Nibbles Sees a Ghost!

By Salley Cat

We had a bit of a mystery on our hands today, readers. Nibbles came running into school absolutely freaking out.  When she was walking to school this morning she swore she saw a ghost in the trees near her house. She was shaking like a leaf. She said she couldn’t go home after school – she just couldn’t.

I knew that there had to be some logical explanation. It is close to Halloween after all so I thought maybe what she thought was a real ghost was actually just somebody’s decorations. But Nibbles insisted that the ghost was flying through the trees! Freaky, huh?

After school she was so scared about walking home I said I’d walk with her and we’d figure this thing out. Our walk home was completely uneventful. That is, until we got to the trees by her house. She was still really shaky when all of a sudden, she screamed and pointed. I turned to look at what she was pointing at and there it was. I saw it too! Through the trees a wispy white figure swayed back and forth.

Nibbles didn’t have to tell me twice – we were OUT OF THERE! We ran screaming into Nibbles’ house and slammed the door shut. Nibbles and I leaned back against the door, breathing heavily. We were both terrified, knowing IT was out there.

Suddenly, from the kitchen, we heard a scraping noise. We turned to look at one another, our hearts in our throats. From deep inside the quiet house we could hear footsteps coming toward us – step, step, step. We couldn’t move. It was like we were glued in place by our terror. As the footsteps grew closer, Nibbles reached down to turn the doorknob. We’d have to make a run for it.

Then, the footsteps stopped. Nibbles looked at something over my shoulder and gasped. I slowly turned my head…

“There you are, Nibbles.” said Plumpy, standing in the kitchen door. “Have you seen my white nightgown?”

“N-n-nightgown?” asked Nibbles, slowly.

“Yes,” replied Plumpy. “I hung it out on the washing line to dry yesterday but I’m worried it may have blown away last night. It was so windy.”

Nibbles and I looked at each other. Suddenly we both started giggling uncontrollably. Plumpy just stared at us with a confused expression on her face. Between spasms of laughter we managed to explain that her nightgown HAD blown off the line and we knew exactly where it had landed – in the trees outside their house. As she walked out the door to get her nightgown Plumpy said she really didn’t get what was so funny about that. That just made us laugh even harder!

See? I knew there was a logical explanation!