When Pigs Fly

Chapter 12 - Abandoned

That's the last thing I heard when I blacked out.

I awoke who knows how many days later in a forest. It didn't look like any forest I had ever been in. My vision was blurry but I was able to make out some trees in the daylight. The sun was just barely rising, I'm guessing it was the next day. Hopefully, my parent's weren't too worried I was gone.

       I stood up and looked around. As I turned around I saw a new ghost. It was a female with long straight hair. Goodness knows what color it was because I only saw white and a hint of gray. She wore torn clothing with patches and had no shoes. She stood at the height of me, maybe the same age and stared into my eyes with a smiling expression.

"Hailey Nichols Petric. How lovely to see you again." Her expression fell. "Too bad I do not like you." She said calmly.

"Who are you? Where are Oxplu and Nasctavi?" I said. She said nothing and a smile grew on her face. "Where are they!" I demanded furiously. She turned back to me and stared at me with her big eyes. 

"As if you don't know who I am. . . pathetic! You are pathetic I say!" The ghost girl swung her arm around and grasped my throat. I gasped for air but she just tightened her grip.

"S-stop. . . I. . . Can't breathe. . ." I managed to spit out. 

"That'll show you Hailey Grubble! You ruined my life!" She shouted as she crossed her arms angrily. I breathed heavily and held my chest tightly. After I processed her words, I was confused. Grubble?

"What do you mean by Grubble?" I said confusedly. She snarled at me like I was stupid. 

"As if! You are very good at lying aren't you Hailey? Unless. . ." She gasped. "No. . ."

"This must have been the wrong time! Ugh! Stupid Hades!" She stammered. She slammed her foot into the grass and clenched her teeth. 

"Hades? Time? Grubble? What is going on!" I said. She relaxed her face and gave me a slight smile. She no longer looked angry. "I apologize, should I fill you in?" She said pleasantly. I nodded and she held her hands in front of her in an orderly fashion and told me the story. 

"My name is Jill Happer. We met in the ninth grade and were friends, for the time being. Currently, Dumpling was knee height and over one hundred pounds. I was not very fond of that pig, I wasn't. We got into an argument about who our crush would date. You or me. I told you that. . ." Jill was interrupted. Nasctavi appeared behind her.

"Orbray! What have you told her! You better not have. . ." This time Jill interrupted her.

"I promise I did not, I would never!"

"Not true! You have done this before! You are lucky Hades showed mercy. I saw you! You were about to tell her you little. . . little Bhàin!" Nasctavi screamed. I don't know what language she spoke in next, but I didn't even try to figure it out.

The last words I heard before they both disappeared from sight, were this:

"Tha na diathan bithidh pheanasachadh thu, bithidh sgriosar dhuit ann an ifrinn!"

I was alone in the forest. Little did I know, I was forgotten.

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Forgotten. . .