THE MAN GHOST by Jenn Webster
It was early Monday morning, and Lucy was in a hurry to catch a bus so she could get to work. Lucy’s bus had just arrived at the bus terminal and was getting ready to leave when the bus driver saw Lucy running to try and catch the bus. The bus driver kindly stayed at the terminal until Lucy arrived; she got on the bus on time, and then it drove away.
Lucy was relieved she made it on the bus. She made herself comfortable in her seat, then looked out one of the bus windows as it drove on. A while later, Lucy looked up at the sky and started to daydream a little.
Just then, Lucy started to get frightened as she began to see a ghost sitting beside her on the bus; but this was no ordinary ghost- this happened to be the ghost of her former boyfriend, who was tragically killed in a car accident after she broke up with him! Lucy had never seen such a ghost like this before! Oh, and by the way- this ghost went by the name of Tracy.
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The ghost of Tracy re-introduced himself as still a good-looking, muscular man to Lucy; Lucy was still shocked but had calmed down. She asked the ghost, “Who are you?!” “Don’t you remember me?!” The ghost replied, “I used to be your boyfriend in life, that is, before you caught me with another woman and then you broke up with me!” Lucy at first could not remember the time that she broke up with him, but then she did remember that day. Lucy then told the ghost, “Oh, yes, I do remember when you cheated on me, and that was when I became fed up and tired of your monkey business, so that was when I had decided that it was over between us!”
The ghost named Tracy nodded sadly; then he told Lucy, “Yes…and then I drove to your apartment to try and apologize to you, but then I lost control of the car and then crashed, killing me instantly. Yes, it has happened before I had the chance to tell you that I am so sorry for what happened.” Lucy was surprised that the ghost told her that it was all too late for him to apologize to her before his demise.
Then Lucy said to the ghost, “Oh, Tracy, I did not know what happened to you…Now, I think I feel guilty.” Tracy replied to her, “It’s alright…I would very much like to say this to you…I am very sorry for what happened. Please forgive me.” Lucy took one look at the male ghost, and then she realized that she had fully forgotten the fact that her late former boyfriend was trying to apologize before he was killed. So with that, Lucy told the ghost, “I forgive you.”
Then, Lucy and the now-ghost Tracy hugged each other. And then…”Alright! Final stop! Everybody out!” Lucy had been snapped out of her daydream when her bus reached its final stop, which also happened to be the business where Lucy worked. She then got off the bus and headed for work, knowing that, in her daydream, she had learned something she had never learned before: Apologize first, then try and work something out with each other.
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