Unexpected Outcomes by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson

Author:Carolyn Ridder Aspenson [Ridder Aspenson, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Published: 2017-09-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter SEVEN

JOSH HOPPED IN the car after lacrosse practice and stunk it up so much I had to roll the windows down for the entire drive home. When Josh sweat, he smelled worse than a skunk, and I knew that stench up close and personal, so I could judge.

I pinched my nose. “Good God, how can someone so sweet stink so much?”

He held up his arms to expose his armpits, which had little black curly man hairs hanging from them, and completely grossed me out. “I don’t stink. I smell like roses.”

I winced. “Put those down. That’s disgusting.”

He laughed.

“How was your day?”

“Good. Oh, I saw a ghost. It’s sad when it’s a kid.”

“Yeah, the kids are always tough.” Matthew Clough had impacted me more than any ghost, other than my mother, of course, that I’d ever met.

“This was a kid from school. I think he had cancer. Saw him walking down the hall just like he used to.”

“Did you talk to him?”

“Nah, I don’t do that at school.”

“Makes sense.”

“’Sides, he was just kinda chillin’, doing his thing. It was just weird because I don’t see ‘em a whole lot these days, and then there he was, you know?”

“That happens sometimes.” I was glad he didn’t see spirits all that often. It was hard enough for me to adjust to seeing them, and I didn’t want my son to struggle through that at such a young age. He needed to be a kid. Funny, it hit me then that that was probably exactly how my mother felt when I was a kid.

“I figure if I see him again I’ll say something when no one’s around, or like, at home or something. If he wants to talk to his parents or whatever he should be able to, you know? I don’t want him to wait around when we can help him.”

“Do you want to try now?”

“Can we get something to eat first? I’m starving.”

“Sure, because you should never talk to a ghost on an empty stomach.”

“Yeah, never.”

We went through the McDonald’s drive thru and sat in the parking lot while Josh scarfed down two double cheeseburgers with ketchup only, a large fries and a large chocolate shake. It wasn’t what I’d call nutritious, but it filled his stomach and that was the goal at that moment. It wasn’t a stellar mom move, but I didn’t care. I didn’t know any perfect moms anyway.

While he inhaled the last of his fries, he just started a conversation with the boy from school, as if he sat right next to him in the car.

“So we had a test in history the other day, Hunter. I aced it. Bet you would of too.”

“Dude, I saw it. Those questions were so easy. I think Mrs. Stephenson made them that way so the stupid kids would pass.”

Josh laughed. “Bet. I don’t care though. Just makes it easier for me.”

“Nice, guys. Not everyone finds history all that interesting you know.”

They both looked at me like I’d lost my mind.

“Dude, she can see me too?”

“Yeah.

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