Her Grievance
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“I can’t believe I let you drag me into this mess,” Cissy muttered.
“I didn’t drag you here. You clung onto me, remember?” she tried to whisper as low as she could. But her teacher can definitely sense that there is something else with her at the time.
“Whatever, you know I’m scared of ghosts. And yet you insisted on taking this job.”
She literally rolled her eyeballs. “First of all, you are a ghost yourself. And second of all, It’s not a job. It’s a favor in exchange to pass this school year.”
“So shameless. Dragging your friend here like this.”
“I’m shameless?” she can’t help but raise her voice a bit. “You’re the one who’s been following me ever since. And we’re not even friends.”
“Is there something wrong?” her teacher asked later.
They both glared at each other and turned the other way.
They were both at her teacher’s car. And on their way to its sister's house. But before that, they passed an abandoned building near the side of a road. There were no known establishments nor houses near it. Just a clear field of grass. That thought is creepy enough for her. But what really caught her attention, was the figure that stood at the doorway. You can tell that it's a woman. But it’s definitely not a person.
“Who is that?” Cissy suddenly talked to her again.
“It’s probably a ghost,” she said. Making her teacher shudder and suddenly decided to step on the gas.
***
Just like what Mrs. Torres had told her before getting there.
She sensed that something dark was lurking inside the house. And from the window upstairs, she saw a dark figure standing behind the curtain. It was quietly observing from the moment they entered the vicinity.
“Can you feel that?” she was talking to Cissy at the moment. But it was her teacher who answered.
“Fell what?”
She smiled faintly at the middle-aged woman.
“Can I ask you something, Karma?” Mrs. Torres was obviously bothered with her talking to someone that wasn’t actually there. “Are we with another entity from the very beginning?”
“Was she talking about me?”
She answered both with a nod.
“That’s exactly my thoughts. I-Is she still with us?”
Right at that moment, she couldn’t tell her teacher that it was actually standing right beside her.
She glared at Cissy when it purposely blew on Mrs. Torres’s ear.
“She’s not standing right beside me, is she?” it said holding its ear that Cissy had blown on.
“Don’t worry, she’s harmless.” she then turned to her so-called ghost entity friend. “Get out of there.” Cissy pouted as it went back to her side.
“She’s not here anymore?” Mrs. Torres asked for assurance.
“Oh, don’t worry. I’m sure, she won’t be bothering us for long. She’s more afraid of ghosts than we are.”
“Are you mocking me?” Cissy said hissing at her. But when it turned and was suddenly shocked by what it saw. It immediately vanished itself in thin air.
Karma had to slowly turn to find out what made Cissy disappear so fast.
The same black figure was peeking at the door. When the same middle-aged woman walked out of it.
It was definitely Mrs. Torres’s sister.
***
“Are you sure that she could help?” Mrs. Benz asked her sister Mrs. Torres.
“There’s no harm in trying. And besides, I can tell that she’s the real deal.”
“But isn’t she too young for this?” Mrs. Benz stared at her without much confidence that she could get the job done.
“Excuse me, but can I say something?”
Her teacher nodded.
“To be honest, I haven’t done any exorcisms or called any spirits to help them with their grievances. But there is something that bothers me before I even enter your house.”
“And what’s that?”
“Is your daughter wearing a white flowy dress the day she disappeared?”
Mrs. Benz basically caught her mouth with both hands.
“H-how did you know?”
“I saw her on your front door,” she said remembering the hem of the dress it was wearing. “She seems missing a sandal.”
“Yes, she was definitely wearing a sandal that day.” Mrs. Benz confirmed. “And you couldn’t possibly know that, unless- you are seeing ghosts are you?”
“But why could she be missing her sandal?” Mrs. Torres thought.
“Could she be murdered?” Mrs. Benz was about to cry.
“I can’t say for now. We’ll just have to wait and see.” her eyes then went to the top of the stairs where the black figure stood. And it seems to be crying.
***
A student name Violet had just gotten home from school. And it seems scared of something. But when her parents asked if she’s okay. It just ran to its own room locked itself up.
She jumped at her bed and hid under her thick blanket while shaking.
She wasn’t imagining things. Someone or something was actually following her ever since that day.
They were having fun making a video of Alice at the abandoned building while bullying it.
They aimed to post it online. But Alice did not show up at school for days after that. They thought it got scared that the video was already out in public.
Since then, a lot of them started seeing apparitions of her either crying or angry for some reason.
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