"Why cant I go to Maria's party dad?" I begged for the 50th time.

"I already told you, someone might notice that your different than others." My dad said turning around to end the conversation. 

My dad is always afraid that someone will notice that I can see ghosts, not normal dead people ghost but ghost that look like the living person, they stick by their side bringing good luck to them, it's also a way to show how good or bad a person really is, a bad person will have a black ghost, and a good person will have a white ghost.

"But dad, Maria is one of the most popular girls in school if I don't go I will go through school with no friends, not even the emo's will want to talk to me."

"Stop acting like an eight year old Marcy." He said turning back towards me.

"But." 

"No buts! I said no and that's final!" He yells so loud the neighbors probably heard.

He turns around and I watch him and his ghost walk away.

I run up the stairs and slam the door shut, walking over to my desk I send a video request to my best friend Bree.

"Hey Bree."

"Hey girl, so what did your dad say? Bree says getting closer to the screen.

"He said no." 

"What! You know what this means right?" She screams into her mic.

"I'll be a total outcast."

"No, you have to sneak out." She says with a serious face.

Sneak out! What the hell is she thinking!

"Shh! Are you insane!" I yell punching the volume button to lower the sound.

"Sorry." She apologies.

Her plan is crazy but its the best I got.

"Ok I'll try it."

"Try what?" She responds.

Bree is the only person, other than my dad, that knows about my secret but sometimes she can be a total blonde.

"I'm going to sneak out." 

"OMG! Ok, we need a plan and cute outfits pronto." 

I roll my eyes while she continues.

"Ok, I'll bring your outfit and you do the rest all you have to do is meet me outside by the car." She explains her plan to me.

"Is Ricky driving us?" 

Ricky is Bree's boyfriend, he likes to spoil her.

"Who else is going to drive us? Santa Clause? She says sarcastically

"I know, too bad you didnt pass your drivers test." 

"Ha ha very funny, I got to go pick out our outfits ok? Bye girlly!" She yells out loud then clicks off the video chat screen.

All I have to do now if figure out how to get out without dad catching me.

"But how?"

"But how what?"

I turn around and see my dads ghost standing by the door. Yes the ghost's can talk to me.

"But nothing, get out of my room!"

 "Ok, if you tell me what you and Bree was talking about." He says entering my room.

"No now get out Brian!"

A ghost's name is what the living person's name is.

"Whatever, I'm going." He says disappearing into the wall.

With that, I walk over to my window and open it to look down.

"There's no way I'm doing that without breaking something." 

I walk over to my closet and open it to look for something to be useful

"My scarves, I can use them as a rope to climb down!"

I grab all my scarves I collected over the years and throw them on my bed, covering the half of the bed, I sit on the other end.

"I need to stop talking to myself."

Concentrating on my task, I tie each scarf together making a long rope, walking over to the window I throw it down to see if it touches the ground.

"Perfect!"

 The scarves are old but they should hold, I hope.

"Maybe I could use a nail to hang the scarves on so they stay."

I walk down stairs, go outside to the garage, and open dads tool box.

"What do you need a nail for?" 

I turn around and see my dad standing under the open garage door.

"I-i-umm I'm making a bird house?"

"Ok have fun." He says leaving 

"Ok then."

Grabbing a hammer I run back to my room and walk over to the window

"I dont know if this is going to work, what if it breaks, I'll fall and break something, or worse."

Just before I could pound the nail in my computer buzzed telling me I have a video chat request

I pushed the button and the screen pops up showing my friend Bree and her smiling face

"Hey girl! Did you find a way to escape yet." She says jumping up and down in her seat

"I'm guessing you found our outfits."

"Duh! Yeah I did." She says spinning her chair around

"Well can I see it?"

"No, I got to go ok bye girl I'll be there at 6pm to pick you up ok bye, again."

 "6pm, My dad will be up still!" I yell to myself

"Crap crap crap crap! What am I going to do now?"

"Maybe I can help?" I hear my dads ghost's voice coming from my door

"Are you stalking me?"

"Do you want my help or not?" He says floating into my room

My dads ghost is grey which means he's half bad and half good, my dad had a complicated childhood.

"What do you have in mind?"

"Don't worry about me, just get out the window when I tell you he wont know you got out trust me." He says with a smile.

If you haven't noticed, I don't trust my dads ghost.

"Ok, and what do I have to do for you?"

"Oh nothing really, just free me." He lays on my bed when he says it

If you haven't guessed I'm special and seeing ghosts isn't the only thing I can do, I can also free them from their owner, but when they are free they can take over someones body or kill people.

"Hell no!"

"Well I guess Bree just has to go without you then." He sits up and looks at me

"If you weren't dead I would kill you."

"Little late for that Hun. Too bad you don't have a ghost to tell you wrong from right because I'm sure she would tell you to free me."

Well if I go to the party and free him I'm happy and people get hurt, If I don't free him and try to go to the party I get grounded and become a outcast. Either way I get hurt so it wouldn't hurt to try.

"Fine."

"Seriously? I mean ok, deal?" He puts his hand out for me to take it making it a deal.

"Deal." I reach my hand out, when my hand touches his it glows.

"Now if you break the deal I get freed and you die." He says with a smile and disappears into the wall.

"What! You didn't say anything about that!" I yell at the wall he disappeared from.

 Left alone again.

"Ok then, so all I have to do is worry about the scarves breaking."

Later in the day at 5:30

"Hey dad, so what are we having for dinner?"

"Pizza." He says not even looking up from his news paper.

"Oh...umm...well I don't feel hungry tonight so I'm just going to stay in my room...and go to sleep so no need to check up on me, ok?"

"Ok."

I run up the stairs and close the door behind me. 

"Now all i have too do is do my make up and let Brian do the rest."

Grabbing my make up case I head to the bath room. I apply my foundation, blush, mascara, eye shadow, and lip stick.

"Perfect."

My hair is naturally orange and curly so there's not much I can do with it.

I look at the clock on my wall and notice it is 6pm.

"Bree and Ricky should be here soon."

I walk over to the window and just in time, I see them just pull in. Grabbing the scarves I hang it on the nail and throw it out the window watching it fall to the ground where Bree and Ricky are now standing.

I swing my right leg over the window holding on to the edge, I swing the other leg over putting both on the edge so that my hands are free. I grab the rope and hold on tight as my feet start to slide off the edge.

"Here goes nothing."

My feet come off the edge leaving me to dangle, my hands are the only thing keeping me from falling. I look down at a horrified Bree holding her breath and praying for her friend to come down safely

"Oh my God!" I hear someone yell from below followed by a rip.

I look up at the long rope of scarves and see one of them ripping apart.

 I hear one last rip and I let go of the rope, I feel myself fall backwards, time suddenly seemed like it was slowing down.

Just when I thought I was going to hit the bottom I'm in someones arms inches from the ground.

I look up into his green eyes, looking at Bree and Ricky I can see that they aren't looking because they are afraid to see.

I look back up at him and he's gone.

Ricky looks over and rushes over to help me up

"Thanks dick...I MEAN RICK!"

"How did you not break something?" He asks ignoring the last thing I said.

"OMG ARE YOU OK?" I hear Bree say to my left.

"I'm fine actually."

"Ok well if your ok I have your outfit you can change quick in the car right now before we go." She quickly says before anyone else could say something.

"Ok calm down." I grab the outfit  out of her arms.

The outfit is a long blue and black striped dress with a bright orangish brown jacket, tan scarf, black leggings, and really cute orangish brown boots. A box and note came with the outfit, I open it up and find a necklace of a dragonfly, the note said "I bought you this because you are my best friend enjoy! AND TALK TO SOME BOYS." I smile at the thoughtful gift from Bree.

 I exit the car hearing some whistles when I close the door.

"Girl! You look hot in that outfit!" She says pushing me towards the door again.

"Thanks, and thanks for the necklace." I say while trying to show her but she keeps pushing me into the door of the car.

"That's nice, NOW GET IN! We are going to be late, I am never late and I'm not starting now." With that she shoves me in and jumps into the front seat.

"Ok Mrs. Pushy."

Rick gets into the car and starts it, hitting the gas before I have time to put my seat belt on.

6:30 at the party

Rick opens the door for me and Bree takes my hand to drag me out.

"Easy now, I'm a person not a piece of jewelry you can fight over!"

"Sorry." She apologies while pushing me to the door of the grand house. 

"Holy shit!" 

"Watch your mouth!" Bree yells at me

"Sorry, Holy shoot, better?"

"Yes, now you knock." She says taking my arm like a puppet and making me press the button.

"Seriously?"

"Cerealy." She mocks me

We hear loud music coming from inside the house and it grows louder as someone opens the house.

"Oh, its you." the person's smile turns to a frown when she sees us.

"Hey Maria." I say shyly 

"Maria! That's no way to treat your guests." Bree says pushing Maria aside to walk in dragging me behind her.

The lights blinded me as we walked in following Bree to a couch and sitting down.

"So."

"So what?" Bree looks at me with a questioning look.

"What do we do?"

"Have fun? Have you ever been to a party?" She says grabbing my arm again to make me get up.

"No, not really, I went to yours does that count?"

"No, no it does not, because one we were 4 and it was a sleep over with just the two of us." She says shaking her head in disappointment.

"Dance with someone, have a drink, play a game, talk to people, TALK TO BOYS." She continues saying yelling the last part out loud.

Bree leaves me alone to go with her boyfriend.

"Great what do I do now?"

I sit back down on the couch and look at the people around me.

I know some people from school like, Gwen fom English, Rachel from Math, that Mathew kid that sits at our table at lunch, and...

My mind goes blank as I stare at that boy, the one who saved me when I fell down my window. I don't recognize him from anywhere else but I have a feeling I know him other than the fact he just saved me.

Getting up off the couch I slowly walk over to him, keeping my eyes on him not looking away for anything. Just when I was a few feet away from him an annoying high school boy stopped me.

"Hey girl, you want to dance with me?" He says with a evil smile, I could see his black ghost behind him telling me he was trouble.

"No thank you." I say looking back at the boy, but when I look he's gone.

"Come on why not?" He grabs me from behind, I try to get away but his grip is too tight.

"Bree!" I yell looking around to find her

"Hey babe why don't you come with me." He smiles, his alcohol breath tells me he had way to much to drink.

I start to panic and hit him to try to get away but it doesn't help because he just holds me tighter.

"Get your hands off of her you rat!" I hear Bree's voice from behind me as she yells at him.

Rick comes up to him and he lets go of me, Bree comes up to me and hugs me, and Rick hits him in the face a couple of times.

"Are you ok? Did he hurt you? Do you want to go home? Did he touch you in any way? Did he try to kiss you?" I am pelted with millions of questions from Bree.

"Bree I'm fine calm down, I just got a little freaked out."

"I was afraid he was going to hurt you or touch you or something." She says while hugging me tighter.

"I'm afraid your going to hurt me if you squeeze me any tighter."

"Oops sorry." She lets go of me giving me a relive of air into my lungs.

"Ok well while your boyfriend is beating the stuffing out of that guy I need to tell you something."

"What did you do this time?" She says pulling me over to the side of the room where nobody can hear us talk."

"Wellllllll...Where do I start? Ok umm first thing you should know is Brian stalled my dad so I could sneak out and I promised to free him if he helped me." 

"And." She says like she knew there was more.

"And, If I don't free him I will die and he still gets freed but trust me I didn't know about that part and I keep seeing this guy that same one that saved me from dying tonight."

"Whoa girly back up the train here, one, you promised what! and two, what guy?" She says the first part yelling, and Questioning the second part.

"One, I didn't know and two, you didn't see him?"

"See him? We didn't see anything, girl we were more surprised than you were, you liked stopped in thin air like a few feet off the ground you were like floating." She explains

"Floating? No I..." Before I could finish we heard Maria screaming her head off at us.

"YOU! GET OUT THE BOTH OF YOU AND TAKE YOUR STUPID BOY TOY WITH YOU!" She yells at us from across the room making the house house go quite.

I grab Bree's arm and race to the door before Bree has anything to say, Rick follows behind us.

 Hey guys! Guess what! We are doing a show on The Other Side I am so excited right now I'm jumping up and down in my seat :D Well keep on reading guys :D