Thanks for reading guys(: If you have any ideas hmu! Warning: Spoilers for Orange is the New Black ahead, you have been forewarned.
"Well this is just great!" Juliet said to herself as she paced back forth in her room. "I'm living with a ghost! A really cute ghost but a ghost none the less." She wondered if the rest of the occupants in the B&B knew about it.
But she didn't want to ask because people tended to freak out when they learned that they're living with the dead.
What the hell was she supposed to do? Just act like nothing was wrong? But the whole point of her being here was for evaluation. Whatever that artifact did to her it must have been important right?
She didn't just see ghosts there were many other things that she could do as well, she had connection to the other side. She could sense things in people, in a way she was an empath, when she was around someone she could feel what they were feeling.
But when she was with a large crowd of people she could only sense the feeling that was strongest, it could be that everybody was feeling the same thing, for example when she watches a horror film at a movie theater she would feel the fear from the people, but sometimes she would sense what just one person was feeling. But it was difficult to tell whether it was from s single person or many people.
Earlier that day in the living room when she met everybody for the first time, she felt nervousness, she didn't know if everybody in the room was feeling that way or just one. But it was evident that it was the strongest emotion in the room.
Juliet sighed as she leaned her forehead on her door.
Suddenly there was banging on the other side causing her jump, trip and fall on her back, banging her elbow on the hardwood floor.
"Ow damnit." She cursed.
"Um..Juliet?" Claudia's voice called from the other side of the door.
The girl slowly got up , rubbing her sore elbow as she opened the door.
"Hey..uh are you alright? I thought heard something fall." Claudia questioned taking a little peek inside the room.
"Uh yeah everything's fine, I just…dropped something." Juliet chuckled.
"Oh okay..well I just came to let you know that dinner's ready."
"Oh thanks I'll be right there."
/
At dinner Juliet sat next to Myka and across from Steve. They ate Steve's infamous lasagna.
"So Juliet," Artie was the first to break the silence. "there are some rules that I'm sure Mrs. Frederic went over with you but I'd just like to clarify them."
"Uh, okay." The girl set her fork down.
"Well you start school on Wednesday at Univille High. Tomorrow Myka will take you to get the supplies you'll need."
"I will?" Myka questioned.
"Yes you will." He responded. "Also, I have written down a few emergency numbers for to call if you know you need anything." He handed Juliet a slip of paper.
"Thank you." She said as she slid it in her pocket.
"Myka is your legal guardian so I suggest you call her first." The two girls just smiled awkwardly at each other. "Also if you choose to go out your curfew is ten. If after school you decide to-"
"Um Artie don't you think this kind of Myka's job?" Claudia interrupted.
"I'm sorry I just remember what you were like, what you ARE like and I just want to make sure I got everything covered." He said sharply.
"Okay what is up with everybody acting like I was the kid in the world?!" Claudia asserted.
"So Mykes what are the rules for little Miss Juliet?" Pete joked.
"Well..I..don't really..have any." Myka stammered. "I mean I guess..just..don't get in trouble. And…yeah."
"Good job." Pete chuckled as he gave his partner a pat on the back.
"It's settled than." Abigail clapped her hands together. "Oh by the way our first session together will be on Saturday afternoon."
"Okay." Juliet nodded. "Um..may I be excused?"
No one was quite sure who was supposed to answer, they all just looked around the table at each other.
"Uh.y-yes you may." Abigail finally said.
The girl thanked Steve for dinner before she left and ran up the stairs.
"Well that wasn't awkward…" Claudia said as she took a sip of her drink.
"Look guys what I think what we need to do is establish the authority figure here. And Myka that means you." Abigail looked pointedly at the other woman.
"I know." Myka sighed as she put her face in her hands. "I just..I don't know how the hell to be parent!"
"It's alright Mykes, you'll get a hang of it." Pete said before taking another bite of his lasagna. "Ah mehn herw bard couod yor scrhew it uprifhgt?"
"Um I could screw it up really bad Pete!" Myka exclaimed. "I could leave her in a parking lot somewhere! Or forget to feed her! Or get her a terrible present for Christmas!"
"Okay first of all I think every child at some point has been left somewhere so that isn't really all that bad. Second of all she's sixteen I'm pretty sure she can get her own food when she's hungry. And lastly you always give great Christmas presents so don' sweat it." Claudia said as she stood from her seat to take her plate back to the kitchen.
"Yeah you're gonna do just fine." Steve reassured his colleauge. "Just be yourself." He shrugged.
/Upstairs Juliet was unpacking a few things, she plugged in her laptop and placed it on the bed. She put away all of her clothes in the dresser and set up her drum set in the corner. She went over to the desk at the front of the room, on it there was her charger for her phone, and a brand new art kit. She was surprised that she didn't notice these things before, she figured it was the courtesy of Mrs. Frederic.
Then she remembered that she promised she would call her friend Mariah.
"Hello?" The voice answered on the other line.
"Sup Sheppard?" Juliet joked.
"Oh my God Juliet! You actually called! How's Nebraska?" Mariah asked.
Juliet hated that she had to lie to her friend about where she was.
"It's..good. And what do you mean I actually called?" Juliet asked offended.
"Well because whenever you say you're gonna call you never do." Her friend answered. "Sometimes I think you were meant to be a guy."
"That…kind of makes sense." Juliet chuckled.
"Yeah but you would be a pretty short guy." Her friend joked.
"Hey there is nothing with being short! You're short too!"
"True." Mariah agreed. "So Vasquez how's your new home?"
"It's not too bad. A little crowded but I'm used to that." Juliet said as she sat in her chair next to the desk.
"So your new caretaker's cool?"
"Yeah. She seems really nice but I don't think she has a single clue how to take care of a kid." Mariah laughed at this. "She's really pretty though..and tall..and young. Well I mean younger than my previous caretakers."
"Well that's good. I wonder why she signed up for the foster care system..you know she doesn't seem like the type from what you've described."
"I don't know." Juliet shrugged. "So how are things back in LA?"
"Boring without you." Mariah sighed. "There's no one to talk to about Rizzoli and Isles."
"You can still talk to me about it." Juliet said.
"I know but it's just not the same without you here." Mariah said sadly. "Oh by the way I am on episode five of Orange is the Black and I just-I gotta know, do Alex and Piper get it on or what?"
"Not telling you."
"So that means yes. Good because I ship them so hard!" Juliet was the one who laughed this time.
"Oh God I miss you Sheppard." Juliet sighed.
"Me too Vasquez. But hey two more years and we'll be eighteen and then we can do whatever we want and live together and watch re runs of Buffy."
"You still haven't seen that."
"I know but I'm gonna wait to watch it with you." There was a beat of silence. "Well I'm pretty tired so I'm gonna go to bed. Talk to you tomorrow?"
"Yeah definitely."
"Alrighty. Nighty night Jules."
"Night." Juliet hung up and put the phone on her desk.
She closed her eyes and spun around in her chair, she always loved doing this as a kid. It made her feel like she was flying.
"You know you can make yourself dizzy by doing that."
Upon hearing the voice Juliet immediately put her feet down, halting her movement. When she opened her eyes her vision was a little blurred but she could still make out who it was.
"Hey." She said to the boy.
"Hi." He sat on the bed. "Boy this is comfy." He bopped up and down on the mattress. "I missed you at dinner."
"..Oh Well..uh..I wasn't very hungry." She played along.
"Well it wasn't that good anyway. But don't tell my mom that." He chuckled. "So you been enjoying your stay here?"
"Yeah I have. What's your name by the way?" She asked as she stood from her chair and walked over to where the boy was.
"Jude." He answered. "Yours?"
"Juliet." She sat next to him.
"Nice. Juliet and Jude." He smirked. "JJ."
"Yeah." She chuckled. "So..you go to Univille high?"
"Used to. I work down at Monty's garage now." He said. "Oh which reminds me I gotta meet the guys down at Linfield park." He stood up. "You can come if you want."
"Actually I-I have some things I need to do." She said apologetically.
"Alright." He shrugged. "Another time than."
"Yeah another time."
"See ya." He said before he walked out the door.
She followed him but like before he vanished, the halls were empty…again.
She had never really talked to a ghost before, at least not so casually. There was something about Jude, he had the kindest eyes and there was just so much innocence in the way he looked at her. She was used to ghosts being aggressive or a even little angry but Jude was..something else. All she could feel when she was around him was pure kindness.
She made mental note to ask Myka where the local town library was when they go into town the next day. She hoped that they had some archives of old newspapers so she could figure out what happened to Jude.