I started crying and then the strangest thing happened. I saw my mom standing right next to me.

"She's not dead, she's right here," I said as I pointed right next to me. My dad looked at me and told me that I was missing her so much that I was imagining it. I kept fighting and then we got home and I ran up to my room. Then I remember hearing my mom's voice. I turned to see her standing there.

"Why can't daddy or anyone else see you but I can?" I had asked through my tears.

"It's because you have a very special gift. You are able to see and feel Earthbound spirits' feelings just like I could," she said as I looked at her confused.

"What are Earthbound spirits mommy?" I asked. She said to me that they were spirits who remain here on Earth because they have unfinished business left. I showed her the necklace that I had bought for her.

"Jenn, that is so beautiful sweetie. I wish I could wear it but I want you to wear it to always think of me" she said.

I remember that she told me that she saw a bright light and said that she was ready to crossover to the other side.

"Mommy! Please don't leave me! I will miss you even more!" I said through my tears. Although, I knew that no matter what, she would always be there with me. She had disappeared into thin air and I had tears down my face.

My dad had known that my mom could see ghosts but never thought that me, his own daughter, would get this rare gift. It was going to be a whole new life for me. Well, it wasn't good after my mom died, things just got worse. My dad never dated another woman and started to become an alcoholic.

~6 years later~

Once I turned thirteen, I'd start to see and help even more spirits. It was amazing and scary at the same time.. My dad and I grew further apart since he knew that I had the same gift as mom did.

"I'm going to send you to your grandma's house for a while. She's more understanding about this whole wierd phase you've been going through since your mother died," is what my dad kept saying but never remembered to do it, but this time he would hit me everytime I try to argue with him. By the time I get to my grandma's house, I had bruises all over my arms and a black eye.

"What happened to you my child?" my grandma asked with a gentle tone in her voice.

"My dad has become an alcoholic and abused me to come here," I said to her as she had a concered look on her face. "He thinks that my imagination has gone over and beyond. Just because I can see spirits and he thinks that I've gone crazy," that's what I was telling her.

She smiled and said that she had the gift too. Maybe I could stay with her for the four years left I have of school. If I did that, then who would be at the house to make sure my dad didn't commit suicide or something. I decided to stay with my grandma for two weeks.

For those two weeks, my grandma and I helped lost spirits to crossover in the light. Like this one that died in the army and wanted to see what his wife was doing. He left when his wife was nine months pregnant with their baby girl. He only remembers when she was going to deliver but that was about twelve years ago and the girl wasn't too much younger than I was. In order to get him to crossover, he had to see his daughter and his wife. The guys name was Blake and his daughter's name was Ariel. I walked up to her at lunch in the gym, I saw her dad sitting there trying to get her attention.

Ariel had long flowing brown hair and she wore a white dress shirt, nice jeans, and white flats.

"Hey Ariel, can I talk to you for like five minutes?"

"Um sure Jenn, what do you want to talk about?" she asked and I sat down and tried to explain what's going on. "Are you trying to pull something on me?" she asked, almost yelling, "my own dad wasn't even around for my birth, so why on Earth would he be with me now?" At that point, I had no idea what to think. She was mad at me and wanted nothing to do with me.

"Please just try to understand. He's right next to you and wants to talk to you," is what I told her and she just walked away from me and went to her other friends. Blake sat there and was ticked that he couldn't talk to his daughter who apparently didn't care about him.

Later that day, after school, I went to talk to her mom about it. She was amazed at first and then she just asked if I was mentally ill or something. I said to her, "No, I'm telling you the full truth!" She then sat down and wanted to listen to what I wanted to say.

Then, Ariel soon came into the room and saw me. "What are you doing here? Is it bad enough you were trying to get me to believe what you told me?" she basically asked while yelling. Her mom sat her down and told her exactly what I had said. Blake was in the room and talking so I had to tell Ariel and her mom what he was saying. By the time we were done, the two of them were in tears and I was too.

Blake had crossed over in the light and I started to tear up and hugged Ariel to comfort her.

"I'm so sorry that I didn't believe you. So, you can really see people's spirits?" she asked curiously.

"Yes and I try to help them to crossover into the light," I said to her and she had an amazed look on her face. From then on, Ariel and I became friends. Eventhough she'd be in the eighth grade and I would've been a freshman in high school, she'd still want to help me with spirits and them crossing over.

Authors Note: Well that's the second chapter. Tell me if I should keep going and I hope to try and update every day if I can. I've been writing this story down on paper and I take it and type it on the computer. Review on what you think so far~TotalDramaGirl01