“Help me” she said. Matt recognised the voice, it was the same as the one on the phone. Matt was so frightened he couldn’t get himself to even move. The sight of her was so horrific it looked impossible for her to be alive at all.
“Please, help me” she said again. Matt assured himself that he was just having hallucinations because of the enormous amount of alcohol he had been drinking. He quickly turned his head around to face the impossible women but she had disappeared into thin air. He looked back into the mirror but he could only see his own reflection.
The next day Matt was still thinking about his incident in the bathroom. The more he thought about it the more it lead him to believe it was real, which made things even worse for him. Matt realised he couldn’t cope with it on his own so he decided to tell one of his close friends.
“So you’re hallucinating?” Gavin asked him mockingly. His friend wasn’t taking his problem as seriously as Matt thought it was.
“Look I don’t think it was a hallucination, I think it was real you know a spirit or something.” Matt told him uneasily. It didn’t feel very comfortable telling Gavin now that he was actually there.
“Matt you know there’s no such thing as ghosts or spirits, I mean how could you even think like that. I think all that beer is making you mad” Gavin laughed. This made Matt fill with sadness, if his own friend didn’t believe him than who would? He would have to sort his problem out on his own.
“Great” he thought sarcastically to himself.
* * *
“It happened last week I think. I was driving to my sister’s house from work and I was in a hurry because I was late. I don’t remember exactly what happened I just remember seeing a bright white light, after that everything’s completely blank.” Samantha explained to Matt sadly.
It was last Saturday when Matt had seen the so called ‘ghost’ again. Had brought himself together bravely and decided to talk to her. After talking for quite a while he had found out quite a lot about her. Her name was Samantha Geller and she was, or used to be a doctor and not surprisingly was most likely to be dead.
Matt felt very relieved after talking to Samantha. Secretly inside he felt quite happy having someone to talk to that wouldn’t think he was mad for believing in spirits. Matt had promised Samantha that he would help her move on to where she is meant to be right now. Though this was mainly because he didn’t wanted to be haunted by some stranger for the rest of his life. From then on Samantha followed Matt everywhere he went. You would think the cuts and bruises on her face was enough to make anyone you mad but surprisingly they had started to fade away gradually and by the end of the week they had completely disappeared. Making Matt’s situation a whole lot easier.
* * *
It was 1:30 in the afternoon and Matt was in Tescos buying something for his lunch. Samantha was now so used to being around Matt that she even went to work with him. Partly to enjoy peoples reactions when they saw Matt supposedly talking to himself.
Matt was looking at the ready meals and was just about to reach for one when someone quickly grabbed it before him. He looked up to see who had been so desperate to get to the packet first. To his horror and shock he saw something that seemed impossible yet it was real.
“AAAAAAAHHHHH” Matt screamed as if he had just seen a ghost for the first time.
“Look I’m sorry if you want it that much here take it.” The women said to him passing him the packet. Matt was so shocked and confused he couldn’t even get himself to move. He finally looked around to see that everybody was pointing and staring at him. He looked around for Samantha but couldn’t her anywhere so decided to go home avoiding all the people who were staring at him.
When Matt got home he saw Samantha was already there, she was sitting on the bed staring out of the window.
“Sam, you saw the woman it was you wasn’t it. She looked exactly like you its impossible,” Matt stuttered still recovering from his shock. He hadn’t had time to react properly at the time but seemed to have calmed to a lot since then.
“I know, I don’t get it that was me I know it. The clothes and everything, she’s wearing exactly the same as me now but I’m dead and she’s not,” Samantha replied, she just as confused as Matt was. But had taken it in easier that him considering the fact that the woman had looked like Samantha not Matt.
* * *
“That’s it, it all makes sense now. It was so obvious how could I not have realised,” Matt exclaimed excitedly.
“What is it tell me” Samantha asked her face glowing up happily.
“There’s no time to explain, I need your address quick!” Matt demanded impatiently
Matt was rushing around getting all his things together and would say a word of his plan. He got into his BMW and drove straight to Samantha’s house. On the other hand Samantha was just running around trying to keep up with him with no idea of what was happening but was exited all the same. When they got to her house it was empty which to Matt was apparently a bad thing.
“Where did you work?” Matt asked Samantha
“Erinsburgh park hospital, why?” Samantha replied getting annoyed at Matt’s sudden change of behaviour.
“Come on we need to get there quickly” Matt said ignoring her question.
“There she is I can see her,” they had been looking around for quite a while when Matt finally spotted the person he was looking for. It was Samantha. Funnily both Samantha’s were wearing exactly same clothes and all. Somehow to Matt this all made sense, he always looked like the clever kind Samantha thought to herself.
* * *
“Samantha!” Matt shouted after her. The woman turned around and looked confused as she saw Matt calling her.
“Hey you’re that weird guy from Tescos. Look I’m sorry about what happened there ok it’s over now lets just forget it ever happened” Samantha said trying to reason with him. Matt just laughed at her reaction.
“I’m not here because of that. It’s something more important than that, so I was wondering if I could just talk to you for a few minutes” Matt asked hoping she would say yes.
“Fine, but I only have 10 minutes so make it quick” she sighed though she was curious to know what it was all about.
“What?! Your mad, get out of here!” Samantha exclaimed Matt had just told her about her spirit but she didn’t take it as easily as Matt had hoped.
“I swear it’s true, I’ll prove it to you,” Matt said although he wasn’t sure how he was going to.
“Tell her you know about Zac” the ghost Samantha whispered to him although there was no need for her to seeing as only Matt could see or hear her.
“I know about you and Zac” Matt said as Samantha had told him to.
“WHAT! Nobody knows about that, how did you find out?” she demanded angrily.
“I swear I’m telling the truth if you’ll just listen to me” Matt pleaded
“Go on then,” she replied “I can’t believe this,” she muttered quietly after under her breath, but loud enough for Matt to hear her.
“In about three hours your going to have a car crash but if you do what I tell you we can stop it from happening” he said to her anxiously waiting for her reaction. She shook her head and then said
“Get out of my sight! You’re a mad man and should be locked up!” Samantha screamed. She picked up a mop that was leaning on the wall next to her and threatened Matt with it. Matt decided it was time to back out and quickly ran out of her sight. He didn’t want to take any risks.
“Is that it then, you’re just going to let her die?” Samantha the spirit asked him sadly
“What else can I do, I tried my best,” Matt replied hopelessly. But then something made Matt want to go and save her and that’s exactly what he did. It wasn’t too late there was still about an hour left until she would get into her car and die. He didn’t go to try and stop her again because he knew it wouldn’t work. He decided to try something else, he phoned in to the hospital and told them there had been a big accident on the main road. The hospital would surely call in more staff wouldn’t they? Matt and Samantha then hid and waited in the corridor where the real Samantha would come through before she went home.
It was now exactly 8:00; Samantha came rushing through the corridor. They then waited a minute before following her to see if Dave from the emergency department would call her. He did.
“Sam!” the ghost Samantha looked amazed at what was going on, it was like someone was showing her a video of her life. On the other hand Matt was feeling frustrated. Dave was not supposed to come he had ruined his plan. There was nothing Matt could do but wait for her to come back.
At 8:30 she was back in the corridor racing to the lifts, Matt didn’t know what he should do. He didn’t try and stop her because that would just make her even later and she would drive even faster then. So they followed her all the way to her car and quickly got into Matt’s car and kept on following her.
She was going so fast it was impossible to keep up with her
“This is it, when she goes through this next red light she is going to crash” Samantha informed him anxiously. He wasn’t even sure what he was going to do but just carried on following. They could soon see the traffic lights, they were only a few meters away from it. As they saw the other Samantha whiz passed them Matt started beeping his horn. Many people started shouting at him out of annoyance and tried to block his way but he was too fast for them.
In the car in front of them Samantha was just about to get of the phone when-
BANG.
She had bumped hard into the car in front her. She put her phone down and tried to get out of the way but there was too much traffic. Everybody had stopped at the red light so she had to wait with them. While waiting she saw a big white truck going past her.
A horrific scene came to her mind as she looked at it, it showed her having a car crash. Like Matt had told her that day at the hospital, he had been telling the truth all along and if the person in front of her hadn’t stopped her she would have been dead by now. Tears came to her eyes as she thought about everything he had told her. He said he knew a ghost, her ghost.
Samantha decided that she would not mention any of her incidents to anyone. As she got to her sisters drive way she looked surprisingly at it. The car that had saved her from the accident was parked in front of it and there was a man standing next to the car, a very familiar man. It was Matt.
“Why did you save me,” Samantha asked Matt after getting out her car.
“Because I love her, she came to me for help and she made me happy,” Matt replied “but she’s gone now, she disappeared at the time when I saved you.” Matt eyes were gleaming with sadness of his loss.
“I’m her, she hasn’t disappeared. She’s in me,” Samantha told him. She had just discovered that the man in front of her had saved her life and was not going to let him just completely walk out of her life.
“I can feel all the feelings that she had for you, and…I love you,” Samantha said shyly walking up to him. She held his hand tight and smiled at him.
“Come inside, I’m I was meant to be here at eight thirty and now it is nine o’clock. My sister is going to kill me,” they both laughed. They walked quietly in to Annie’s house holding each other tight, knowing they had a great life ahead of them.
