Below The Waves

Chapter Five: The Other Girl

The world was spinning. He could see it somehow. Where was he? Everything was a blinding white color for miles. "Hello?" He shouted into the seemingly never ending whiteness. There was a faint sobbing in the distance, interrupting the stillness of everything. Ricky walked towards the sound and saw the girl who was in the water. The girl he hit with his car. The girl that had been following him. She was on her knees with pale face buried in her hands, her dull black hair was swirling around her head, dripping with water. He felt a pang in his heart. Pity.

"I wish she could be given peace." A soft voice spoke. He looked closer at the crying girl, whose mouth had not moved. "Mommy always got so sad when I would cry." It was the voice of a little girl. Ricky's breath caught in his throat as he backed up. "Whenever daddy hurt me or mommy she would buy me ice cream to take away the pain." The girl on the ground never moved a muscle.

"Is that you?" He whispered.

"Yes." The voice answered from right beside him. He jumped and stared beside him. A little girl in a white summer dress stared up at him with big grey eyes. She was in bare feet and was clutching a stuffed rabbit. Her dark black hair was curled in little ringlets. "She is always sad." The little girl stared at her sobbing self. "I try to tell her to go into the light. To go be with mommy, so I can go too, but she won't listen."

"Are you the same person?" He said quietly as he knelt down to be face to face with her.

"Yes, I can not go see mommy until she does too. She is the part that was murdered though, our spirit saw mommy die." She murmured still staring at her other half.

"D-did I hurt you?" He asked hesitantly, not sure if he wanted the answer. She shook her head.

"No. You saw it though." Ricky went numb. He could not feel anything. He could have stopped it. He could have called someone. "It's ok. You wouldn't remember. Daddy hit you very hard." Ricky felt like he was going to puke. He felt sick and broken and sad and guilty. "Our body is still at the bottom of the lake with mommy's" the girl sighed. Suddenly the sobbing stopped.

"Why are you here?!" The other spirit screeched. "WHY WAS IT ME?"

"You will not see me again. Only her. She is the one who can go in and out of the worlds that house the living and the dead." The girl held her stuffed animal closer. "Please bring us peace." The other girl rushed closer and closer, screaming louder and louder.

"Please."