Scarlett Journeys

Chapter 2 - Part 2

The transparent woman was irritated. It had been almost 3 hours of wandering, but she just couldn't find anyone who could see her. Every person she came across just looked straight through her, ignoring her very existence. She furrowed her brows as she looked around, noticing a woman in her late twenties looking in her direction. The woman's hair was pulled out of her face and her blank expression was clear as day.
Scarlett looked around before pointing to herself in a quizzical manner, as the woman nods. She looks to the alley beside her and Scarlett nods, slowing stepping - more like floating - towards the unnamed female. The alley was cold and damp as she meandered in. She felt slightly cornered with the other woman standing at the entrance, even though she couldn't touch her. 

Finally, after a couple of tense minutes, the woman spoke, 'do you know where you are?' Scarlett blinked once, twice.

'What?' her voice was breathy, she couldn't believe this. Someone could see her, was speaking to her.

'I said, do you know where-'
 'I heard you! But...I don't know where I am.'
 'That's alright. M' name's Julia, but call me Julie. You are?'

'My name is Scarlett. Do you know where I am?' Scarlett's fire-like hair whipped around as she looked past Julie and to the streets beyond.
'Scarlett? Do you perhaps mean...Scarlett Ainsley?' the look on Julie's face shows slight realization, while Scarlett's shows confusion.
 'Actually, yes. How do you know that..?' Julie sighed, looking at the foggy sky, before inhaling and exhaling through her nose as she looked at Scarlett, 'you're suicide was all over radio then. Everyone heard about it, generations onward, too. You were really loved and popular, y'know?' 

Scarlett gave the brunette a look of surprise, 'I had...no idea. I never thought-' 

'You never thought about how loved you are?'
'I assumed that I was just another woman.'
'And you didn't think about how the city, or most of them, would feel? How all your family and friends would feel if you never returned home? You're mother found your body, ya know. From what I heard, she almost took her own life out of grief, almost left you're big sister alone.' 'Oh,' Scarlett's tone was full of guilt and melancholy. She looked to the side as Julie's eyes burned into her translucent form. Julie looked out behind her as she spoke, 'do you feel that tug? Right here'-she motioned to her chest, her heart-'do you?' Scarlett nodded, her eyes watering. The feeling was actually quite painful, like her heart was being torn out.

Julie held her chin in thought as she looked down, 'that means we need to find your home. You lived in Seattle, right? We're in Moncton right now...it's a 52 hour drive, if there's no traffic, we should be able to do that'- the mumbling woman looked up -'right?'
Scarlett's confusion was apparent, as Julie sighed and motioned the ghost to follow behind her as she walked out of the alley.

***

The trip to Julie's house was longer than anticipated. Turns left and right, a couple hundred meters before another turn. Scarlett lost track by the time they reached the main street.
'Just a couple more blocks,' Julie spoke from in front of her, looking back at the woman behind her. She smiled softly when she saw the red-head looking around in wonder.
'Wow. What is all of this? It all looks so, so...' Scarlett trailed off as she tried to think of the word. 'Different? New? Ooh, what about fresh? Or modern-' 'Oh, yes! Modern! That's it, thank you dear!' Julia laughed at this, getting looks from people walking by, but none questioned her. She was a respected psychic after all.

'So, do you have a family?' Scarlett's question was sudden, and caught Julie off guard.
'Uh, I do, yeah. Why do you ask?' 'Just curious, that's all.' Scarlett wandered up to Julie's side, and continued looking around. Julie made a noise of understanding as she looked ahead, still smiling.
'Do you have children?'
'I do, three of them. Right little demons they are.'
'Oh...'
Julie looked back with a grin at that response, before continuing on, 'I have mixed feelings about that reaction.'
As a car passes, Julie was splashed with water.

Word Count: 720

Hello all of you beautiful tropical fish! Welcome to 'Chapter 2 - Part 2' of Scarlett Journeys! I will be turning this into a real book, paperback. I will only post about half of the book on here, AO3 and Quotev. This will all be edited when this book is published. 
Thank you for reading this trash, have a good day/night/evening/whatever time it is!