The Girl With A Hidden Friend

Cloudy Sunshine

^^^ what Lulu looks like but with yellow eyes and a different style of clothing

July 30 6:00 Pm in the afternoon Weather: Cloudy Sunshine

It was a beautiful afternoon, just me and my book below the apple trees in our sunny shine orchid on the far east side of Wetburgh. I didn't bother check how long I had been here. One of my ten brothers would find me if something important came up. Until then I was going to let myself relax for once. Forget about school, forget about the so little friends I had. Even though I was lonely, the book seemed to hold me off. Sometimes I questioned that single thought, sometimes the books wasn't enough. Sometimes my true desire was to find a friend. Not like I haven't tried, it was just nobody was willing to hold out a hand I quess.

"I wonder how long this loneliness will last," Anna said with a sigh breathing out.

"I was wondering when you were going to say something, you had your nose in that book all this time, not that I didn't enjoy reading over your shoulder," said a voice from somewhere above.

I screamed in surprise throwing my red laced book carelessly on the ground and looked around for the source of the voice. It was then when I looked up. There sitting on the lowest branch of the apple trees branches. Was a boy, about fifth-teen in age and around five something in height, with short black hair and some sort of japanese dragon scale laced clothing. There was also a golden hoop earring on his left ear. It was a strange sight, but I didn't judge it wasn't the craziest thing I ever saw. I had wondered how long he had been there without my knowledge. Had he always been there? No wonder I had felt eyes on me every time I had walked into the orchid. The boy just stared at me, I felt bad. I would of hated if my scream of surprise had hurt his feelings. Plus I felt terrible for forgetting the one lesson my mama had enforced. It wasn't good behavior to stare at people no matter how odd or weird they looked like, especially for a young lady.

"You done screaming, women you wouldn't last long in a horror film," said the mysterious boy leaping down from the tree landing perfectly on the ground next to me.

I moved a little to create more room. Now that I could seem him a little more, I noticed that even with the strange style. He was actually quite handsome. He seemed to be of japanese origin, not that it was a bad thing. I loved japan, my favorite shows and books were from there. It was just somehow he seemed a little more see through, his skin almost looked like it was milky and starry as if heaven had touched him leaving him a mark of perfection. It was rare for a pretty boy to talk to me. Even more rare for them to stalk me all this time. The boy punched his hand into the side of the tree, I thought as he did that he would scream in pain or something. No instead was a sight I wasn't able to believe his hand went into the tree completely forgetting that there was an object in front. I leaped back in surprise not willing to scream encase of scaring him, or more myself. He pulled out a book, it too was dragged through the tree trunk with ease. The boy stared at me with such a blank emotionless stare.

"Yes i'm a ghost, so what? You going to run and ask for a psych ward? No wait you're going to go scream and move out with the rest of your family like everybody before you, and leave me in the dust, I know all about you people, I specially love the ones who like horror movies, it makes me cry from laughing when those are the ones scream and run the most after saying they can stand anything supernatural just because they saw cheap hollywood," the boy spoke glaring at me with such force.

For the first time ever, I felt like somebody was actually tracing through my head and seeing everything I said. It felt almost like he was looking into my soul with those ghostly yellow amber eyes.

"No.... I'm not going to run," I said calming as I could, I wasn't going to lie to myself. He had surprised me, normally nobody sees a ghost.

The boy just simple looked and after a minute laughed, gripping the book close to him he circled around me. I flinched a little, it was strange for anybody to be checking and looking around at me. It was the first time a ghost did it, well no let me rephrase that a boy did. Surprising for some reason the ghost part didn't bother me. It was that he was a boy that surprised me, which for that fact I felt weird. Sense normal people would have that entire sentenced switched.