Dead hearts Don't beat

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Authors note: hey guys just thought I'd let you know there's a lot of dialog in this chapter. Enjoy

Raven
"Psst...Jake..." I'm currently trying to wake Jake up because I'm bored and can't sleep so might as well have a conversation with the only person I can.
"Jake!"
"Huh...what...yes...hello...what time is it?" he said quickly and confused. He'd jolted right up so his face was implanted in my head, so in other words, if I was a solid being we would have head butted each other.

I retracted giving him a second to realise he was basically inside my head.
"What's going on?"
Plain and simple "I'm bored"
"You mean you woke me up for no reason"
"No, not for no reason, I'm bored, you probably have lots of questions to ask and I've got nothing else to do"
"But it's 3am!"
Seriously I've just said I'll answer his questions and he's more worried about the time.

"Oh shut up" he flinched.
"Are you scared of me?" I asked curiously
"Look, woman, girl, ghost person, you just appeared out of no where, did some weird shit, I've theoretically 'head butted' you and you're asking if I'm scared. Well obviously. I have no idea what's going on. I'm pretty sure I'm hallucinating or some shit. This is just too unreal to cope with right now."
"Oh. Well I'll just be going then" I began to leave.
"No! Wait! What's your name?" I knew he was interested really.
"Raven"
"Huh. I'm Ja..." I cut him off
"Yeah I already know that dummy"
"Oh, right. So urm...I'm sorry I'm just so confused. What's going on?"

"Well as I've said I'm Raven, I'm dead blah blah blah you can now see me because you died, but I brought you back again"
"You're dead?" God this kid is slow.
"Yes! D.e.a.d. Dead"
"But how?"
"Well I killed myself about 10 years ago or so and instead of passing over I'm stuck here, trapped in this house until I've 'completed my unfinished business'. That's what I'm hoping anyway because I hate being trapped here."
"But you're dead. Like no heart or anything dead. Like cool ghost powers dead"
"Well I don't know actually if I have a heart and organs, I assume I do, you just can't see it I think. And regarding the ghost powers it's just floating and being able to walk through walls, oh and being invisible"
"But I can see you, so you're not invisible" urh I regret my decision of answering questions now, he's irritating me.
"People who have died and come back to life or are on the verge of death can see me. I don't know why so don't ask. Oh and animals can see me as well, again I don't know why"

He asked me a few more questions about my mum and dad and where they might be now. I have no idea and would rather not think about it so I kept my answers short.

Jake
"I don't understand why you saved me" I'd learnt so much in the last hour about Raven and her life. I've realised she's not scary at all as much as she probably thinks she is.
"Because it's bad enough being trapped in this house, I wasn't about to be trapped in here with you as well" she spoke really bluntly and it was quite hurtful at times, it's not like I understand this kind of stuff.

We talked for several hours and before I knew it, it was 7am. I realised that this is the first time I've felt completely at ease talking to someone. My alarm begin to ring for school, back to reality.
"I need to start getting ready for school"
"Ok" I don't think she was getting the hint to leave so I could get dressed
"So if you could like leave or something"
"I've been around here for a while now. Don't you think I've already seen it all already." I went bright red from embarrassment, Raven could tell and left the room, well at least I think she left the room.

I was already late for sixth form, I had missed the first bus because I lost track of time. I arrived half way through first period - Chemistry.
"Jake, what's the chemical formula for Potassium Nitrate?"
"Urm I don't know Sir" I cowered back into my seat.
"Can anyone tell me what the chemical formula is and prevent Jake from getting a detention?" Mr Lang stared me down, no one was going to help me out, they all hated me.
"KNO3 Sir" Jess piped up from behind.
"And what's it melting point?" His glare didn't leave me
"334°c Sir"
"What is it soluble in?" Geez he was giving Jess a hard time, we hadn't learnt this yet. I'm sure getting in trouble for this
"Water, Glycerol and Ammonia"
"Good" he looked away and continued the lesson.

At the end of the lesson I caught up with Jess.
"Hey how did you know all that?" I asked
"I like chemistry, and besides I'm sure you had a good reason for being so late" she chirped half sarcastically.
"Thank you I owe you big time"
"Yes you really do. What you doing Thursday after school?" Hm I was getting a little suspicious where this was going
"Not sure why?"
"Good, you're coming to the school battle of the bands with me as your penance." I wouldn't really call that a penance but I wasn't going to argue.
"6:30pm. School reception. See you there." And with that she walked off in to the crowd of students.

This day just keeps getting weirder and weirder. First I talk to a ghost all night then a different girl invites me to a gig. This isn't my life, it's like someone's writing the perfect scenario for me. Nah, that never happens, I'm not that lucky.

Authors note part 2: hope you liked that chapter, let me know what you think. Chapter dedication to IasminaEM thank you for your nice comments.