The Ghost Within

Chapter 1

The Schools Famous Ruler and Punishment

The world is filled with people that will love you and hate you. There is normal people and there is people that you didn't even know existed. Those people hide from us. As far as I know I am the most normal person alive. My parents are dead and basically at school I am a anti social loser. The most normal life. Right? What can I say. But this summer something would change my life forever.

"Dude last day of school!", says my best friend as he reaches over for my lunch pail and grabs something to eat. "You can't eat in class losers", whispers Mckayla. Preps. I won't have to deal with anymore of them for 3 glorious months! Mckayla reaches her hand up. "Mrs. Patricia, Skipper and Cassandra are eating in class again."

"No we are not!", he says with crumbs falling out of his mouth. Mrs. Patricia has the most biggest nose I have ever seen on a women! Her beady eyes you could say give you the creeps. When she opens her mouth, I swear you could see bugs crawling around in there. Goodness, when was the last time she brushed her teeth?! She looks more like a walking corpse to me then a human. "Cassandra are you listening!", she yells. Wow was I just looking at Mrs. Patricia for more than a minute! That's a new record I say! "Stand up!", she screams. She is coming. You know how you know? She has these cheap 2 inch heels that she wears everyday. If she wore them anymore I would be surprised they weren't part of her feet. Looking down at my sneakers they looked just as bad as her two inch heels. Maybe even worst considering the fact I wore these since 8th grade and currently I am in 10th. Ew. I can feel her breathing down on me. I hope her breath isn't poisonous. But she could definitely use a breath mint. The ruler hit the table with such force that some wood pieces went flying in different directions. Great! Mrs. Patricia any harder and you could of broke your ruler in half. Which was in fact famous for hitting children. I wouldn't be one bit surprised if there was some blood on it. Rumor does say every time she does go around slapping children with her ruler. She takes her sharp like tongue and licks the blood off with satisfaction. She slams the ruler on my desk again. I look down. Below the ruler was my hand as she was about to slam it down again. I smirked. Just as fast as her ruler went down, was just as fast my hands were now by my side. Half of her ruler flew up into the air and landed calmly with a little sound. I could hear snickering around the room. Did I just break the famous ruler of all time?

"Crap! You made Mrs. Patricia mad", said Skipper happily. If your wondering what's happening right now Skipper and I are taking the walk of shame. I'm thinking we are probably just going to get more than a after school detention. We are probably going to end up going to summer school for a week or two! Why do I think this? Haha. Well Skipper and me end up in the office more than twice a week.

Dammit! Just what I needed! I wanted to explore the new house we just moved into. We only moved a couple minutes away from our old house. It has a huge property of forest that spreads 20 acres. I love to explore! I don't want to spend my days at school. We are still sitting on the hard wooden chairs anxiously waiting for the principal to call us in. I just noticed how long we have been sitting on these chairs. I just want to get it over with already. Skipper whispers, "What do you think she's doing?" Ever since I've been friends with Skipper I've gotten more detentions than I have ever had in my life. Usually I was the best student in the school for not getting detentions, but that comes along with not being noticed. I guess now I am noticed but in a bad way. He gets up off of his chair and walks to the window. "What are you doing!?", I whisper harshly. He ran back to his chair and put his finger up to his mouth giving me the be quiet sign.

She walks out of her office which I swear she could be a hermit because she spends most of her time in there. Doing what? I really don't know. She's tall and skinny. Must be her diet of salads everyday for every meal of the week. She looks like she could be a model. How her hair falls on her shoulder and the clothes she wears complements her shape. She motioned us into the office. "Sit", she says. We both do what she says. At least these chairs are more comfortable then the ones outside. Out of the corner of my eye I can see Skipper is relaxed in his chair, with his hands on the arm rests. Acting as if nothing in the world can bother him. I am sitting so stiff, I don't know why. "Looks like you guys could be constant visitors", she says.

"Mrs. Smith, I think Mrs. Patricia overreacts all the time, she hates us", says Skipper smoothly. He grabs a bobble head on her desk and starts playing with it. Mrs. Smith puts her hand on the head stopping it immediately, almost like she would do to our hearts! Skipper backs up and sits in his chair again. "Nice try Skipper, but I've already made up my mind. You guys will stay during the summer and clean out the very bottom of the school. Someone has to do it and why not the two people who get in trouble the most," says Mrs. Smith. "Do you know the rumors about this school! What's under it! Your gonna get us killed," I said speaking loudly. She shrugged. "It's just a rumor", Mrs. Smith says. She leads us out of her office. "You start today after school. Check in with the janitor," she says.