Another Life, JenniferNewman [short story to read .TXT] 📗

after breath.
Scream after piercing scream.
I open my eyes.
As I look around the room I see nothing. No ghost no sign that Cody had been here. Nothing just ordinary looking living room furniture. I look to both my sides and see Parker doing the same thing as me. On my other side Sophie was curled up against my side with her eyes tightly shut. I patted her shoulder saying,
“It’s gone Soph.” I blink because I have to try and act normal and strong not weak like I really felt. I wanted to scream and cry like a little child but instead I pulled Sophie up and hugged her while Parker stood and looked around the room with a weary look.
He looked back down at me and answered the thought that had not yet been put into words.
“He’s gone. Maybe we should go out in the garden.” I raise my eyebrow waiting for him to explain why we would be going out to the garden but he just held out his hand to help me and Sophie up before leading the way towards the kitchen and threw there the Garden.
I stumbled over the door post entered the garden with Sophie pulling her feet forwards slowly behind.
“Well thanks you to now if you would both be kind enough to explain WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?” I turned round to face Sophie. Ah crap I was so going to have to explain now…… crap……
I took a deep breath and quickly decided after looking quickly at Parker who nodded. Sadly giving me permission to tell her. Crap.
“Okay Sophie if I explain promise you wound freak because I am only telling you now. Please?” I took a deep breath again when she nodded and started to explain.
“Okay you now that my Dad died two years ago. Well I went to our old house around two weeks ago and over heard basically everyone that knew my dad apart from me and my Mum talking about how there was a possibility of my Dad coming back from the dead in the form of a ghost. Right I thought it was crazy to…… anyway I ran out of the house when everyone had left and ran straight into Parker who I still have not found out why he was there but anyway.” I took a deep breath and started talking again. “Weird stuff started happening like when Parker came over to mine the day after and a coffee lid hit his head. Well you know stuff like that.” I blushed as I remembered what had happened. “right so I get Parker to explain to me what the hell is going on and well turns out his brother hates me and because he believes….. he believes that…. Well apparently he was in the cab with my Dad when he crashed.” I stop and close my eyes this was getting really hard to carry on but Parker came over and put his arm around my waist pulling me to his side. I carry on, “ It turns out that his brother Cody is trying to kill me to some how get back at my Dad for killing him. I still really don’t know what exactly happened or well the details but anyway I now have a ghost chasing me around for payback.” I was trying to say it all light hearted but my voice kept braking and the confused look Sophie kept getting was really not helping. “that’s basically it…..” I trained off and looked at the ground while Parker pulled my tighter against his side.
“Wow.” I heard Sophie breath. I was still staring blindly at the floor still thinking about how crazy I sounded.
“Well you really do sound crazy. I would think it if I had not just been in your freaking house two seconds ago. Well shit…….” Well that’s great I’m not on my own with the crazy thinking.
“Rose.” I look up “I'm still not going to let anything happen to you. Okay?” I smile up at Parker as he whispers so that Soph doesn’t hear.
“Thanks” I mouth as Soph turns back from the house and comes closer. She really looks shaken up.
“I am sorry Soph! Really I am. I didn’t want you to see that. It wasn’t fair on you. If you can just forget you ever saw it.” My voice was sincere and she knew it as I finally look up to look her in the eyes. I was expecting to see fear or disused instead I saw anger. Oops.
“Okay for one thing you should have told me this as soon as you found out! Why am I only hearing this now? After how long? And for another thing” she said before I could comment. “is your brother Stupid or something? Cant he see that you care about Rose? Its pretty obvious over here. Is he willing to hurt his brother as well as ‘avenge his death’” she made little finger movement when she said avenge his death which I'm sure went down just great if Cody was still watching which I am sure he was.
Parker shrugs and looks down at me with eyes full of apologies. I rolled my eyes and turned around so I was facing him I pulled him close to me and hugged him with my face crushed against his chest and his hands stroking my hair.
“See could my point be made anymore?” she still sounded angry but she was obviously coming to turns with the fact a lot quicker than I had. Or still am.
Maybe it was because she was not the one that had the death threat on her nearly every second of the day. I sighed and was sudden felt really tired and leaned against Parker for support which he register and pulled my head up from its sideways position. It was a real work to keep my head up straight and my eyes up.
“Rose” Parker’s face was starting to swim making me blink and then close my eyes fully. “Rose” my name was uttered by a panicked voice and then everything went black.

Chapter Ten: Wednesday 10:06pm.
I awoke to the sound of frantic talking coming from my left. I groaned inwardly and hoped for sleep to take me wistfully away again. No such luck. I opened one eye to peck threw. Nothing. A new deeper voice joined in the voice was more soothing than the high pitched panicky one. It slowly sent me back off into the sweet darkness of sleep. That was until I heard the deeper voice mutter my name. Telling me to wake up but I didn’t want to wake up. The dark was no threat to me.
I groaned once again this time not inside my head and opened one of my eyes. Oh my god that light was bright. Why does voice one and two have that freaking light on so bright? I quickly closed my eyes again hoping that the blind spots you get when you look at the sun for too long would disappear soon.
I felt something warm touch my arm making me jump. The warm thing turned out to be a hand. A hand belonging to a majorly tall silhouette. What? Mt breathing quickened although had no idea why I just knew I should be scared. Mad feelings started vibrating around my body as I curled away from the silhouette next to me.
“What’s wrong with her?” the panicked voice again. I moved back even move against the wall behind me. I jumped when my back connected with the hard surface nearly spinning into the lamp next to me making me squeal.
The light was still blinding but I didn’t want to close my eyes I was to scared. The fear was swirly around my body like a face horse on the tracks. I pushed myself up against the wall even more until I saw something more out of the corner of my eye. Something big. My eyes were starting to adjust to the bright room and I could start to make out the features of the people around me.
“I- I don’t know” the boy said to the high pitched speaker which I now realized was a girl. A small girl with blond hair pulled back into a loose plate. She had brown eyes that at the moment were wide like she had just seen a ghost. These features were familiar but I just couldn’t place them……
“Parker for god’s sake. If your brother is doing this to her I swear I’ll kill him!” Huh Parker. I know that name…..
“Parker?” I said the name out loud trying to remember how I knew it. Saying it out loud only made the worry on both the people’s faces grow and gave me no clue as to why I knew the name of the faces. Why could I not remember anything? Where was I?
I looked around the large room with it cute settees with dark brown pillows. The high ceiling with arches holding it up. The carpet I was sitting on with its red black flowered surface and the wide TV on the counter to my right. Familiar yet not. I could tell that my eyes had gone into little slits as I thought. Worry makes must have appeared on my forehead by now as well.
“Rose? What is it? Please say something” ‘Parker’ the boy I could not place begged. Well I would gladly speak but what question would I ask first. Who are you? Where the hell am i? why is the girl over there threatening to kill your brother? Why is this room so bloody bright?
Before I knew it I had asked them all coursing the boy to smile sadly down at the ground.
“Did she just ask who we were? Oh my god! What the hell!” high pitched girl squealed. Well I would like to keep my ears.
“Oh no wait she is still herself. I'm better now.” Oops had I said that out loud. My normal self what was that supposed to mean? Well it made Parker laugh and me confused so I guess it made sense to someone.
I closed my eyes again and heard footsteps. Outside and the a key going into the lock as someone entered the house I sat in.
“Crap!” I reopened my eyes again to see the two people standing up and looking panicked. Well that’s great I had only just started to calm down from thinking that these two were some sort of threat to me. Quickly the boy Parker leaned down and whispered,
“Please can you just act like you know us for just two seconds?” Okay…………... I scowled at him but suddenly he had the most adorable puppy dog eyes I had ever seen and memories started flooding back.
Oh
My
God!
My eyes went wide and I quickly nodded and stood up next to them both. I looked at the girl next to me more memories flooding back to my already over packed brain making me feel dizzy.
“When she comes in just say that you are going to show me pictures from something okay?” I looked up at the impossibly tall Parker in front of me and nodded once more. Wait when who came in? Huh!
“Hey Honey where are you?” Parker nudged me mouthing ‘that’s you’ right….
“In here” my voice comes out like I have been having way to much sleep and haven’t woken up properly yet. Which in my case it is soooooo true.
The door opened and yet another familiar face puts her head around the door to see the room. Mum.
“Hey were just going to go upstairs