8 GHOST STORIES
8 GHOST STORIES
by Arlene Gentallan
1. Dog's Barking
Anna has somehow been able to cope up with having an open third eye, sadly, her neighbor Jed hasn't. Jed always dreaded when her neighbor will come home especially late at night. Although her third eye is not active which means that she couldn't see ghost and spirits, the howling of the dog was enough to raise her fear. She knew very well that those dog we're seeing something she couldn't and wouldn't want to see.
On nights such as these, Jed will cower on her bed, covering her body with blanket and pretending that nothing lurks outside. Anna noticed a smoky figure at the corner of her eyes but it vanished in a snap. She hates to admit, but spirits usually do follow her. It's a daily occurrence she choose to ignore. After all, having an open third eye doesn't mean you'll see all that is there.
2. Not Alone
Tourist usually find there stay at the famous xxx hotel a happy and worthwhile experience, but it's another matter to the employees who are well aware of the things going on in its premises.
They particularly dreaded being assigned in the kitchen. Ryan, armed with no basic information about the spooks of the building, find his first week quite normal. In fact, had he known the rumors, he'll consider them as mere product of creative thinking.
There's no one ransacking the room. No shadows banging on the utensil. No ghost trying to lock you in until you die of heart of attack.
His co workers were very glad to have him around...especially since no one will volunteer to go in the auxiliary kitchen when night falls. Ryan never questioned why everyone else refuses to go there even just to accompany him.
One night, Ryan's bed appointment ended later than expected. He woke up around eleven in the evening when he's supposed to be at work ten o'clock sharp. Not very fond of absences, he decided to still report to work
"Hey Ryan, thought you'll never come back." Aussi, her co worker greeted.
"Why not?"
"Oh, haven't you seen anything unusual up there?" She asked with an unbelieving tone.
"There's nothing unusual there." He said matter of factly.
"You're lucky then." Aussie said as she goes back to typing.
"That's a creepy way to start a night but I better go and check in the kitchen to make sure everything's alright.
"Don't go there!" Aussie looked up quite alarmed. "Victor's already gone there to fetch some utensils."
But Ryan knew better than to take the advice of a girl who never spent a minute in the rumored kitchen.
Taking the elevator, he tried to come up with a sane reason as to why Aussie has warned her, but as the door opens, he just shrugged the thought off.
Standing on front of the kitchen was the still form of a man-- Victor. It looks like he is having a mental debate whether or not to enter.
"Hey Victor!" Ryan can't help but smile upon observing his coward colleague.
But that smile faded as Victor turned around. Terrified is the right word to draw his face. "What are you doing here?"
Just then, the knob begun turning violently as if someone is trying to get out of the room but failing miserably.
"Hey, that's not cool!" Ryan shouted, not fond of pranksters.
"No! Don't open it. Let's just get out of here!" Victor tried to stop him but to no avail.
Upon pulling the door wide open, no one was there. The hair on his nape started to rise. He turned around to see Victor running madly.
"Hey, he could just be hiding." But Victor didn't stop and keeps on pressing on the elevator key.
Ryan, quite alarmed with Victor's sudden outburst decided to join him on the trip down.
"What happened?" Aussie was concerned to see a panicking Victor accompanied by a question mark face Ryan.
Realizing what could have happened, she pointed an accusing finger on Ryan. "I told you not to go there!"
"Have you seen her?" Victor turned on him.
"Who?" Ryan evidently has no clue of what he's talking about.
"But she was just standing right in front of you when you've opened the door. She was staring at you!" Victor aid shakily.
Ryan soon learned about the ghost haunting the kitchen. She only manifests her presence when you're not alone.
3. Haunted Dormitory
Chester was awakened by the violent shaking of the bed, as if someone was having a tantrum. It was a double decked bed and he has seen no one around so that means the culprit is up there.
He shouted for the other teenager to stop but the banging persists nonetheless. Enraged, he got up, about to give whoever the guy was a piece of his mind. But to his shock, no one was there.
He ran off as fast as he could out of the room. He went down to the first floor panting, there were his roommates. It couldn't possibly be them.
His colleagues also have some weird experience. Kiya and her best friend were the only once in the room when the door knob of the bathroom begun turning frantically. They got scared considering they haven't seen anyone enter the bathroom. When the doorknob was still again and they've checked it out, sure enough, no one was in there.
The management of the dormitory claimed that the rooms were not haunted. The building was built just recently so it couldn't be possible. But there is also a less circulated story that the dormitory was built on the grounds of a burned apartment complex. Many people were trapped inside-- mostly women and children. And based on the number of ghosts roaming around it's floors, we can say that they haven't really moved on.
4. Doppel Ganger
I think one of the most commonly encountered paranormal entity is the doppel ganger. I know several people who shared their experience and it seems that these spirits appear irregardless of time and distance.
These entities copy the appearance of a person. According to those who have seen, they carry a blank expression and they do not talk.
It is a popular belief that to see a doppel ganger signifies death to the person being copied. Don't be hysterical, as far as I know, my colleagues are still pretty much well and alive although their doppel ganger has reportedly been sighted.
Talking to the person that was copied, not necessarily about the doppel ganger incident, helps counter the bad omen.
****************************
The good thing about nature tripping is somehow, you lose the burden of the city even for a while. The miracle of the wilderness. The not so good thing if you have an open third eye is, well, you almost always attract entities like spirits.
Shara never would have thought that there was something strange accompanying the package of their supposedly perfect vacation in Palawan.
Who would have thought there's a history behind that low price cabin? The fact that it was situated near the funeral was never mentioned beforehand.
It was two o'clock in the morning; Shara was on the balcony drying her hair. So far, expect for her noticing the rickety sign of the "funeral" several blocks away from the cabin, all has gone pretty well.
Mia passed by the hallway and cheerfully greeted her. Yes, it's getting late and she ought to get some rest considering they'll leave six o'clock in the morning for their last tour.
Her eyes wandered on the dense thicket catching a glimpse of Antonio's figure-- fully dressed for the day's adventure, not forgetting his back pack. Yes, some people are too excited for the tour. Even if it may be their last tour, it's still literally night.
She was about to convince the morning guy to get more sleep when he suddenly felt a presence at the corner of her eyes-- leading to the hallway where Mia was making her way for the second time. She greeted Mia but instead of the cheerful smile she has earlier, the girl just looked at her with a blank expression as she walks rather fast towards their room. Her emotionless face was rather disturbing.
When she looked back to where she last saw Andrew, the guy was nowhere to be found.
Finding the situation odd, Shana decided to go to their room, only to find out that the door was locked...and she has the only key. So how come Mia enter though it? When she opened the door, there was no one inside. Just then, the shrill sound of the door being opened pierced through the night-- the storage room just on the other end of the hallway. Quite sure that it was no human and given the fact that those rooms were supposedly always locked (having no exit), she decided not to investigate anymore. Instead, she went to the room where her other colleagues were supposed to be in.
Upon entering the room, she found Mia seated on the chair. Antonio in his t-shirt and boxer bear hugging her girl friend deep asleep on bed.
When questioned, Mia claimed that she only passed the hallway just once and Antonio had been asleep for hours.
Shara, not wanting to spoil their vacation has not told her friends until the time they've left. When she told me about the incidence, the unexplained bruise that has suddenly appeared while she was in the cabin was on the slow process of healing.
When given the opportunity to confront the owner of the cabin, she didn't delve deeper into the history and the occurrences that have happened there. But the owner did tell her that after a very long time of isolation, they were the first visitors to stay there.
She said that she won a long fought lawsuit denying the funeral home that piece of land where my colleague had stayed for three nights.
But whatever there is lurking in the old cabin is certainly something better off be left alone.
5. Alone in the Bright Room
I new there has to be a ghost somewhere in the company building I'm working at. I mean, every building, given its large space is bound to attract permanent residents.
During my first few weeks while we're on training, I have the habit of staying in the training room during the one hour allotted for meal break. I don't have much social life you know.
The room was well lit. The atmosphere once my co workers leave was somehow of silence-- except for the sound of the keyboards every now and then, as if someone is wandering around and pressing on the keys...one computer after another. I felt there was something strange about it, but finding the place not creepy, I reasoned it may just be the aircon.
After some time, I got used to the sound. It's what I always hear when I'm alone in the bright room.
On one occasion, I arrive early. The room was empty and the lights were off. I've found one of my colleague hesitant to go in and when I asked why. He said it's because of Jun Jun. I found out that it was the nick name they're using to refer to the ghost of a child reportedly wandering around the building. Yeah I know, stories usually arrive to me late.
Anyway, so my colleague decided to go to the pantry to join the others. As for me, I've come to term that as long as I don't see any ghostly apparition and the lights were all turned on, I'm perfectly fine being in the same room with the kid, considering he does no harm. And another thing, as long as he only plays far from me and don't manifest right before my very keyboard.
Sometimes, I'll still rationalize that he couldn't always be there and maybe the air-conditioning unit is the culprit. But then again, do you think the wind can press on the keys?
NOTE: The monitor goes on standby mode after some period of inactivity, before finally turning off. Whenever the key is pressed, the monitor should have been on again, but not on our case because we were instructed to turn off the power for the monitor whenever we go out. That's good; I can only imagine if every computer screen suddenly turns on every time he hit a key.
6. Every Sleeping Quarter has a Ghost
After several months of training, we were finally able to take real time phone calls with minor support. And soon enough, stress became my usual companion. You can imagine how close we are, it even followed me home. In dire need to alleviate this suffering, I went back to square one and was reintroduced to the concept of sleep. That one hour slumber became a necessity for me.
One thing I like about the company is the sleeping lounges situated at the fifth, seventh and eighth floor. What can I say, compared with my previous employer, this one is three times richer.
I've tried sleeping in all three levels so based from experience, I've vow never to enter the dream world while in the seventh floor.
Why? It all begun one usual night. I enter the sleeping area, about to take my usual load of doze when I've caught something white at the corner of my eyes. I turned on its direction and I couldn't believe my eyes. It was a young woman with black flowing hair dressed in white.
She was on the farther end of the room floating in midair and staring blankly on space. She appears solid, not just a ghostly apparition. I can even see her face!
I don't know what to do but to realize that I've finally seen a ghost for the first time. It was so real.
When I woke up, I was so damn relieved it was all a dream. But considering other circumstances, I just have a gut feeling that something's there. I always have bizarre dream whenever I slept there. I specially hate it when I'm feeling a presence while I lay on bed. The faint rocking of the bed every time I close my eyes is not very much comforting.
My co-worker later told me that there was a white lady wandering around the sleeping quarters. Not a very nice spirit she said. She even experienced having her blanket slowly being pulled off her.
Jun Jun, the ghost of a boy will even warn a person of the white lady's presence by waking him/her up. Feel someone touch your feet? Awaken by a voice? It could be him.
She also told me that there was an employee found dead in the morning in the fifth floor. She told me that floor was the most haunted. Irony is, that's where I mostly slept. But I have to admit, there's this one spot I refuse to sleep at. The beds beside the pillar. I just couldn't bear it anymore. The few times I did sleep there was rather a restless experience. I feel that there was something rocking on the mattress. The presence was rather strong.
7. Broken Promise
Janice had been considered weird by her siblings. For one, she's not fond of playing games with them like any normal kid would. Instead, she prefers to spend most of her time in Mrs. Ways house. The poor woman had never been the same ever since she lost her only child. She was always sober and lonely, but somehow, Janice's presence in her home has lifted her mood. Her son would have been of Janice's age if he's still alive.
She always look forward to the little girl's visit every afternoon. She'll offer the child some snack, but aside from that, she never question or interfere as the little girl sits absorbed in a corner, seemingly playing with herself.
One afternoon, Janice was about to visit their neighbor's house, when her older sister, Nelia, asked if she would like to play with her. Janice just shook her head and said she promised Tony they will play today.
"Who's Tony?" Nelia asked excited to meet a new friend.
"She's Mrs. Ways' son." She answered.
"But Mrs. Ways' son died almost a year ago, and he was the only child." She uttered in shock while backing away from her sister and running back to their house.
Janice tried to shook the fear at the back of her mind. Her sister may just be playing a prank but she could not remove the realization of how Mrs. Ways couldn't seem to notice Tony even when he's near her.
She really felt sorry to break her promise, but from that day on, she never returned to Mrs. Ways' house.
8. What She Sees
Janice's life at home is not the ways she would want it to be. She don't want to be called freak by her siblings who constantly taunt her with regard to her imaginary friend. She don't know why they said she was always talking when nobody is there. She don't want the worried faces of her parents.
At least, at school, she can feel quite normal again. She particularly likes days such as this...sunny and bright. As she was about to take a bite from her tuna sandwich, she noticed a girl from the opposite table. She looks sober just sitting there, staring at the table, not interacting with the kids around her. She felt kind of bad for her. She would know how it's like to be on the same shoes.
"Kayla." She called on her friend while still trying to figure out what could be the girl's problem.
"Huh?" Kayla's eye shifted on her.
"Look at that girl, she looks sad. I wonder why she's not talking to any of the people on their table."
"Where?"
There, on the next table." She pointed.
"But they're all eating happily." Kayla noticed.
"No, the one sitting on the second chair to the right."
"Janice, but nobody's sitting there."
Janice was taken aback by this revelation. She look at her friend's face to confirm she is not fooling her. Her expression is that of worry and fear. Kayla couldn't be lying and when she looked back on the opposite table, the girl was no longer there.
From that day on, life at school has never been the same. The rumor about the sad girl spread on the school ground like a wild fire. She couldn't do anything about it now but to shrug off the comments and questions thrown on her. But from then on, she had been very careful not to tell a living soul about what she sees.
by Arlene Gentallan
 |
| 8 GHOST STORIES |
1. Dog's Barking
Anna has somehow been able to cope up with having an open third eye, sadly, her neighbor Jed hasn't. Jed always dreaded when her neighbor will come home especially late at night. Although her third eye is not active which means that she couldn't see ghost and spirits, the howling of the dog was enough to raise her fear. She knew very well that those dog we're seeing something she couldn't and wouldn't want to see.
On nights such as these, Jed will cower on her bed, covering her body with blanket and pretending that nothing lurks outside. Anna noticed a smoky figure at the corner of her eyes but it vanished in a snap. She hates to admit, but spirits usually do follow her. It's a daily occurrence she choose to ignore. After all, having an open third eye doesn't mean you'll see all that is there.
2. Not Alone
Tourist usually find there stay at the famous xxx hotel a happy and worthwhile experience, but it's another matter to the employees who are well aware of the things going on in its premises.
They particularly dreaded being assigned in the kitchen. Ryan, armed with no basic information about the spooks of the building, find his first week quite normal. In fact, had he known the rumors, he'll consider them as mere product of creative thinking.
There's no one ransacking the room. No shadows banging on the utensil. No ghost trying to lock you in until you die of heart of attack.
His co workers were very glad to have him around...especially since no one will volunteer to go in the auxiliary kitchen when night falls. Ryan never questioned why everyone else refuses to go there even just to accompany him.
One night, Ryan's bed appointment ended later than expected. He woke up around eleven in the evening when he's supposed to be at work ten o'clock sharp. Not very fond of absences, he decided to still report to work
"Hey Ryan, thought you'll never come back." Aussi, her co worker greeted.
"Why not?"
"Oh, haven't you seen anything unusual up there?" She asked with an unbelieving tone.
"There's nothing unusual there." He said matter of factly.
"You're lucky then." Aussie said as she goes back to typing.
"That's a creepy way to start a night but I better go and check in the kitchen to make sure everything's alright.
"Don't go there!" Aussie looked up quite alarmed. "Victor's already gone there to fetch some utensils."
But Ryan knew better than to take the advice of a girl who never spent a minute in the rumored kitchen.
Taking the elevator, he tried to come up with a sane reason as to why Aussie has warned her, but as the door opens, he just shrugged the thought off.
Standing on front of the kitchen was the still form of a man-- Victor. It looks like he is having a mental debate whether or not to enter.
"Hey Victor!" Ryan can't help but smile upon observing his coward colleague.
But that smile faded as Victor turned around. Terrified is the right word to draw his face. "What are you doing here?"
Just then, the knob begun turning violently as if someone is trying to get out of the room but failing miserably.
"Hey, that's not cool!" Ryan shouted, not fond of pranksters.
"No! Don't open it. Let's just get out of here!" Victor tried to stop him but to no avail.
Upon pulling the door wide open, no one was there. The hair on his nape started to rise. He turned around to see Victor running madly.
"Hey, he could just be hiding." But Victor didn't stop and keeps on pressing on the elevator key.
Ryan, quite alarmed with Victor's sudden outburst decided to join him on the trip down.
"What happened?" Aussie was concerned to see a panicking Victor accompanied by a question mark face Ryan.
Realizing what could have happened, she pointed an accusing finger on Ryan. "I told you not to go there!"
"Have you seen her?" Victor turned on him.
"Who?" Ryan evidently has no clue of what he's talking about.
"But she was just standing right in front of you when you've opened the door. She was staring at you!" Victor aid shakily.
Ryan soon learned about the ghost haunting the kitchen. She only manifests her presence when you're not alone.
3. Haunted Dormitory
Chester was awakened by the violent shaking of the bed, as if someone was having a tantrum. It was a double decked bed and he has seen no one around so that means the culprit is up there.
He shouted for the other teenager to stop but the banging persists nonetheless. Enraged, he got up, about to give whoever the guy was a piece of his mind. But to his shock, no one was there.
He ran off as fast as he could out of the room. He went down to the first floor panting, there were his roommates. It couldn't possibly be them.
His colleagues also have some weird experience. Kiya and her best friend were the only once in the room when the door knob of the bathroom begun turning frantically. They got scared considering they haven't seen anyone enter the bathroom. When the doorknob was still again and they've checked it out, sure enough, no one was in there.
The management of the dormitory claimed that the rooms were not haunted. The building was built just recently so it couldn't be possible. But there is also a less circulated story that the dormitory was built on the grounds of a burned apartment complex. Many people were trapped inside-- mostly women and children. And based on the number of ghosts roaming around it's floors, we can say that they haven't really moved on.
4. Doppel Ganger
I think one of the most commonly encountered paranormal entity is the doppel ganger. I know several people who shared their experience and it seems that these spirits appear irregardless of time and distance.
These entities copy the appearance of a person. According to those who have seen, they carry a blank expression and they do not talk.
It is a popular belief that to see a doppel ganger signifies death to the person being copied. Don't be hysterical, as far as I know, my colleagues are still pretty much well and alive although their doppel ganger has reportedly been sighted.
Talking to the person that was copied, not necessarily about the doppel ganger incident, helps counter the bad omen.
****************************
The good thing about nature tripping is somehow, you lose the burden of the city even for a while. The miracle of the wilderness. The not so good thing if you have an open third eye is, well, you almost always attract entities like spirits.
Shara never would have thought that there was something strange accompanying the package of their supposedly perfect vacation in Palawan.
Who would have thought there's a history behind that low price cabin? The fact that it was situated near the funeral was never mentioned beforehand.
It was two o'clock in the morning; Shara was on the balcony drying her hair. So far, expect for her noticing the rickety sign of the "funeral" several blocks away from the cabin, all has gone pretty well.
Mia passed by the hallway and cheerfully greeted her. Yes, it's getting late and she ought to get some rest considering they'll leave six o'clock in the morning for their last tour.
Her eyes wandered on the dense thicket catching a glimpse of Antonio's figure-- fully dressed for the day's adventure, not forgetting his back pack. Yes, some people are too excited for the tour. Even if it may be their last tour, it's still literally night.
She was about to convince the morning guy to get more sleep when he suddenly felt a presence at the corner of her eyes-- leading to the hallway where Mia was making her way for the second time. She greeted Mia but instead of the cheerful smile she has earlier, the girl just looked at her with a blank expression as she walks rather fast towards their room. Her emotionless face was rather disturbing.
When she looked back to where she last saw Andrew, the guy was nowhere to be found.
Finding the situation odd, Shana decided to go to their room, only to find out that the door was locked...and she has the only key. So how come Mia enter though it? When she opened the door, there was no one inside. Just then, the shrill sound of the door being opened pierced through the night-- the storage room just on the other end of the hallway. Quite sure that it was no human and given the fact that those rooms were supposedly always locked (having no exit), she decided not to investigate anymore. Instead, she went to the room where her other colleagues were supposed to be in.
Upon entering the room, she found Mia seated on the chair. Antonio in his t-shirt and boxer bear hugging her girl friend deep asleep on bed.
When questioned, Mia claimed that she only passed the hallway just once and Antonio had been asleep for hours.
Shara, not wanting to spoil their vacation has not told her friends until the time they've left. When she told me about the incidence, the unexplained bruise that has suddenly appeared while she was in the cabin was on the slow process of healing.
When given the opportunity to confront the owner of the cabin, she didn't delve deeper into the history and the occurrences that have happened there. But the owner did tell her that after a very long time of isolation, they were the first visitors to stay there.
She said that she won a long fought lawsuit denying the funeral home that piece of land where my colleague had stayed for three nights.
But whatever there is lurking in the old cabin is certainly something better off be left alone.
5. Alone in the Bright Room
I new there has to be a ghost somewhere in the company building I'm working at. I mean, every building, given its large space is bound to attract permanent residents.
During my first few weeks while we're on training, I have the habit of staying in the training room during the one hour allotted for meal break. I don't have much social life you know.
The room was well lit. The atmosphere once my co workers leave was somehow of silence-- except for the sound of the keyboards every now and then, as if someone is wandering around and pressing on the keys...one computer after another. I felt there was something strange about it, but finding the place not creepy, I reasoned it may just be the aircon.
After some time, I got used to the sound. It's what I always hear when I'm alone in the bright room.
On one occasion, I arrive early. The room was empty and the lights were off. I've found one of my colleague hesitant to go in and when I asked why. He said it's because of Jun Jun. I found out that it was the nick name they're using to refer to the ghost of a child reportedly wandering around the building. Yeah I know, stories usually arrive to me late.
Anyway, so my colleague decided to go to the pantry to join the others. As for me, I've come to term that as long as I don't see any ghostly apparition and the lights were all turned on, I'm perfectly fine being in the same room with the kid, considering he does no harm. And another thing, as long as he only plays far from me and don't manifest right before my very keyboard.
Sometimes, I'll still rationalize that he couldn't always be there and maybe the air-conditioning unit is the culprit. But then again, do you think the wind can press on the keys?
NOTE: The monitor goes on standby mode after some period of inactivity, before finally turning off. Whenever the key is pressed, the monitor should have been on again, but not on our case because we were instructed to turn off the power for the monitor whenever we go out. That's good; I can only imagine if every computer screen suddenly turns on every time he hit a key.
6. Every Sleeping Quarter has a Ghost
After several months of training, we were finally able to take real time phone calls with minor support. And soon enough, stress became my usual companion. You can imagine how close we are, it even followed me home. In dire need to alleviate this suffering, I went back to square one and was reintroduced to the concept of sleep. That one hour slumber became a necessity for me.
One thing I like about the company is the sleeping lounges situated at the fifth, seventh and eighth floor. What can I say, compared with my previous employer, this one is three times richer.
I've tried sleeping in all three levels so based from experience, I've vow never to enter the dream world while in the seventh floor.
Why? It all begun one usual night. I enter the sleeping area, about to take my usual load of doze when I've caught something white at the corner of my eyes. I turned on its direction and I couldn't believe my eyes. It was a young woman with black flowing hair dressed in white.
She was on the farther end of the room floating in midair and staring blankly on space. She appears solid, not just a ghostly apparition. I can even see her face!
I don't know what to do but to realize that I've finally seen a ghost for the first time. It was so real.
When I woke up, I was so damn relieved it was all a dream. But considering other circumstances, I just have a gut feeling that something's there. I always have bizarre dream whenever I slept there. I specially hate it when I'm feeling a presence while I lay on bed. The faint rocking of the bed every time I close my eyes is not very much comforting.
My co-worker later told me that there was a white lady wandering around the sleeping quarters. Not a very nice spirit she said. She even experienced having her blanket slowly being pulled off her.
Jun Jun, the ghost of a boy will even warn a person of the white lady's presence by waking him/her up. Feel someone touch your feet? Awaken by a voice? It could be him.
She also told me that there was an employee found dead in the morning in the fifth floor. She told me that floor was the most haunted. Irony is, that's where I mostly slept. But I have to admit, there's this one spot I refuse to sleep at. The beds beside the pillar. I just couldn't bear it anymore. The few times I did sleep there was rather a restless experience. I feel that there was something rocking on the mattress. The presence was rather strong.
7. Broken Promise
Janice had been considered weird by her siblings. For one, she's not fond of playing games with them like any normal kid would. Instead, she prefers to spend most of her time in Mrs. Ways house. The poor woman had never been the same ever since she lost her only child. She was always sober and lonely, but somehow, Janice's presence in her home has lifted her mood. Her son would have been of Janice's age if he's still alive.
She always look forward to the little girl's visit every afternoon. She'll offer the child some snack, but aside from that, she never question or interfere as the little girl sits absorbed in a corner, seemingly playing with herself.
One afternoon, Janice was about to visit their neighbor's house, when her older sister, Nelia, asked if she would like to play with her. Janice just shook her head and said she promised Tony they will play today.
"Who's Tony?" Nelia asked excited to meet a new friend.
"She's Mrs. Ways' son." She answered.
"But Mrs. Ways' son died almost a year ago, and he was the only child." She uttered in shock while backing away from her sister and running back to their house.
Janice tried to shook the fear at the back of her mind. Her sister may just be playing a prank but she could not remove the realization of how Mrs. Ways couldn't seem to notice Tony even when he's near her.
She really felt sorry to break her promise, but from that day on, she never returned to Mrs. Ways' house.
8. What She Sees
Janice's life at home is not the ways she would want it to be. She don't want to be called freak by her siblings who constantly taunt her with regard to her imaginary friend. She don't know why they said she was always talking when nobody is there. She don't want the worried faces of her parents.
At least, at school, she can feel quite normal again. She particularly likes days such as this...sunny and bright. As she was about to take a bite from her tuna sandwich, she noticed a girl from the opposite table. She looks sober just sitting there, staring at the table, not interacting with the kids around her. She felt kind of bad for her. She would know how it's like to be on the same shoes.
"Kayla." She called on her friend while still trying to figure out what could be the girl's problem.
"Huh?" Kayla's eye shifted on her.
"Look at that girl, she looks sad. I wonder why she's not talking to any of the people on their table."
"Where?"
There, on the next table." She pointed.
"But they're all eating happily." Kayla noticed.
"No, the one sitting on the second chair to the right."
"Janice, but nobody's sitting there."
Janice was taken aback by this revelation. She look at her friend's face to confirm she is not fooling her. Her expression is that of worry and fear. Kayla couldn't be lying and when she looked back on the opposite table, the girl was no longer there.
From that day on, life at school has never been the same. The rumor about the sad girl spread on the school ground like a wild fire. She couldn't do anything about it now but to shrug off the comments and questions thrown on her. But from then on, she had been very careful not to tell a living soul about what she sees.
Comments
Post a Comment