“Ghost, don’t tell anyone.” Autumn told tori
as they walked back to the school. That was one thing Autumn didn’t need, more
people thinking she was strange or weird. She wanted to tell Tori more wanted
to tell her how she communicated tell her what had just happened if only so she
wasn’t the only one who knew.
“You think you saw a ghost?!” Tori said
looking around excitedly. “Who was it? What did they want? Did they send you on
a quest to keep them from dying?!”
“Gone.” Autumn said with relief. “Don’t want
looks.” Autumn said shyly. It was nice to have Tori just take what you said and
believe it. Not everyone was like that. “think I’m weird already.”
“I don’t think you are as weird as you think
you are.” Tori commented. “So what did the ghost want?”
“Nothing, I uh I uh don’t know… why they show
up here.” It was hard getting that much out at one time. Inside autumn felt a
little surge of pride for being able to do it.
“Well I’m not surprised you saw a ghost here.
Come on, what school isn’t haunted?” Tori said opening the door to let them
both into the school. “Well what about tonight?”
“What about tonight?”
“You know” Tori said looking
around. “The other world thing.”
“Have to check on Gran.”
“You have to check on your Gran first!” Tori
said incredulously. “If there is on woman on the face of this earth who does
not need checking up on it’s your Gran. Why…”
Autumn let Tori’s rant wash over
her. They had just entered the girls locker room and Autumn could feel them
staring. She could almost feel the words in the air as they talked behind her
back. But really could she blame them.
Each women’s coach wanted her for
their team, but if she was on every team she wouldn’t have enough time to do
any of the sports. So all the coaches devised a plan to have her on every team.
They split up practice time for her, so that she was only ever at one teams
practice part of the time. She would then go from practice to practice. Each
coach was very guarded about the time that they had Autumn and would be calling
her if she was even a minute late.
It didn’t seem very fair to do it
that way to Autumn and she was sure that the other girls felt the same. They
never talked to her and the looks that she received from them were full of
disdain. Not only were these other girls showing up to the full practice and
getting yelled at by the coaches but they put their heart and soul into it.
Then Autumn comes along for just a part of the practice and outperforms every
single one. Well all except for Tori, no one could outrun Tori. It had caused a
rift to form between her and the other players. Autumn kept meaning to say no
to all the sports but she just couldn’t say no when someone said they needed
her.
Her freshman year had almost been
unbearable. No one talked to her, everyone acted afraid of her and stayed away.
One of the happiest moments of her life was when Tori came to there school two
years ago just to run track. She didn’t care about Autumns reputation and the
two of them had been close ever since.
Something Tori was saying caught
Autumns attention and dragged her focus back to the present.
“Hold on, what did you just say?”
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