"You can see me, can't you?"
There was no way in hell Elise was going to respond. That's how people get killed in horror movies.
Some part of Elise didn't mind death, but when the day comes, she hoped that it would be from old age or a quick sharp pain in her chest. Not from a semi-dead teenage boy's ghost.
She wasn't risking it. She walked down the stairs as quickly as possible, with a fake expression on her face that said everything was alright, even when it wasn't.
The bike ride to her house was eerie and silent.
The small echoes of flickering lights and the bicycle's wheels scraping the cement and rock consumed the streets.
No matter how fast she pedalled, she could still feel him following her.
No matter how much she tried biking in mazes, he would still be able to find her by passing through walls.
No matter what she did, Elak Burkett wouldn't leave her alone.
She rested her bike on a telephone pole and walked to a dark alley.
Picking up a can of spray paint, she pressed the tip and sprayed it towards his direction.
The spray paint left a red mark over his ghost, and from that moment on, Elise knew she fucked up.
Elak knew she could see him.
"There's no point in running. You can run to the end of the universe, and I'll follow you there and be there with you," Elak confronted her, floating right in front of her.
"I don't know what's happening right now," she genuinely responded.
"And neither do I. But what I do know is that there's only one person who can see and help me --- you."
"What if I don't help you?" she asked.
"Well," he sighed, "you'd have to live with this one hell of a ghost for the rest of your lifetime. Oh, and I might haunt your future grandchildren, too, if you don't mind."
"Elak Burkett," she whispered, "fuck you."
"Is that a yes, I hear?"
With a loud grunt, she discreetly nodded her head to his proposition.
"A yes it is," he stiffled a smile, a victorious tone to his voice.
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The Boy from the Moon {Hiatus}
Short Story"How's life as a single ghost?" "Oh, it's great. The only problem is that I have no body be with." --- That night, Elise saw it all. Elise saw a random kid who went by the name Elak Burkett, the boy from the moon, jump off a building only to fall in...
