The Ghost Boy

Chapter 2 (Part 3)

The ghost raised it arms and reached out towards them uttering a low moaning sound that chilled Sam's blood.

"Whoo whoo!" came a hoarse voice, followed by ," Ow drat!" as the ghost stumbled, tripping over his sheet. He collapsed in a tangled heap, arms groping to find a way out.

"What the dickens....?"said Dad. " Oh, it's you, Rob. You idiot! You really had me there," and he began to chuckle.

"You great fool,"said Mum crossly. " Poor Sam was scared to bits."

"You were scared too,"chipped in Sam." I could feel you shaking."

"Well, just a bit,"she conceded and started to laugh as Rob struggled to disentangle himself from his ghost costume. The next moment they were all laughing together,partly with relief and partly because thy had been so easily fooled.

"Well," said Dad at last,"I'd better go and mend the fuse."

"No need, Dad," said Rob." I switched off the electricity at the mains. I'll go and put it back on now."

"You'll have to do better than that to scare us away," chuckled Mum.

"Whose ghost is supposed to haunt the house anyway?" asked Sam anxiously.

"Well, no one has said exactly," mused Dad. "They just said the house was haunted." At this point Rob came back and joined the conversation, answering Sam's question.

"The woman in white with her head under her arm," he announced gleefully, prancing about,"searching for a place to rest in her old house. She wanders round and round the house, totally confused because Mum has changed all the rooms about!"

Mum gave him a playful push saying,"Get along with you, you great fool!"

Sam had been amused by Rob's performance but it aroused the doubts he had at the back of his mind. Who had told them that the house was haunted? Were there really such things as ghosts? Would they be as grey and sinister as Rob had appeared?

"Do you believe in ghost, Mum?" he asked.

Mum glanced at him and knew he wanted a serious answer."Well love, I don;t really know. I've never seen anything ghostly to make me believe. But there again, there have been so many people who have claimed to have seen ghosts that I would not ignore the possibility. But don't worry about it," she added, giving him a quick cuddle. " It was probably someone starting a false rumour to put us off buying this place."

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Emma Teh
13/05/2008
01:37pm