Blame

"Why did you give me the fish and chips? They're not in the menu" I ask curiously, if I'm going through all this trouble for a ghost, I at least want to satisfy my curiosity.

"M-my sister used to order that, we don't have that in the menu but… since it's our dad's restaurant and we help out we could order whatever we wanted… that's what she always asked for when I was working here…"

"What happened to her?" I ask, I know I'm asking as if she was no longer alive, but I know she's not and I'm not about to beat around the bush.

"W-what do you mean?" he says in a low voice, I only raise my brows and cross my arm waiting for his answer.

"S-she… she killed herself…" He said while sobbing.

It finally clicked, what she said resonated in my head 'how could you know our uncle was going to do that?'… I just placed the pieces together, her uncle raped her, and she killed herself. She couldn't pass because she wanted to tell them her last message.

"It was not your fault Jeremy" he flinches the moment I say his name.

It was to be expected, since he never told me his name "She never blamed you and she says she loves you all" I keep my monotonic voice.

"H-how can you know that!?" he shouts and the whole restaurant looks at us "I should've protected her! What can you know!? You know shit!".

Well, my idea of dealing with this quietly just went down the drain. He keeps on shouting until he's father shows up.

'All hail my savior! He will shut his son and I will just quietly tell him what I need' I cheer inside my head.

"Jeremy, what is wrong with you!?"

Alright, scratch my last thought, he's just as loud as his son, this might take a while but I don't have the time for that.

"But! She! She!!" he says pointing at me and his dad smacks his head.

"Apologize and keep on working" His dad says angrily.

He bites his lip and apologizes; his dad goes away while stomping the floor.

"What are you still here for? Do you want to keep on messing with me!?" he complains.

"No, I don't. You have no idea of how much I want to leave but I need to tell you something first".

"What is it? Just get it over with!".

"The time capsule is hidden in the 'cave' where you two used to play when you were kids" I say calmly and sigh.

He opens his eyes wide, his mouth agape.

"That was all, bye" I turn and start fast walking out of there, I don't want any more surprises.

Once out of the diner I sprint towards the car and I smile when I noticed my dad is ready to drive off.

I open the door as fast as possible and my dad laughs "did you steal what you wanted?"

"Yes, I did" I say casually.

My dad starts to drive and I fall sleep, I'm too full to stay awake. After God knows how long my dad wakes me up.

I open my eyes and notice it's already morning "Did you drive all night? That's not healthy".

"Sometimes I man needs to take risks" he says cockily.

I scoff and open the passenger's door, my legs and back are sore but that's because I slept in the car. I stretch and I feel the satisfying cracks in my back.

Now that I'm done with my stretching I can finally pay attention to the house, it's an old house but sturdy and big.

"Nice house, I like it" I say casually.

"Righ!? When I saw it was on sale and at such a cheap price, I just had to get it!" He says excited.

…Wait… big old house? Cheap price? Please tell me this is not a haunted house. I don't want to deal with any ghosts in my own house.

"It was cheap because is a little far from the center of the town Allie, it's not haunted!" He says.

"How did you know I was thinking about that?"

"I'm your dad! I'm supposed to know what you're afraid of!" he laughs.

I want to tell him it's not because I'm afraid but it's better if I don't. After all, it's better if he thinks that, it's not like I can say 'hey! Guess what dad? I can see ghosts all the time! :D'.

The less people that think I'm insane the better.

We are supposed to take the boxes out of the car and unpack everything, but we didn't have any strength left. Maybe it was because I slept on the car seat but I was really tired.

The house was already furnished, so we didn't have to hurry up and unpacked the things on the car.

"I don't know about you, Allie, but I'm going to sleep, don't wake me up unless there's a fire!" my dad runs towards his room, opens the door and doesn't even care about closing it, I just see him run and jump towards the bed, he starts snoring and I chuckle.

I walked towards the room my dad told me was going to be mine from now on. The room already has my bed, closet, side table, desk and a bunch of close boxes.

I drag my feet across the room until I reach my bed and fall with a flop sound. I close my eyes and immediately fall asleep. Let's hope the new school is kind to the weird me.