The Old Shed

Chapter 4
"What do you mean?" Rose asked weakly.
"Well, I'm a kind of ghost really, although I'm like a normal person as well. Only you can see me, because you are the only person who has seen my dead body. Do you get it?" Mia said.
"Yes. No. Maybe...well parts of it I understand. I will ask you some questions..." Rose replied.
Mia nodded and gazed at the sky, while Rose thought of her first question. She found it hard to chose one, there were so many. After a while, Rose finally decided to start with a simple question.
"How old are you?" she questioned.
"Well as a normal person, like yourself, I am 12 as a memory I am 88," Mia answered, casually.
Rose gulped and nodded, trying hard not to show her confusion.
"What happened to you...how did you die?" Rose asked.
Mia's eyes widened at this question and she hesitated, wondering if she should tell Rose her story.
"I will tell you my story. It might help to explain what happened to you," Mia decided.
"Ok," Rose said, slightly worried.
"Well, it was like any other day really. I was outside in the garden playing catch with my dad. I used to really love playing with my dad..." Mia sighed.
Rose patted Mia's shoulder sympathetically, she would never get to see her dad again either. The two girls had some things in common.
"At about 9:00pm, I had to go to bed, so after saying goodnight to my mum and dad, I went upstairs. I climbed into my bed and began to fall asleep. Just as my eyes were closing, I heard a scream. I panicked because it sounded just like my friend," Mia whispered, shivering, although it wasn't because of the weather.
Rose gasped and then was silent. She had heard a scream just like her friend's as well.
"I lived just across the road from the old shed and I knew that was where my friend was (I thought it was anyway) so I rushed over there. I went through the shed, you would know what's its like Rose and tried to find my friend," Mia said quietly.
Rose waited patiently for the next part of the story.
"I looked for hours, but it was useless, I couldn't find her. Then I realised that I was stuck here, I couldn't go back through the shed. I was here for days and all I did was cry, sleep and think, it was awful. Though the thing that happened next was even worse..." Mia continued.
This frightened Rose, she sat down, curled up in a ball and waited again for Mia to continue with her story.
"There is a ghost in here Rose," Mia whispered.
Rose pressed her fingernails into her skin, leaving red marks. Her insides froze and she stopped breathing.
"W-what? No!" Rose cried.
Mia curled up beside Rose and put an arm round her, she hummed a soft tune. The sky turned a deep blue, it was going to rain soon, in fact it looked like there was going to be a storm. Rose began to calm down, for an unknown reason, she felt safe and relaxed with Mia there.
"It's ok, don't worry," Mia murmured.
Rose nodded and gestured with her hand that Mia should carry on with her story. Mia cleared her throat and nodded.
"This ghost. Well...don't panic...but it is dangerous, it strangled me because I had dared to enter the shed and I survived," Mia whispered, biting her lip.
Rose screamed and began to cry, huge tears pouring out of her eyes and onto her white top. Mia tried to calm her down by humming, giving Rose a hug and whispering soothing words to her. This time it took longer for Rose to be able to stop crying because she knew one thing was certain. Rose had entered the shed and survived, she was going to be murdered somehow.
"For a while I was in excruciating pain, then my diary was taken off me. Then there was a bright light and I turned into a memory, no one has been in the shed in years, so I am alone," Mia whispered in a gentle voice.
Everything was silent for a while, you could hear a pin drop to the floor clearly. Suddenly, Rose remembered something.
"A man went in the shed a few years back. Did you see him?"
"Ah, yes. He died in the shed, the walls suffocated him," Mia sighed, frowning.
"What have you been doing all these years? It must be a bit boring on your own," Rose questioned.
"I go to see my family sometimes. They can't see me, so I can spend as long as I want at my house, although I leave early every now and then. It upsets me to see my mum cry herself to sleep every night, because she misses me. It makes me feel like its all my fault. I came into this shed," Mia whispered, her eyes filling up with tears.
Rose was speechless, this is what would happen to her. She would go to visit her mum and find that she cried herself to sleep every night, with no one to talk to. The next thought that came to Rose's head sent a shiver down her spine, maybe in depression and grief her mum had commit suicide like her dad.
"I miss my mum already..." Rose sobbed.
"I know just how you feel," Mia replied.
"What else have you been doing all these years?"
"I sometimes take a walk down the path. It leads to many beautiful meadows and gardens, I spend lots of time there. Thinking and wishing. I also like to go to the park, near my old house, I enjoyed it there when I was younger. I used to go with my mum, it brings back happy memories when I go there," Mia said.
"That's nice," Rose murmured.
"It is," Mia agreed.
"Hmm, do you think I have any chance of getting back through the shed while I'm still...alive?" Rose wandered.
Mia shook her head sadly.
"I tried. The walls began to close in on me twice the speed they normally do,"
"Oh, it's still worth a try though, I will die anyway,"
"But you won't become a memory. You only become a memory when the ghost kills you,"
Rose sighed and watched an ant scuttle across her hand, she had no hope. Mia was biting he lip and frowning, like she wanted to say something, but was scared to. It was strange, what could she be so anxious about?
"What is it?" Rose asked, frowning.
"This is rude of me, but, I was wondering. You only mentioned your mother...what happened to you father?" Mia asked, speaking very quickly.
"You can ask me anything. My dad died a while ago," Rose replied.
"I'm sorry," Mia said, sympathetically.
"I am too," Rose nodded.
The girls sat in silence for a while again, they were both quite shy. The sky was beginning to darken again and the night was getting closer. The rain poured down on them and thunder crashed in the sky. Rose nibbled her fingernails nervously, she hated storms and darkness. Mia smiled.
"There is no need to be scared,"
Strangely, Rose automatically felt better and she hummed a tune to one of her mum's favourite songs, it was relaxing. She swayed and tapped her finger on the ground in time withe the tune.
Suddenly, they heard a voice...

shed and survived so the ghost was going to kill her, she knew it.