The Afterlife

Cupcake Catastrophe

I look myself over in the mirror. I'm wearing light baby blue jeans with a gray sweater that I tuck the front in my jeans to complete the outfit. I start towards the door when I find myself being thrown back. "Ow!" I screech. My brain is pounding against my skull. I ran into the door? But how?

I brush it off and open the door normally. It takes me a second before I'm struck with the realization that I can float. I let my feet lift slowly off the ground. The feeling of warmth spreads through me like wildfire. I still haven't gotten use to the feeling of my feet dangling 24/7 but it's much better than walking. I contemplate about what I today holds and decide that it's a sweatpants-junk food-and movies kind of day. Suddenly dread hits me like a truck as I realize I still have to go on a search to find my 'soulmate'. I shake it off easily because I have the feeling I don't really have to worry about that today.

I walk down the hall slowly and quietly. I peek down the steps and when there is no sign of my parents I let out a breath of relief. I carefully looked around the rest of the house and do a victory dance when it's revealed that no one else is home. I hear a knock on the door and stand frozen in horror. I can't open the door but what if it's a robber? I might as well scare them off if they are. I decide to check through the peep hole. I shut one eye and peek to see who's there. I see a familiar face and light up when I see them. I forget for a second that I'm a ghost and fly the door open. "Nal!" I shout throwing my arms around her. Tears reach the brim of our eyes threatening to fall at any moment. She stands there absolutely stunned but her eyes start to well up and she shouts my name louder then ever before as she holds me tight.

"I-I thought- I don't let her finish before cutting her off. "I know what you thought and it's a long story." I say laughing. "I've got time." She manages to squeeze out through sniffles.

I grin and invite her in. "You know what that means..." I trail off to let her finish for me. "Cupcake party!" She squeals. I laugh at how childish we are. My sister would always mock tease us and say we look five. I don't know if we look five but we definitely act five.

I walk into the kitchen and grab out all of the needed ingredients. While I do this she goes on YouTube and blasts American Boy by Estelle. We sing along, or rather we scream along to the lyrics as we start reading over the recipe. I skim over all of it and take one last peek at the recipe before starting to pour some of the flour in a bowl.

Just then Nalia bumps into me and the bowl of flour flies into the air and all of its contents spill all over me and Nal. We both stand there covered from head to toe in flower until I hear a crackling coming from outside. I run towards the window and shut it tight. It's starting to rain. I turn to see Nal with a devilish smirk on her face. She grabs me by my wrist and drags me outside where we stand there in the rain. I laugh and so does she as we start jumping around in the rain the flour that once covered our faces.

After a while we go inside and dry off. I take a deep breath and walk towards Nal in the kitchen. "Nals?" I ask. She looks up from the contents of her bowl and gives me a questioning look. "Hm?" She urges. "I have something to tell you but you might want to sit down." Just then a ding goes off. "Hold on the first batch is done." She pulls out a big blue and white polka dot oven mitt and reaches for the pan of cupcakes.

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We both sit there on the couch with cupcakes in our hands. "Ok so what I wanted to say is that I'm not actually alive, I'm a ghost." Her eyes widen and well up with tears. She lunges forward and pinches my arm hard. "Ow!" I wail. "But if you're a ghost how can I touch you?"
"That's one question I can't answer." I say. We sit in silence for a while before she turns on a Disney movie and we start to watch while eating cupcakes. "I missed you bae."  I say jokingly. "Me too." She says.
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It hasn't been that long since I've updated has it? Anyway new
chapter hope you like it. I've been
a bit busy lately so my next update might be shorter or
take longer to get out but just
bear with me ok?
-Kim