Stuck In The Middle

Chapter 1

I'm running for my life as if it depended on it, because there's something chasing me, it's a... Nothing, nothing's chasing me. In fact, I'm not even really running, I'm on my moms treadmill, I'm so bored. I've been sitting around this old empty house for twenty years. Oh wait! You don't know who I am, hold up. Hello I'm kathrine, kat for short. I'm 18 years old and I live in an empty house by myself, because I'm forbidden to leave. Doesn't make sense, does it? That's because you haven't heard the whole story. I'm dead! My parents left the house a week after my death, and some of the stuff they forgot, I use to entertain myself. I know what your all thinking, ghosts can't do that, they're dead, they're supposed to Mope around all day with no one seeing them. Not true. We live among you, we can do everything you do. I bet you've met a ghost before, you wouldn't even know it. The only difference is, we have rules to follow, we're in a dictatorship. We have boundaries. So technically no freedom, we didn't have a choice to go to heaven or hell. We're the left over that don't fit in. We're stuck in the middle.

I'm trying it again for the fiftieth time to leave my boundary. It's like a fence only the dead can see. I wish I couldn't see mine. I run at the fence as fast as I can and jump, I'm above it, but I can't get over it. Yup, still stuck. It's said that the only way to break free and live among the alive, is to fall in love with a non dead person, and have them love you back. The only problem is, they have to know your dead. Can't catch many guys if they know that. No body comes out to this rotting trash hole, except, people who are lost, and ask me for direction. I wish I didn't die. I wanna be alive, and my birthdays coming, even though I won't change my age. I never told you how I died, did I? I'm sorry. I died when I was 18, of course, by being stabbed to death and drowned in a pond by my boyfriend. Sounds terrible don't it? Here's the whole story. My boyfriend was dead, and I didn't completely love him with all my heart, so I couldn't let him free. All ghosts have a bad side. But it's extremely hard to let it out unless someone makes you extremely mad. I did just that.

I was planning to break up with him that night because I didn't love him enough to set him free and I didn't want to hurt him. When I brought it up, he got super mad. He

told me to wait in the car for a second as he ran back to his car. Your boundary is where you died, he died in a car crash. But anyways, I didn't, I was scared so I ran, I ran all the way home. Too bad it was across the street,and his boundary ended at the end of my living room. Too bad we were in the middle of no where so I couldn't call for help. Too bad my parents weren't home. Too bad I ran, instead of stayed. I got to the door as he grabbed my arm and yanked on me. "Where ya goin?" He screamed at me. I felt my heart explode, my lungs collapse, and my stomach stabbed. He took a knife from his pocket and stabbed me seven times. I couldn't stop him. As he dragged me out the door, I counted the blood drops on the ground. I felt a rope tied to me, to dizzy to see it though, next thing I know I was in water and I drowned. That's how I died, and that's how my crazy boyfriend got a one way ticket to hell.

Chapter 2

So here's what happened now, I wrote this diary, that your reading now about what happened after my death. This is what happened, two guys showed up, I fell in love with one he lived me back I was free and they also brought me to life again. Sounds weird and boring don't it? Here's the whole story....

I'm walking around in the house hoping to find something new until I hear a car. I run to the window to see two boys. Probably wanting directions or something. "Is this where she died Jarred?" A blonde boy said.

"Yea, and some guy died in that old car across the street. Ready to find them Nate?" Oh crap. I thought, they know about the dead. They will see and find me.

"Alright, let's start with the car and the pond. He's the one who supposedly killed the girl. There both our age too. This ones aggressive though, watch out." That Nate kid said with a creepy smile, probably trying to scare the other one. They walked over to the car and went inside of it. They shouldn't do that, wait is he even there? I thought he went to hell? He did, If a ghost kills a human they go to hell. Crap. That means they will find me even quicker now. I'm wishing he didn't go to hell now.