Chapter 4- Stacey

I jumped back and I heard Justen bend down and comfort what looked like a little black fur ball. I realised it was a small kitten and it was staring at me with deep green eyes that resembled Layla’s. “Ssh it’s ok Midnight” Justen said softly petting the black cat’s fur. I heard the cat slowly calm down and began to purr nuzzling her head against Justen’s hand.

“She’s so cute” I said bending down and reached out to touch it. I forgot that I couldn’t touch stuff and my hand went straight through the cat. I saw him jump a foot high and then raced away meowing. “Whoops I forgot about that” I said.

I saw Justen’s mum walk into the room “what’s wrong with Midnight?” she asked Justen.

Justen shrugged “I don’t know maybe something spooked her” he said.

“How was football practice son?” a tall man who looked an older version of Justen said walking beside his wife.

“It was good but I think that creep Jackson was trying to pick a fight with me” Justen said.

“Well dinner will be ready soon go get dressed and wash your hands” Justen’s mum said before she disappeared into the kitchen.

I followed Justen to the room and as we walked past the kitchen I could smell the delicious smell of my favourite roast chicken. It was sad to think that I’ll never be able to eat food again. I waited outside Justen’s room while he got changed into a blue muscle shirt and denim jeans looking gorgeous. He noticed me staring at him when he walked out of his room “what’s wrong. You weren’t peaking on me were you?” he asked suspiciously.

I laughed and shook my head “no. Nothing’s wrong” I said.

Justen rolled his eyes and walked into the bathroom to wash his hands. I watched him walk downstairs before I stepped into his bedroom. I looked at the posters on the wall and criticised the dirty clothes strewn all over the floor. I wanted to pick them up but I knew my hand would just go straight through.

I sat on his bed and thought about the disturbing scene I saw near the football posts. I should’ve known Layla would do something like that after all she always had the hots for him and as soon as I was gone she moved in. I was more hurt at Jackson. I couldn’t believe he would just date another girl right after I died. With my best friend nonetheless. Yeah they used to date but  it still hurt. “And you’re the one checking out Justen” I told myself and realised I was basically the same except I was dead.

I tried comparing Justen and Jackson. I realised they were nothing alike. Justen has dark hair and dark eyes whereas Jackson had light blonde hair and beautiful blue eyes. Jackson was more serious about sport and had a really bad temper. Jackson was a good in defence but he didn’t have much stamina and was nowhere near as fast as Justen was. I remembered seeing Justen in school walking around he was usually surrounded by boys on the football team. Jackson used to be the most popular boy in school till Justen came. All the girls acted like love sick puppy dogs over him except for me because I was too dazed about being in love with Jackson to notice how cute Justen was.

Since then Jackson hated Justen and tried making his life miserable. I remember he was always picking on Justen trying to get into a fight when the teachers weren’t around but Justen was sensible and just ignored him. I thought about the day I died. Me and Jackson had got into a fight and it was actually about Justen.

It was right after a football game Justen had thrown the ball to Jackson but Jackson had fumbled it and dropped it. Jackson naturally tried blaming Justen and was trying to torment him about it. But Justen’s mates stepped in trying to stop him and Jackson got really pissed. Justen had looked over at me then and Jackson saw and his face was really red  then he glared at Jackson and punched him straight in the nose. Justen didn’t retaliate he groaned and grabbed his nose as blood spurted out. His friends were all stunned and didn’t do anything.

I could tell Justen wanted to hit Jackson back but instead he turned around and started walking away. But Jackson wasn’t finished he spun Justen around and punched him right in the gut. Justen collapsed to his knees panting as he tried to breathe Jackson was just about to kick him when I stepped right in front of him and told him to stop. Justen’s friends joined me and Jackson was even angrier.

“What are you doing defending him Stacey?” Jackson demanded.

“Look at him. He didn’t do anything to you.” I snapped.

“He was looking at my girl” he said my girl being me.

“No. If you going to treat guys like this I’m no longer your girl” I said then I stormed off.

A couple of hours later he had sent me a text apologising and practically begged me to meet him at the park. I didn’t want to forgive him for what he did but I wanted to talk to him.

But then that’s when I got murdered.

I stood up from the bed as I heard footsteps coming up the stairs. I looked at the clock and was surprised to see it was 10 o’clock.

“I’m going to bed goodnight” I heard Justen call to his parents before he walked into the room.

He looked at me with surprise and concern. “Are you ok? Why are you crying?” he asked.

I hadn’t noticed I was crying and I was even more surprised when I realised that ghosts could cry.

He sat on the bed and stared at me.

“Don’t worry” I said shaking my head.

“Are you sure?” he asked.

I nodded and watched him lay down. I had a strong urge to join him but I knew that would be weird even though he wouldn’t even feel me. I wondered if ghosts slept too.

“I’m pretty tired so I’m going to nod off goodnight” he said and he almost immediately fell asleep. I watched him sleep and I couldn’t believe how young he looked. He was a 17 year old boy but when he was sleeping he looked about 10. I sighed and tried sitting down on a chair but ironically I fell on my bum.

“This is going to take some getting used to” I thought sighing as I watched Justen sleep.

 

Reviews

[xansizi]

I'm really enjoying your story so far and will definately read more as you release it

[KittyKatgirl]

Thank you so much

[Silent Wolf]

So, I can already see that Justen and Stacey have something going on between them. :) Jackson kind of pisses me off, and maybe it's just me, but I don't think he killed her exactly...

[KittyKatgirl]

Well I'm not going to spoil anything. I won't say whether he's the killer or not. You'll have to find out till I finish but unfortunately I've been too busy with school assignments. I'm not going to make it an actual book size though this is the actually longest story I've ever written.

[Silent Wolf]

That's perfectly fine - a short story/novella kind of thing is still awesome! I still like to read it. :)

[KittyKatgirl]

Ok thank you :)

[Not here]

thats a good chapter too, with the flashback and some more look into their past. i like how she compared justen to jackson, and herself to jackson. great chapter :)

[KittyKatgirl]

Thank you so much :)