Ghost Train

The First Attempt

"You look like you were hit by a wagon." Cassandra looked over at Evander walking out of the station.

"Yeah well, it's been a tough day. Zephyr got bullied by a bunch of kids."

"Because of his name?" Evander wandered towards Cassandra, taking in the weather. It smelt as if it was going to rain, and dark clouds were coming closer to the small house on the hill.

"Yeah." She sighed, "They were picking on him so he got angry hit a kid and they began beating him up. I beat up their older siblings today." Evander's head snapped over to look at Cassandra suddenly, a look of surprise on his face.

"You?"

"Yeah. why is that so unbelievable?" Cassandra frowned.

"Well because you're a girl." Evander shrugged.

"Excuse me?" Cassandra stood up and folded her arms, "because I'm a woman I can't fight?"

"Well to me it's not normal. That's all I'm saying." Evander folded his arms standing in front of Cassandra. The ghost fact popped into Cassandra's mind. Now, she wasn't saying he was a ghost, but if he was then whatever year he died in, back then women wouldn't have fought some guys.

"Fine, whatever," Cassandra muttered grabbing her bag and headed into the station.

"Where are you going? We have to stop the train." Evander followed after her. Cassandra stopped momentarily at the white rose bushes before going around them.

"The train doesn't come till midnight, I'll be back around 11 pm," Cassandra turned to face Evander who nearly walked right into her at the sudden stop, "for now just look for something we could use to stop it, anything that is big enough to stop a train." Cassandra took a step back from Evander, "got it?" Evander nodded quickly and turned back to look around the station. Cassandra headed back to the house, thoughts now about ways to stop the train. She opened the back door to the kitchen and heard her mother giving Zephyr a speech about being friendly and not punching kids in the face. Peeking into the dining room Cassandra saw her father sitting at the table as well, but when he made eye contact with her he stood up and headed out onto the porch. Cassandra sighed and followed him, knowing it was her turn for a lecture about beating kids up. She found him leaning on the porch fence overlooking the barn he was having built in the valley of the hill.

"Did you get your hands fixed up?" He glanced back at Cassandra as she walked up beside him.

"No, not yet." She mumbled leaning backwards looking at the house instead of the view.

"Should we be expecting an email from the school office?"

"Probably. But before you start, those kids deserved it alright? To make fun of someone just cause of their name? Its stupid."

"Cassandra, you could be suspended for this." Her father frowned. And indeed she was. A few hours after dinner her father received an email regarding the incident. Zephyr wasn't suspended since he was the one being bullied, and it was a difficult situation, but Cassandra had gotten a four-day suspension. Her mother was displeased with her and refused to talk to her, but her father got over it and asked her to help out with the barn during the day, which she was more than happy to do. Cassandra laid in bed looking at the ceiling. She didn't know what time it was and was simply waiting for her alarm to go off at 11 pm. A few minutes passed and it did. She silently got up and instead of going out the back door like before she slid out her window and climbed down the ladder she had set up on the side of the house. When she got to the station Evander waited at the platform.

"Did you find anything?" Cassandra walked up behind him, making him jump slightly in surprise.

"Yeah, a giant rod of steel." He motioned to below the platform where the steel beam was sitting.