CHAPTER 1

"When can I escape this dark room I was in?" I asked myself.

I'm inside my room right now.The lights are off,the door is closed...just slightly open, just enough for the lights coming from the other room passed through it.

I sit still in the corner covering my ears to prevent the loud voices coming out from the other side of the room.I can't stand hearing them saying hurtful words to each other.They always fight.It became a part of my parents' routine to fight every night.

My tears started to flow like a water falls.Then suddenly the door opened that causes the whole light passes through the room with a person's shadow facing me.I lifted up my head to see who was it and it was my mom looking at me with a disgusted look like what everyone does in my school.I felt shivers down through my spine as she was starting to come forward aggressively.

"YOU BRAT!" She shouted as she grabbed my long hair and pulled me out of my room.

All I can do is to cry and shout for help.

She slapped me many times...She even poured a cup of hot coffee on me...She did many hurtful things to me...which she never done to me before.

"Just how did things turned out like this...?"

"Is it possible to return all the things on how it used to be?"

I kept hoping that soon everything will be okay.I kept thinking that when I wake up,it turns out that everything was just a nightmare and just continue on being happy.So I had hope that I'll wake up someday.

But...

It never happened.

I woke up every morning without mom and dad waiting on the table like how we used to be.I go to school with the people around me giving me death glares and disgusted look.Everyday was just the same.This...is all real.

I woke up early in the morning as usual.I sat up from my bed and stretched my hands.I stood up straight and head out of my room to have a glass of water.I opened the fridge and get the pitchel of a cold water and poured a bit on my glass.

gulp..gulp..gulp

As soon as I finished it, I let out a sigh of relief,satisfied from my thirst of water.I looked up at the wall clock that was hanged above my parents' bedroom door and saw it with the small arrow facing the 4 number and the big arrow facing the midst of the 2 and 3 numbers.

"There's still 3 hours left for me to get ready for school" I muttered.

I then head back to my room to ready my things for school.I fixed my books and put it inside my bag.

"Hmm?"

I questioningly look at my books inside my bag as if something is missing.I counted the books that are inside and realized that one book is missing.

"Where did I put it? Somewhere in here?"

I wandered around my room finding my book but I never saw any traces of it.I was so sure that I brought all of my books yesterday.

"Hmm..." I tapped my desked to help myself calm down and remember.Unfortunately I can't remember anything.I let out a big sigh and just shrugged it off.

"I'll just take a bath before finding it to freshen up my mind." I said to myself and picked up my towel that's been hanging on my chair.

I opened the bathroom door and heard the water driplets coming from the shower.The floor is wet it's as if someone just used it.Maybe mom go for work early again.But where's dad?

I tried to turn on the hot shower but it was broken...

"It's broken...What should I do? Should I just take a bath later?"

I paused for a moment and turned on the shower.It was cold.This kind of cold is different from the cold I felt when I was sitting inside my room listening to my mom and dad fighting.This house has never been warm ever since.All you can feel is just the cold thin air inside.Unlike before...Our bond was so warm,but now our bond together is not warm anymore but just a cold feeling whenever we're near to each other.I can't feel...The love we have anymore.

The tears then started to fall down along with the water coming from the shower.I can't tell which my tears are nor the water from the shower.

sob...sob...sob...sob...

"Haahh~It feels so refreshing..." I said in a calm voice.I dried my hair while sitting on my chair while looking at my notes.I studied all the things we discussed yesterday in our class and remembered that I still need to find my book.I searched for it again all over the room but I can't still find it.

"Right maybe I forgot it in school...or...on the bus!?"I exclaimed in a 'can't believe' emotion.This is bad.If I did forgot it on the bus then I'm screwed.I can't believe I forgot my book in that goodang bus.I bit my nails as I was scared in my current situation.I'm so pathetic.

As soon as I finished getting ready for school.I rushed out to the bus station to wait for the bus I used last night.

"It's been 1 hour...I have no hope now, I'm going to school"I have given up on waiting for the bus I took last night and just headed straight to my school.

All eyes were on me as I got off the bus.They looked at me with a disgusted look and I just shrugged it off.I'm already used to it so I don't care.I opened our classroom door and my classmates started to whisper to each other while glancing at me.I head to my desk near the window and sat on my chair.I checked under my desk hoping my book was there but it wasn't.I plopped down my head on my desk and faced the sky outside.

"It's beautiful..." I mumbled.

"Hello..." I was stunned by the sudden action of the guy infront of me.He bended himself to face me up close.His face is very closed to me that I can feel his breath.His eyes were dark brown and his hair was black,his skin is not so white and he wears a cheerful smile on his face.

"So handsome..." I mumbled to myself.

"Haahh...why am I hallucinating that someone is talking to me?I must be so stressed because I couldn't find my book"I rubbed my eyes to snap myself out of it but the boy was still in front of me.

"What do you mean by 'hallucinating'?"

I was stiffed like a rock when I realized that he's not a hallucination.

I just said that he was handsome a while ago!!!!

" **DANCING WITH YOUR GHOST "

Written by: 태하니 (Taehannie**)

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