Ghost

Chapter 1: The Divorce

Jackie woke up to the sound of her alarm on her phone. She set it so that it sang the song "As Long As You Love Me" by Justin Bieber. So when she woke up, instead of snoozing her alarm she sang along to it in bed.

Her father opened the door in his bathrobe and yelled "Get up." Then he exited the room.

Jackie could tell that something was bothering him. So she did as told and got up.

She went straight into the bathroom and took a nice long hour shower since she was washing her hair. When she was done with the shower, she put her towel on and went to the mirror so she could unknot her hair again. As she was untangling her hair, she could hear her father and mother yelling through the vents.

"OH SURE BUT IT'S TOTALLY OKAY FOR YOU TO DO IT, RIGHT?!?!?!?" Is what Jackie heard her mother say.

THUMP

Jackie's eyes bulged forward and she ran down the stairs, with her hair wetting the floor, to make sure everything was okay.

When she arrived there she saw her father and a huge red slap mark on his face and her mother was sitting next to a broken lamp.

Her mother saw her and stood up as if everything was perfectly fine.

"Go back upstairs sweetheart." Her mother said using the sweetest tone she could.

Jackie ran up the stairs and finished getting ready. As she was getting ready, tears rolled down her cheek and Jackie had a feeling that she knew what might happen between them two. But she pushed that though to the back of her head so that it didn't have a greater probability of coming true.

***

Jackie's father, David, went shopping for food while her mother, Maria, went to the laundromat to wash clothes. Therefore, Jackie was home alone.

RING...RING...

Jackie went to go see who was calling her and it was her mother. She picked it up.

MOM: "Hey sweetheart. Can you do me a favor?"

Jackie: "Sure mom. What do you need?"

MOM: "I need you to go into my room and open my first drawer in my cabinet. There I have my credit information and I'm going to need for you to read it off to me because I need it for something."

Jackie: "okay."

Jackie walked into her parent's bedroom and opened up the first drawer in her cabinet. She took out her mothers credit information and read it off to her.

MOM: "Thank you."

Jackie: "No problem."

And with that they hung the phone up.

Jackie went to go put her mother's credit information back in the drawer when she saw something glistening at the corner of drawer. She picked it up to see that it was a check list along with her mother's wedding ring. She read it to herself and froze in her tracks when she read one of the items.

File for divorce.

It wasn't yet checked off but it was circled in red sharpie. Jackie tried to put everything back the way it was so it didn't look like she snooped through her mother's drawer.

She ran into the living room and began crying. She took out a pint of chocolate ice cream and drowned her sorrows in the ice cream. She turned on the television and began watching reruns of Pretty Little Liars.

***

Her parents came home to find her asleep on the couch. They woke her up.

"We have some news to tell you." Her mother said trying to read Jackie's facial expressions.

David and Maria looked at each other and then David said:

"We are getting a divorce."

Jackie didn't even flinch. She already knew this. She didn't want to move from the couch so to show how angry she was, she threw her empty pint of ice cream across the floor.

"There's more." David said.

"Sweetheart you and I are moving." Maria said happily.

Jackie cocked her head towards her mother and then she stood up. She gave her mother the death glare and then went up to her father and yelled:

"WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DO THIS TO ME? THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"

She ran up to her room and slammed the door shut. Her father and mother were getting a divorce and there was nothing she could do about it.