The Yacht

It was the middle of June, just had for out of school, went to the subway, fell in the tracks and got crushed by the train. I was dead.

__Me__

I was hit by a train, I know you may think I was stupid but it wasn't my fault. It has been a year since I died and if you're not sure how I'm writing this, I came back as a ghost... I've been a ghost for a year.

I attended my own funeral, slept in my bed at my house, and followed my family around like I was one of them. But the truth is, it's hard to be a ghost.

You can go to school and learn things or sit next to the really cute guy you've liked since second grade and just watch his every move without him knowing, or you can just "float" around and do nothing.

But some positives about being a ghost are that you can sleep in everyday and don't have to worry about being seen if somebody busted into the bathroom. That's happened to me a lot with my brother Mykey. I almost said "get out" but then I realized that nobody could see me...

__My family___

Well I have one sister names Alicia, and two twin brother Mykey and Kenneth. My parents have a huge painting in our living room of me smiling and looking extremely happy. I find myself staring at that picture and wondering "Will I ever be here again".

My family members tear up when they see the picture, I do too. I sit next to my family when it's family game night, when we play monopoly or scrabble, when they yawn I shed to be there to yawn along with them.

It's been different these days, secretly even though if doesn't show; I can tell that everyone misses me. My moms pregnant now so there's going to be four kids again. I don't think anyone's going to tell him/her that I died until they've grown up to understand it well. I hope that this fourth child is going to live a great and long life, I hope.

___All you need to know___

My names Lesley, I'm twelve years

Old. I died when I was eleven years old. I live in Denver, Colorado. My school is called Mayflower Harrison School, and my teachers name is Mrs. Jocelyn.

I know most people say "I don't believe in ghosts", well don't think of me as a ghost, think of me as...hmm... And invisible person.

When I was alive I said I didn't believe in ghosts and you know I was wrong. I'm just like an ordinary person pretty much; I eat food, go to the bathroom, and do anything everyone does.

We have these really great friends named The Opals. We go on a vacation every year on a cruise. The mother (Susan) came over today and I made a shocking discovery.

__Quinn___

It turned out that a long time ago her son Quinn had died too. They miss him dearly just like my family misses me and all of them wish that the tragedy had never happened.

He was hit by a drunk driver when he was out late one night, the drunk driver was found eventually but of course he couldn't rewind the things that he had hoped wouldn't have happens.

Lots of kids these days are always saying "I don't want to die" and yes I did say that multiple times too.

The reasons I might have came back to life a second time as a "ghost" was because I was a frequent church visitor. I went to church every Sunday and would pray for my family and everyone to be well and healthy. I got baptized when I was three months old at our church.

Quinn and I were actually the same age but he was just a couple months older than me.

When my mom was sitting down listening to Mrs. Opal tell the story, I started crying, it's devastating to see so many innocent kids die these days, they have a whole life ahead of them and they just lose it to the worst things.

My life went by quick when the train hit me. All I heard was screaming for less than a second and then I was out. But the next morning I woke up in my bed at home.

I walked downstairs and saw my parents and family calls relatives telling them what happened. I was confused because I kept saying "Mom I'm right here!" But she never noticed me. Then I realized when I went into the bathroom to look I'm the mirror that I was invisible and pretty much dead. The words that accompanied my reaction were "Are you kidding me?!"

__Our annual cruise ship___

A week later on July 1st we went for our two week cruise to the Bahamas. Every year we always go on that same cruise but sometimes it changed to different locations.

I packed all the stuff and added my favorite teddy bear I named Fluffy when I was six years old.

We all got in the car and drove to the shore where the cruise ship was. We unloaded the car and met the Opals at the hot dog cart.

Yes I said hot dog cart

__Our rooms___

We got two rooms. 134B and 133A so we were right next door to each other and the Opals were right across the hall so we were all very close to each other.

We put all of our stuff down and went to the upper deck to swim in the pool and hot tubs and basically just relax. I put on my swimsuit and followed my family upstairs.

I was just relaxing on one of the chairs and I see this guy come over with the Opal family. The didnt seem to notice him at all and he was literally standing right next to Mrs. Opal.

He veered away from them and came over and started talking to me. I was shocked; I didn't know anybody could see me. I said "You can see me?" And he said "Yes, my name is Quinn"

__A friend__

Quinn and I hung out ever since the day we met because both of us went through technically the same thing. He turned out to be extremely funny and energetic. His first impression to me was he is shy and calm, we'll I was definitely wrong.

__The big storm__

We were headed towards the Bahamas when we hit a big storm. Our boat started rocking and huge waves crashed up into the deck. The bottom floor of the cruise ship was starting to flood and my family and the Opals started frantically packing their has and everyone ran upstairs.

I caught up with Quinn and we stayed together. All the life boats were being filled with people and both of our families managed to fit into one raft.

Unfortunately we saw our families go right before our eyes. Quinn and I were left behind and jumped into a random life boat. It started to be a trip of survival.

__On the lifeboat__

I can't sleep, we have no food or anything to help us. The waves are always shaking our raft and occasionally it leaks.

Quinn went on a trip before he died where he had to learn how to fish and learn how to survive alone. I am very worried about both of our families. How will they survive? Will they?!

It feels like We have been separated for years although its only been days. To be exact about three days. We were ransacking through the raft and found some survival supplies. Blankets, extra life jackets, canned food and water.

Our boat hit shore and we both jumped.

__On the island__

The island has lots of plants and we have started to see lots of wildlife there. We saw some animals that shocked us because we never thought we'd see those there. Such as parrots and koalas, monkeys and sloths.

We were walking around the island and we heard a rustle in the bushes, then the bushes rustled even more and we went over to check it out.

It was a little girl.

To be continued...