The Lady in the Hall part 2

That morning I was so tired. Could another ghost be living here? I had to shake it off. I didn't want to go around telling me new friends at school things that weren't true.

We had moved in this house about two weeks ago and I would be starting school soon. I didn't want to get a bad start. I think I'll go to bed early tonight. School starts tomorrow. I better get to the mall before all the school supplies are gone, I thought to myself.

"Uh...Mum? Can I go up to the mall after breakfast and get some new clothes and supplies?"

"Why do you need clothes? New supplies I can understand, but your clothes still fit you."

"Mum! I wore those clothes last year! I want a fresh start! I'm going into middle school, you know. It's not elementary school anymore." My mum sighed and shook her head saying, "All right. I'll give you seventy-five dollars, but that's it. Now eat your beakfast, it's gonna get cold."

As I was in front of the rulers, looking for a green one to match everything else, I saw the most beautiful girl coming in from the beginning of the aisle.

She noticed that I noticed her. She walked over to me. No girl has ever walked over to me.

"Hi," what a nice voice, "You new? I haven't seen you around here. Did you move into the beaten up house down on Polk crescent?"

"Uh..." I have never had a conversation this long with a girl before. I didn't want to mess it up. Act cool, Jason, act cool. "Yeah, my dad is fixing it up for us. You here for last minute supplies?" Oh yeah. I'm so acting cool.

"No. I was supposed to meet someone here, but she didn't show. I can see that you are."

"And clothes." I added.

"Well, if you dress like that everyday, you need some fashion help." She took my arm with a green ruler with it. I have never gone shopping with a girl before. This is getting pretty weird.

"I'm Tairin. I'm starting middle school tomorrow. What about you?"

"Jason and same goes. "

Tairin helped me find some outfits and when I tried them on, she would either say good or bad. My total came to $58.67. I had enough to buy Tairi and I lunch and a soda.

When I got home, I dumped all my clothes on my mum's bed for her to look through, then climbed up my ladder to my attic bedroom. Time went by and soon it was dinner. We had some potato salad and hamburgers as we always do before school starts so I can have a hamburgers for lunch the next day. After dinner, we watched America's Funniest Home Videos and had great laughs. At nine, it was take shower and go to bed time.

I laid in bed for about a half hour and started dozing off and then... Oh-No! Not this again. Moaning. The night before school and I can't sleep again! I'm not going to put up with this again! I'm gonna find out where this ghost is coming from! Then I'll be able to sleep. I hopped out of bed and, first, looked around my room. I looked in my closet last. On the ceiling, there was another attic-looking door. It was hard to open it and when I did, I was full of dust. Great. Now I have to take another shower tomorrow morning!

"Noah? You there? Is that you Noah?" the ghostly voice was louder now. I must have found where the ghost was. "Noah?...Noah?"

"Hey, um, ghost. What's your name?" Okay, asking a ghost's name must have been pretty lame, but I had to be nice, right? I didn't want it to kill me.

"Uh? My name is Carson. Who are you?" The way he said Who are you? sounded like the caterpillar from Alice In Wonderland.

"My name's Jason. Who's Noah?" I really wanted to know who this Noah kid was so he could take his friend out of here like that other girl did.

"Noah? Oh, your talking about a bad dream I had." Okay. I couldn't s ee this guy but he didn't seem so ghostly now.

"Where are you. I want to help you."

"Oh, you wouldn't want to help a ghost. I'm scary looking. You'll be afraid of me." I told him about the other ghost I helped. He laughed. I didn't. I still don't know why that's funny. I decided to go back to my room and get a flash light. When I was in my room I heard the "ghost" yelling for Noah again.

"Okay. If you not going to tell me where you are, I'll just have to find you." And turned on the flash light. I flashed it on every corner and then the walls. I did the same thing three times. One the fourth try, I found and guy wearing all black and curled up in a ball.

"Hey! What are you doing in my house?! Mum! Dad!" I couldn't believe this! A guy was living in my house. In my
room! My Dad came rushing in first. My Mum after, taking her time.

"Jason where are you? I can't see you," called my Dad.

"Go into my closet and look up" My Dad did just that and climbed up. My Mum sat on the bed, yawning.

"Oh-My! Martha! Call the police! We have an intruder!" My Mum did just that and within five minutes of the 9-1-1 call, the police were in my room, crawling up into the second attic.

In another five minutes flat, the police were gone with the mysterious man. I got to sleep. I was sure glad that I didn't let that guy bother me.

The next morning, my Dad made pancakes for the first day of school and for me, who pretty much saved their lives. Today was going to be a good day and no "ghost" was going to stop me from having it.

As I was walking to school, Tairin cought up with me. We walked to school together, we were in all of each other's classes, ate lunch togther and even hung out together at the mall after, for some smoothies with some other new friends. I was welcomed almost everwhere and so was Cory, so I heard when I got home. And that night I got to sleep with no disturbances.