Dancing With Your Ghost

Ch.1

Lisa didn't believe in ghosts.
Growing up, kids around school liked to try and tell ghost stories to scare the younger children. After hearing a particularly gruesome story about the one-armed teacher who supposedly stole the souls of children who misbehaved in class, Lisa had just laughed, and told them to grow up and stop being so silly. This had resulted in the older kids getting all grumpy, but Lisa really didn't care about that.

When her friends had tried to convince her to go into an abandoned house as a dare, because there were supposedly ghosts inside, Lisa had declined. Not because she was scared of ghosts, but because she knew the house was so structurally unstable that going inside would be a terrible idea.

Lisa didn't specifically know what she believed happened after death, as her parents' view of heaven and hell seemed, well, she just wasn't sure about it. Growing up in a strict Catholic household had been difficult, especially when it had forced her to repress so much of herself. She still had faith in a higher power, and she still held to most of the beliefs offered in the Bible, but apart from that, she was yet to completely decide.

So, no, Lisa didn't have any solid idea about what happened after you died, but she was certain that ghosts were not real. There was absolutely no scientific explanation behind it, and Christianity definitely didn't believe in ghosts, so Lisa felt extremely confident in saying that ghosts were not real.

Which meant that when a house, possibly haunted, went on the market, and Lisa's best friend Jisoo wanted her to move in, along with their other friend Rosé, Lisa accepted.
She'd been looking for an escape from her parents for a while, and as she was getting closer to being finished with university, this seemed like the perfect time. With Jisoo's sizable inheritance, and Lisa's as well, they both could have probably bought their own houses, but they both agreed that living together would be preferable. Rosé had come along because if they were going to be living in a house with four bedrooms, they figured having another friend with them might be nice.

For some reason, no one else wanted the house, so the three girls were able to move in almost immediately. It took about a week to get all the furniture inside, and there were still plenty of boxes left scattered around, but it was starting to feel real, and for that Lisa was glad.
They were moving the last lot of boxes inside from the moving trailer when their friend Selugi, who was helping them move in out of 'the kindness of her heart', mentioned the ghost.
"So, you know that like everyone in the world thinks this place is haunted, right?"

Jisoo scoffed and placed her box onto the kitchen counter.
"Don't tell me you believe that ridiculous story?"
Selugi rose an eyebrow as she placed her own box onto the floor.
"If you're talking about the story of what happened here, it's not ridiculous, you can look it up."

Jisoo rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Ghosts don't exist." She scanned the kitchen, which was currently overflowing with boxes. "Where did you put the kettle; we deserve some tea after all this?"

Selugi waved an arm at the wall. "It's in one of those. I don't get your need for tea, honestly."
"Tea's quite nice Selugi, they've really converted me," Rose said as she entered the room.
Selugi sighed. "Fine, I'll have some. But after, we're breaking out the case of beer that I brought." She watched as Rose picked up her phone and asked, "What do you think about the ghost story Rose?"

Rose shuddered. "It's horrible, what happened. My brother told me about it, I think he was trying to scare me, but it's really just so awful. You know most of the nuns were arrested for abuse afterwards?"

Selugi made a noise of surprise. "Seriously? Do they think they killed the girl; I thought it was a suicide?"

Rose shook her head. "They think it was a suicide because the nuns were abusive, apparently there were other deaths that were covered up and they think that they could have been killed."