THE SCHOOL GHOST
Episode 9
Written by remi the writer
Adanna stumbled through the crowded hallway of St. Anthony High School.
Her footsteps were unsteady, she was no longer the quiet, unremarkable girl who blended into the background.
Something had changed, something inexplicable.
Richard’s presence lingered, a spectral whisper in corner of her mind. She had never felt so different, so weird.
Adanna could feel his presence, the weight of his past, the burden of his unfinished business. And she was caught in the crossfire.
“Why did you do those things to my friends?” Adanna’s inner voice trembled as she addressed richard in her consciousnesses.
“Especially Amaka. The snake attacks in your bag, esther’s blindness?”.
Richard’s response echoed through her psyche.
“They deserved it,” Richard replied, bitterness tainting his words.
“They needed to learn. i heard your discussions with your friends, how you guys had planned to frame me”.
“Amaka’s cruel plans, it reminded me of Jerry.”
Adanna frowned on the hallway, while appearing to soliloquize.
“Jerry? Who he’s Jerry?”.
“My stepfather,” Richard replied. “.
“My mom pursued her career for a business contract, leaving me behind with him, I was sleeping, and then suddenly,
I saw myself lying l!feless on the couch.
Jerry stood over me, a hoe in his hand.
My h@ad was severed, right there in front of me. I thought it was a nightmare, but it wasn’t. That’s how I became a ghost.”
Adanna sign. “That’s quite sad”.
“i would be alive, if not because Jerry took my life for the sake of wealth”.
Richard’s voice grew colder and savage through adanna’s eardrums.
“I wondered aimlessly trying to interact with people on the streets, but to no avail, not until I saw other ghosts like me, who had been d£ad for a long time”.
“They granted me the ability to appear living for a week.
But I can’t maintain it for too long. So I merged myself inside you.
“Adanna,” Richard’s voice echoed in her mind, “you’re my vessel now. My conduit to the living world.”
Adanna clutched her textbooks, glancing around nervously.
No one else heard Richard’s voice, but she did. His consciousness seeped into hers, coloring her thoughts, altering her perceptions. She wondered if she was going m@d.
Adanna leaned against the lockers, her heart racing.
Richard’s emotions surged through her, the anger, the frustration, the longing for justice.
She saw his tear-streaked nights when richard wondered around seeking help as a ghost in the streets, praying for a way to save his mother from Jerry’s hands.
“But why me?” Adanna asked. “Why inhabit my body?”
“Because you’re different,” Richard said.
“Your heart is pure. I sensed it when I merged with you. You won’t misuse my power. Together, we can right the wrongs.”
And so, the girl with a ghost inside her walked into St. Anthony High School, her steps echoing with the weight of two souls one seeking justice, the other redemption.
The teachers and students sensed the change in adanna’s behavior .
The haunted look in her eyes.
Richard’s absence at school didn’t go unnoticed either.
The teachers wondered if he wasn’t longer schooling after his encounter with esther.
The News about his sudden disappearance spread like wildfire, unaware that he was right in front of them, within Adanna…….
TBC......🚫 Don’t copy, avoid copyright infringement
Written by ©️ remi the writer
……. Typing episode 10….
