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Chapter 15

I walked through the door and could hear Jason moaning.  I followed the noise right into the living room.  Jason lied on the couch.  I quickly walked over to him and got down on my knees.

“Jason,” I whispered.

He opened his eyes and looked over at me.

“Zoey are you all right?” He asked.

“Jason, I wasn’t the one lying on the ground knocked out, the question is are you?” I asked.

“Zoey I’m fine,” he said.

“Jason, can you tell me who did this to you?” I asked.

He looked me straight in the eyes and said, “I don’t know who it was, but I do remember that I was trying to protect you.”

I gave him a kiss on his forehead before getting up and walking upstairs.  Why would someone be after me?  I walked into my room and shut the door, sliding down to the ground.  I put my head on my hands trying to process everything.

“Hello Zoey.”

I looked up before screaming.  Within seconds everything was black.

I looked around noticing I was in my room but I wasn’t me.  I was a….ghost?  I watched as the stranger pulled my body out of the window and took off with me.  My bedroom door went flying into pieces.  Jeremy walked into my room and looked around.  He spotted the window and his face went white.

“No,” he whispered.  I walked over to him and tried to put a hand on his shoulder.  But my hand went right through him.  I looked at my hands and then to Jeremy.  How am I supposed to tell him I’m alive if I can’t touch him?  I thought, I wonder if I could write a message to him.  I picked up a pencil and wrote I’M ALIVE! –Zoey, in big letters.  No one noticed the floating paper so I picked up a stress ball and threw it at Jeremy’s head.

His head whipped over to me, well the paper. I could tell he was freaked out by the look on his face.  I sighed and wrote; don’t be freaked out, man up.  I showed it to him and he broke out into laughter.

“That’s Zoey, I just know,” he said smiling.

I quickly wrote on the paper; Go get me you loser! I then showed it to him and he climbed out the window taking off.  The rest of the boys’ followed, leaving Carly.

She looked around the room, “Zoey?”

I wrote on the paper, I’m still here, I don’t know how much longer though, and I showed her.

“Zoey don’t say that.”

I’ve got to go make sure they actually find me, I dropped the paper and walked out the window, or more like floated.  I felt like I could do anything.  I flew as fast as I could occasionally through a couple trees I couldn’t dodge.  I could feel Jeremy’s breathing so I quickly followed.  I wonder if I could still talk to him through my mind.

I concentrated and thought; Jeremy, please hurry.

I could tell he heard me, his mind floated with pictures of him and I when we were little, Zoey, please don’t die on me.

I let out a laugh; I will never go down without a fight.

I felt myself disappearing and quickly said, I’m waking up I will try to tell you where I am once I know.

Once I was gone I was in complete black again.  I opened my eyes slowly and looked around.  Putting a hand to my head I closed my eyes. 

“You’re finally awake.”