My sister and I grew up in a small home with very little to our name. Our parents were always very busy, and never really around. But the rare occasion that my sister and I saw either of our parents was never good.
“You both would be better off dead,” my dad always tells us.
“I wish I never had you,” my mom gripes.
My sister and I, after a long life of being told that we weren’t worth it, decided that today was the day. I grab my sisters hand and pull her towards the cliff edge with me. “Die,” I hear my parents telling me. She nods slowly in my direction and we jump. Plummeting off the cliff face to out inevitable death.
“Local university student found dead in his apartment.”
I close the newspaper and sigh. “This is so embarrassing. How could I have let this happen to me?”I take the last sip of coffee from my mug and make my way up to my bedroom.
I was so excited about going to a concert with my friends this Friday, but this dead thing messed up our plans. “I was so excited too,” I say while crouching down to touch the red stains in my carpet.
Police tape litters my room mapping out one red stain to another, joining together at my bed. My once white sheets are stained red, and no one has been hired to clean up this mess.
My best friend, Joan, is packing all my things into boxes. She’s crying and keeps glancing at my bed. “Joan,” I whisper while touching her shoulder but she doesn’t notice me.
“This ghost thing is really embarrassing,” I sigh.
I lay on the bathroom floor blood pooled all around me I left a note for none to find no one will care no one will grieve I’ll still be all alone when I am dead. The light grows dim and my vision is blurry this is it for me the moment I’ve been waiting for all goes dark except for the blue butterfly ready to take me to my next place
A butterfly may flutter by your eye and for a brief moment, her beauty will light up your world her laughter will echo across the stars she will become your world but then she will fly away her beauty will fade from your memory her laughter will turn to tears her absence will dim the stars and leave a hole in your heart.
I’ll never forget this terrible night. Its cold and the snow is creeping up my ankles like a snake ready to strike. My body shivers in the cold while I come face-to-face with my consequences. Of course other people had to be involved in my choices. I never really meant for anyone else to get hurt, but of course like everything else in my life, something went terribly wrong. I faced up to a villain I wasn’t ready to face. He was strong and I am weak. I never stood a chance but I wanted to prove myself. Everyone at the superhero Academy told me that because I don’t have a well known or common superpower like super speed or telekinesis I would never make it as a superhero. Of course I had to take on a villain before I even graduated and now I’m facing the consequences. I’m standing feet planted firmly in the snow staring at what used to be my home, What used to be my family. Now all of that is reduced to ash. I will never see my family again; The firefighters pulled nothing out but bone and ash. The only survivor was my sister but she didn’t come out the same. And I don’t blame her. But now I need to come clean. I have to tell her about everything. Of course, it’s a really bad time to do so but I I can’t live with myself for killing my family. So before I join my family in an afterlife I want to come clean. I walk over to my sister who is sitting wrapped in a blanket in the back of a firetruck. Somehow she came out relatively unscathed. I approach her with tears in my eyes. “I have so much to tell you, Ashley.“ “Is now really the time? “She whispers behind a cry. “ All of this is my fault.“ I tell her everything. I tell her about the Academy. I tell her about the evil villain I was trying to destroy and hopes to prove myself to my peers. I tell her about how he threatened everyone’s lives but I didn’t listen. My ego is too big and I needed to prove myself, and of course it failed. She obviously doesn’t take the news very well. But of course I can’t blame her for the way she reacts. She agrees and blames me for everything I have done. For killing our family. “ just forget about me; Just forget about this family. They would be so disappointed if they were alive. But they’re not! Because you killed them! I don’t want you near me ever again. We’re no longer family,” Ashley said behind tears. “ Don’t worry. I’ll tell them as soon as I join them; goodbye Ashley,” I whisper knowing she didn’t mean it.
