Ash’s Stories Part 6
Saturday, May 21st, 2011I sometimes see people that aren’t there but don’t realize they’re dead until they are gone.
I was at university I was up in the computer lab finishing a paper and there was a girl on the computer beside me. She was wearing jeans a colorful striped shirt and a vest and she had long dirty brown hair. I never looked directly at her for the half hour or so that I was there but I could see her out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to ask if she had the time (not thinking that I could have looked at my computer) and she was gone…no big deal right? Wrong.
The chairs it the lab make a horrible screech every time you turn them to get up or down (so much so that I used to hate getting up and presumably interrupting the people around me), that never happened and I never saw her get up even though I could always see a bit of her with my peripheral vision. The computer she had been at was completely logged out (those old computers took nearly a minute to process the action), her chair and mouse were cold as if no one had been sitting there for ages (no body heat) and I never heard her walk out of the place (no chair noise) and from where I was sitting I could see the only door in and out of the room and no one left…
By Ashley Mcknight