Remember when I said "There are no ghosts"? Well, i take it back, let me explain...
Since my moving, my work continued as normal, a photographer taking pictures of places in japan like mount fuji, small events and famous people! mostly mangakas, of course i post the photos on my tumblr and the ones my boss ask me to take, i keep recibing messages from my fans wishing me for luck, it always makes me smile, even i uploaded pictures of my house like a Before-after secuence, i met people due of my work, they were defensive at first because of the english issue but we managed to communicate, and I met people who also speak Spanish! we shared talks and other things, not to mention that they asked me questions about Mexico, some of them were ... interesting.
"What do mexican think about us?"
"Do you eat nopales?"
"Do you have typical drinks?"
"Do you eat snakes?"
The last one is my favorite, i told them i have a snake on my house named Shima, i didnt know Japanese people would have almost the same thinking on Mexico like we do have on japan, their expression of surprise and wanting to laugh when I told them about eating rats, they were still friendly and explained things well to me, needless to say, I felt embarassed, we had a laugh together so nothing went wrong. On my free time i have japanese classes, honestly is more difficult than english but can handle a bit, how do i practice my listening? Anime, about my writing and speaking i practice on my classes, and my reading, Can you guess? mangas, i'm learning japanese like a Latin-american anime lover and frikki would like to, is fun, but... that isn't where everything started..
A week later from my moving, i saw things on the floor like my keys or some empty glasses of water, i think is the air, i leave the windows open to the air to circulate.
—again?..— said Alex taking his keys and glasses of water on their place. —I should close the windows...—
Lately, Shima has being nervious, she goes in S posee as like she is going to strike or something every time she sees me, tho she doesnt bite me, i think she is just scare of me, i mean imagine something bigger than you has you in a glass encloser feeding you and handling you, i would be scare too, she calms down when i feed her with mice. Today is sunday, i spend time on my laptop doing some picture business on photoshop. I have been reciving some messages on my inbox from my fans asking me if im okey, i was weirded out, cause i keep reciving those messages.
"Are you ok?"
"You should leave now"
"Run away!"
But there is one that got my atention...
"There is someone behind you"
My heart beated fast feeling it on my neck along my shaking cold hands when i saw that comment on my last foto were im on the couch with shima on my arm and behind me is the entrance to my room and the basement, i was feeling like my followers were pranking me, if it was a prank is going way to far, i left a comment on my blog asking to my followers to stop pranking me, 5 minutes later my followers commented with the same picture but zoomed with a circle surrounding the area where they thing they saw something, the post was filled with the same photos, i decided to do it by myself, i dragged the pic to photoshop and used the Shadow tools, my heart beated even faster when i saw a long black-hair woman staring at the phone showing a bit of her head on that hallway, closed my laptop spooked the hell out, i nuzzle my face with my shaking hands trying to relax myself
—They keep pranking you alex, relax, is just a glitch on the camera, there is no such thing as-..— Alex got interrupted ,when from the kitchen behind him, glass of water falling down by the wind jumpscaring Alex. —GHOST!!... ¡Carajo!..—he sigh, he went to pick up the glass of water and putting it back to the gabinet and closing it, he stared at the hallway then he sigh again —okey... its 2 pm now... i may should take a walk..—
I feed shima before before leaving, i walked a long way and i end up on the main park of the city, i sat in a bench and trying to calm myself from the spooky moment, i close my eyes facing the blue and sunny sky.
—Kon'nichiwa alex!— a female voice came to him.
—mm?... oh kon'nichiwa Osuna— Alex responded opening his eyes for her.
—how is it going with your japanese clases?—
—Mmmmeeeeeehh?..— Alex responded a bit awkward —i'm still having trouble— he giggled.
—Hey, i heard you live in a haunted-..—
—No i don't— Alex interrupted osuna.
—No? every one here is talking about-..—
—no they don't— He interrupted again.
I didnt want to talk about the damn thing, cause ghost doesnt exist, but a group of people came along asking me if i am the outsider living in a haunted house, i got annoyed so i walked off there, osuna came along flowing me.
—Alex?... What's your problem?..— osuna asked worried.
—My problem is.. Ghost- Doesnt- Exist!— Said alex a bit annoyed and tired of hearing the situation about ghost.
—Doesnt.. mexico have their Ghosts too?—
—Yes, it has, but those are only Urband leyends, Myths! they don't exist!— Said Alex.
—You know there is alot of videos on youtube about Ghost, Do you?— Asked Osuna.
—a video can easy be edited— Alex was trying to convince osuna about the existance about Ghost.
—uuuuuhhh... You are so stubborn Alex..— Said osuna with a bit of annoyense.
Alex sigh —Look... i know you have your Culture, but where im from, we dont believe in ghost or haunting spirits like you do, osuna—
—What about the day of the death?—
—Thats a tradition!—
—But it involves Spirits and Ghosts—
—Not in the way you think—
I spent time with osuna explaining about the day of the death and we went to have a meal cause i didnt eat yet, later then, i went back to my house around the 5 pm, i sat on the couch thinking about the Ghost thing like something else to forget about. The night arrived and i was ready to have my dinner when i got a call from my boss, he told me that he also heard about the Ghost thing but he said he doesnt believe in Ghost either, that i shouldn't be scare of it, that was a relief for me, he told me that tomorrow im gonna be taking pictures of Akira hinode for a new magazine for the season, it will be a nice rest from all this Ghost thing. After dinning and taking a shower, i went off my room ready to sleep, i wasnt paying atention behind me... My door was open facing the basement on the other side of the hallway, i cleaned the basement too, the door of the basement opened slowly and a Aroung-my-age woman with long black hair and dirty pale skin wearing a white dirty old yukata slowly came out quietly, she walked slowly towards me with no blinking ricing her arms towards me, the ghost girl speeds up the steps comming towards me when my phone rang, i answer the call hearing my frighten mother.
—¡Alex!, ¡¿Estás bien cariño...?!—She asked frighten.
—Si mamá, estoy bien...— Alex answered.
—¡Ay mijo! ¡Es que vives con un espectro! ¡Me tienes con el pendiente!—
—Mamá... Los espectros no existen...—
—Ay ya se que no, pero... Le rezaré a Dios y a la virgencita para que no te pase nada...—
Alex Facepalmed, —Mamá estoy bien, nada me va a pasar— Said alex trying to calm his worried mother.
—Y cuídate mucho, reza antes de dormir, pídele a Dios que te cuide y vele por ti, estaremos pidiendo por ti y tu seguridad mi rey—
The ghost girl was getting closer, i hang out the call and i turned around facing to the hallway but no one was there, i felt a chill when i looked at the Basement door which was close, it felt like some one was looking at me, i sigh closing the door and turning off the light, then a soft whisper on my ear...
"Right behind you..."
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End Chapter 5.