Jessie's Ghosts by Penny Garnsworthy

Author:Penny Garnsworthy [Garnsworthy, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult, fiction
Publisher: DoctorZed Publishing
Published: 2011-05-30T04:42:21+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Fleur was in the garden with her easel when Jessie arrived, painting what looked to Jessie like a house. Maybe it was Fleur’s house, she thought, surrounded by orange and pink flowers. It was still hard to tell with Fleur’s paintings because there was so much colour and the shapes of the object weren’t very clear. Sometimes Jessie thought they were flowers and they were actually people.

‘It’s such a beautiful day out here again, Jessie. These are gerberas’, Fleur said. ‘Gerberas are a bit like big daisies, only they are much more vibrant in colour. Do you like them?’

‘They’re pretty,’ Jessie said, proud to think she had actually picked them as flowers.

‘Harmony went for a ride on my bike earlier, but she should be home any minute. You just go in and make yourself comfortable.’

As Jessie expected there was another email from Katie, saying how sorry she was Jessie wasn’t with them on the Coast.

This time Jessie happily replied that she was really enjoying staying with Nanna and that she’d learned a lot about an old family mystery. She couldn’t say much but the mystery involved a portrait of her great-grandparents. Jessie ended her email with ‘Maybe next holiday you could come to the farm with me - there’s heaps to do here and Fleur is a really good artist. And Harmony is okay too, we’ve been doing stuff on the computer. I’ll see you at school next week.’

As soon as the Internet was up and running Jessie Googled the word ‘ghosts’.

Just then Harmony came into the room, glanced at the computer screen and sat down next to Jessie.

‘So, what happened?’ she asked.

Jessie turned to her. Today she had coloured her eyelids a really dark blue colour and Jessie noticed she had repainted her fingernails, again, dark blue this time to match her eyes. She really must be bored, Jessie thought, if she has to paint her nails every day.

‘Well,’ Jessie said, ‘That portrait is definitely haunted. But please don’t tell your mum, I have a feeling my Nanna doesn’t want people to know.’

‘As if I would ever tell my mother anything,’ Harmony said as she rolled her eyes.

Jessie looked at her curiously and then continued. ‘Well, my grandfather’s brother Harold had an argument with his father one night. They were up in the loft and Harold pushed his father and he fell down the ladder and died, right there on the floor.

‘Wow, dead, right there in the hall! Cool.’

‘So now I know why the portrait is haunted but I don’t know how to stop it. Okay if I do some research on the Internet?’

‘Sure. I’ll watch, maybe I’ll learn something.’

Jessie’s search had brought up thousands of websites. Next she typed in ‘ghosts and hauntings’ but there were even more entries. But she decided to scroll down the page a bit to see if anything in particular stood out.

There were a couple of interesting articles on the first couple of pages - one that listed a number of ‘hauntings’ in Australian hotels, another that listed first hand witness accounts of meetings with ghosts.

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