I sit still under a tree. I've been here for half an hour. Ji is very late! I lean back against the bark & try taking pictures with my camera I brought. My mom had been so thrilled I made friends with someone, she had bought me a new camera. My mom is strange. Sometimes she'll pay extra special attention to me & other times, she'll forget to buy groceries for me.
I look up at the midnight stars & play with the mud that surrounds the tree I'm sitting by.
I check the time on my phone for the tenth time. I stand up. Why did Ji even force me to have a stake out if he wasn't coming?! I turn to pick up my bag, & I see a silver flash go past my face.
"WAH!" I duck down.
"Who are you?" I hear a voice behind me.
I turn quickly. It's the lady.
Her hands are very pale, with a sort of blue tinge, but that's all I can see from under the cloak she's wearing.
"I'm, uh, Mikael." I hold out my hand. She doesn't shake it.
"Why do you seek me?" she asks. Her voice is very calm & just a bit sad.
"I just, uh, wanted to meet you." I feel really sheepish now. I try to avoid eye contact by looking at the ground & I notice frost forming.
"Do you, know what all this ice stuff is?" I ask her while looking up. She's gone again. All I hear is a whoosh of wings somewhere in the trees. I look to where she was standing in the mud, & there are no footprints.
The next morning I find out Ji was grounded & that's why he couldn't come the night before. I tell him about everything that happened.
"No footprints… hmm?" Ji says looking out the window. "DId you get any pictures of where she was standing?"
Ah, dang it! I completely forgot the camera I had!
"I was kind of too shocked to take any pictures or videos." I say to Ji
"Ok then, I deduct that she's completely & totally a GHOST!" he says.
"I don't care if she's a ghost or not." I say "I just wanna know what she's doing here & where all the ice is coming from!"