A/N: Hey guys, just to say thanks to you great reviewers, I'm glad you're enjoying the story.
Tater06: Thankyou, I was especially proud of that chapter, I guess feeling depressed after an hours detention actually helped me with something. X-P Well, I'm not sure if that statement is true, I read it somewhere the other day, but I totally agree with you, haha.
Laurie43: Yeah, I tried to make it like that. I know I'm making it kind of confusing, I don't mean to honestly X-D. Hehe, I thought it would be boring if he couldn't touch anything for the rest of the story, it's only funny for so long. And in the film I'm basing it on, he could always touch things.
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Kuki stormed through the shopping mall, Wally was close behind her.
"Kuki! It was just a bit of fun!" Wally moaned as he followed her.
"I can't believe you did that to me! Now even my best friend thinks I'm a nut!" Kuki turned and screamed at him.
"I thought Abby was your best friend." Wally scratched his head in confusion.
"She is but Hoagie's parents know my mom and…Oh! Just forget it! I still can't believe you'd do that! You're ruining my life!" She yelled, many passers by looked at her nervously as they passed her, she felt like a maniac.
"You know what's wrong with you? You're no fun anymore! You're mom's just got you brainwashed, you know that? You're just like a clone of her right now!' Wally rolled his eyes in a way that only infuriated Kuki even more.
"Do you see what you're doing to me? Do you see me talking to myself? Half of the kids from my school are here and looking at me like I'm some weirdo! If all of my rep wasn't already lost from losing Jason, it's definitely gone now! Thanks a lot Wally!"
"Fine! If you don't want me here then goodbye! I'm sorry I tried to help ya!" Wally yelled back and disappeared.
She
sighed deeply and felt a hint of sadness inside her. Although she had
wanted him to leave her alone, she didn't want him to go again.
It
had just occurred to her how much she had missed him in the last
seven years, and how much she would miss him for the rest of her
life.
She walked slowly, window-shopping. She suddenly felt a rush of anger when she saw Wally inside a window, standing in as one of the clothes dummies. She exploded. She stormed into the shop and started to attack the dummy which was Wally. Of course, Wally wasn't hurt. The clothes dummy, on the other hand, was totally wrecked. Kuki had torn off its arm and head by the time security pulled her from it.
She felt so ashamed, she had just vandalized a shop, been put under shop-arrest and her mother had to be called to pay for the damage.
Genki scowled and muttered to herself as the wrote a check to replace the dummy and handed it to the inflamed shop owner.
Kuki decided that it was probably best to talk to her mom about Wally.
As
she sat in the car on the way home. She told her mother about how
Wally's ghost had visited her and caused so much chaos with
her.
Her mother was less understanding than she'd hoped. First,
she told Kuki to stop talking nonsense as Wally was dead, there was
no such thing as ghosts and everybody just had to face it. When Kuki
insisted that Wally
was talking
to her and that she could see him, her mother made an immediate
swerve in the road and drove her to the child psychiatrist, Dr
Herman.
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Dr Herman was a tall, scary man, whom Kuki took an instant dislike to when he first stepped into the waiting room and called her name with his booming voice.
He was slim and pale, he had a bald head and ginger beard. He reminded Kuki of an undertaker with his dull, black suit, which, in Kuki's opinion, brought more attention to his shiny head. In a way he sort of reminded her of a scary Nigel.
He spoke to Kuki about Wally and how he died, (which, adults thought were thugs and glass bottles). Talking about Kuki's feelings that night, and Kuki's feelings that moment. He treated her like a six year old, making her play with some flimsy doll and look at pictures with colored blobs.
After about an hour of the torture, Kuki stepped out of the room.
"Please wait here Kuki, I need to have a private word with your mother!" Dr Herman said. Would it kill him to smile? Kuki thought to herself as she sat down in the waiting area and picked up a magazine. She felt something cold next to her. She looked up to see a very guilty looking Wally.
"Hey." He said quietly, Kuki chose to ignore him and keep her attention the magazine.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know I was going to get ya, in this much trouble."
She still said nothing and read the page thoroughly.
Wally glanced over her shoulder to see what she was reading.
"How to lose weight in ten days? Aw, c'mon Kooks, you're thin as a twig already." He said.
She sighed and looked up at him, then flicked the page.
He looked around the room, a wide smile appeared on his face as he noticed how many ghosts there actually were in the room.
He jumped up and joined in with a conversation in the middle of the room. They laughed and joked and sang.
Kuki looked at him in puzzlement, all she saw was her ghost.
"What are you doing?" She said, ignoring the strange looks that people in the waiting room were giving her.
"I'm talking to my friends!" Wally replied and carried on talking.
Kuki stood up as the door opened. Dr Herman came out of the room with Genki and spoke softly to her as they both walked out. Kuki managed to catch a few of his words.
"It's just a state of mind Ms. Sanban, Kuki was obviously disturbed by her friends death and has never fully recovered from it. Her only way of consoling herself is creating an imaginary friend of him." He muttered to her, handing her some green pills.
He was wrong, Wally wasn't an imaginary friend. She just ignored him and stayed silent as her other pointed to the door, indicating for Kuki to leave, Kuki obeyed.
"Well, I'll see you guys round." Wally said to his friends.
"Wally! Don't let her take those pills!" His friend Johnny told him.
"Why, what's wrong with them?" Wally asked quietly.
"Sure, you're a ghost, not an imaginary friend. But you're still in her mind, she takes them and…" Johnny drew his finger from one side of his neck to the other.
Wally copied, checking that he saw him right. All of his friends nodded. Wally gulped, putting on a brave face.
"Don't worry about me guys." He grinned and walked off.
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Flashback
Kuki knocked on the door of the Beatles house. The female blonde opened the door. She didn't look too good. Her eyes were wide and swollen from crying so much, she hand black rings underneath, suggesting that she hadn't slept in days. Her hair which was usually in a perfect style was all over the place. And the huge smile which she always wore had disappeared.
"Kuki dear! How nice to see you." She said weakly, giving her best attempt at a smile.
"Hi Mrs. Beatles, Um, I made you some cookies, I thought you might need them." Kuki smiled uneasily. Kuki herself was feeling extremely down. Everybody had, it was a few days after Wally's death and everybody was finding it hard.
Mrs. Beatles took them gratefully.
"Thankyou dear, you're such a sweet girl…Wally was always so fond of you, you know." She tried to put her weak smile back on, but it wouldn't hold. "Oh, that reminds me."
She disappeared into the doorway and returned with one of Wally's orange hoodies.
"I wondered if you wanted it. You know to feel closer to him." She whispered.
Kuki took it and held it close to her.
"Thankyou Mrs. Beatles. Thankyou so much." She said softly, so soft Mrs. Beatles probably didn't hear her.
Kuki walked away, slipping the hoodie on as she walked down the road and clutching to it tightly. She had many memories of Wally, through mind, photos and videos. But this, was above all, her favorite.
End of flashback
