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Teenage Ghost
Rhonda filled up a large plastic pumpkin full of the “Good Candy”, and set it by the door. She turned on the front porch light, and looked out the window. It would be a few hours before Trick or Treaters arrived.
Rhonda’s cell phone went off, she looked at who was calling. It was Evelyn.
“Are you alright?” Evelyn asked.
“Yes.” Rhonda sat on the couch. “You were right, this is the right thing to do. It will completely take my mind off things.” She flipped through channels til she found one playing eighties horror movies.
“Do you need me to check in again later?”
Rhonda was quiet for a few moments then responded. “Yes.”
“It’s not a problem. The veil between the living and the dead is the thinnest tonight.” Evelyn tried to comfort her friend. “You never know what you might find.”
Rhonda reached over and pulled a few mini chocolate bars out of the pumpkin and settled in for Halloween night.
Inja pulled her secret phone out of the binder she had been hiding it in. Her friends were posting pre-party selfies, and talking about sad they were that Inja wasn’t going to be there.
Her eyes lit up and her heart skipped a beat as she saw an incoming text from Evan who had noticed her come online.
“I miss U :(”, the text read.
“I miss U2 <3” Inja texted back.
There was noise in the hallway near her door. Inja quickly slid the phone back in the binder right as her mother opened the door and peek in.
“I know you think your father and I are being strict.” she explained to her only daughter. “But you just don’t know the dangers that are out there waiting for naive young girls like you. Too much drinking and acting wild.”
Inja immediately began to try to defend herself.
Her mother raised her hand to stop Inja from talking. “I know what you are thinking, and I am telling you. You will get there. Your friends will be drinking. They will ask you to drink, so you can be like them. And I know you Inja, you will say to yourself, one sip wont hurt. Two or three sips wont cause harm to anything. Then the next thing it is two or three drinks, because you think you can handle it.” She shook her head, “No. I tell you, you are not ready for these things yet. Perhaps some day in a social setting, where you are properly supervised, you may have one drink to see how it is. Your father will tell you, you can not have alcohol under any circumstance. He is far more strict than I, and that is why I have to tell you. You can not go to the party with your friends. If anything were to happen to you while you were at this party, you would not be able to bear the punishment.”
Her mother walked in her room and closed the door. She knelt down in front of Inja and took her hands and held them tightly. “Inja, I know you love this boy Evan. I understand, I truly do, and I want you to understand that. I’m not trying to keep you away from the one you love. I am only trying to keep you safe, and make sure that you can see him still.”