Lockwood and Co. The see-through girl.

Chapter 7

I clambered onto the train with Lockwood piling after me. He didn't look at me and I didn't look at him either. We sat next to each other only to avoid each other's gaze. As the door was closing, a girl around my age slipped through, breathing heavily. The ticket man glared at her and she waved her hand in apology. She was facing away from me so I didn't see her face.

Soon the city buildings of London gave way to the pretty countryside as we headed north. The train stopped for the fifth time that day and everyone got off apart from a young couple, an old man with his dog and the girl who had slipped on the train at London. She got up and walked past our seat. She tried to hide her face but I recognised the eyes. It was the mysterious girl who had saved me from the poltergeist. I nudged Lockwood who woke up with a start and began to moan at me. I pointed at the girl who looked round her before heading into the women's.
"Great!" Lockwood said. "We can't go in there!"
I glared at him as hard as I could as I punched his arm. I wouldn't say I did it lightly but there was no reason why Lockwood had to react in that way. I shushed his yelps of pain and tried to stand up. He pulled me back down.
"Luce, she could be dangerous!" He warned. I laughed quietly.
"Why did she save me then?" That shut him up.
I smiled at Lockwood, apologising for the punch and I set off to the toilets.

Yep, train toilets are usually small but this one wasn't. It had three cubicles and three sinks. Three mirrors, you get the idea. Three of everything. Stood in front of one mirror was the girl. She looked intently at the mirror, searching for something out of place. It took a while before she realised I was there and when she did, she didn't look at me. She just smiled.
"You made it out then." She said. I sniffed.
"Thanks to you." I cleared my throat to try and get her attention but she didn't turn to face me. All her attention was on the mirror. "How did you do what you did. I know as a fact that if you run through a ghost, you die. But you didn't." I laughed outright. "How can you do that!" It wasn't a question and she knew it. I meant it as a threat. She turned her body towards me and I noticed a small change in the atmosphere. My limbs went numb. A small nagging noise played on the edge of my hearing. I opened my mouth in shock as the girls body changed from solid, to translucent.
"Because I am one of them!"
She was a ghost. And no ghost I had ever seen before. Her eyes flashed green and her hair whipped around her face. The train groaned and the noise blew out into a full out scream. Screaming myself, I latched my hands across my ears. The girl cocked her head at me and, at once, everything stopped. The girl was solid again, the screaming had stopped. I shook the pins and needles out of my hands. The girl looked down.
"Because I'm dead." Her hand reached out and grabbed hold of my wrist. I gasped in shock and pulled away but I couldn't shake her loose. "I am a ghost," she said. "But I'm not dangerous. Only when I want to be." She let me go and I looked at my wrist. It wasn't even blue.
"I'm sorry for hitting you back at the Rease's place." She said. "I was aiming for Anthony."
"It was you!" I exclaimed but stopped quickly. "Wait- Anthony?"
Her face grew desperate. She stepped towards me in a pleading manner.
"Please don't tell him. Please."
And then I saw it. All in front of me as if it were obvious. The skulls taunts. Lockwood's secrecy. The girls pleading. I knew who she was. I had to be sure though.
"What's your name?" I croaked.
"My name's Emmiline. Emmiline Lockwood."

Authors note~
Exciting huh? Just to say I have read the whispering skull but I'm going to change the ending a bit in my story so I'm sorry 👻