Eerie Jerry

Trusted

After our little bit of class in between lunch time and break time was over, we all went outside to the playground in the back of the school. This is the break time I was eager and scared about at the same time. It was time for me to tell my darling about my secret. What will she think of it? Is the question on my mind right now. I waited until she exited out of the back doors as she was walking and talking with her friends. She was talking to two other girls, one who shared class with us and the other was from another class. The one who did share our class, was Irah Noonan, a girl with a look of a darker skin tone with light brown hair, who wore a light green short-sleeved shirt with dark fractal designs, long blue jeans and her sky blue crocs with decorative girly icons inserted into some of the holes. On her right shoe, Irah had a pink and white umbrella and a colourful beach ball icons inserted in that shoe. On the left shoe, she had a tan coloured cat face, a red paw and and orange lolly. I don't know how anyone can stand wearing bright colours and having those little toys attached to their feet. I just hope Harriet never gets the idea. She would probably brag about them all day and I would never hear the end of it. The other girl, however, was from Mrs. Connelly's class, her name is Sophia McVey. Sophia wore a sleeveless jean top with eight white buttons, jeans ripped on the knees, her light blue jacket tied around her waist and she wore brown boots with two buckled straps around her ankles. She also had a few goofy, colourful bracelets on her right wrist. For a kindergartener, she dresses like she's older. I don't know why some kids would dress in fancy attire when they're going to be dirty when they go outside during break time. I kept hearing and seeing some ghosts, but I didn't let them bother me, I had my own problem to deal with. I ignored their talking and waited for Mary Sue to come to me. She was still talking to her friends. I was just standing like a yard away from the back door from where the rest of the students came out of. Mary Sue stopped talking when she saw me standing there. "Oh, uh, hi, Jeremy..." she said in like a what-are-you-doing-here kind of fashion. "M-M-M-MMM-Mary S-SSue..." I speak to her while I gulp a lump of spit to calm my anxiety. "C-C-C-C-CC-Could I..t-ttalk to you?" I know I stuttered and I was making a definite fool of myself. I see Irah and Sophia giggle at me. Mary Sue doesn't, she is really my angel because she didn't giggle at my stuttering. "Ummm, yeah." Mary Sue says to me and the other girls behind her just look at each other. "Jeremy's got a crush." I hear Sophia whisper to Irah and she snickers as they both look at me. I thought they would be aghast like my class was, but quite the opposite, they were laughing about it. Irah is in our class, but she wasn't shocked, I wondered why she didn't have a different reaction. Sophia, I get it because she's from the neighbouring class. Mary Sue turns to the girls behind her. "Um, hey, girls, I-uh, I'm going to talk with him. I'll be back." She's making time for me! I'm feeling my heart flutter like the wings of a butterfly when she set aside her friends just to talk to me. I love her so much, I want to kiss her now. Mary Sue walks up to me after talking to her friends and I feel my face warm up. I also have a twisting pain in my stomach as I had to come clean about my secret to her. I know she can't see ghosts like the rest of the world, but I really held out hope that a normal kid would still be friends with me. In Mary Sue's case, my future wife. "So," Mary Sue speaks to me in her clear, pristine voice, "what did you want to tell me?" I almost lost my train of words because her face of a goddess was in front of mine. I open my mouth, but nothing comes out. It's like I lost my voice, I better not blow it again. "Ummmm....." I had that come out of my mouth. "The sandpit?" I ask her. I wanted to say a complete sentence, but all I could get out of my mouth were two miserable words. I'm really going to blow it! "Yeah, sure." Mary Sue speaks. "But, it looks like it's full." I turn my head and what I haven't seen in nearly a blue moon ago is here now. The sandpit had three kids in it. Two girls and one boy were packed into the sandpit like bloody sardines in a tin. Dammit! There goes the one place I wanted to go to mind my own business. I groan and I look down, thinking it will be a lot more time before I get to tell my sweetheart about my secret. "I....I...really wanted to talk to you..." I say with despair and I was looking more at the ground than her lovely face that looked at mine. If she was sad, I didn't want to look at her because it would crush me. I feel bad already, but seeing her godly face get sad, would make me feel worse. I care about and love her too much to see her sad. "We can still talk." she says in a kind of uplifting tone. She doesn't fully understand what I wanted to talk with her about. I look at her in a long face and speak softly because it was none of Irah and Sophia's businesses. They were looking right at us and they were both smirking. What is so funny to them? Am I that much of a joke when I'm scared? "M-M-Ma-Marrrry Sue..., uh, I kind of..." I almost lost my voice again, so I had to blurt it out. There was no way I was going to say it in a complete sentence. "Alone." I say to her, hoping she would get the hint. She bats an eye and looks at me all odd. "What do you mean by that?" I had to say another word to have her get the hint and I come up with the right ones. "Talk alone." I say to her in my sheepish voice. "Ohhh, ok, yeah." she speaks, confirming my request. "We can go over here to talk." She leads me to the side of the school. Hm, an excellent suggestion. A nice spot to talk about our secrets. I wondered if I should crawl behind those bushes, so I head toward the bush garden. "Jeremy, no," I hear Mary Sue say, "just follow me. You might get bugs on you." I go towards her direction and she starts running to the side of the building. I got confused and stopped while she ran. "Jeremy! You're supposed to run too! Come on!" I soon realised why she ran, so nobody would see us on the side of the building and berate us for being together. I ran to catch up with her and she lead me to a big shrub that stood in the school garden. There was nothing in the garden because the cold weather killed the plants. The snow and frost were too much for those plants to bare to stay alive. The last time I saw those plants was when I first started school. I did see them, but I didn't have a personal view of it. I remember seeing zucchinis, tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, beans, maize and colourful cayenne peppers. They did look tantalisingly delicious, I will admit. Once I get old enough to cook, I would be happy to cook some for my beautiful sweetheart. I really had my eyes on cooking, it seems kind of fun to do. I wouldn't have to wait on anybody to cook my meals or get told I couldn't have what I wanted. If I made it myself, I would counterattack both disadvantages. Whatever Mary Sue asks for, I would gladly cook it for her no questions asked. Even if it was something gross like calamari, I would still make it for her because she's my daffodil and I'm her hon bun. Ah, I can just picture the two of us living as the happiest couple in the world with no worries and living life as we are. She gives my life a better side to think about than my stupid 'spirit speaker' curse I didn't ask for. Someone to care and love is truly a purpose for my life. I'm lucky to have that beautiful someone that is Mary Sue. "Jeremy?" I hear her ask as her harmonic voice stops the flow of my daydream. "Hm?" I ask as I blink my eyes to transition back to reality. "You...wanted to inform me something?" she asks me. I quickly remember the gut-wrenching secret I had to tell her. It really hurts me because it's so hard for me to tell this and she won't believe me. "Oh,...yeah... Um..." I take a deep breath and try not to let my anxiety get the best of me. Deep down, something was telling me not to tell her, but...I really needed to. I love her and she's the only person that was close enough to a friend I'm ever going to get. I built up more confidence by thinking about our life together. Mary Sue and me living in a palace as the prince and princess of happy village, where there will always be happy, joyous times and no form of trouble whatsoever. No bullies, no ghosts, no homework, no mean family members, no rotten cooking, nothing to tear us apart, just all of the things that make us happy. "Jeremy? Please tell me what's going on." I hear Mary Sue say again. "Oh, right, right." I blurted out, feeling like a fool for keeping her waiting. "I'm, I'm really sorry to keep you waiting, darling..." She turns away and giggles. I get a little curious as to why she would turn away as she giggled. "What?" I ask as she turned back to look at me. "Oh, nothing. Just hiding my giggling." she responded. "You don't have to hide anything from me, sweet pea." I say to her. "Sweet pea?!" she yells after I say that to her and she starts laughing. She may be making fun of my cute pet names to her, but her laughter is beautiful like a song of a bird. I could just listen to it all day. She laughed a little long and hard before finishing up and looking at me. "Oh, I'm, I'm sorry." she apologises as she looks at me. "It's alright, my dearest heartstrings," I tell her, "I want to hear more of your lovely laughter." "Oh, no, I don't want to laugh anymore, it would hurt my stomach." "Oh? I understand." I say with a nod. "Great, now, is there something you want to say to me?" she asks. That question hit me like a smack to the face because the answer to that is hard to say. I take another inhale from the mouth and exhale from the nose and look at her in her pristine, cyan eyes. My secret didn't want to come out like a stubborn, angry child hidden in his room. But, I had to force it out. "I can see ghosts!" I blurted out. I felt my face go flushed from humiliation and wait for the laughter to pour from her mouth and call me the big joke I am. Instead, I hear a "Huh?" "I said,...I can see ghosts." I reiterate myself to her. "You can...see ghosts?" she questioned me. I had to try to prove my point somehow. I look up and I see ghosts hovering and flying all over the gate, the garden, in the air, coming in and out of the brick wall of the school, they are everywhere, but she can't see them. I stand up to a ghost flying and I point at him to Mary Sue. "Look," I say, "here is a ghost." I see another one floating and point to that one. "There, is a ghost." Mary Sue looked at me with those sky blue eyes and blinked with what looked like astoundment. "Really?" she asks with amazement. I nod and say a nervous "Yes." I walk up to her. "They're here, there, everywhere. They're all around us and everywhere we go, Mary Sue. Even in your own house." "In MY house?" she asks with her cyan eyes bulging. "Yes, yes, my darling." I tried to ease her and make her feel less scared. "But, I'll make them stop invading your house." "You can?" "Uh,...yes,...yes, I can." I really can't make them stay away from her house because I'm not sure how. I can talk to them, but some ghosts are too stubborn to listen. I met some ghosts that were mean before. "C-c-can y-you...tell me their names?" Mary Sue asked me. "I can ask one for you, my dear." I walked up to one ghost that was in the brick wall of the school and I go inquire to him. "Excuse me, sir," I get his attention, "what is your name?" The ghost looked at me with his dark grey eyes and just couldn't believe I was talking to him. "You...you can see me!?" the ghost asked out of astoundment. "Yeah, yeah, I can see you. Now, tell me your name." "M-m-m-manfred Kirkpatrick..." he responded back with a jittery tone. "That's all I need to know." I look at Mary Sue and look at her straight in her lovely eyes. I point to Manfred as he was looking at us. "This ghost's name is Manfred Kirkpatrick." I say to Mary Sue. "Oh?" she responds. "How...how did he die?" I turn and I inquire to him. "How did you die, Manfred?" "L-lung c-cancer..." I look at Mary Sue. "He says lung cancer." Mary Sue can clearly see it was the air I was talking to, but from my eyes, it's not just the air. "Now do you believe me, Mary Sue?" I ask her. "I...I just hope you don't think of me as a freak..." Mary Sue smiled instead of get freaked out by me lecturing my talent to her. "Freak? You? Jeremy,...you're no freak..." she replies followed by a small giggle. I couldn't believe what I just heard, I'm not a freak to her? "I'm...I'm not a freak to you?" I ask again for confirmation that this is not a joke. She shakes her head while flashing a big, toothy smile. "No, Jeremy, I think you're a really cute, punctual and...talented kid you are." Those were words I never heard from the mouth of a fellow peer and from someone so beautiful as her voice. It made my heart sing by thump, thump, thump! "Y-y-y-yyyyy-yy-you r-r-rrrr-rrreally d-d-d-doooo!?" I ask with high levels of shock and joy rising in my small body. I just had to know, this is like a dream come true if this is real! She really is an angel from Heaven who came to save me. "Yes, Jeremy, of course I do." she speaks to me with her beautiful, almighty voice, I want to hear over and over again. I sit next to her and my arms just cover her little body and so much joy was dancing in my body, I could not contain it! I'm in love! I have somebody who understood my secret! This went better than I thought! Dreams really do come true and this dream has a name, Mary Sue. "I...I love you, Mary Sue!" I shouted with excitement as I give her the biggest embrace she could ever imagine. She giggles and speaks with a sheepish reply. "I...I like you too, Jeremy..." Like? She said I like you, but I said I love you. "Why did you say that?" I ask her with bewilderment. "Oh, sorry, I...I love you too." Well, at least she corrected it, but that sounded kind of laboured. Maybe I was going at this too fast. I was going to apologise about it, but she cut me off. "Give me another hug!" she proclaimed to me with her arms wide open. I couldn't turn that offer down, so I happily hug and cuddle into her arms. I gave my princess my warm arms and our heads touched each other's side by side. My right cheek touched her left cheek and I felt like the king with his queen. Just a little more steps to reaching spending the rest of our happy lives together. Words can't express how happy I finally am to have a normal companion by my side and treat me much differently than the rest of my ignorant class or my cold-hearted family. None of that mattered anymore, I have Mary Sue Redman and only her. My world revolved around her just like her's should revolve around mine and maybe her girl friends, but mostly about me. She is my lifeline, my best friend, my heroine, my angel, my everything. I love her so much and I don't want this moment to end. My heart sang with more happy thumps.