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I'm having a creative inspiration so I'm submitting this unto @saffisara's keen literary eye to the Question of; If you were a ghost and could possess people, what would you make them do? In my own style.
Halloween isn't over for me Sis, join in @silversaver888 (Had to ask, because of the rules.)
The link to the Original Ladies of Hive Contest #107 Post
Audrey is a petite girl, an unremarkable spectacled brunette with her hair gathered in a pair of ponytails. At the age of 14 she just moved into the big city and a new high school that seemed endless compared to the more familiar faces back at Bedford town. Her new school had many new faces that from less than welcoming to downright cold.
Their kind of clothing appeared different from that of Bedford, haphazard, impractical, sometimes inappropriate. Whereas Audrey's own outfit were more identifiable with a private school style without the distinct markings. An outfit made by her grandmother out of her collection of Simplicity patterns. After her first class, she felt out of place.
A handsome boy realized her unfamiliarity with the school and offered to accompany her to the next scheduled classes and even sat with Audrey in the cafeteria. "The name's Eric Smith, welcome to Central High." Out of the corner of her eye she spots a clique of girls glaring at her in a disparaging manner, whispering comments to one another as if she had violated some invisible boundary or code.
It wasn't long after the last classes three of those girls suddenly block Audrey from the school exit. Two gals grasped her arms and steered towards the girl’s room. "Hey, what gives!?" Exclaimed Audrey, "Let me go. "
The Softball girl didn't answer except nodding towards the others, "She's the one, take her to Sue."
She was kept off balance until they threw her upon the white tiled floor. Her homework strewn out over.
There were four other girls, the first two were obvious members of the school's cheerleaders squad, one was a badge member of the student body, and three adorned with corsages of the Girl's Social and Etiquette society. The tallest in the grey dress stepped forward, "What do we have here?"
"Why am I here?" She countered.
Shocked, Audrey felt a stiff slap to the back of her head.
Sue appeared to be the head of this clique, "I'm in charge and that's your first lesson, Mel!"
The Badge girl gazed into her laptop and typed something. Audrey noticed another figure in an off shoulder white blouse standing by windows and appeared to be unlike her tormentors, unwilling to partake in the anticipated assault, perhaps she's just as much a victim as she will be. Mysterious.
A moment passed before Badge girl answered, "Audrey Benning, she's new from out of state, Bedford . I say cut her some slack Sue."
The grey girl checked her hair at the mirror for a moment just a cruel thought lit her eyes, "I have had a tough day so I need some relief, cutting is a nice idea Mel. Scissors!" Immediately, her green dressed minion delved into her Gucci purse and produced a pair of fabric shears. Her blue dressed partner just laughed in anticipation putting aside her dainty umbrella.
Audrey shivered, "No, don't...". The cheerleaders held fast her arms and forced Audrey to her knees.
The mysterious girl suddenly appeared next to Audrey. In a white kimono she had long black straight hair and almond hazel eyes. The other girls don't respond to her presence. She speaks, "I cannot bare this atrocity, Audrey-sama, please allow me to possess your body!"
The grey girl waves the shears in delight and steps towards Audrey, "Which pony shall I snip? That's the price you pay for flirting with Eric! He's our property you interloping yokel.
Audrey panics and tries to free herself, "Please don't, I'll stay away from your Eric, please!" Her eyes shifted away from the shears.
The mysterious girl was closer, now clad in a black kendo Hakama, "Please allow me to possess you." Her eyes calm, her open palm almost upon her heart.
"Left or right, eeney meeny miney..." Grey girl grasped her left ponytail "What the hell I'll cut both..."
"Trust me."
Audrey closed her eyes and blurted, "Yes!"
"It is done." Said the mysterious girl as her palm make contact.
She felt her soul ripped from her body and combined to another's consciousness. Her name was Shizune from Hokkaido Japan. Fragments of her memories flashed from herself being the target of school bullies, placid scenes of her home, her rigid training regime in her uncle's martial arts dojo, and rewarded as Hokkaido's regional champion. An exciting opportunity to travel to the USA, followed by a shocking scene an auto accident near the vicinity of this school.
The next moment seeing the shears impaled into the washroom ceiling, and grey girl clutching her broken hand, writhing on the floor in pain. Audrey watches her body break free of the cheerleader twins throwing each of them down in fast succession with ease before deciding to turn a joint the way it wasn't meant to and end each opponent's will to fight.
Green girl shouldered her Gucci, "I know karate and struck a ridiculous defensive kama stance. Ha!"
The voice coming from Audrey's body wasn't her own but Shizune herself, "That is demonstration Karate for show, I now show real kill or be killed karate, hai!"
There was another scream or three followed with series of thuds ending with an umbrella popping open.
Softball girl was supposed to guard the Girl's room door but the screaming didn't sound like that of country girl at all.
She put her ear closer to... the door swung violently open, her temple taking the brunt of the impact, going out like a light, falling into a heap.
The school principal and nurse squeezed around the broken girl's room door to assess the aftermath, "Oh my, the Brat Sisterhood finally met their match?"
Cornered, Badge girl shivered as she held up her laptop like a shield, "Please don't hurt me, Miss Benning. We were just having some fun. Forgive me. "
Audrey's senses returned to her body, Shizune appeared momentary beside Audrey in a mirror's reflection with a smile, then was gone.
A though remained in her head, according to Bushido law, grant mercy when mercy is reciprocated.
The Ghost of Shizune.
And, thank you for joining me today. ⛩
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