School

"Hello Elias," a voice spoke out to me.

"Um, hello?" I responded.

"Congratulations, you have completed the setup process. Until further instructions, you will be by Miss Zoe's side always. You will accompany her by transferring your consciousness into her cell phone or into a human near her. She will be starting high school tomorrow," the voice explained.

"Wait, I have to go to school with her?" I ask.

"Yes. High school is a very important time for a teenager so, please ensure that she makes friends."

"How am I supposed to make her friends?"

"That is your problem to figure out."

"Okay, there no need to be all bitchy jeez."

"Please remember to use the user commands as much as you can, they are essential to be successful. I have stored every user command into your memory. That is all."

The voice vanished and Zoe appeared in front of me. She had a distressed look on her face; her eyes baggy and tired. She turned to shut off the game and went to bed immediately. I used my user command to transfer into her cell phone just in case.

As I was snooping through her phone I noticed that she didn't have many friends in her contacts and most of her texts were from her mother. "A friendless loser huh? Guess she's not so different from me," I knew exactly how lonely she must feel. But I didn't have any clue how I was supposed to make this girl friends when I didn't have a single one. "Whatever, I'll figure something out," my special ability known as procrastination kicked in.

'BEEP BEEP BEEP'

An alarm rang through my head. The time read 6:00 am. I had gone to sleep after Zoe. I didn't need to sleep if I didn't want to since I was no longer a human but I did anyway. One of my favorite parts of being alive was sleeping; escaping from my world into the mystery of dreams and waking up to feel the despair of where and who I was.

Zoe got out of her enormous bed groggily after turning off the annoying ass alarm clock. She spent the next hour in the bathroom and came out in her school uniform. She looked... beautiful. Her light brown hair was in long curls and it looked like she put on makeup as well. I hadn't noticed before since her hair was so messy and she was wearing pajamas but this girl is definitely a solid nine out of ten. Well, maybe eight and a half since she hasn't fully... Matured yet.

I had learned that I was able to see the world through Zoe's eyes as if I was a passenger in her mind. I also learned that I could take over her body for a few minutes like I could with other people which would definitely be useful if I wanted to help her make friends.

I watched through Zoe's eyes as she strolled through her fancy house. The House had large balconies and way too many windows and the kitchen was probably four times the size of the one that was in my house. I expected her to have a butler to make her a huge breakfast, so when I saw her grab a bowl and a box of lucky charms I was extremely surprised. I wouldn't have laughed except out of all the fancy bowls in her house she chose one that had Dora the Explorer on the bottom.

After she was done with her cereal, she gathered her things for school and entered the elev-ELEVATOR!? WHAT KIND OF HOUSE HAS AN ELEVATOR?

Once she stepped out of the building I understood. She lived in a penthouse. Zoe walked to a car parked in front and entered the backseat. The man driving said nothing and drove off. As we drove I saw that we were in a city; I didn't recognize it at all since I lived in a small town and didn't really care about traveling. I did sometimes see cities in pictures but this was completely different. Buildings towered so high that I couldn't see the top as we drove by. Hundreds of people walked the streets. And we sat in traffic for like two f*cking hours.

We pulled into a school on the outskirts of the city, the sign read, 'Edgewater Private Academy'. The school was also gigantic; wayyy bigger than the rundown piece of sh*t school that I went to. But that's to be expected since she's so filthy rich.

"Your mother is expecting you tonight," the driver says just before we stop.

"But I'm busy tonight! I can't!" Zoe exclaims.

"Zoe. Your mother is expecting you tonight," he says sternly.

"...okay," she opened the car door and stepped out.

Zoe walked silently as she tried to find her class. She walked through the giant hallways and up staircases until she reached her classroom. She pulled open the door to a noisy classroom and quietly found her seat.

She sat without saying a word, waiting for class to start. "So she's the gloomy type," I sighed, this was definitely not going to be easy.

I thought that it would be a good time to test out my new amazing ghost abilities of possession. While we were sitting in class I focused on the teacher in the class and said, "user command/ body possession," in an instant I was sitting in a chair in front of a computer in the corner of the class facing the students. I glanced up at the computer screen, "WHAT THE FU-," I shut my mouth before finishing the cursed word. Still, a ton of kids looked up at me in confusion, I cleared my throat, "Oh um sorry, please continue working?" the computer had some R-rated content on the screen. I sat and watched for a second before rewinding and pausing the video. I abruptly stood up and a few students looked up at me and immediately started giggling. More students looked up in confusion and I saw them staring at me. I looked down, following their gaze, and saw what had happened to me. I had accidentally awakened the snake. I guess since it's been so long I couldn't hold back.

I ran out of the classroom covering my pants and heard loud talking and laughing as soon as I closed the door. I headed to the bathroom to put the snake back to sleep. I opened the bathroom door to see a kid with a stunned look on his face.

"s-sor-" he began to say but I grabbed what he held in his hand, put it up to my mouth, and inhaled.

"aww f*ck, is this weed!?" I ask.

"Uhhhh yeah," they responded

"Sh*t, do you have any mints? Or eye drops?"

"y-yeah. Here." he reached into his pockets and handed me a strip of gum and a bottle of eye drops.

"Wow thank you, bro," I shook his hand in gratitude.

He looked at me with a baffled look on his face, "You are like the coolest teacher ever," he said still bewildered.

"Haha thanks, man," I said while leaving.

While on the way back to the classroom I realized that I may have just ruined this guy's life forever. Whatever though, he's still a skeevy little pervert.

I opened the door and every single eyeball turned to look at me.

"haha sorry about that, my wife sent me some pictures on my phone," I explained.

I suddenly noticed a timer counting down In my vision. It was at five seconds, four seconds. I rushed over to the teacher's desk and sat down just before the timer counted down to zero and my consciousness was back within Zoe.