After some intriguing conversation with some staffs and half a dozen classes Lupin got tired. He had called his students for extra classes for he was absent for a long time. Yes, his substitute teacher had done his duty well, but Lupin himself wanted to ensure that his students had digested well what had been taught to them. When he reached home he had forgotten all about Clara's apparition. It was like a Deja Vu feeling. These days this had happened to him a lot. Outside his house he would forget about the apparition and return home happy in the evenings or nights, then the apparition of Clara would pop up before him scaring him to the core and draining all his desire to have a sound sleep. Then he would stare at the walls or ceiling otherwise read or write and work all night getting a meager sleep at the dawns. Dark circles had appeared under his eyes and his staffs had suggested him not to work hard. Some even had suggested to have a temporary partner... until his missing wife came back to him. People are people. They don't understand your feelings. They don't understand how much their suggestions can hurt you. Thinking this he entered his house.
It seemed to him that Clara was standing before him and smiled and said to him while going inside the kitchen room, "Have you come back? I have been waiting for you. Change your clothes, I have made you a glass of iced tea..."
He went to bathroom. But then he remembered Clara was missing for almost a month. Did she come back today? Was it real? Without cleaning his face and hands he rushed to the kitchen. Yes, it was Clara. In her white nighty.
"Clara", exclaimed he and was going to give her a hug when Clara's features changed. Her face became scarlet and she raised her hand and he found himself levitating towards the ceiling. "Clara! What - are - you - doing? You are choking my..."
Clara did not move her lips, but her voice echoed in his ears, almost blasting his eardrums, "You killed me, as if that is forgivable?"
"If I had killed - you - howcome - you're - here?" he said.
"I am a ghost now. And I'll avenge my death."
There was a rap on the kitchen window. Lupin looked at the window. There were two grown up wolves staring at the air-floating Lupin. Clara looked at those wolves too and dropped his jaws and disappeared.