10 MinuteWriting #4

The hall was silent until she heard the loudest scream ever. The scream was not your normal scream that is heard in a school hallway. The normal scream heard is usually one of a teacher getting screaming at a student, or possibly a scream emphasizing what is read in a story. This scream was one of terror. On this occasion a student was walking in the hallways when he heard a scream, when she went to go see nobody was there. The students in the surrounding classrooms thought the girl was crazy for hearing a scream. The girl began to think maybe they did not hear the scream maybe others in the hallway will know. When she began to ask other students, nobody knew what she was talking about, and began to believe she was crazy as well. As time went on the girl was beginning to think she was crazy, until she heard it again. She turned to the person sitting next to her and said, “Did you hear that scream?” The student said no and she then knew she was the only person hearing these screams.

When she began her investigation she was approached by a student she never met. When the new student began talking to her she received many weird stares from students passing her. The girl asked the new student why people were looking at her funny, the new girl then told her she was a ghost. The girl looked at her in amazement and asked why she could see her then. The ghost responded by saying she was the only one who heard her scream. The girl understood and asked why she was screaming, and the ghost said because she was frustrated she could not pass over to her next like. When the ghost started to explain her only goal in like was to graduate college, and felt like she has unfinished business. The girl then asked how I can help with the unfinished business. The ghost began to say how she was on her way to school ten years ago to turn in her last ten page paper to pass college. She never made it because she was in a car wreck, and died. The ghost then continued to say how her paper made it through the wreck ok and just needed turned in.

The girl asked the ghost to retrieve the paper so she can turn the paper in for her. When the ghost gave her the paper she told her to turn the paper into Mr. Rhodes. When the girl found the teacher he asked how she got the paper. She went onto say how it looked as if it belonged to him. He went onto say how this was from his top student, and how all she needed was this paper to graduate. The girl then never saw the ghost again, and believes her unfinished business was complete and now lives in her next life!