My ghost boyfriend

Let’s talk!

Standing there I could see Eddie’s rage, everyone else was confused by this reaction but if it was less I wouldn’t be sure now that Eddie knows something I should or at least want to.

when I said Eddie had a right to not tell me like I did him, I meant it, I really did but I couldn’t let it go.

So I got all of us from the night Tim together and got Eddie here, then I suggested doing something that I knew if he knew anything about what happened that night, Eddie would hate, his reaction is proof that I was right.

“Why?” I asked almost as a whisper, I was so sure of myself but suddenly a sinking feeling started to set in. “Why shouldn’t we do a Séance?”

Everyone was just staring, thats when Josh’s Senses seem to kick in because he laughs, “dude you know it’s not really right?”

This seemed to bring everyone down from the edge, we all started taking our seats and I had the answer I wanted, I could talk to Eddie later, but I decided to stir it all up instead. Why Jj?

“K, what happened when me and Ryan went to Tim?” I was calm and concerned and I really was, and it would be ok if she didn’t want to tell me but I had to ask.

Taking a deep breath and looking to Josh, Kylie tells us all, “I was watching you go and when I turned back there was someone in the balcony, he was just watching then he vanished and I mean the full Houdini disappearing act.”

“I told you babe, it was dark.” Josh walked over to Kylie putting a hand on her shoulder, then he whispered “plus we had been drinking.” Great.

I looked at Eddie and he was smiling smugly right at me, he knows to get him to talk I can’t be the only one to believe there was something at that house.

Lacey stood up, “well I saw something, I saw Tim pushed of the balcony, this thing it was dark like it was wearing a Cloak but it wasn’t because the thing wasn’t even really there you know?” She only stopped to calm her breathing before she carried on, “it had these long claws and it ripped.. it ripped open Tim’s.” She never finished that sentence but she kept talking. “It came from nowhere and was gone after a second, it wasn’t human.”

Poor Lacey having to see that, no one deserves that, no matter what it’s now going to be engraved in her mind.

Silence followed but my eyes stayed pinned to Eddie, waiting and watching for a reaction, and there it was, he looked at me out of the corners of his breathtaking grey eyes. That’s all I needed.

“Ok you know what, this is all a bunch of s**t, I came here to forget about all that, that try and chill without everyone else staring, my parents my brother everyone from school, are we having fun or are we bringing up that c**p coz I’m happy to leave.” Ryan really just needed his friends right now and we could all see it, so we sat back down and played another movie, I wasn’t going to drag them into this if they didn’t want to know, I guess for them ignorance really is bliss.

Kylie and Josh left early, then Lacey fell to sleep but she kept crying, I wished I could help her but I know I can’t, she needs to mourn and find her way through this and it would take time.

Ryan covered her with a blanket, “hey we’re ready to go you..?” Ryan stopped me,

“I’m gonna stay make sure she’s ok, and it’s not like I got much to go home too.” He laughs a sad little laugh and yeah I know what he means.

Since Ryan wanted to stay it worked out better for me because I get to grill Eddie for the whole drive home. Eddie knew this too because he didn’t look happy, I think the expression about sucking lemons would fit perfectly here.

We said our goodbyes and got back into Eddie’s car, there was silence for a little while as I just watched him, but I couldn’t keep quiet anymore.

“Can I ask you something?” Eddie tensed right away but nodes anyway.

“Ok so I’m guessing you know ghosts are real, but what I want to know is can they hurt you?”

Eddie looked confused for a moment, “out of all the things you wanna ask that’s what your going with?” He smiled slightly shaking his head.

Then he stated talking, “ok ghosts yes they can hurt you, but it’s complicated, I..”

I cut him off, “Eddie don’t treat me like an idiot.”

“I’m not trying to, it’s just people react to stuff like this and I don’t do crying, I can deal with a scared chick but not crying.” He genuinely looked terrified at the idea I might cry.

“I will be fine, now carry on,” I was being pushy but i really didn’t care.

With a big huff he said, “if you wanna know you should wait, just until Sunday when my uncle gets back, he knows more about it than me.”

I didn’t trust him enough to just wait, “so you have a free house?” I asked.

He just nodded, concentrating on the road ahead, he didn’t look happy but not angry either more just thinking.

“Go to your house then!” I said which raised Eddie’s eye brows.

“Excuse me?” He didn’t look worried just amused.

I decided to be straight with him, “ok listen, I don’t have a family to go home to that’s worried for me, I can call the home and they will be fine with it. But I just don’t want to be alone tonight, not again.”

Looking over at me Eddie must have seen how desperate I was, and the truth was the more I thought the more I was worried about my ghostly visited returning and he would, Eddie carries on down the road past the turning that leads to the home.

“How long have you been there?” He voice surprised me.

I remember when I first arrived at the home, I was 10, my mother and her boyfriend decided a child didn’t suit there life style so she dropped me off at mrs Lee’s house, it took a week for mrs lee to Realize they were not coming back.

From there I have been in a few different foster placements but I always ended back at blue sky home, it didn’t bother me anyway, I don’t need replacement parents I just need to be old enough so no one will fuss to much about me leaving.

“I don’t know, 10 maybe.” I answered not wanted to discuss anything to do with the witch that called herself my mother, because a mother is about the only thing she wasn’t.

When I was 5 she was a stripper, when I was 7 she was an assistant to a business man, when I was 8 she was a stay at home mum and when I was 9 she was a bully. That women was capable of anything at least that’s how I saw her when I was a kid but motherly was never something she cared to be.

Eddie turns the car down a little dirt road, there were trees canopying like a tunnel of floating leafs of all different colors.

The autumn had turned them yellow, brown, orange and red, some of them were slowly falling down around and it was magical, I would have loved to have grown up in a place like this, is this how Eddie grew up?

“Did you grow up here or just recently move?” I asked.

We pulled up to a house, it wasn’t big it wasn’t small, four bedrooms maybe, just standing all on its own. It was a little dirty like it had been left awhile, but it was nice, somewhere you know kids could play without fear of breaking anything, as if it was there to be used. Home.

“I grew up traveling around with my dad but this was our one constant, Christmas, birthdays, I don’t know remembering people gone, this is where we come. This is as close to a home as I have.” He clenched his jaw once he had finished.

After he just hopped out of the car so I followed, up the steps to the door, Eddie pulled out the key and opened the door heading in straight to the kitchen.

In the hallway there were stairs leading up, to the right was an office looking room at the left was a dinning room and the table was covered in books and paper with writing and pictures everywhere.

Walking further in there was a living room with a sofa and a tv, simple and unused by the look of it, then there was the kitchen. It was nothing fancy, with wood cupboards and granite counter tops but it was tidy and it’s smelt like food.

It was comforting, the house was a bit messy but Eddie knew where everything was, it was a place filled with laughs and family coming and going.

“Why don’t you want to go home?” I heard Eddie softly beside me, I hadn’t even noticed until now that I was standing with him by the table.

I shrug, “it doesn’t feel like home, maybe because it’s not family I don’t know I just feel more lonely there.”

Eddie listened and seemed to understand, “your welcome to stay the night, we have a spare room. It might be a bit dusty but there’s a bed and I know what it’s like to feel as if the world forgot about you so.” Without saying anything more Eddie started taking things out of the fridge.

While Eddie cooked I rang the home to tell them I was staying with Kylie, it was a lie but I was safe so what was the problem? After that I just watched Eddie work in the kitchen, he had clearly been doing this himself for a long time, just like I had to.

He made burgers, big burgers with cheese and onions, it was a mess but it was so good we were still feeling bloated when we went into the living room to watch tv.

We decide on a rom com and get settled on the sofa, “hey Eddie, are all ghosts bad?”

Looking at me Eddie shifts so he can face me properly, “it’s not the ghost that’s bad. Spirits are beings that are half way between worlds, meaning other things can latch on and climb from there to here.”

Understanding hit me, “so it was a thing that killed Tim, and the only reason it’s here is because of the ghost.” It wasn’t a question I just had to say it out loud.

“Yeah, like I said my uncle can explain it better but the ghost can control it, if he try’s and ghosts can be vengeful, I mean I would be if I died that young, so a lot of ghosts figure out how to control the demon and try to get revenge.” He stops for a moment. “But then the demon can latch on to the ghost and basically ride it into the world.

It can go anywhere and can be corporeal and cause distruction because well that’s just what they do.”

“So they both gain something from the other but that means the ghost isn’t bad or at least not all of them have to be?” I asked turning toward him.

“Why do you care?” Eddie seemed annoyed by this but I just wanted to know.

Ok here goes, because I don’t know what to do and I don’t know enough to do it by myself. “I think the ghost from that house is haunting me and I need your help!”