Where Do We Go, The Ghost Know

Blinking and moving my head while slowly looking from side to side, I noticed that am in what looks like a swamp. I see a small pound that looks like it could only be three feet deep but could possibly be a lot deeper. Squishy mud and tall grass surrounding the pond and many many dead trees. I walk over to one and touch it, and even though it looks like it should be hollow, it feels very much alive to me. Turning around I notice four other girls lay near me. I walk over to The pond and try to assess the damage to me and I get a good look at my face. I have light brown skin and my hair is cut in a bob of curls, I think it really suits me but the dirt around my face and body and clothes.

I suddenly get a massive headache; I feel the pounding all over so much I can hear it. How did I get here? Looking around them I can see that a big pieces and clumps of dirt seems to have been surrounding us. Looking over the girls who I have to guess fell with me, it looks like the biggest patch of it is near the girl with Brown wavey hair. Parts it dyed gray, white and black, like she was trying to imitate the pattern of a cat, like a white tiger. With good portion of the dirt so close to her I can only think of two reasons why, she was the last to fall.... or rather she was the cause of it. I walk slowly towards her, not trying to make a sound, and then her head whipped up. "WHO ARE YOU?!" she yelled at me, almost sounding like a growl. She seemed so calm yet also fierce. Her two-toned eyes yellow and green gave her more of an intimating force. The girl had medium dark and golden skin and her overall demeanor seemed animalistic and predatory.

Thanks to her original scream however, the other three girls woke up ever so slowly taking in our surroundings. "What's going on?!" The girl with the light blueish purplish hair said in a very alarmed yet soft voice. She had a small nose, her shape was pretty petite, and she had heart shaped lips, and very fair skin. she reminded me of those very pretty girls from certain international singing and dancing groups.

"Where are we?" said the girl with the half and half colored hair. She had more of curious tone to her than a fearful one. Her skin would also be fair if not from the light tan she had from what I can only assume is from hard work or just to stay outside every chance she had. She was very toned though so it could just be a mixture of both.

And the last girl...she didn't say anything. She just quietly watched us all as if she was sizing all of us up or maybe she was just trying to figure out for herself what had happened to us before we all woke up. She was a darker skinned girl with steel gray eyes and the coily long dark brown hair with auburn streaks. For whatever reason, I loathed this girl. I'm not sure why but I seriously felt a wave of disgusted when our eyes met. I could feel my face betraying me, so I had to do something to distract myself. I then saw a golden heart shaped compact mirror, I then had a thought to grab one of the pieces of dirt. I wasn't sure why the pieces of dirt came to mind to touch, since it's so gross and with the muggy air I knew it'd feel moist, but I did what my instincts told me to do and the moment I felt that heart shaped compact and lump of dirt in my hands I felt my body go limp and my mind started race, playing what must've been the memory of what happened to us.

Coily hair girl: "You are pathetic."

What is this?

Me: "Excuse me?!"

Coily hair girl: "You heard me. Only you could somehow manage to get us lost on a school trip to New Orleans."

Me: "Hey I told you we were following the gps , you were the one who decided that we HAD to take this shortcut that one of the people you follow took so that you could have some ammmaaazziinnnggg pics to show to your followers."

I feel a venomous storm of anger towards the girl driving the car.... why though isn't that... me? From taking a quick look in the pound earlier, I know the driver is really me, so why am I feeling this way about myself?

Coily hair girl: " Ugh and we would've if you had only taken the turns, I told you to take."

Me: "Last time I checked saying *oh go that way, no that way, no are you listening that way!!!* While looking at your phone and just pointing wildly isn't giving directions."

I'm holding the heart shaped compact in my hand, fixing my makeup, and admiring my beauty. I'm so stunning, people would fall at my feet and ask me to let them be my foot stool.......except this lot of girls. ugh they are the worst, especially her. I think while snapping my compact shut.......wait what? What is happening to me?

Coily hair girl: " What the f ever. " She says while giving the middle finger with her freshly manicured hands that she had gotten done just for this trip. They were iridescent purple and white and super pretty.

Me: "Since you OBVIOUSLY know what you are talking about why don't you take over the drive and I be get to become the passenger princess? Oh, that's right because you failed your driving test multiples times and even your rich daddy agreed he wouldn't help you get it by financial bribery because you'd be, and I quote *A danger to yourself and others Hunnie, if you want that license you need to show those instructors that you will care about more than just yourself while driving. * End quote."

A laughter burst out from the backseats, and I feel unjustly humiliated. How dare she have the nerve to say that to me! The low life. The gold digger in training! I feel the anger bubbling up inside me even more as I turn around to look at the three girls laughing at me two of them are that cretin's friend but the other one is mine. Even with me turning around to glare at them they still continue to laugh at me, only my "friend "stopped laughing and began to look afraid.

Bluish Purplish hair girl: "I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't have laughed but you know you could have had you license right now if you would've just calm downed and let her teach you."

What. Did. She. Just. Say.............

Coily hair girl: " Shut. The hell. Up. If I wanted to take your advice I certainly would've asked for it. Although that would be utterly useless since you can never make a decision for yourself anyway. And when you do make one, they are truly horrid, I mean look at what you have done to your hair, at least before it was basic black, boring but normal and you do a decent job of washing it, so it had some shine to it, but now it looks like you let one of those amateur artists turn it into a unicorn theme. Which isn't even a trend anymore." She ended by laughing.

Blueish Purplish hair girl: "It's periwinkle color actually." She said no higher than a whisper and what may have been a few sobs.

Me: Still driving and looking in front of me I said," I knew you were a terrible person, but I didn't know that you sucked so hard that you could be cruel like that even to your best friend."

I see That girl smiling in the mirror to my friend and I see my friend smiled back, I can't believe this she would rather be with that freak than me?! I then screamed "I WANT OUT OF THIS CAR RIGHT NOW!!!" before she fully stopped the car I had already jumped out and started walking across the street near a cliff, with a very little ways down to go but just far enough that would still hurt if you fell.

Me: "Are you trying to get yourself killed or get even more lost?!" I say after I park my car from where she took off from.

But by the time she said that I was already at the Cliff taking out my "relaxing" rolls.

Coily hair girl: "What does that matter to you, you have your little lemmings to follow and listen to you." She took out her *signature* CBD cigs(which I still thinks she's lying about what kind of "grass" it is.) out of her pretty glass case and she also took out her old fashion engraved lighter.

Me: "Seriously, you need to get high right now?"

Coily hair girl: " Whatever you four are stressing me out, I try to do a cool thing for us and you totally threw a poop emoji on to it, and not one of those silly or fun ones that have different colors and has funny faces on it that make them look more like ice cream than poop, no the poop emojis that have flies circling around them." She said has she took in another deep puff and blew it out.

I could see the amusement on her fake ass face when i didn't correct her on what I'm smoking, so what if it's actually 'grass' 'grass' I refuse to give her the satisfaction.

Coily hair girl: "And this stuff is totally for my anxiety, that YOU guys created for me."

Me: "And what exactly did I do? Point out that you were being a bitch to your friend?"

I could not believe she said that to me... TO MY FACE!!! I know people have thought of that about me but its only whispers from background characters and people who wouldn't have a snowball chance in hell to be with me. And so i decided to give her a good slap across her infuriating face.

Coily hair girl: "Thats what you deserve for making fun of m-"

To my horrid surprise that bitch slapped me back... SHE! SLAPPED! ME! BACK!

Me: "I'm not sure why you thought I'd take that without giving it to you back but I'm definitely not the one here."

I just couldn't take it anymore, this bitch has completely and utterly ruined my life!!!!!!

Coily hair girl: "You've taken everything from me that's mine, my house, my money, even my dad!!!" She yelled at me.

Me:" Excuse me? I didn't even want to move into your mansion home, I wanted to stay perfectly where I was, but your dad fell in love with my mom, and we ended up stuck together. I totally wasn't even expecting to like hanging out with your dad, let alone getting along with him. Who knew your dad was cool and into the supernatural and paranormal stuff like I am? I'm not sure where you got this demon side personality from."

Then inspiration struck, if i wanted her to feel my pain, i need to pull on her little heart strings.

Coily hair girl: "Well at least my mother died, while your father just left you guys, I guess your mother and you weren't worth sticking around for or your mother is just so cheap your dad thought that she was easily replaceable." she said as she smirked.

I finally saw it in her face, the hurt, the pain I was going through, I finally did it, I WON HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....until I looked at her again, she... she was different this time, cold and icy, and unforgettably terrifying. this was the first time I've ever feared for my life. She lunged at me and started punching me, pulling my hair, trying to inflict physical pain to any place she could grab on me. I started tasting my blood...Then the other three came rushing over, attempting to pull us apart but more so pulling her back and off me. The girl with the Tiger print hair was the last one to rush over and try to stop her from attempting to kill me. The weight of all five of us must have been too much to handle, and then I heard the crack and felt us all slipping off what had been the cliff and watched the others as we all fell.

When I came to, I was surrounded by the other four girls and at first, I couldn't see them clearly as if they were in fog but when everything cleared up, I immediately jumped at the Coily hair girl. She dove out of the way and gave me an angry glare.

Coily hair girl: "What the actual hell is your problem."

Me: "You are, you're the reason why were done here."

She seemed shocked and i think she was scared by my revelation.

Coily hair girl: "W-What do you mean, what exactly did i do?!"

Me: "You were dissing my mother, so I attacked you."

She seemed relieved by what I said and began speaking bit more arrogantly.

Coily hair girl: "That sounds more like this was all your doing more than mine, you let your feelings speak when your words couldn't. Seems like someone needs-."

She stopped, and I saw that fear in her eyes again, although this time it wasn't because of me, it was something else.

Coily hair girl:" I can't remember... I can't remember what else I should even say to you... I can't even remember...my own .....name."

Me:" Okay enough of the games, you obviously remember how to act superior. Stop playing aro-.?

Coily hair girl: " I CAN'T REMEMBER MY NAME?!?!"

That's when I realized I've only been using my inner voice to describe them by characteristics, and not any one of them by name. What made things worse, the only things I truly remember came from what I saw when I picked up that clump of dirt and the golden compact. After a bit franticly looking around for it again, I tried picking them up once more hoping to get more information on us, more answers but this time, nothing happened.

Tiger print hair girl: "Why are you holding that lump of dirt like your about to lose your loved one. And what's that shiny thing in your hands?" she said with such disgust.

Me: "BECAUSE" I somewhat yelled. "This is how I saw things last time!"

Periwinkle hair girl: "Saw things?" She inquired, this time however she sounded more inquisitive than terrified. "What sort of things did you see?"

Me: "Well first off, can any of you to me anything about yourselves? anything at all?"

They all looked wide eyed at me, I guess they just came to the realization as well.

Periwinkle hair girl: "No I can't say that I do remember much of anything. I remember what year it is...social media is a thing too, but I can't say I remember anything about me specifically."

Tiger print hair girl: With an exasperated breath she says, "myself neither, it's like there's just an empty slot where my memories should be."

Half and half hair girl: "Exactly, that fall must've knocked us about for good." when I gave A questioning look, she said, " What, I could tell from the way we were all laying and the dirt that surrounded us that we must have fallen from what used to be a cliff that was right up there." she said pointing upwards. "Hey maybe I was good at puzzles and detective stuff, do you think that counts?" So I said to her, well are you sure that's a memory or a guess, and she made a sad expression and shook her head, so I took of a sign as not knowing either way.

Sighing I give a shorter explanation as to what I saw and who we might be and our current situation.

Me:" The five of us are supposed to be on some sort of school trip in a place called New Orleans, you (coily hair girl) and I, I think, are siblings by marriage, your dad and my mom. You (Periwinkle hair girl) I believe are her (coily hair girl) best and possibly only friend. I got the middle finger again for that one. And you two (girl with half white and half blue hair and girl with Tiger print hair) I think are my best friends. We all ended up down here because me and her were fighting and y'all tried to stop us."

Half and half hair girl: " Okay so if we are your so-called best friends, how come you can't call us by name?"

Me:" Because I can't remember them."

Coily hair girl: "So you can remember who we are but not our own names?" she said amused.

Me:" Well I didn't see all of this from my point of view, I believe I saw it through yours."

Her silence was deafening.

Hating the idea, but not wanting any reason for something back to happen to me, I give the girl back her compact, "This is yours; you were holding it when i saw us in my car." She almost rips it from my hand which admittedly kinda hurt, I hear a small squeak of a thank you, come from her general direction.

Half and half hair girl: "I kind get the feeling I like the moving around a lot, challenging myself to do more and new thing."

Me: "Okay, that's good, at least it's something."

White Tiger print hair Girl: As if that gave her, "I get the sense that I like being the one in charge and i don't like authoritative people...but I do love to nap." She finished saying as if she was about to lay down and take a nap right here and now.

Me: "Alright good, good, anyone remember anything more specific? At least about themselves or anyone one else in this small group?"

Coily hair girl: "You do know that all of that can be solved if we just check our phones, right?"

Me: "Uh huh and um do you remember yours at all?"

She stared me down than admitted a high-pitched scream which came clawing out of her. I then felt the present of my of my own phone wanted to check on it which was in my back pocket and the screen was pitch black, must've been dead.

Tiger hair print girl: "I don't have mine on me."

Half and half hair girl: " Me neither."

Periwinkle hair: "Same here."

Me: " You must've left them in my truck when you came to break up our fight."

After a minute or two went by I thought of something else. I then took a look over to the girl I've been arguing with the most. She was the only one with more stuff than anyone else on them. She had a pretty purse, looked pretty expensive too, a warm tan colored sweater, possibly cashmere, and her black heeled thigh high boots looked cozy.... I felt jealousy gripping me.

Coily hair girl: "What is it? Do I have something on my face?" She said sounding anxiously.

Me: " No." I said between gritted teeth. "You look great even with dirt covering most of you."

The Girl beamed and that ticked me off even more, I just had to power through.

Me: Sutley clearing my voice I try my best to not sound annoyed at her. "Hey what exactly do you have in that purse? I'm not asking so I can take inventory of your things or to take something from you." I said trying not to sound like I'm going to instigate another fight. "Just maybe you have something in your purse that could jog your memory some more."

The girl with the Coily hair seemed very suspicious of me, but I guess since I didn't add any snarky comments or made any move to go closer to her, she must've decided to check her bag out for herself. She took out a metalic rose gold wide tooth comb and brush set, what I can assume is some high-end makeup, nicely scented hand sanitizer and lotion, and some special purplish iridescent nail polish. But no I.D. or wallet to be found. She also seemed to think the same thing as me because her face suddenly became grim, and she then threw down her purse in a fit of rage. I then checked for myself when it landed next to me. But she wasn't being cheeky, she really didn't have anything of substance to our situation on her. I did attempt to try get another foresight-ment, even though I was reluctant to see everything from her way of living again, but nothing happened, it didn't work and i could not for the life of me figure out why.

Periwinkle hair girl: "Um, I think it's about to rain in a minute or two." She said seemingly out of nowhere after we all watched in awkward amusement yet another tantrum.

Me: " Really, how can you tell? There're so many dead trees and unkept grass and lawn It's like a jungle out here." Her comment had me taking an interest in the girl.

Coily hair girl: " Oh I suppose if that girl can *see things* You can just *sense* things, is that right?" She said with a chuckle and a widespread grin. After of course her seemingly unending groaning and crying.

Periwinkle hair girl: " I'm not sure, I just....I just have a very strong feeling, that's all." She said with a bit a firmness to it.

Remembering how she was like from the vision, I felt a bit of pride for her. And just like that the rain came pouring down. All of the girls seemed stunned but the girl with the coily hair seemed to have freeze up. She had a tremendous amount of fear, and it was very noticeable. Unfortunately, it only took her about a few minutes to compose herself and she went right back to her usual persona.

Tiger hair girl: "Hey there's something out there. Looking at us."

Coily hair girl: "Oh come on not you to, enough, none of you have abilities or powers or whatev-"

Tiger hair girl: "I know what I'm looking at, sort of, but without a doubt I can smell blood."

Half and half hair girl: " Oh my gods Look up!!!"

At the same time everyone looks up to see what looks like an army of red eyes looking back, that were definitely not there before the rain started.

Coily hair girl: "EW what are those? they look like freaky old black bananas. Disgusting."

Tiger hair girl: "they're bats.....and I was right there are more, and these ones aim to kill."

Out of the tall grass came out four bloodthirsty wolves.