Are you okay? No. I'm dead. (Book 1) ✔️

Chapter 3

Laura Dunham's P.O.V

"Jacob, I have fever, I am not going to school. Now don't wake me up" I say sneaking through my half closed eyelids.

"Get up miss, you're dead now start behaving like one". says a man standing above me with such a long chin that I fear will get into my eyes if he just leans a bit more.

"Who the hell are you? Why am I?" No, I can't say that word, not now.

I am just 20. I am yet to complete my senior high school. I don't have a job. I haven't fallen in love. I am not married. I have no kids. I haven't gotten old.

That's the typical life my family had planned for me. But me, I have been looking for adventures.

I take it all back. Yes, all those back which I wished on sacrifice of eyelids and sight of shooting stars.

Oh God!! Give me a very ordinary life. I wished with my eyes closed and fingers crossed.

3...2..1. I opened my eyes. No. Nothing changed. Okay at least send me to 500 BC so that I can say Heraclitus (A Greek philosopher, who said "Only Change is a constant in life") that he is WRONG.. This is the least you could do for me god.

"God, Are you god" I say to the man still standing above me. Okay I get it. He is not standing above me. It's just that, I am lying on the floor.

"No"

No. Just no. That's what he said. I mean how can a person just say that less. If he speaks so less, how does he still have a mouth?

350 million year old fossil fish Aetheretmon, a distant ancestor of humans, had tails but we lost it because we didn't use it.

I stand up and take a seat around the table from where I picked my phone. Phone!!! yes I need my phone back. I want to talk to my mother please.

"You, give me my phone back, I have to call someone" I say in a threatening voice.

"I can't" he says.

"Please, give me my phone, I've to call my mom". I feel water drops coming down along my cheeks. Am I crying?

Yes I am. I can't put on the act of strong girl when I'm scared and now I'm dead-scared.

"I threw it" "Also it won't work as no living being can hear you" he says in a flat tone without any voice modulation.

The humans started doing voice modulation about 50,000 years ago and this guy hasn't catchen up yet.

"But you can hear me?"

"Yes, I'm trained I can not only hear and see you but also other ghosts. I am a ghost hunter"

Ghosthunter? Did he just say that? Yes. If except for the heart, all other organs are working then I heard just that.

"So what am I now, a ghost?" I understood what he said to me but still asked him just to double check.

"Yes"

Yes. What the hell!!. I am a ghost now and he is a ghost hunter. First he killed me when I was human and now he is going to kill my soul.

"I'll kill you, you moron, you ruined my life!!"