Behind the Red Jacket

CHAPTER 2 The Ghost

   It was Cyril's second day in her new house. Cyril awakened by the ray of sunshine coming from the window. The wind modestly flew making the curtains move slightly. Cyril was still covered with thick blanket, the sun was already up yet she couldn't feel hot spreading through her body. Cyril felt as if there was a bunch of electric fans around her. Suddenly, she remembered the incident yesterday. 'There's a ghost in my house' she thought and hurriedly stood up and run down stair because of sudden fear. When she reached the kitchen of her house she slipped and stumbled because of a piece of paper.

"Ouch~", she cried as she touched her painful butt. She looked at the paper angrily.

"You! Little piece of...", she was about to rip the paper but she saw something written on it.

She looked closely at the paper and started to read it loud.

"Hey! I let you felt cold and chilly last night. Can we be friends?"

Her eyes widened at what she has read. ' The ghost wants to be friend with me?' she thought and screamed in terror. She covered her eyes with both of her hands. Cold sweats rolled all over her body as she started to hear footsteps coming to her. Her hands trembled in fear. 'Oh my goodness! What should I do?' Cyril thought. Then she remembered what her mother would always says. "Be brave and face your fears", her mother said before she left home.

She inhaled and exhaled slowly and slowly took off her hands from her eyes. There she saw a girl in her age, wearing a pink dress and her hair was braided. 'She must be the ghost. She looks familiar' she thought and remembered the video tape that she had watched yesterday.

"X-Xou Yoroung", Cyril uttered.

She realized that the pretty ghost in front of her was the Chinese girl she watched at the video tape.