Okay so I heard the first chappie was a littl hard to read so I hope this is better!
I thought about leaving, heading south but I stayed. I don´t know why. Probably to see if
Susannah really was as bad as I thought. I was still in her room, she was downstairs for dinner.
I thought back at our conversation and remembered that look on her face before I said the word
girl. She looked really hurt. She had to have some human in her. But then I heard someone
coming up the stairs. I went to the place where my family was buried. I began to wonder why I
had been in this world for so long but everyone in my family had moved on.
I don´t know but I had decided to stay. But if I was about to stay but I had to talk with
Susannah first. Not tonight though. It was almost midnight. I materialized next to my favourite tree
in the garden of the boarding house, Susannah´s house and sat down. Ghosts don´t sleep but I was
a little tired. I closed my eyes and started to sing the first song that came to my mind:
- Susannah, don´t you cry for me, cause I come from Alabama with this banjo on my knee.
Next I knew, it was already morning and Susannah had left for school. I would talk to her later
in the evening. Okay, I admit it. I followed her to school and saw her fight a ghost that I later
learned was Heather. I also saw a priest who shared the ability to talk to ghosts with Susannah
So I left them to talk, figuring she´d be safe with him. I knew how wrong I was when I
appeared in Susannah´s room later in the evening. She was wearing a very tight, black…….
something. I would have been stupid if I hadn´t known where the stubborn girl was going.
But she was afraid of something, I knew because she got really scared when I materialized
behind her. I heard it in her voice when she said:
Jeez, Why are you still hanging around here, I thought I told you to get lost!
I ignored her. I had made up my mind. I would stay. Instead I said:
It´s a little late to be going out, don´t you think Susannah?
Uh, she said pulling her hood back. Look, no offense Jesse but this is my room. How
about you trying to get out of it. And my business too, please.
I came up with an excuse:
- Your mother won´t like your going out so late at night.
She glared at me:
My mother, what would you know about my mother?
I thought about her mother and said my thoughts out loud.
I like your mother very much, I said thinking about the time left unspent with my mother
She is a good woman. You are very lucky to have mother who loves you so very, very
much. It would upset her, I think, to see you putting yourself in the path of danger.
At that one, she actually half-laughed at me.
- The path of danger. Right! Well news flash, Jesse. I´ve been sneaking out a gazillion times
before and my mom has not said a boo about it. She knows I can take care of myself.
She was lying to me, I saw it in her eyes.
Can you? I raised my eyebrow with a scar in it. For that I can thank the neighboors dog.
I don´t think so querida, not in this case.
Why did I say that. I hadn´t said querida to anyone before and now I say it to Susannah,
Whom I have known fo a day. It just described her in one word. She didn´t like it though:
OK, she said. Number one. Don´t call me things in spanish. Number two. You don´t even
Now where I´m going so I suggest you just get off my back.
Ha, now I had her there.
But I do know where you are going, Susannah. You are going down to the school to talk
to the girl who is trying to kill this boy you seem fond of. This angered me, I don´t know
why but it did. Well, whatever, I thought and continued.
But I´m telling you querida, she is too much to handle for you alone. If you must go
please take the priest with you.
She seemed to skip the querida remark even though I paid attention to it but her expression
changed and she sputtered:
What? Are you stalking me?
Oh no! Did she know that I followed her? Oops! I decided to play dumb:
I don´t know what that word means, stalking. All I know is that you´re putting yourself in
harms way.
She confirmed my suspicions by saying.:
You have followed me, haven´t you (ouch)? God Jesse, I already have an older brother,
thank you very much. I don´t need you going around spying…….
I snorted and that´s really unusual for me. Then I interrupted her by saying:
Oh yes? I said sarcastically. This brother cares for you very much. Almost as much as he
cares about his sleep.
She, unbelievebly defended him:
Hey, He works nights. His saving up for a Camaro.
No, Susannah wasn´t going anywhere.
You aren´t going anywhere, I said pointing at her.
Try to stop me cadaver breath. And she ran towards the door.
Luckily, she didn´t know about the deadbolt. Now it was my time to be hurt.
Cadaver breath. That´s what she called me.
Ok, Jesse, that´s way uncool, she said after a while. I think she did count to ten.
I can´t, I said. Don´t go. This woman, this girl, Heather. She isn´t like other spirits you
Might have known in the past. She´s filled with hate. She´ll kill you if she can.
She smiled and said:
- Well, then it´s up to me to get rid of her. Come on. Unlock the door now.
I hesitated. I wanted to let her go but No I could not. When she saw I wasn´t about to
let her go she said:
Suit yourself. And walked towards the window.
I took her wrist, thinking that I could still prevent this.
Susannah.
But that is all I could say. It was like the words were stuck in my throat. Her eyes fell upon my
hand. I let it go and she climbed the rest down in silence.
Now she knew that I was protecting her. What she didn´t know was that I followed her to the
school!