The Campus Ghost

Alex.

They told me that he was a terrifying ghost but not to me. I think I’m the only person who can see him. He’s cool and I like him. I met him standing near our classroom like an emo. However, he helps me at times I don’t know the answer during our exam. Yeah, I’m a cheat.

My friends say that I’m out of my mind who talks to somebody else whom they can’t even see. It all started when I was hospitalized one week before our vacation ends. I don’t have any idea how I get there. A woman was crying saying that I ran out of blood. Maybe it was anemia. She’s continuously crying as she introduced herself as Amy.

Well, going back to Alex, he can’t remember how he died. Even me, I don’t know how he died. Nobody knows.

Why am I still here, he always ask. I don’t know how to free his soul from the campus until I approached one of our neighbors who practices some witchcraft. Her name is Lusing. I told her that I have a ghost friend who wants to be free. 

One night, we went to a room and I introduced her to Alex. She let us both hold hands together and she sang a chant. Little by little, I saw pictures from my mind. It was Alex’s past. He was a guitarist of a band. He has a girlfriend. He has a car. They kissed. They were both in love and decided to live a life themselves but it happened that they encountered a road accident.

Alex asked me who the girl was; I told him I don’t know. He asked how she looked like, but her face was a blur.

Lusing told us some tips how to solve the problem. His memories shall only return if he owns a body. Alex looked at me. I was a little bit terrified. Lusing also said that he can go outside the campus and enjoy things if he possesses a body. Alex stared at me again. I was frightened.

The other day, our guard resigned immediately for he couldn’t withstand the terror. Then, there arrived another security guard. He always stares suspiciously to me.

Again, I saw Alex. He demanded for a favor. He wants my body for a moment but I refused.

Then, he just had chosen one of my classmates which supposed to be a heartthrob in the campus, who named Pete. Alex possessed now a body. He controlled it by himself. 

After classes, we went outside. The students thought that I was Pete’s girlfriend while driving off his car. My classmates were bothered. They don’t know what really happened to this guy. Haha.

We wandered the streets and eat some foods. He was too hungry that he ordered worth my one month my allowance.

We went to the mall. We went to the carnival. We went everywhere. I never saw him very joyful ever since. Until we end up sitting at a branch of a tree. He told me,

“I hope my girlfriend is as pretty cute as you”

I blushed. But the more I blushed when he whispered that he liked me. I stayed silent as I gulped. He was smiling at me. Then he went down and said,

“You’re taking things seriously. Haha. I said I like you. I like to leave you. Haha”

“What?!”

Therefore, he’s only joking. He attempted to really leave me behind by starting up Pete’s car. He was one happy ghost.

One minute later, he began rubbing his forehead with his eyes closed tight. He told me something he can see in his mind. He can somewhat remember. His name wasn’t Alex at all. His real name was Stan. And it surprised me when he said that the girl was me. I laughed at him. I didn’t believe for it might be another joke. But he insisted that it was true.

He hugged me tight. I really am puzzled. Now I can recall also, the reason I was hospitalized was because I was with him during the accident. I suffered from amnesia. Amy was my mom. She lied that I suffered from anemia. I cried for Stan’s death and yet his soul still beside me. But for now, he called himself a thief for possessing Pete’s body. We enjoyed every moment until for such a remarkable day that he left. He bid a goodbye kiss and he walked vanishingly leaving Pete’s body unaware.

I missed him.