Stormy Skies (On Hold)

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Monday, June 15th

Adrianna

          I awake panting from a dream. In it was a woman, but I could only see her silhouette, and hear her voice. She told me to see Sophie, because apparently she had figured something out. Then the figure vanished in a mist. I awoke to find my heart beating unnaturally fast, even if the dream wasn’t particularly scary.

            Later in the day, around ten o’clock, I go over to Sophie’s house. Her bedroom door is closed, so I knock and say “It’s me.” No one answers.

            I wait a few seconds more and try the handle. It’s unlocked, so I walk in.

            Sophie isn’t to be seen anywhere in her room. I even check her closet, which is empty.

            For some reason, I’m spooked.

            She’s not here, so what? Why are you so scared? I ask myself. To my surprise, someone answers.

            “Boo.”

            I scream and jump about ten feet in the air, and whirl around to catch the prankster, thinking it’s Sophie, since it is her voice.

            No one’s there.

            Geez, you’d think an animal-speaker would be smarter than this. Look up, dummy! A disembodied voice rings through my head. I reel around to face Sophie’s cat, Toodles, staring up at me, as if she spoke to me.

            Go on, look up! She says again. I follow her instructions, and look up to the high-roofed ceiling, to find Sophie, floating in the corner, smiling and-

            FLOATING?!?!?!

            This is when I scream and rush towards the door, but get this- the metal doorknob turns and closes the door.

            Sophie drops down in front of me, looking panicked.

            “Adrianna, stop, stop screaming, someone will come up here!” I realize I’m still yelling at the top of my lungs, so I shut up.

            “Listen, and don’t speak until I tell you to.” Sophie begins. I nod my head and sit on her bed.

            “Last night I had a dream. It was the ghost of my mother. Her spirit and her sister’s - your mother – can only visit us in sleep. It takes too much energy to appear in our world. They haven’t had the experience to come into sight in the living world.” She takes a breath.

            “Wait- you said my mom is your mom’s sister?” Then that means...

            “Oh, yeah, and she told me that we’re cousins.”

            I stare at her with my mouth gaping wide open. Sophie looks at me solemnly for while, and then starts giggling.

            “You look ridiculous,” she laughs.

            I shut my mouth real fast after that. I scowl. “Do you have proof of that? Or are you just trying to make me look like a gullible idiot?”

            “Ah, yes!” Sophie crawls over to her bed and pulls out a photograph. The picture is torn in half, and it’s of little Sophie with one of her green eyes missing. A woman’s smiling face is next to her. I gasp.