The Victim of the Ghost Girl

Chapter V - The book..

"What do you mean you didn't give me the book?" Janette asks, confused.

"I really don't know what you are talking about!" Lisa says, defensively.

'What is she talking about? I've never given any books to anybody because I'm not good at picking them according to their interests!' Lisa thought.

"Lisa, it's no time to joke!" Janette yells.

"Sorry Jan, but I don't know what you are talking about," Lisa replies, coldly.

Janette rushes upstairs to bring the book and show it to Lisa, but to her surprise, the book wasn't there!

"What the?!" Janette mutters, searching for it all around the room. But, the book wasn't there, so she went downstairs, not knowing what to do, and she sits next to Lisa.

"That, that book has a greyish background with a girl who looks like a ghost-" She says, trying to describe the book, but stops when something caught her eye.

It was THE BOOK! The book, "The Ghost Girl". It was next to Lisa's suitcase!

"That, that book.." Janette says, pointing towards the book.

"This one? You know, I am really curious. The previous owner of this book died, and apparently he thought that the book was cursed. I just wanted to rent this book to know what happens," Lisa said, grinning.

"Do you know the name of the previous owner of the book?" Janette asks coldly, raising her brow.

"It's J... Ja... I really don't remember,"

That turned Janette's life upside down. 'What if it's Jannete who died? That would be... ME...' Janette thought, so she told Lisa everything.

"Hmm... Weird. But, now fresh up. You might have gotten nightmares from lack of rest or something. We'll think about it later. Okay?" Lisa says, rubbing Janette's head.

"Kay," Janette mumbled and went upstairs to get freshed up.

~

It was a very busy day, for a Sunday. Rosé placed another cardboard carton down, in her house. 'What's the time?' She wondered, as she took out her phone out of her mesenger bag to check the time.

3:27.

'3:27?! I promised I would study with Jannete! I thought of being there by 3:30, so I could spend a good amount of time!' Rosé thought. Rosé grabbed her messenger bag and rushed to Janette's house.

Knock! Knock!

Rosé knocked on Janette's door but no one answered.

Knock! Knock!

No answer. 'What is Jannete doing?' Rosé wondered. She leaned on the door, only to discover it was opened. The door opened and she fell inside the house.

Thud!

Ouch!

Rosé got up and rubbed the dust off her yellow knee-length summer skirt. She decided to go upstairs to meet Jannete.

But, suddenly...

(10 minutes earlier)

Janette looked at the time. 3:25. Generally, Rosé was always 10 minutes before any event starts, but she was not at Janette's home yet.

Janette recalled leaving her classwork at her classmate's house, Christina's house. She decided to go get it. She walked out of the house and wondered if she should lock the door. She decided not to, because it wasn't required as Jisoo and Lisa would be there. She walked to Christina's house which happened to be not very far away from Janette's. She knocked on the door and Christina opened the door before Janette entered the house.