Miriam

"Miriam, really. Do you need this light on?" Without waiting for an answer, Mum turned off my bedroom light and walked off, shutting the door behind her. I had only the glow from my laptop to see by, which made everything just slightly creepier. 

I immediately got up to turn it back on. As usual, I was stopped in my tracks by the girl. She stood in front of my wardrobe with her thumb stuck in her mouth, staring up at me as if she was just as scared as I was. She was slightly short for her age, even though she was only about three. She wore bright pink tights under a tatty, knee-length purple skirt. Her T-shirt was blue, and underneath it she had one with long sleeves, which was white. Her hair hung in a dull blonde sheet around her dirty face.

I closed my eyes and felt for the light switch.

"Stephanie, wait!"

I clicked the light back on as fast as I could. I hated that memory. It reminded me that this little girl constantly appearing was all my fault. Yes, she should have  waited. Yes, she should have listened to me. But the fact was that I should have been watching what she was doing, but I was too busy on my stupid mobile to notice when she started to run across the road without me. It was only because I looked up for a brief second that I saw what happened. 

On the rare occasion that I think about it, I can still hear it all. The screech of tyres, the yelling, the small scream of an innocent child. My little cousin, Stephanie.

"Go away," I whispered towards the space that was now empty except for a pile of my clothes that I couldn't be bothered to hang up. Of coarse, I got no reaction. I never did. But I had run out of ideas to get rid of her. 

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Name - Greg Jenkins
Age - 23
Occupation - Photographer
Location - Brighton, England
How they feel about ghosts - Will do anything to be rid of them but really doesn't want to talk to skeptics about it.
Relation to main ghost/s - Ghost was his little brother, Ben, who died choking on a sweet when Greg was 9. Ghost is stuck at the age of 7 and a half.
Author - Rouxedwards

Name - Miriam Hartwell
Age - 16
Occupation - Just started college.
Location - Sheffield, England.
How they feel about ghosts - Absolutely terrified.
Relation to man ghost/s: One is her cousin Stephanie, died getting run over at the age of 3. One is her uncle George, who died of cancer age 34
Author - AutumnMay

Name - Melody Butler
Age - 30
Occupation - Runs a huge travel agency that has been in her family since the early days of pleasure travel, maybe around 1900. She has to travel all over the world to check out vacation destinations. One of these trips involved a haunted castle in England, where she might have picked up a ghost who's looking for help in solving his own murder.
Location - She lives in Canada, but at the moment, she can be in England where she could meet up with others of the haunted group.
How she feels about ghosts - She knows her ability isn't normal, but she accepts it, because she has no choice. Her family freaks out when strange things keep happening whenever she's around.
Relationship to a ghost - Her grandmother, who died of heart failure / old age at the age of 101 years old. Melody had been very close to her grandma, and traveled with her all the time she (Melody) had been growing up. When grandma was on her deathbed, Melody begged her not to leave her - so she didn't. She died, but she didn't leave Melody's side. She could be a funny ghost, giving all sorts of outdated advice about dating, life in general, and maybe help out with other ghosts.
Author - moonwalker

Name - Damon Chaos
Age - 17
Occupation - Second year at college studing science and psychology
Location - Edinburgh, Scotland
How they feel about ghosts - Only just starting to see them.
Relation to main ghost/s: He can strangely see his dead cat which keeps leading him to things.
Author - CrystalRose

Name - Selena Wells
Age - 18
Occupation - University, studying Psychology
Location - Normally Oxford, England, but has just moved unis to Edinburgh
How they feel about ghosts - Has been seeing ghost from a very young age, unbeknownst to family, and thinks it's normal.
Relation to main ghost- Was her sister who died of cancer (aged seven) just before Selena was born, therefore she's never met her, but Sel thinks that the ghost is her guardian angel, 'cause she's always been used to seeing the images of her sister.
Author - SumnerzAngel

updated Apr 28 '11 by AutumnMay