SIGHT

Chapter 3

On the next day, Ash is already waiting for me outside. I quickly finished my breakfast, give mom a peck on the cheek and said goodbye to my dad, I ran out. I saw him, Ashton Miller standing under the oak tree, tall and lean build just almost the same as mine. He had a neat crop of dark brown hair and green eyes, a jawline that could cut you so deeply, I would say and every girl in school agreeing to this too, that my best friend is good looking. I stop on the stairs and look at him, Ash, standing with his hand tucked inside his pocket and smiling, looks super cool without even trying. Unlike me, I look at myself, even though I had the same body build as Ash because we're both not very athletic, I managed to make myself look like a guy who had every problem in his entire life. With my super messy dark hair and dark brown eyes, I always think of myself as your average Joe. But, funnily enough, even I don't think I would ever end up on the girls most wanted boyfriend list, I always do get a lot of chocolates during Valentine's Day from so many admirers. But, both of us are still single though. "Are you not gonna go to school Danny? Cause if you not going to budge from that stairs right now, imma just gonna leave ya" Ash already giving me an exasperated look. I jumped two steps and run to him, "sorry, I'm just trying to remember whether I'd left my notebook upstairs or not." I'm adjusting my backpack while Ash still had his hands in his pocket," I thought you were having an existential crisis or something by the look you gave, or probably were having diarrhea," Snorted Ash. "Whatever, dude" I rolled my eyes and started walking, Ash still standing and laughing, "are you coming or not?" I yelled at him. He nodded his head and started moving towards me. This is our routine every morning, we always walk to school together. Mom wanted me to take the bus, I told mom I need a little exercise in the morning and besides that, I love morning stroll, that's the reason that I gave to her. It is a bit true, but the real reason why I like to walk is that I would get to see her. There she is right now, not too far in the front, already walking with her girl's group. It's none other than Millie. My crush. Her name is Emily Dawn, all of us at school called her Millie, the most popular girl in school, every guy's dream girl. As usual, she looks so beautiful today, she looks beautiful every day. With her dark brown wavy long hair, her hazel eyes, that cute little button nose and her lovely little rosy lips. Aahh... damn, she's so pretty. I stop to admire and Ash peeks at me, "why don't you try and said hi to her, instead of gaping here like a freaking dying fish bro?" I pushed his head aside "no way dude, I'm not crazy to do that, I would rather just admire from afar rather than get rejected." Ash sniggered and shakes his head, we continued walking. I ought to say I so badly wanted to ask her out, or at least talk to her but I just can't seem to do it. I guess I'm just a coward then. I'm scared that Millie's not going to like me, and I'm worried that she might end up hating me. I just can't imagine that to happen at all. That's why I would rather just keep those feeling to myself. Of course, Ash knew about this and being a supportive friend he is always trying to encourage me to open up to her. But, I'm never the confident type of guy, so, I always shove his idea aside but still appreciated his moral support though.

As we arrived at the school front gate the bell ring and we rushed ahead to our class. Ash and I are in the same class, so is my dear Millie. We are all in class 4A. All of us bustling to get to our seats. Mine is the third desk in the first row, next to the window, Ash's seat right behind me, and Millie's desk at the front in the middle row. This is one of the reasons why I love school and never skipped again. And our class started as soon as our homeroom teacher, Mrs Jasmine arrived. During recess, we never sit at the cafeteria, instead, we like to go to our secret place and that is the school rooftop. I like it there because it's away from the crowd and most importantly away from all the ghosts too. Yup. That's right, they're here at school too. Mostly I would see them roaming around at the yards and sometimes in the library, there is quite a lot of them here, but most of them are just the roaming type. They barely give any problems but just to be safe I would try to stay away as far as I can from them. We were having simple egg sandwiches today. "So, why not talk to Millie about your superpower, Danny? I bet you would have her entire attention after that" Ash said before taking a bite on his sandwich. I groaned "not this again Ash. God, please. Why would I do that for?" I took a bite of my sandwich too. "What? I think it's a good idea to talk to her about it, you know it too, how she's so into this supernatural stuff right? I think she would squeal in delight when she hears about it." Ash gives a sly smile and continues chewing. I can't help but agree with what Ash just said, it is true, Millie does have this obsession with supernatural stuff. I always often overhear her talk with her best friend, Emma, about ghosts and stuff. Sometimes I always saw her reading the supernatural paperback novels too. But, that is not enough reason for me to tell her about this stupid ability of mine. "Are you out of your mind? I never even properly talk to her without stuttering my words out let alone to open up about this curse of mine? Dude, you're talking about the impossible right now. Besides, I don't think she would ever believe it." I nod my head along agreeing to myself. "Hmmm... you think she wouldn't gonna believe you? What makes you so sure if you never tried it yet?" continued Ash while giving me a sceptical look. I finish my sandwich and said, "I don't have to try to make sure of it, I just knew it." I scrunch up the wrapper and get up to find a trash can. "Well, she must be dumb then if she's not going to believe it. After all, I do believe you." Ash gets up too to throw his wrapper. I looked at Ash and we both just smiled. "You're different Ash, you would believe anything I said, same as me too. Cause we soulmate, unlike Millie, she barely knew me except as a guy who always had a problem to finishes his sentences when she's in front of me." We both laughed at it. "Bro, I gotta help build that self-confident of yours more." Ash chuckled. "Just think whatever you want man, but trust me, that idea of mine is going to work if you give it a try." I give Ash a sad smile "whatever dude, I just can't see myself doing it, that's all."

As recess finish, we head down to get back to class. Ash told me he had to go to the toilet and tell me that I should go ahead first. As I walk in the corridor, I saw Millie there, along with a group of friends. I just stand there and gaping at her. I wanted to keep on walking but my feet felt so heavy. I just stood there like an i***t. Then she saw me. She gives me her most radiant smile and waves at me. I look back to make sure that she did smile at me, and she is smiling and waving at me. At ME! I feel like I want to slap my face because I should at least wave back, but I didn't do that, instead, I just still stare at her with an open mouth. Millie gives a quizzical look, and all of a sudden she started walking in my direction. I was so nervous and I started running to the class door without opening it. My freaking face slammed on the door, and I hear some people in the corridor laughed. I was so freaking embarrassed with my stupidity I just keep on walking inside. Damn it, why did I do that for? Why did I run away like an i***t like that? I said to myself. I bet Millie would see me as a sore loser right now. i***t Danny. I keep on rambling to myself. Then, Millie came into the class, stand at the door looking for something or someone. I try to keep my eyes away from her, and I saw her making her way to me. As she approached my desk, she keeps her head down to me, "oh my god, Danny, are you okay?" I look at her and saw her face full of concern, "I... I... fine... I mean I'm fine." And give her a reassuring smile. "Are you sure? Cause I can take you to the infirmary right now if you're hurt," she touches my hand and I felt like an electric shock had hit me. I quickly take my hands away, and Millie looked kind of hurt by my actions. I touched her shoulder "no, thank you Millie, but don't worry, I'm just fine. I'm not hurt anywhere." Except for my pride, I want to add. And I give Millie what I think is my best smile. She seems satisfied and nodded her head. "Okay then, but if you feel hurt anywhere just tell me okay?" she said with the sweetest smile I saw. Man, her beauty is so inhumane. I move my head up and down like an i***t then she gets back to her desk.

Ash gets back a few moments later. He gets to his seat and whispers to me "what's up with your face? You're red as a freaking beetroot." I shift a little at my seat and turn to him. "I tell you about it later" I glance over at Millie who was so into her novel at that moment. Ash looks up at Millie too and gives me a knowing smile.

"Dude, I think she's into you" Ash slapped my back excitedly. We were in the school library since I'm a library perfect I had to stay after school today to do my duty. Ash decided to accompany me today. We were putting all books away back on their shelves. I was on the ladder and Ash passing me the book. "What makes you think that? She just worried because I banged my freaking face on the door" I was telling Ash everything that just happened before. "She probably thinks that I'm such an i***t too". Ash pulled another ladder and started climbing up to my level too, "tell me that you did not just think like that at all" Ash staring at me with a serious face. I just sighed and started climbing down the ladder, "of course I do Ash, I do think like that," Ash gasped dramatically and I just rolled my eyes. "Dan my boy, you got to think more of yourself dude. I hate to hear you keep on downgrading yourself. Have some courage and a little pride, man" Ash started getting off the ladder too. "Whatever dude, I think that's the last of it," I said referring to my duty today. Ash nodded "let's grab some food on the way back, I'm so freaking hungry". Ash was gathering our bags and I was on the admin table trying to log off when I suddenly hear something. A sound of rustling pages. It sounded very distant but I can hear it. I get up and started checking around. I get to the study section, looking around at the empty row of tables, thinking probably there's a student who was staying behind to study. But I see nobody at all. Then Ash came from behind and grabbed my shoulder so suddenly that I yelp out of surprise "what the hell dude?" Ash's face is a mixture of shock and confusion "is there something over there? What are you looking for?" he gave me a searching look. "no, nothing. I thought I heard... Never mind" I grab my bag from Ash's hand and started walking. Ash look at the tables then back to me, "Was something there? Is there you know, ghost, there?" I turned around and saw that Ash standing still looking at the rows of tables, " no, nothing there. I just probably misheard it. Let's go, didn't you said you were hungry?" he slowly turned and nod his head. "Yeah, let's get out of here."

That night, as I'm getting ready to bed, my mind still drifting around on what happened at school today. Damn, that was embarrassing. Why did I try to run away from Millie? I just ruined it. But I do hope Millie doesn't think of me as a weird guy, because that would make it even worse. I lie down on my bed, there is no way Millie would think like that, she's a sweet person, look at how very concerned she was about me. I smiled remembering Millie's worried face. She cared about me, and if I'm not mistaken I think my stupidness does help me get her attention. I keep on smiling like an i***t. Then I shake my head, can't believe whatever the hell I was thinking about and started to close my eyes.

A sound of rustling pages. Where am I? I opened my eyes and see that I'm standing between rows of tables. Wait, this is not my room. Where is this? This place looks familiar, am I in the school library? Then I hear it again, a rustling sound. I'm searching, looking around to find where it came from. Suddenly, I saw a blinding light and the row of tables turned to an empty road. I'm standing on this now road, confused, and the light blinding me. I covered my eyes and saw that it's getting closer and closer. I try to move away but it feels like my body is locked. I can't move. It's coming. Then I heard a crash and a scream. Something or someone falls with a loud thud right next to me. I turned and saw a lying figure down on the road, with blood all over. The person is completely still, I try to move my body and I managed to. I crouched down, trying to see the fallen person. I stretched out my hand turning the body to see who it was, I screamed out of fear. It's Millie.