I've always had this gift, my mother calls it the gift of the dead. It started when I heard my grandmother call out to me the day after she was buried, I was six. It took a lot of convincing but my parents finally believed me. Now I can barely tell between the living and the dead.
"Please could you help me cross the street?", the woman beside me said reaching out for my hand.
I tried to grab her hand but mine just went through. She vanished immediately. Sometimes it's like they don't know they're dead or they forget. Well, this is my life now. One upside to this is I always have people to talk to, you'd be surprised how much wisdom dead people have.
"Boo!!"
Meet James, my dead best friend. He thinks since he's a ghost, he has the right to scare me because I can see him.
"How's it hanging James?"
"You know me, visiting the places I've never been to before"
Did I forget to mention they can go anywhere they went.
"Where did you go this time"
"A place in India, I still can't pronounce it yet. Word is someone got called to the other side there today"
That's another thing, some of the dead get called to the "other side" while some remain here, I never could tell why, maybe to keep me company I guess. James has always wanted to be called to the other side but we could never figure out how.
"I'm going to be called one day, I just know it"
"Well before you do that, could you help me find out where Rose is? I'm supposed to see her today but I can't reach her on her cell"
"Sure"
Off he goes, he's always helping me with stuffs like this.
"Wake up Emma!! someone needs help"
"It's three in the morning James, I'm sure it can wait"
"Someone is about to commit suicide by the bridge, hurry!!"
I rushed as fast as I could and made it just in time. Soon the bridge was filled with cops and the suicide was stopped.
"You saved her Emma"
"I didn't, you did, this was all you, I merely just made a call"
"Yeah, it was me"
"Emma?"
I turned around to see light around him. He was being called or at least it looked that way.
"What's happening Emma?"
"You saved somebody, I think that was a ticket, you're going to the other side"
"But I don't want to go yet, I'll miss you"
"It's okay James, I'll be okay, we both will. You'll always be here with me"
I watched as he vanished into the light, he finally made it. I'm gonna miss that kid.