Ghost Roommate

  "That's right. When I saw you first, I mistook you for my best friend. So the question is if I am looking like you and you are looking like my best friend, does it mean we both look like my best friend?"

 Claire said, trying to understand what she had said. Looking at Mitchell, it dawned on her that she looks like Mitchell and literally Mitchell looked like Susan. It never crossed her mind that she shared a striking resemblance with Susan which now narrowed to who Susan is to both of them because it looked like there is more to the story.

"Which best friend are you talking about. I mean who is she?"

Mitchell 's voice drew her back to the present. She could sense that Claire is thinking of an answer or at least try to answer it.

"Susan"

Claire responded as she gave a small smile. 

  "Who is Susan?"

Mitchell and Michael asked together in unison. Claire looked around to see if Susan could pop out from anywhere. She was beginning to get worried why she was gone for so long.

  "She is a ghost"

Claire replied and all of them sat there in stunned silence.

"What?"

Michael said still in a trance.

"What the hell, she is a ghost?"

Mitchell added.

"Yes, she is. I don't know her story, I have known her as long as I can remember. I never even asked who she was before she died because I was afraid that if I do she would stop living in my room"

  "She lives in your room!"

Claire looked over to the both of them.

"Yeah. She is my roommate in fact."

"How the heck is a ghost your roommate? How is she alive if she is dead. I mean who the hell believes in ghosts"

Both Mitchell and Michael said in unison with confused expressions on their faces.

Claire sighed,"I don't know all that. I have not even seen her since and beginning to think she has gone to heaven without telling me"

   Mitchell and Michael turned quiet immediately. It was obvious the girl was telling the truth. The whole thing was beginning to look more serious. Mitchell looked like a dead lady. Nothing can be more serious than that.

  Claire went silent too because she realized she had said too much. She never told anyone she has a ghost roommate which made this whole situation perplexed. For her to blunt out a lot to two teenagers, they indeed have an untold connection.

    "I don't know why you both look so familiar and Mitchell and I share a resemblance but I will find out. I know my paternity and maternal grannies and also know that I don't look like any of them nor do I look like my mom or dad. I think my dad will have an explanation to give me when I get home"

Claire said with a frown. She was beginning to get a feeling that her life is a lie somehow. First she has no mutual understanding with her mom then her maternal grandmother started acting up and her Aunt began calling her a stranger. Also, she found a girl who she looked just like and it turned out both are looking like her ghost friend who suddenly is not appearing to her anymore.

 it made her begin to feel like the whole world was hiding something from her. It's a matter of time before she finds out what's going on.

  The three of them kept getting deeper in thoughts. Thinking of the possibility of the three of them having a blood relation.

  It was an awkward situation for the three of them. While Mitchell and Michael were afraid of what to find out next, Claire was afraid that her parents might truly not be her parents. 

Suddenly, she lost her peace and decided she was going back to Reben Castle right away. She can't be restless with a lot of questions going on in her mind, which she knows that need to be answered and she would be in White Hills doing what.

  The silence continues with no one making an attempt to say anything.

   After a while, some noises were heard and it turned out that the driver was back with a man, probably the mechanic

  "I would love to stay or get to know you, that's not possible anymore. I don't know what it will be like after today. But hopefully one day, I will visit and see your superfie mom. This is my contact"

Claire said, handing Michael her card. It was just her name and number on the card. Michael took it and smiled.

  "Hopefully"

Mitchell said and both watched Claire leave, praying for their fears not to be anything close to the truth. It will shatter them more. Only if they know that more shocking revelations are coming their way,three of them.