the half souled ghost

prologue

   'Um...Hi' I mumble. 'Hello Laurel' she says.

  'How do you know my name?' I ask her again, sounding like an idiot. 'Oh, even I don't know.........'

    I wake up with a start. This was the farthest I have ever reached and then i , the idiot woke up.

  I go till the bathroom to wash my face and when I see  the mirror, I scream.
  
  I run out of the bath room and bury my face in my pillow. That is when I hear a knock.
Another knock. And then a bang.
It's my dad. No one else does that. He is a um...yeah, it's not so cool to sat but he's a drunkard.

  And now I think I'm in trouble. I probably messed up his drunk sleep.
 
  I open the door cautiously and a slap. Another one. A punch. And I cry, ' Dad, please stop. Don't hit me, please, aah.' I know i'd have a lot of bruises tomorrow.

  I go back to sleep sobbing. After a while mom enters the room and consoles me. She says, 'It's alright, dear. He'll stop all this one day. Now sleep. I have a surprise for you tomorrow.'

  I wake up in the morning and I feel totally sore. I walk slowly towards the bathroom and get fresh. I tip toe till the kitchen. Dad is on the sofa reading the newspaper. I look over and he glares at me.I walk till the kitchen table and mom has made the usual toast paired with jam. I take a bite of mine and ask, 'What is it that you wanted to tell me, mom?'

'Well, I finally found a perfect house and it it is also a huge gain and I have also got a transfer to Redmond, so no problem.' She answers.

'Why Redmond?' I ask her. That is when it struck me. 'We are moving there?' I ask her and she nods happily. I haven't seen her so happy for a long time so I didn't want to complain but this is insane. 'But mom, my school....' I ask and she says as if it was a piece of cake, 'Oh I've reserved you a seat in one of the schools there.'

   What. The. Hell? I don't want to move from here to some other place in the countryside. And I think I made myself clear to mom but what?

   And now I am here in my room, sulking about leaving my friends. Mom has been looking for the 'perfect' house for ages now and with no help from dad, whatsoever.

And now she has found this house faaaarrrrr away from my place. This is not fair.

  I just hope the house is fine and my parents won't argue there too....

  In fact, all this started when dad started his horrible drinking habit. He leaves mom alone in any and everything.

  One day I tried to talk to him about it but he was so look drunk that I ended up with a bruise.

I just want to SCREEEAAAMMM.

   I take my phone and start typing furiously.

Lau: Cole call Erin. It's imp. Let's catch up, 'kay?
 

Soon I get a text back.

  Cole: Erin says yes and yeah me too.