3 chapter 5

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Crystal's POV

I got in the college just when the bell rang, but strangely the whole college was unusually quite today, there weren't many students in the hallway and the good thing was, I didn't hear any mean comments today.

"Where's everyone?" I asked a young guy hurrying towards the background.

"At the back, in the auditorium" he shouted not stopping for once.

I followed him and saw the head master with the whole staff and students gathered there. I slowly went inside, somewhere I already had an idea what this was all about. I sighed as I was proved right, it was a memorial in honor of Aria, there was her picture smiling brightly. Candles and flowers were all over that place with some of her belongings. The headmaster got up to say something and I stood with everyone there.

"This is very hurtful to announce that one of our brilliant student is not among us anymore. She was-" and he started going on about her, I wasn't able to stand there and hear all those things about her so I went away from there and walked directly to my spot to have some alone time away from all of them.

I was playing in the park with other kids while my mom was watching me from some distance, I was very happy and excited at that moment. I loved playing in that park so much. But my happiness was short lived as soon as my eyes fell on a woman.

She looked very weird and was crying

near the fountain, her face was covered with her hands and she was

continuously crying, I stopped playing and instead stood there looking at her, when out of the blue she raised her head up and her eyes caught me staring at her.

She was pale, very pale than normal people and her face looked stone cold to me, she looked very strange and inhuman, she was still staring at me. I got scared and ran towards my mother and hid my face in her lap.

"What happened, love?" my mom

asked with confusion.

"Mamma-a, she is looking at me" I didn't look at my mother, I was very scared to do anything.

"Who?"

"She was crying over there an-and looked very scary" I tried to tell her about the woman while pointing to the fountain.

"Don't be scared honey, there's nobody, you know what? I think my angel has just gotten a little tired now, let's go home and rest a little, shall we?" She kissed my forehead, I didn't say anything but nodded in agreement.

We were on our way to home but instead mom stopped the car in front of aunt Linda's home "love, will you stay at your aunts house for some time. I have to complete an important work, It's very urgent but I'll be back soon" she said and I nodded in agreement.

Aunt Linda was my mother's younger

sister, she was very beautiful. I liked her and I loved to spend time with her, but she was always busy with her boyfriend. We went to her house and my mom left me there saying "be a good girl and don't cause any problem to your aunt" to which I nodded.

I went inside and Andrew pulled aunt towards himself and started kissing her but he stopped as soon as he saw me and walked towards me, "hey cutie, why don't you go and have a little nap until your aunt and I finish some important work?"

I never liked him at all, he always asked me to have a little nap, whenever I stayed at their house. But as I was told , I went to their extra bedroom which was always used by me only.

I was walking towards the bed when

I noticed something weird near it, I felt like there was someone standing near it, in the corner. The temperature of the room dropped suddenly and I got very scared. I went a little bit closer to have a good look at the shadow, and I saw a pale women standing there.

l instantly recognized her, she was the women who was crying in the park! She looked more scary from this close, "what-t are you doing here?" I asked her.

"So, it's true, you can really see me? And here I thought I was assuming things when you were staring at me in the park" she spoke in a sour tone.

"Who-o are you-u?" I was very frightened by her.

"You have no idea how happy I am to

finally have somebody who is able to see me, even if it's a kid" she looked very scary.

"Go" I whispered.

"Don't worry I am not going to do

anything bad to you" she said.

"Who are you-u?" her face looked very weird!

"Don't get scared kid but I am a spirit and I've just died yesterday" those words that came out of her mouth, changed my whole existence.

DIED! SPIRIT!

I looked at her pale face and my knees got weak! I was a kid at that time and was very afraid so, I started screaming as much as I possibly could with closed eyes but when I opened them again she was nowhere in sight.

Because of my scream, Aunt Linda came running into my room, and asked me what happened, she looked very scared but when I told her everything she laughed at me and told me to not worry as it was just a nightmare, nothing else and told me to sleep. But she didn't know, I didn't slept that day.

It was just the beginning of my miserable life, and from that exact day I regularly started seeing these pale looking people. Pale looking peoples, who nearly ruined my life. My name is Crystal Morell and I'm not a regular teenager would be the understatement of this year, my life is filled with craziness and I could see spirits of dead peoples from my childhood.

I won't lie, at first I was scared of them but now I am not, I'm not scared of them, they are kinda a part of my life now. I tried to ignore them for a lot of time but nothing worked out and they are the actual reason behind all my miseries.My last hope of escaping them and peace is death now, this curse haunted my whole childhood, and now everybody thinks I talk to some kind of imaginary friends and they make fun of me saying I am crazy so basically it has haunted my existence right from the beginning.

I don't know what have I ever done to deserve this hell of a life. I wasn't able to think about anyone but Aria.. I saw her spirit in the graveyard yesterday.

She was one of them now! Maybe she had something to tell me? Maybe she wanted to talk? Maybe she felt alone just like all those spirits and my eyes were filled with tears. I knew I wouldn't be able to spend anymore time in school now!

How would I?

I called Patrick and in less than fifteen minutes, he was there to pick me up and so, I got inside my car and he drove me to home.

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