Ghostly Issues (A Harper Harlow Mystery Book 2) by Hart Lily Harper

Author:Hart, Lily Harper [Hart, Lily Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperHart Publications
Published: 2016-01-05T08:00:00+00:00

HARPER aimlessly wandered the streets for twenty minutes, her mind busy. Memories of the previous evening – every soft touch and kiss – bombarded her as she tried to push Eric’s sad face out of her mind. She was going to have to sit him down and force some realities on him. There was no doubt about that. She wasn’t good with emotional stuff and uncomfortable conversations, and the idea made her sick to her stomach.

Before she realized what was happening, Harper found herself back at the park. It was empty. Only a ghoul wanted to hang out in a park where a boy died – and those people waited until it was dark to cut down on the possibility of people seeing them.

The police tape remained, although dragging low in some places, and Harper circled it as she tried to force her mind from memories of Jared. Derek Thompson was murdered. She was convinced of that. There could be no other reason for him to haunt his death spot. Now … if he would only talk to her.

“I see you’re back,” Derek said, popping into view.

“Ask and you shall receive,” Harper muttered.

“What?”

“Nothing.” Harper shook her head and focused on Derek. “I see you’re back, too. How are you?”

“I’m dead. How are you?”

Teenagers are a pain in life and death apparently, Harper internally mused. She didn’t even like herself as a teenager. It was getting harder and harder to pretend Derek wasn’t a snot. “I saw your girlfriend yesterday,” she said, changing tactics.

Derek snorted. “Oh, man. You saw Lexie? I’ll bet she’s milking this thing to her advantage every chance she gets.”

That was a cynical way to talk about your girlfriend, Harper internally mused. “She’s … in mourning.” Harper didn’t want to malign the girl in case she really was upset. The problem was, Harper couldn’t identify one real emotion from Lexie during their previous exchange. “Some of your friends … Brandon, Dylan, and David, to be exact … were with her. They were consoling her.”

“The only thing Brandon is trying to console is Lexie’s hoo-ha.”

Harper hadn’t heard that term in … well, she wasn’t sure she’d ever heard that term. “Her … hoo-ha?”

“You know, her … hoo-ha,” Derek said.

If he was trying to clarify something, he was doing a rotten job. Still, Harper knew what he was referring to. “Did Lexie and Brandon have a thing?”

“Lexie doesn’t have a thing with anyone,” Derek countered. “She was my girlfriend, but that’s only because I’m popular and she likes attention. Brandon doesn’t have a shot because he’s not really popular and now she’s going to be getting all the attention she could ever want because I’m dead.”

“That’s kind of the feeling I got from her, too,” Harper admitted. “Everyone was up at the school yesterday for some summer classes. It’s weird to me that you guys get out so early and then immediately have to go to summer school. I know the school year is truncated here because of old farming traditions, but it seems weird to me that summer school is already in session.

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