Ghosts

[Estelle]

Ghost territory

[Stephanie]

"hellooo, anyone here?" Stephanie called softly. She knew that she could fight in the war.'but ever since..Robert...and...' She stopped thinking. it was too hard..."nobody's here...where are they all?" She sat quietly and sang a tune...an old war song that her older brother sang to her before he went off to war.

~Our flag is proudly floating
On the land and on the main,
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom!
Beneath it oft we've conquered,
And we'll conquer oft again!
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom~

[Aura]

Aura was on a tree a little bit translucent heard Stephanie nee-san singing and listened to it intently.

[Stephanie]

She stopped. "Anyone there?" Silence. "hee, well,i guess its nothing.." She continued singing...it was a song from a group of friends from the 80s, living in New York. She always loved new songs...this one attached to her well.

~ There is no future,There is no past
Thank God this moment's not the last...
There's only us.There's only this.
Forget, regret...or Life is yours to miss...
No other road, no other way
No day but today...~

[Aura]

Aura jumped to the ground silently. "Nee-san where did you hear that song from again"? She asked not knowing many songs.

[Stephanie]

"you know...I really dont know who wi was..but it was in New York..." she thought some more.."Around..1990, I think, why?"

[Aura]

"Because since you travel a lot its nice to know some music and places you saw".

[Stephanie]

"yeah, it was fun...besides, I had nothing else better to do for about...a hundred and forty years.." she laughed quietly.

[Aura]

Aura sat down on a tall tombstone. Most of the ghosts territory consisted of graveyards and bizzare mansions. "Nee-san I know this sounds weird but I kind of miss the feeling when one is hungary and when exhausted".

[Stephanie]

Stephanie giggled silently. "oh, don't worry, that's not weird at all..personally...I do,too...I don't even remember what being exhausted feels like..."

[Aura]

" Nee-san how old are you"?

[Stephanie]

"How old am I? well...it's been a while...I was born in..1846..and I died when I was 18..that was in 1864...and it's 2009 now..." she paused for a long time. "that means I am about...163,then..." She laughed. "Your nee-san's an old lady!" she smiled.

[Aura]

" Your not old Nee-san I think its cool you have been in this world for a long period of time".

[Stephanie]

"It iwas fun...but it got rather boring after a whil-oh, i geuss you went somewhere else." Stephanie walke dinto one of the large mansions. She passed throught the door, and right in front of her, a large,grand piano. she quietly sat down..and played...She just played what came to her mind and did it for hours on end. She doesn't remember how she was able to play, maybe one of the servants taught her...She continued playing and began to sing.

~I'm so tired of being here...
Suppressed by all my...childish fears..
And if you have to leave, I wish you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here...
And it won't leave me alone.
These wounds won't seem to heal.
This pain is just too real...
There's just too much that time cannot erase....
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me~

[Aura]

Aura listened to Stephanie's playing. She enjoyed her nee-san's singing and her skills with the piano.