If You Need Me... I Talk to the Dead

Chapter 7: Didn't Know Ghosts Could Be Deep

Elliot had been acting really weird since I dropped the "let's be friends" bomb on him. I mean I couldn't really blame him. I was kind of surprised when the words left my mouth. I have been sitting in my room for the past three hours now, Elliot has been just sitting in the corner, staring at nothing for a while.

"Hey, are you ok?" I asked and apparently he was in a deep enough trance when I said it because he seemed to jump out of his skin. I quickly felt bad. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. You just looked so out of it, and it was kind of freaking me out.

Finally he seem to come to and replied, "I was just thinking. In all the time I've been... well dead, I've never had someone want to be friends with me, so I'm just really caught off guard." He looked nervous now like I was going to take it back.

I walked over to him and sat parallel to him. "Listen this is new for both of us then. I've never been friends with a ghost before, and you have never been friends with a human before. Well not while dead. Maybe we both just need time to get used to this new situation." Elliot, who had been avoiding my gaze, finally looked up and just stared at me. It took him a second to form words, but when he finally did he surprised me. "Yeah I guess I'm just not used to this. Truthfully, it has been a very lonely life. I wait to move on or whatever is supposed to happen when someone dies but nothing happens."

Elliot gets up from where he was sitting in front of me. I have to turn my head to see where he's walking to. He walked to the window, and now like a dramatic movie is staring out it. I thought he would continue with what he was saying about what happens to people after they die, but I got the feeling he was done talking.

I didn't push him any further, but now I sat curious. What did happen after we die? There's no way of knowing unless you die yourself, and here in my room standing five feet away from me was a dead person's ghost. It seemed that, sadly, he didn't have a clue either. I found that I was sad for him.

Now I felt like I was going crazy. Here I was just hours ago arguing with this ghost which is impossible, and now I feel bad for this ghost and told him we could be friends. When did my life turn upside down?

I wish everything could go back to normal, and I could be the old Gemma who wasn't questioning her sanity. I wish my parents weren't dead and I could see them again in my old home.

I was getting myself far to upset with "what ifs." I needed to give my mind, crazy or not, a rest. I had homework to finish and school in the morning. I got up and passed Elliot, who was still by the window, to get to my bed.

After another hour of homework, Elliot was nowhere to be seen, and it was way past my bed time.