Picture Beyond The Thought (Chapter 1)

A look of sheer terror flooded my face as I looked out the foggy window. I became icy inside and out as I witnessed the little girl, just standing there like she was blending in with the nightly shadows and no one could see her. Yet, she stood there glinting at me with deep red eyes. She had long brown hair wrapping around her delicate shoulders, which covered by a long white robe. I could see through her pale face as if she were a cloud resting upon the earth’s surface, taking the figure of a mere child. This horrifying spectacle was going to haunt me forever… just like the rest of the sullen figures.
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My name is Alexis. I’m over five and a half feet tall and I have long brown hair that flows down my back. I also have brown eyes and a pretty face that catches a glimpse from everyone. See, this hasn’t been the first time I’ve seen a ghost. In fact, it all started in a small town called Little River, my (more less) hometown.
Little River isn’t all that big. We have a bank, a library, a city office, a bar, a post office, and a few other extra buildings. We also have a humble little park and a friendly neighborhood where everyone knows everyone, that is, everyone that exists.
I was with my friend Eliza when it first happened. She’s a petite person with red hair. She’s a great person and yet very furious.
We were deviously sneaking around our little town as we played a game similar to ‘spies’. I jumped back as I felt something touch me. She thought it was part of the game.
“Did you feel that?” I asked, trying to sound more like I was in real life than in a fictional game.
“Yeah, I did. What was that?” Eliza said.
I knew she thought I was meaning the game, so I quickly explained it easily without saying too much.
“No, I mean for real. Not the game. I felt something……… touch me!”
I wasn’t sure if she was getting me.
“Oh, really? What do you mean?”
“I felt something touch me on the arm. So I jumped back.”
I leaned up against the cool metal wall behind me. It calmed me a bit, but I was still extremely nervous. I had no idea what was going on.
“Whoa, Alex! Do you still feel it?”
“No.” I replied. I was probably a little too hostile about that, but I wasn’t going to let that get to me too.
“Oh, that’s weird. That is really weird.”
“I know!” It frightened me that I had something abnormal happen to me… knowing that the other night my mother felt her bed go down, but no one was there and there was no imprint.
I waited a bit to catch my breath. Then I worked my way to the end of the building. I was now in the alleyway. I figured maybe it was a cold wind or a chill of some sort. It felt so real though and it was starting to worry me.
I turned around and to my surprise I saw something. It was a very faint figure. It was moving, but I didn’t know why. What could it be?
“Do you see that Eliza?”
“See what?”
“That, right there. It looks like a pair of hands. They are moving frantically, shaking back and forth as if saying ‘No!’”
I took a moment to think about what I was seeing. Was I really seeing it or was I imagining it? Eliza didn’t see it. Was I going crazy?
“Now the hands are bringing themselves upwards and putting them side by side as if covering the mouth of a shocked and surprised person gasping. The shape is appearing to turn around and run away!”
I reached out and tried to grab it, but I was too late, the figure had disappeared into the building.
“Wow! Weird!”
“I know! It just vanished through the walls! Whoa! This is so freaky.”
I felt as if I had just come out of a haunted house after going through a guided tour, hearing all the ghost stories and processing them in my mind. They shake me up and get me to thinking I can see ghosts. Maybe I really can! But this again was just the beginning, the beginning of a horrid nightmare that wasn’t about to shed its face from the back of my head.2


After the whole scene, Eliza and I walked over to Natalie’s house. Eliza wasn’t sure I was feeling okay. Natalie is a little on the short side. She has short blonde hair and it’s curly too. She is a bit on the chubby side, but she’s slightly bigger than I.
“Natalie, Hi! Can we come in for a little while? Alex needs to rest.”
I knew I was in good hands. My friends were good to me. I just needed to get everything straight and figured out.
We told Natalie the whole story, leaving out the part about us acting like goofballs playing a stupid game. We substituted that as a walk around town.
“I need to go home. You guys want to walk with me?”
They figured that would be the best idea and it turned out it was. On the way home I was feeling invincible and I felt that I couldn’t get hurt no matter what. I kept telling myself I could go through things. I almost got ran over by a car because I thought I could walk through it. Luckily my two friends were there to help me in my serious time of need.
I got home safely, that is, in one piece. Everyone went home and I went upstairs to go to bed. I wasn’t all that tired, because I had a lot on my mind. What had happened today wasn’t normal. I was so confused and stressed so deeply about it as the thought crushed my skull when I was trying to push it out. I felt so sick to my stomach that I felt like I could hurl. Was I going psycho? Did I need a therapist of some sort? Little did I know, I was soon to find out.
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