Ghost Story

slowly turned my head and as I did this, the strangest feeling came over me. My heart started to pound hard in my chest. But as I looked towards where I thought I had seen the dark object there was nothing there. My heart began to calm down, I turned to look in the rear mirror and there it was. I could tell what it was this time. My heart began to pound again in my chest and my breathing got heavier I felt so scared. It was a tall dark figure. It was as black as the midnights sky but with out the twinkling of the stars. I wanted to scream but I couldn’t, I wanted to reach for the door but I couldn’t. I was frozen to my seat like icy cold ice. I eventually managed to move my right arm towards the door and flick the lock. I was so frightened I could hardly breath I closed my eyes and counted to five I opened them again. The dark figure was still there; it was starring right at me. My eyes seemed to be fixed on the dark figure as if I were in a trance. I could here my heart pounding harder as all these horrible thoughts when through my mind. I reached for the keys in the ignition. I turned the key but nothing happened. I look in the rear view mirror but the figure had gone. I felt a cold shiver go down my spine, which made the hairs on my back stand on end. I turned to look behind me just in case my eyes weren’t deceiving me. I turned round and slumped down into the seat and breathed a siy of relief. But to my horror it was there, there in front of me, staring at me. The dark figure took its gaze of me. It turned and point towards the trees. I turned my head towards the trees but there was nothing there. I looked back at where the dark figure was standing, but instead there was a little girl no more than twelve. She was standing there pointing at the trees just like the dark figure had been doing. I sat there watching her as she continued to point at the trees. Just as I was about to open the car door she started to walk towards trees. Once she had reached the edge of the road where the trees began she faded away into thin air. I stared in disbelief at what I saw. Everything went quiet. Then out of the blue my car started. I looked at my phone the battery was recharged. As I drove away I looked in the rear view mirror back at where I was and there again the dark figure stood but this time the little girl was standing beside him. The next morning while eating my breakfast I was watching the morning news. As they when through the last news they came to one story where a little girl and her father had driven off the road and both had died. They show pictures of the scene and a picture of them. To my horror there the little girl stood next to her dad in the picture just as she had done as I drove away that night. I felt that same shiver go down my spine and the hairs stand up on my back. Charlotte Precious