Tuesday Afternoon.
Melinda began crying.
The women began laughing
Belle became confused
"What's wrong mummy?"
Melinda looked at her little girl…Daddies little girl who just twenty minutes previously had told her she loved her daddy and she had too tell her that her wasn't coming back. It was cruel
"Go away" Melinda screamed at the woman.
"As you wish" The woman sneered and disappears with a cackle
Melinda ran to her daughter and grabbed her in her arms…"Belle…It's about Daddy"
"What about my daddy" Belle asked and Melinda sobbed.
"Err what about me"
Melinda looked at the door. There alive and kicking was Jim.
"Jim…is that you…?
He looked in the mirror…Last time I checked.
"Can you see your reflection?"
Jim gave her a funny look. "What type of question is that?"
Melinda looked at him….
"Yes I can see my reflection…I'm not a ghost Mel…look I'm carrying shopping"
Melinda ran too him and kissed him hard
"What bought all this on Mel" he said with one eye on Belle who looked confused
"Go upstairs and play" he ordered her.
"The Ghost said you were dead…and then the TV came on with an accident and then a detective rang up and said that you have been killed in the accident" she said sobbing
He looked dismayed. "Melinda it's all mind games. You need too pull yourself together babe and then do what you do and cross these ghosts over because otherwise they are going to ruin you"
"I don't know if I can"
He held her tight.
"You've done this most your life Melinda…of course you can"
Wednesday
Melinda walked into her Antique shop…it was a mess. She really needed someone to help her like Andrea and Delia had done before her. She decided to put a posting on the net…she needed to look for the ghosts anyway.
She walked over to her computer and turned it on…Hoping that Belle was okay at school and Jim was still alive at work. Yesterday she has been traumatised. She couldn't let that happen to herself again… at least she knew that these ghosts had power…she also knew that the woman was recently deceased. The man she was unsure off…but he was silently dangerous and she'd need protection.
She scrolled for recent deaths in Grandview… she was lucky…she found her…Sophie Murdock. She wasn't a very attractive woman when she was alive and she wasn't any better dead. The coroners report stated that she died from head injuries that she inflicted upon her self…it was believed she did this because her lover Liam Roberts had been having an affair.
"Explains why she wanted to mess my head up with Jim" Melinda said to herself.
She wondered if the man was Sophie's lover so she looked him up…He wasn't. Liam was an fat overweight man that even made her cringe at the sight off him…it made her wonder what the big deal was.
She walked back to the shop floor and decided that it was about time she opened the shop. It wasn't going to make any money standing still. She walked over too the door and switched the sign so it said open and walked back over to the desk when the phone began to ring, she felt herself panic.
"Hello?"
"Hi Melinda"
"Ooh hi Rita"
Rita was one of Melinda's closest friends…Melinda had helped her get rid of a ghost and in return she had offered her friendship which was a good thing to have since Rita was a witch.
"Something is wrong"
"What do you mean Rita?"
"I can just sense troubles…can you?"
"Well too be honest Rita…I am having trouble with two ghosts"
She began to tell Rita the whole story…not sparing any detail.
"That doesn't sound good…What was the woman's name again?"
"Sophie Murdock"
"I've heard that name before…O my gosh I remember…she was the Satanist who had a fat lover…he cheated on her with a 40 stone mammoth off a woman and she topped herself…saying that she is going to hell were her and Satan would return and wreck revenge on her lover."
"The devil…what if the man is the devil!?"
"Then you need allot of courage Melinda…I don't get what the connection is with you though…but I'm warning you too be careful…I'll come by later and put a protective spell over the house…okay?
"Sure…got to go Rita my first customer has arrived"
"Okay bye Mel"
"Bye…Rita"
She clicked off and shuddered.