Read Macabre Mysteries: Marionette :: Chapter 5

"Wait for a second, slow down there. A dead person?" Tyler's voice quivered quietly trying as not to alarm anyone else in the cafe. "Yeah, it was totally crazy too. You see after you guys left the mixer, I left shortly after and started to head back to my apartment. I only live around the corner from here so it was a bit of a walk. Really creepy at 3 am too. It was all foggy and shit." The barista walked over pausing Wren's story and placing a tray of drinks on the table. Skye then looked up at the barista, "Oh uh sorry I don't think we ordered anything." "It's on the house. Besides Wren here was telling me all about this creepy story. You should really take up creative writing!" She said as she patted Wren's arm and flipped her red hair. She proceeded to stroll back to the counter to the sudden influx of customers. "Wait you told the waitress?" "Well I kinda had to Ty, you weren't here and I had to tell someone!" "Ok, I'm sorry. Continue?" "Yeah okay, so, I was just walking back to my apartment and it was super quiet, eerie, foggy, and I had stopped outside the cafe for a second to tie my shoe. However, when I looked into the road after getting up there was this girl standing in the middle of the road." Tyler's white of his eyes just widened. Not sure out of pure misbelief or horror. Skye grabbed one of the frappes and sipped on it. "So wait a sec. Before Tyler has another moment here, you saw a girl?" "Yeah, I had seen her around before actually. She was like this tall and had poofy hair and she had a camera around her neck." Tyler paused and gripped the side of his drink a bit tighter. Skye examined Tyler's hand movement and darted to his face. "You saw her in the classroom... didn't you?" "Wait, Lil Ty saw something?" Wren said rather excitingly, almost spilling her coffee all over the table.

"Well... I uh... you see-" "Oh my god my camera can pick up ghosts holy shit." Skye's expression went blank as he held his face in his hands. The table fell into a bit of awkward silence before Wren cut the tension in half. "Well if memory serves, she very well could be the ghost of that dead girl." Skye brought his head up and looked through his camera's digital screen again, scrolling through photos of that day before stopping at that photo once again, mumbling to himself. "Ok, so Wren and I supposedly just saw the ghost of a girl who passed away, who was close to my roommate. Yeah not saying that out loud to Wilkins, I'll get kicked out into a looney bin for sure." Tyler shook his head and grabbed one of the muffins on the table and bit into it. "I mean that's not the first time a ghost has been spotted around here, back in the 50s it happened according to my ma. Ghost of some poor boy." "AHA!" Skye started to tap the screen on his camera and beckoned Tyler and Wren to look. "Look right there, very carefully." Tyler adjusted his glasses and scanned the area where the ghost once stood and noticed something very blurry. "Hey Skye, where did you leave your camera after I decided to take a nap?" "In the classroom. I went back to grab it after everyone left." Tyler smirked a bit at the photo. "Someone didn't want us to see something. Because the photo was altered." Upon further inspection of the blur, it was obvious someone used digital photo editing software to blur out the ghost but not good enough. "Yeah Tyler is right, there's still a slight outline and the door frame also has a slight line blur. This was rushed."

Wren started giggling a little bit. "Oooooh someone's got a Necronomicon?!" "N-no Wren, I don't think those exist outside of The Evil Dead. There has to be some sort of logical reasoning." "Like what, Casper decided to show off his new BFF? Come on Ty, there's no way this was pure coincidence." "Or it could be a prank?" Tyler ended with. Skye's expression resulted in a sigh and a stretch. "Well, why don't we just go back there with a professional? Someone who is into Parapsychology." "Ooooh, a psychiatrist?" Wren butted in. "No. A Parapsychologist, they study paranormal phenomena." Tyler shook his head and grabbed his bag. "Well, where is this professional?" "She served us coffee actually." The red-haired waitress put her apron up on a hook and walked over to their table. "You rehearsed that didn't you?" Wren asked rather enthusiastically. "I was listening in and was waiting for my queue. Thank you very much for the introduction, Skye. So, where did you two see the sight of this ghost girl?"

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