The Between Girl

The Explanation

Gramps spoke first, like I knew he would.

"Well first let me tell you that we didn't tell you before because we were scared of your reaction and that you would leave us..."

"Come on, like that would ever happen?" I asked with full disbelieve in my voice, how could they believe something like that?

"Let me finish," Gramps glared at me, and I wisely shut my trap,"So... there are three types of humans. There are the normal ones, the ones that don't see us. Then there are the hunters, they're much more rare but  they're born with a deep hatred for my kind so they hunt and kill us and try their best to make us extinct, which is impossible as we are ghosts and new ones always are made but they don't listen to logic. The last type which we didn't know about until we met you is they can see us and don't hate us."

"The hunters think we are all evil but as you know there is only a small number of truly evil ones out there." I shudder as I remember the first time I met a truly evil shadow.

-----Flashback-----

Blue is 13 and she's in the forest, it's so dark it looks like night even though it's midday on a summer day.

She is all alone, walking fast, as if someone is following her but if you look back you will see not a soul in sight. But Blue knew there was something fundamentally wrong today, has felt uneasy all day and it looks like that felling has reached its climax.

Suddenly the shadows seem to start to move and form a different shape all together, some people would mistake it as a trick of the light or that they're tired but Blue knew better. There was a flash and suddenly there seemed to be a person standing just before...but only a shadow of a person, not really  person at all and when it spoke, it sent chill down her spine. 

It seemed to ripple with anger and hatred, Blue shuddered, something was wrong with this shadow and nothing good will become of hanging out with it.

"Hello little girl." Its voice seemed to echo and spread through out the streets.

"What do you want?" Blue asked bravely, although it was only a mask as she was petrified of this shadow.

"Well you of course, you're very special, do you know that?" It didn't wait for an answer but continued with its gravelly voice, "Come with me, my sweet, there is much power to be unlocked inside you and I can help you reach it...we can burn the whole world down." It stopped as it started laughing manically, exactly like a crazy person, only more so.

Blue knew this was wrong but was tempted nonetheless, thinking of all the people that tease her and make fun of her for being 'weird'. But her family stopped her, as she thought of them all, waiting for her at her house, without further a do, she sprinted out of the way of the shadow and ran strait for her home.

Before she slammed the door shut she could hear his creepy voice announcing, "You can't run from me, I will get you sooner or later, my sweet."

-----End of Flashback-----  

I shook the memories of the past from me like a layer of rain that was on me. I hated to be reminded of that creepy weirdo.

"Yeah, so what do they want from me?" I question, I have no clue what they would want me for, all that I was good for was looking for books in the library and reading them, my life was boring.

"They must have gotten wrong orders as you are not a ghost, obviously. Don't worry sweetie, they can't do anything to you, just ignore them as best as you can. They will go away soon." Mrs Happy said, she's always the first one to comfort anyone - she's a really good person, ghost, whatever.

I looked around and realized that the sun is setting, creating a range of colours in the background that are beautiful, I couldn't help but notice.

"You need to get home," Gramps put on his responsible adult voice. I smirk at him but do as he says.
"Don't you dare go away. We can take care of this, together. I'll come here after school." I glare at them.

Sorry for the long wait, I've had exams. I'll be posting a lot when exams are over, I promise.

I didn't have time to proof read it so sorry for any mistakes.

Natalia Kozmic xx 

AKA The Forsaken Bookworm.