We're Just Kids

A Voice in My Head

{Savannah's POV}

Shailene's kind of become a voice in my head now. It's like, she's still a person, but a person that speaks to me on the inside.

It's kind of hard to explain. You'd need to feel it for yourself.

Life continued as normal for the next week, until Rachael came up to me with a pretty painful question.

{Rachael's POV}

"Hey Savannah," I began. "Do you remember Shailene?"

Her expression hardened as she looked at me.

"Do I remember my cancer-ridden friend who died? Who asked us to always talk to Jupiter for her? Nope, doesn't ring a bell." She rolled her eyes. "Of course I do."

I rubbed my sweaty palms on my jeans, building up the silence, only to break it with a statement that I knew would surprise her.

"I saw her the other day."

{Mitch's POV}

I was playing Hide and Seek with Savannah, Jerome, and Rachael on the Hive late at night.

"Never be a flower pot on this map!" I yelled, running around the tundra map helplessly.

"How do you think I feel? I'm a-" Rachael paused mid-sentence.

"You're a..." I waited for her to finish the sentence.

"Bacca who stinks at Hide and Seek?" Jerome asked, as the message popped up in chat that announced he had died, and was now a Seeker.

"I-I gotta go..." Rachael hung up Skype.

"That was weird," Jerome said.

"Uh-huh," I agreed. "Should we go check on her?"

"I'm already on it. Be right back," Savannah announced, and I heard her get up from her chair.

"What do you think's wrong?" I asked Jerome, pausing my recording.

"I dunno..."

{*}{•}{*}

{Savannah's POV}

I knocked on Rachael's door, but there was no answer. So I poked my head in. Rachael was curled up in a ball in the corner, staring at the middle of the room.

"Savannah!" she looked up at me. "I saw her again. It's like she's haunting me."

"Rachael, I-"

"She said she'd see me soon. What does that mean? I just want to live my life, not deal with a ghost," Rachael said miserably.

{*}{•}{*}

{Adam's POV}

I passed out plates of pizza to everyone as we started the movie.

If I Stay.

Ty had asked if we could watch this movie.

"Tyler raved on and on about it," Ty said, referring to our friend, also known as the Brotato.

"Are you sure?" I asked jokingly.

"He said Shelby loved it."

"Shelby's a girl. Girls love chick-flicks," I pointed out.

"Crud," Ty breathed.

We ended up watching The Avengers.