Jeff The Ghost

Chapter VII

I woke up hearing footsteps around me, I sat up really fast looking around in the dark trying to figure out where the footsteps were coming from. Moments later I saw Kyle standing over the garbage looking at me with dried blood on the side of his head. I got up really fast and tried to back away. "Wait, I'm not here to kill you" he said

"How are you alive?" I asked

"I don't know honestly, I just am" he responded

"Why did you come look for me?"

"Because I want to help you escape the king"

"Why?"

"Because I shouldn't have betrayed you like that, even though he does have my little sister, I feel like you can help me get her back, if you would like to join me."

"You'll have to earn my trust back"

"I know, but will you help me, I really want to see my sister again" he said desperately. I know I still can't trust him even though he kind of got "killed" by the king but he really wants his sister back, so I'll help him.

"Ok, I'll help you"

"Thank you so much, I owe you for this"

"Alright, lead the way" we left the area and went on our way back to the palace. We ran into the king on the way back, and we thought we lost him when we escaped him again.

" Did we lose him?" Kyle asked

"I think so," I responded "Look we're almost there" But in that moment I heard footsteps again.

"Well damn I thought that bullet would've killed you, I was proved wrong," he said. "I guess a second try wouldn't hurt" as he said that, he lifted his gun and pulled the trigger, but I couldnt let him die, not when he had his sister to get to, I jumped in front of Kyle and took the bullet for him, then fell to the ground, my breathing stopped and my vision went blurry, then I saw darkness.

~Flashback~

Me and my dad were going to go see my mom in the hospital, she got cancer a month ago, shes been trying to fight it, for us. "We are here to see Macey Eladrin" my dad said to the nurse and the front desk.

"Ok, names?" The nurse asked

"Michael and Jeff Eladrin" My dad said

"Ok, shes in room 204 on the second floor"

"Thank you ma'am"

"Your very welcome"

We walked towards the elevator to get to the second floor. We made it to the elevator and pressed the button for the second floor. "Do you think she can fight it dad?" I asked.

He looked at me and said, "I believe in her, shes a fighter she'll make it." I smiled at him and said "ok." We got to the second floor, walked out of the elevator, and walked towards the room she was in. We went into the room and she was laying there looking at us.

"Hi mom" I said super happy

"Hi baby," she said back to me."How have u been doing?"

"Good, are you doing well?" She hesitated

"Yeah baby I'm doing just fine" We stayed there for a bit talking to her, laughing with her, then all the sudden she just started coughing really badly, and was coughing up blood then she just stopped breathing. My dad yelled and yelled for the nurses and doctors. They came in there and shoved us out of the room.

We sat outside the room for and hour, they came out there with sad looks on their faces and the doctor shook his head. I broke down, I loved my mom so much, this isn't fair, I'm only a kid, why..why did she have to die. I looked at my dad with tears in my eyes, he had tears running down his face, he was just sitting there, frozen. After my moms death he was never the same. The love of his life had died, he broke. One of the nurses walked over to me and gave me a paper crown with a J on it. "Your mom wanted me to give this to you" I took it and put it on my head and started crying more, the nurse just hugged me as I cried into her shoulder.

~End of Flashback~

Kyle's P.O.V

"Did we lose him?" I asked Jeff

"I think so" he responded, then I heard footsteps behind us and I turned around and saw the king, "Well damn I thought that bullet would've killed you, I was proved wrong," He said. "I guess a second try wouldn't hurt." As he said that he pulled the trigger, I waited for the impact but it never came, I opened my eyes to see Jeff in front of me, frozen, he fell to the ground. I stared at his body on the ground, lifeless.

"You know what I think I'll leave you alive, lets go, leave him to mourn" the king said, then he left.

Jeff's P.O.V.

I woke up, to no pain anymore, I saw Kyle staring down at me, no other facial expression except sadness. "...Why are you looking at me like that?" He just kept looking down at me, no response, I stood up, but he still kept looking at the ground, I looked down to see my own body, laying there lifeless. I gasped, and tears welled up in my eyes, I was actually dead, I wasn't alive, I was a ghost.