“Education is the most powerful
weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Ferris
Bueller* #quote
Throughout
history people have looked up at the sky and made shapes from the
stars. Aren't our imaginations mischievous? It refuses to leave
things alone and just be themselves, like refusing to let stars simply be
little dots in the sky. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
Ghost
Vacation
Ghost couple
Vanessa and Kyle took a break from their usual haunt to go to Hawaii
and spook up that place while enjoying the sunlight(a common myth
that ghosts don't enjoy light, they simple cannot be seen by the
living).
They loved the warmth and winds of the beachfront as it passed through their
bodies, each resembling their living ones, except extremely see
through and covered with ectoplasm film that fell over them like a
sheet.
A ring came
from Kyle's plasmicphone, a variation of a cellphone that existed for
ethereal beings. Ectoplasm existed all around and they crafted many
things from it. Kyle took one look at it and hung it up. It rang
again. He hung it up again.
“Who is
that?” Vanessa asked.
“Dunno,”
Kyle responded.
Vanessa then
suggested, “Answer it. If they're calling again it's probably
someone with a wrong number.”
Kyle answered
it but accidentally put it on speaker, before he could get a word in
the person on the other end said, “Dear? You kept hanging up.
What's wrong?”
Vanessa then
yelled, “Dear!? Who is that?”
The person on
the other end asked, “Are you with a woman? What's going on?”
Kyle then knew
that no amount of lying could get him out of this one. “Vanessa,
meet Holly, my wife from when I was alive.”
“You're
married!?” Vanessa yelled.
Kyle responded,
“Well, see the vows are until death do you part...”
Holly was
silent. This made Kyle even more afraid since he figured Holly might
have been beyond words in fury.
“I died when
I was thirty okay!? After ten years I got tired of waiting. I didn't
want you die an early death Holly and I wanted to love again. It took
another seven years to find Vanessa.”
“You're that
old!?” Vanessa yelled. Ghosts retained the body they died in, so
Vanessa would look eternally twenty eight, Kyle thirty, and Holly
sixty.
“I didn't
remarry,” said Holly in a calm voice, hiding emotions as she often
did. Her disposition did not match Vanessa at all. Both died recently
however, at their respective ages, and one was vastly more
experienced in life than the other.
“You could
have!” yelled Kyle. “You could have moved on!”
“Why did you
lie to me?” asked Holly, a bit of the anger she held back coming
back in her voice. “You told me that you still loved me like I
still loved you. You never told me about her.”
Vanessa wanted
to add something, but with the emotion she invested into Kyle she
couldn't quite figure out what to say. The initial rage began to fall
into confusion and bewilderment since her mind couldn't wrap around
what she should do. She both loved and hated Kyle at this moment.
Kyle held back
his tears, things he didn't know he had as a ghost. “Because I
still love you. It's just...when I died...and all that time passed. I
figured you would move on and I'd lost you forever. When you became a ghost I
was ecstatic...but I already had Vanessa. I wanted to have you both.”
Neither woman
could respond immediately, but their hearts and minds were turning
looking for the proper response while they thought of themselves,
Kyle, and the other woman.
“And now I've
lost you both,” Kyle dropped the ethereal phone on the ground. He
faded, becoming barely visible to even Vanessa and drifted away.
Before she could she say something to him he went far enough away
from her that she couldn't see him.
Vanessa then
picked up the phone and said, “I'm so sorry.” She's wasn't
exactly sure if she was apologizing or consoling Holly or something
else entirely. She just knew it needed to be said.
