I'm Here by kattie Huang (guided reading books .TXT) 📖

 Abby left the bathroom after she got a phone call from her mom. I miss her and felt a little loney after she left the bathroom. I am still a ghost in the bathroom but I get to learn what ghost can do and can't do. I hated the dark and like the daylight. Normaly ghost would hated the dayligh and like the dark because they come out and play in the dark. It just the ghost's party time at night. Other peoples that come in this bathroom feel cold but, it feels warm for me and I love it. Hell yeah! The day is getting longer and no body is coming. It seems that the sky is getting dark later or sooner. When the sun set, the light shines on the bathroom and made the bathroom looks golden. I called it " golden bathroom time." I enjoy watching the sun set through the small window but, today I enjoying looking at the red diamond ring that I found under the bathroom in the corner of the hole. It was stuck there and I didn't see it until now. The sun shines on the diamond and it shine through me like I'm being shot by guns. Some how I can touch that ring but I don't know why. I can't touch anything else in the bathroom but only this ring I found. It was weird but I ignored my curiosity and continue to enjoy looking at the ring. I wonder whose ring is that. I hope the own would come back for this ring. This ring is really beautiful and the color of the diamond is as red as blood. With out hesitation, I wore the ring on my finger. My whole body shines and I can feel my feet touching the floor. I don't know what happen but I feel alive. Suddenly, a women came in and saw me. She said " I'm sorry. I didn't know someone was in here." After she said that and went back out, I look at the ring. A moment of extraordinary excitement came from my heart. I quickly ran out of the bathroom and I can see my own shadow. Im alive again! I was surprise, but who cares. I will treasure my life this time. I can't go see my families and friends now. I'm in the news paper and I can't explain what happen to them. If my ex-boyfriend know that I'm still alive, he will come back and kill me in order to keep my mouth shut. The sky is turning darker than before. It can be dangerous at night. I must continue hide in the bathroom for now on and make sure to keep the door lock from now on since people can see me now.

Early morning in the bathroom corner, the sun shines through the small window to my face making me awaken. It was weird until I remember everything that happened yesterday. I slowly open the bathroom door and looked outside. It was a wonderful day for a walk but It is time to change my life. I wander around in the park looking for hope. I did say I want to change but, how? I don't have money with me and the people I'm looking at now is the people that I saw in the bathroom. I found a bench and sat down. Looking at the bird makes me sleepy again. Suddenly, a women came and sat next to me. She looks sad and her eyes are getting teary. I know this have nothing to do with me but I'm a little worry about her. With out hesitation, I touch her solder.
"hello," I said. "What happen? why you look so sad?" I said. She turn to me and look into my eyes. Shen then started crying and I don't know what to do. I feel like I'm a man making a girl cry or something.  She look at me with a puppy eyes with tears makes me want to know why she's sad.
"Im sorry for asking. Um...may I help you?" I said.
"I'm sorry for crying in front of you. You must think I'm weird. Am I bothering you?" she said. "No not at all. I just want to know why you're sad," I said. That was a lie. Her crying face does bothers me. That is why I ask her questions. Now that I think about it, does man have trouble talking to a crying girl? I think man find this a pain in the ass. She spend two hour talking about her dead dog. I feel sad for her and I understand the feeling of losing a pet that you love so much.  I use to have a gold fish named "alice." It was given from a boy that I like in middle school but, I haven seen him around after I went to highschool. Alice suddenly died one day and I was heart broken. I didn't eat for five day. There will be a sixes day if it wasn't my mom forcing me to eat. My best memory with alice is watching her swiming in the toilet. She fell into the toilet while I was washing her goldfish jar. She jump up and went into the toilet. I was having a hard laugh at that time. I really miss my alice but I think she is in her wonderland right now. I talk to the women next to me about what happen to Alice. She started to calm and continue talking to me.

I said "you don't need to worry about your pet. Im sure your dog is not gone." She look at me and said "what do you mean she is not gone?" I turn to her and said "your dog is dead but his soul is still around in earth. You just can't see him." She started to get teary again. I wonder if I said something wrong and made her sad again. She then turn to me again and said "thank you for hearing me out. I feel much better and my dead dog might be watching be right now so I should not crying to much. I don't want my dog to worry to much."

"Good! be happy and luck will come to you." That was a lie. Luck will never come to you if you never try to reach your luck. "I really like talking to you. I don't have much friend here and I don't talk much to people around here. Im the type of person that lets other speaks first then I speak," she said. " I can't really talk to people too. I have hard time talking to people," I said. It is not really hard to talk but no body sees me when I was a ghost so I'm having hard time talking to people. I don't really talk much to others in the past but I wanted to now after being a ghost for few weeks. " My name is Sandy. what is your's?" she said. " My name is Na.....ra. Um....yea," I said with an unsure voice. " oh, Nara. That is a nice name. Do you often come to this park?" she said. "I come here everyday," I said. I live in the park's bathroom anyway. I don't have a choice but to stuck with the bathroom after I came back to life. " I want to see you again tomrrow. Where can I find you?" she said with an excited face. " You can find me here everyday," I said. She smiled and walked away. I have a feeling that I might see her again soon. When the sky turn dark, I walk slowly to the bathroom and lock that door. Some how in my heart, there are something missing and I don't know what. This uncomfortable feeling bothers me all night long until the sun came up. I walked out the bathroom and sat on the some bench that I sat on yesterday. My clothes are dirty with dark red stain and I smelled like a dead fish. Soon, when the sun was about to set, Sand came looking fore me. She is calling out my name and seem to be worrying about something. I walk toward her and said "Sandy?" When she turn around, her expression changes. Her teary eyes tells me that there must be something bad happened to her. "Oh my god! I finally found you. I was looking for you and I don't know what to do andymore. Please come~ and help me out please~," she said with a trumble voice. She grab me on the sholder, begging for help. "Oh god! you are cold. How can you be so cold..... I mean is summer right now," she said with a suprise look. She then look at her own hand and it is the dark red stain. The color probably came off alittle. The bathroom wall is kind of wet anyway. "I'm not cold. I have a cold body when I was young so....um..is just like that. It will stay cold in the future too I think. Oh, and the clothes is cheap so the color came off easily," I said. I am so proud of my lies. "sorry to say that, but you smell like a dead fish," Sandy said. I panic and said " There was an old man smoking next to me and an oldy lady spraying perfume next to me today. The two different smells mixed togther and created the smell that you are smelling right now." I lied again. I wonder if I can get a gold cup for being the winner of lying.

Publication Date: 02-01-2015

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