if I never said good bye. I hope you'll forgive me."
"Well duh I forgive you" Susannah said tears streaming down her pale cheeks.
"Goodbye Suze, I'll miss you." Mikey said.
They hugged as Mikey slowly disappeared, moving on to what can only assume is heaven.
"Are you ok?" I asked timidly.
"Yeah" she said wiping away her tears. "I'm fine."
"I'm sure she'll be ok" I said reassuringly.
We talked for about two hours about different ghosts we've met. She has met some pretty ruff ones. Not to say that all mine have been little old ladies, and Reasonable people, far from it. Still none of the ghosts I've met have collapsed a building on me.
When I got home I knew I was in for it. Not from my parents or anything. Oh no, not because I'd been gone for two hours. No my sisters were the ones I feared. 'Cause something tells me they'll figure out where I was and dios that will not be good.
"Was your date with Suze fun?" Josefina questioned.
"Not a date" I said simply.
"Oh but you admit you were with Suze?" Mercedes asked.
My sisters are too smart for my own good. They will pick up the smallest thing you say -or lack there of- and use it against you. Then they read between the lines and make assumptions. And their assumptions are usually one hundred percent right.
"We were working on a project for Father D" I said sighing.
"Oh but you with it hade been a date." Josefina said. Bulls eye again. See too smart for my good.
"Shut up" I said not being able to think of a better comeback.
"Awwww Jesse's in love" Josefina said pinching my cheek.
"I am not" I said. Wow, I sound like a five year old.
"You like her you know you do." Mercedes said with a smirk.
Before I could answer her my mama called "Jesse phone."
I ran out if the room as fast as I could. "Thank dios" I mumbled.
"Hello" I into the phone.
"Hey Jesse" the voice said. My stomach flipped right on cue.
"Oh hey Susannah, what's up?" I asked trying to sound casual.
"Cee, Adam, and I are going to the clutch wana come?" she asked.
"The what?" I asked slightly confused.
"The Coffee Clutch" she clarified.
"Sure, where is it?" I asked.
She rattled off an address and said to meet them there in twenty minutes.
I went back upstairs to make sure I looked ok. Trust me I'm not one of those guys who is so concerned with looking perfect all the time. Really I'm not. But Susannah was going to be there and I wanted to look good in front of her.
"Ok so my sisters were right. I do like her, a lot.
I made it there right on time. CeeCee, Adam, and Susannah had a table in the back.
"Hey guys" I said sitting down next to Susannah.
"Hey" said in unison.
"So Suze, Cee usual? And what 'bout you Jesse?" Adam asked.
"Usual" CeeCee and Adam said.
"Um I'll guess I'll have….." I started having absolutely no clue what to order.
"Why don't you have a Carmel Coffee?"
"Uh, yeah sounds good." I said. I probably sound like a babbling idiot. Just great de Silva.
Right after Adam left to order CeeCee had to take a call outside.
"So your sister seems nice." Susannah said conversationally.
"Y-you know my sister?" I asked nervously. Dear dios, what did my sister say to her.
"Yeah, I think she said her name was Marta." Susannah said. Well at least it wasn't Mercedes or Josefina.
"Um, how do you know my ten year old sister?" I questioned. You never know what Marta will do….or say.
"Oh she answered the phone when I called." She answered with a mischievous smile.
"Oh dios, what did she say?" I asked sounding mortified.
"Just some stuff" she shrugged. "Apparently I'm some kind of legend, she kept putting a 'the' in front of my name, and….. she told an embarrassing story about one Jesse de Silva" Susannah said with a smirk.
"Nombre de dios, what was the story?" I asked. I didn't even know what the story was and I was already slightly blushing.
"Oh let's just say it involved a large fish, a wheel of cheese, and a five year old you."
So that's chapter 3
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