The 7th Birthday Party: A Ghost Mystery Story (Second Hand Ghosts Book 3) by Gillian Larkin

Author:Gillian Larkin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2013-07-25T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“Her brother? Charlotte tell me that,” I said.

“Because Charlotte isn’t here! You’re making it up.” George began to walk away.

Charlotte shouted out, “ I remember now! George is my brother. He used to watch Princess movies with me when I was little. He used to make me special princess mud pies. He put a Mars bar in the microwave and melted it. Then he stirred it up and gave it to me. He said I was a mud princess and that was what mud princesses ate!”

“George! Wait!” I said and I ran after him. “I can prove that Charlotte is here.”

George sped up and headed towards the park gates. I went after him.

“She said you used to look after her. She told me that you made her special mud pies. Mud pies made from Mars bars because she was a mud princess.”

George stopped. He spun around. “How do you know that? Is she really here?”

I nodded. Emily was at my side. She said, “I can see her too. She’s got long blonde hair, just like a princess.”

George collapsed onto the ground. I ran over to him and put my hand on his shoulder. “It’s okay. There’s nothing to be afraid of.”

George looked up at me. “But there is. If Charlotte is really here then she knows what I did to her. She knows that it’s my fault that she died!”

He began to sob. Great big noisy sobs. People nearby looked at us but I ignored them. I felt a cold hand on my shoulder. It was Charlotte. She told me something. I nodded.

“George, Charlotte’s just remembered what happened. It wasn’t your fault at all.”

I told him what his sister told me.

He sighed and wiped his runny nose on his sleeve. “Did she really do that? But why? Oh, I think know why. And all these years I’ve felt guilty. I was sure it was my fault.”

Charlotte said something.

“Charlotte wants to know why you’re so grumpy,” I said.

“How could I be happy? Thinking that you’d killed your sister, even by accident, is enough to make anyone miserable.”

George stood up and brushed dirt off his jeans. “Can we tell my parents what happened? They never said anything but I know they think it’s my fault that Charlotte died. Things haven’t been right between us since she died.”

“Are your parents at home now?”

George nodded.

I didn’t know George’s parents, Sue and Dave, very well. I talked to Sue at the school gates in the afternoons when we were waiting to pick our girls up. She always seemed friendly and was ready for a chat, but what would she say when I told her I could see ghosts? What would her reaction be when I told her I could see her dead daughter? I didn’t even know she had a daughter that had died.

There was only one way to find out.

“Lead the way,” I said to George.

George walked out of the park. He glanced nervously to the side as if expecting to see Charlotte. I followed a few steps behind him with the girls.

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