The Ghost Story

Chapter I

It was a Friday afternoon and Victoria was with her friends Gwen and Jade on their way to an abandoned theatre in the woods.

Gwen said "C'mon Victoria, there are some good spots to skate around there, if you go to the building then go around to the back, there are a bunch of benches and concrete where we can skate!"

"I bet I can work on my ollies with the benches!" Jade cut in.

All I did was nod my head. I met them at school a while back and they insisted on taking me skateboarding, because I knew how to. In my defense I can barely do a simple ollie, but I thought it would be a good way to make friends.

We finally reached the theatre and it looked like something out of a painting. Vines wrapped around large marble pillars and up the sides of the walls, some wildflowers grew off to the side, the building was massive and beautiful. There were cracks on the marble in some places, but the place looked heavenly. I would have to come back and paint this picture, as an artist you always see the beauty in everything, even the broken.

"It's a dump, and overgrown but no one is ever here to skate, so we always have the place to ourselves." Gwen interrupted my thoughts.

Jade added, "I hear this place is haunted."

"I bet. That's why no one ever comes here at night or sundown. That's when they say the ghosts wake up."

I was never one to believe in ghosts so I added, "Aren't ghosts fake? Like the stories you tell during bonfires?"

"Girl, ghosts are real, just wait until you find out. You will be haunted by them forever if you make them mad." Jade added and rolled her eyes.

I countered, "They can't be that bad. I've read stories where they are just people that got stuck between life and death. After they died, they didn't finish their purpose, so their punishment is immortality."

"Immortality would be amazing, not a punishment! I could haunt everyone who ever hurt me!" Gwen added enthusiastically, And we all laughed.

We found where the benches were, but the area wasn't concrete, it was marble. Just like the rest of the building.

We skated for about an hour until one of the corners of the benches crumbled off from Jade skating on it

We all stopped in our tracks. We just broke something. But no one owns this place right? Would we get in trouble? Would the ghosts haunt us because we broke something? So many thoughts ran through our heads.

"I'm out. I don't need any ghosts haunting me. I'm leaving." Gwen held up her hands in surrender and started walking backwards.

"Sorry for breaking your bench, ghosts! I'm gonna leave so you don't kill me!" Jade said on the verge of laughter.

They both looked at me. I was distracted by looking at the doorway inside. There were no doors, but it was a big archway with vines wrapped around it.

"Are you seriously going to stay?" Gwen asked.

I blinked at her " I did nothing to upset these said 'ghosts' so I don't see why not."

Jade shoved me forward, "You thinking about going inside? You must be crazy." She smirked

I didn't say anything, but just stood there admiring the architecture.

"Well, we are leaving. I don't want any ghosts to come curse my family." Jade said sarcastically.

I didn't move.

"Fine. Stay if you want. But We're not coming back and looking for you." Gwen said.

And they walked off into the woods to go home...