Spectreville- Lost In Time

Chapter 8

Picture of Alex Mariner at the top.

Hope you enjoy the story!
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"Gabbie please tell me I was dreaming and I did not see two ghost guys." Said Sandy with her eyes closed.

"Well you saw three." She replied

Sandy opened her eyes to see the three of the "ghost guys" standing infront of her and waving.

"Okay Will you can be yourself again. Don't have to worry about people judging you." Said Chris as he moved a step closer towards him and trying to keep his hand on his shoulder.

"Alright daag! How ya doin mee peeps!" He said moving towards Josh and giving him a kind of hi five (his hand went through Josh's)

"Wow, William Shakespeare talks like a guy who you would find smoking weed behind a bar..." Said Gail, "By the way. Anthony and Cleopatra, love it!" She added

"Yo thanks gaal! But that waz ma previous lafe. This who I am yo!" He said.

"I don't mean to be rude but, how the hell did you dead people come into our school?" Asked Sandy with her arms crossed.

"Tell'em Josh." Said the body builder guy.

"Our town has the portal to the after life below this very school. So ghosts from all around the world come to our town before going in. In fact our town is a very popular tourist attraction for ghosts. Even our town's name means ghost town. Spectre is ghost in French..."

"Actually is phantom." Said Gail

"Yes but Spectre is a synonym. They know every thing about this town. Will has been here since the... Time he died. And Arty over here was a miner in this very town!!" Explained Josh in a calm manner like it was no big of a deal.

"Hold on so Arthur Frederickson is this ghost miner guy!" Said Gabbie who was still in shock.

"Yup!" Said Tara." These people are such fun, remember when I was no show in Drama, I was here." She added earning an angry face from Sandy.

"Okay. Let's get to business. We need unpolished gold. Where can we get it?" Asked Gail wiping any expression off her face.

"Well Spectreville is built on a gold platter. Just go to the old museum at Miner's Avenue and me old mine was there." Said Arthur.

"There are a lot of secret passageways everywhere in this town to our school to help ghosts come back to the portal." Said the body builder

"Hold in so you can come back to the real world anytime?" Asked Gabbie as the three ghosts nodded.

"Alright we come here at nine. Tomorrow." Said Tara

"Tara what has gotten into you? You're talking about an action that can get us all expelled!" Said Sandy

"Well Sandy, this is the side of me no one has seen." She said as she ran out of the room. Chris followed her so he could see if she's okay.

"Whatever. Let's just go to our classes." Said Sandy rather annoyed.

They thanked the ghost men for their help and said they'll meet them soon and head of for class.

"Gabbie I think Tara will be a no show again." Said Sandy crossing her arms, "And I have to go for the soccer team selections so I won't be able to make it. Please do inform Ms. Ventiquae." She lied. She wanted to head down to room 666 and ask some important stuff.

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"Good afternoon Ms. Ventiquae." Said Gabbie as her annoying and strict yet sort of fun drama teacher walked in the theatre.

"Why hello dear." She said with a big smile on her face.

"Ma'am, Tara and Sandy will not be able to make it today." She said but Ms. Ventiquae didn't reply.

"Alright kids I shall be pairing you up and you and your partner shall do the assigned scene from Shakespeare in your way it should've been done. It's an innovative idea and I would like you to act out your own ideas. Now the easy part is that I have selected your pairs..." A couple of boos and 'no way's where on the way when her angry look shut everyone up.

"Alright. Since Ms. Cooperstone and Ms. Anderson couldn't make it they'll be paired up. Mr. Watson you're with Ms. McFellen. Mr. Mariner, you're with... Ms. Blue!" After that Gabbie's senses didn't work as they usually did.

She was paired with the guy she dreams about!! Luck did the right thing (finally. I was gonna punch him the next time I saw that guy)

"Hey Gabbie." Said Alex, he had plans about her.

"Hey Alex." She said with her usual goofy smile, "What scene did we get?" She added pulling herself together.

"Casket scene with Bassanio and Portia in Merchant of Venice." He replied

"Just the casket choosing?"

"Yup."

She gave him a thumbs up and took out her notebook.

"Okay, so what do you want to add in the play?" Asked Alex sitting close to her and leaning towards her.

"I think how Portia was given no right to choose. I think before Bassanio chooses his casket Portia should stop him and confess her love." Said Alex releasing butterflies in Gabbie's stomach.

"Great. I volunteer to write." Said Gabbie, she loved writing.

"I know. You write amazing scripts." He replied with a smile that made Gabbie go gaga (these kids are having a bad influence in my way of speech).

"Great. So the script shall be done by tonight." She said trying not to go all goofy.

"How about you come over to dinner at my place? I'll cook." He asked with a smirk

Gabbie's goofiness was growing stronger and stronger and she was finding it hard to control herself. The bell rang and everyone began collecting their stuff.

"Great! See you at 7." She said as she took her book bag and ran off.

She found Sandy at her locker looking at her reflection.

"Sandy I got good news and even better news!" Said Gabbie jumping with joy

"Go ahead." She said in a rather glum way.

"Good news is you're paired with Tara for the drama assignment..." She said

"Hurray." Replied Sandy with a tonne of sarcasm in her voice.

"And, Alex just asked me on a date!!" She said as she was almost about to start jumping around.

Sandy knew Gabbie would feel bad if she didn't react so it was time to put those acting tips to use.

"Oh. My. God!!!! I'm so happy for you! You liked him for so long and finally he's asked you out!!!" She said as she hugged Gabbie.

And it turns out she was right, Gabbie was thrilled to has cheered up her friend, even though it was through selfish means.

Josh on the other hand wasn't that happy being paired up with Jessica. All she did was expect everyone to do the work and she just sat and looked pretty.

"Okay Jessica, I'll write the script but are you sure you'll be okay with kissing me?" He said, he had gotten the scene where Romeo and Julliet kiss for the first time.

"Oh sweetheart. I'm totally grossed out, but I have to do it if I want in on Broadway." She said as she ruffled his hair and walked off with the click-clack sound of her shoes echoing in his ears.

He wished Gabbie was his partner by that no good jackass Alex and got her. Well at least Gabbie would be happy to have Alex as her partner, even though he doesn't value Gabbie the way I do... He thought as she dragged himself to another class.

Love has no limits to controlling your emotions. It could push into an infinite bliss, or could pull you into a well of torture. I believe that love is a waste of time, but then again all I do is run...