A/N: I realize I haven't updated in months. I was busy with school and put focus on a book I'm writing. A real book, not online stuff. I'm sorry! Even though this isn't that popular, I still want to get it going good. Updates will be slower until summer most likely. I'll try to update at least once a month though.
Oh, and my writing style is greatly improving, expect these chapters to be better quality from now on!
C9: A Haunted Day in the Life of Heather, part 1
Class 1: Art with Mrs. Lena
Heather and Alex went to school like normal (ignoring the fact that Heather's head disappeared in a huge crowd of kids) and were in their first classes. Heather was reading the ghost book, completely ignoring her art teacher.
Suddenly, her ghost sense went off, and Cujo's face appeared through the floor, surprising Heather so much she yelped and phased through her chair. The class laughed.
"Problem?" The art teacher asked.
Trying to cover Cujo with her jacket, Heather replied, "No, sorry." She sat up in her chair, bringing Cujo wrapped in a jacket up to her lap. Luckily, she was in the farthest back corner of the class, hard for anyone to see, so when the ghost dog flew out from under the jacket, nobody noticed.
"What are you doing here?" she asked in a whisper. "Go home!"
The dog whined and pulled at her long sleeve.
"No, Cujo! I have to stay here!"
Then, Cujo flew around and pulled Heather by the back of her shirt collar and yanked her through the ceiling. Her short yelp made everyone notice.
A few minutes later, the school authorities were looking for Heather throughout the inside of the school. Unfortunately for them, she was on the roof in her ghost form trying to find a ghost.
Cujo had been sniffing around, trying to find the trail of the ghost he scented. When he found the trail, Heather's ghost scent went off.
Heather hovered around the area and saw a red creature about one foot tall halfway inside an air conditioner unit chewing the wires. When she got closer, she saw that the creature had four arms with bug-like hands and ant-like antenna on its head. It turned around and revealed pure green eyes, big mandibles, and a circular mouth lined with teeth. It growled and lunged at Heather, who retaliated with a heavy punch to it's chest. It hit the unit hard and made a dent.
It lied on the ground, panting in pain. "For my master, I serve," it hissed, then faded away.
The bell for the end of class echoed through the vents. Heather quickly thanked the dog and phased, invisibly, through the school and into a janitor's closet.
Class 2: Gym/P.E. with Mr. Baxter
The next class was gym. Luckily, Alex was there with Heather. However, she got a detention and a lot of admiration by students from her 'stunt'. It really annoyed her and was tough to get rid of them to get a chance to get into her gym clothes in peace.
She was dreading the class. Mr. Baxter, a friend of her dad's, was a risk to be near, not only because of possible embarrassment, but because he possibly could've learned about ghosts from her eccentric grandparents. This was no class to take risk with. Yesterday, she couldn't care less. Today, she had to be careful of everything.
Even with Alex comforting her, Heather couldn't stay calm. It didn't help that during running on the track, her foot went intangible and fell through the ground a bit, causing her to trip and get a deep cut on her chin and hit her knee so hard it made her limp. Mr. Baxter sent her to the nurse, but instead she went to clean up in the locker room bathrooms. She read how fast she could heal, and took a bandage from the gym office and stuck it on her chin to hide the fast healing.
This day is not going well, she thought as she walked around to waste a bit of time to make the 'nurse trip' seem convincingly long enough for a limping person before going back out, faking the limp and getting the rest of the class off.
Class 3: Math with Ms. Kye
Alex was on the other side of the room. Heather was dying (haha pun) to talk to him for comfort from her fear, especially with her whole top half of her body except for her head invisible, and covered with a jacket a size too big for her. Her phone was going of like crazy because of a lazy, bored Yoltrun wanting to play some phone game with her, and alerting the teacher.
Ms. Kye was a fun teacher, Heather's favorite, but gave no chances on phones. She held out her hand when she got to Heather.
Heather, with her invisible hands covered with her jacket sleeves, was fumbling with the mute button when the teacher got there. She finally muted the phone and handed it to the teacher, afraid to know what would happen if she read the messages like she said she would yesterday.
Unfortunately, it happened.
"Message from Yoltrun. Foreign kid, huh? It reads: Come on, halfa, i'm bored. I have know idea where the next portal home will open. Halfa? Portal home? What does that mean?"
Heather hesitated. She usually was good with making excuses, but this one was plain cheesy. "Uhh... It's from an online game we play, it's a joke between us..."
Luckily the excuse worked. "Well, next time, tell this kid that you can't play games in class. See me when class is over."
With a thankful sigh, Heather slumped down in her seat. A death stare from Alex proved that she wasn't slumping, and she pulled her intangible body out from the chair, luckily nobody noticed.
This is going to be a long week.
To be continued...
