short story

It was two days away from Valentines day. Everything was crazy here, in this little town of New York. My name is Hope, like what you look for when you've lost everything. I haven't lost everything, but pretty close, I'm about to lose someone else very specail to me too. I can feel it. I'm weird like that, I can feel or sense when bad things are going to happen. I felt this way when I lost both of my parents, even though I was little I still remember this feeling I've had. I'm not sure who, but someone very close. It scares me, this feeling I have. I don't want to lose someone else again, I don't know what I'll do. It's very hard to explain this feeling, it seems like a hole has been punched through my chest. Or I've fallen from a high place. It bothers me.

It's not just me that has a feeling. My best friend gets one too, but you can see her's. It's not really a feeling she tells me, more like a vison. She can see spirts. She is Sarah. Sarah is she. She is a lot like me, in many ways to be found creepy. She has sights, I have feelings. I suppose when you put it like that it seems pretty normal, but it's not.

Just today when I got my feeling, Sarah meet a spirit. Which is really odd, we never get our sights, and feelings the same day. The spirit Sarah meet odd enough was a teenager, female and heartbroken. How ironic. The spirit was very anger, and was attached to Sarah's boyfriend, Paul. Sarah wasn't sure why though. I had an idea of why that was. Maybe she was one of Pauls ex-girlfriends. Sure enough she was. The weird thing about that though was she was haunting him. We weren't sure why. Maybe Paul did something bad to her. Sarah was a little scared this time, never had to deal with a spirit like this one before. Paul seemed very distant too. Which gave me strange ideas on what might have happened. I mean Paul doesn't seem like a bad guy, and would never hurt Sarah. But you never know, the nice ones are always the ones to do it because they seem less likely.

So me and Sarah investiged. We found out that the spirit was murdered. We also looked into Pauls records, he did get into some trouble awhile back. Really close to when she was found dead too. The more we looked into it, the more Paul seemed like the murderer. Guess this means that Sarah isn't getting a valentine this year. Sarah saw the spirit again. The teenager reveled that she was sixteen, name Heather. Heather dated Paul for a year. Since the begining of Sophomore year. Heather's best friend, Brianna was the one to find Heather dead. I don't really know much about Brianna, except for the fact that shes in my grade. That's about it, shes a mystory.

It was a day away from Valentines day. Heather finally told Sarah what she planned to. It sounded like a threat. "Watch the beat of your heart stop." Sarah was really on the edge now. Paul was even worried for her too.

It was Valentine's Day, full of hearts and red. My feeling came back more then the first time I sensed it. Something bad was going to happen today. When I saw Sarah that morning she was in tears, Paul had just broken up with her to protect her. What a great way to start of Valentine's Day. The spirit Heather stopped appearing, which was very strange for Sarah. All the info we have recieved, and then she finally dissapeared. I wonder if it had anything to do with Paul leaving her. It was a very strange day, in this little town of New York. There was a park by mine and Sarah's house. We often went there as children. In the park there was many trees, and the was also a stream. Today though the stream was red. When Sarah and I walked by we saw Paul covered in blood on the ground. It was horrifing. We never would have thought that what Heather said wasn't a threat, but a warning. She warned us about Pauls murder. That's where we got confused. If Paul was murdered by Heather's murderer. Then who killed them? Sure enough, we saw someone sneaking out from behind the trees. It was Brianna, and she was covered in Paul's blood as well.