CHAPTER 3: Ghost UNO
We played UNO, mostly to get the sense of boredom and another feeling that made me disgusted whenever I heard the faint voices of Madako and Hirotu from outside or downstairs, I didn't pay attention to it and continued our game till I heard a unfamiliar voice, "You heard that?" I asked Yuki, she nodded, any normal person would wonder about it but we had a game of UNO going on, that's why we chose to ignore it. We continued our game, I gave her a +4, she reversed it, I canceled it, the game was going normal, I pulled the color change one, made it into blue which, I suppose Yuki didn't have as she took one card from the stack, I used that chance to pull out a +2, seeing that she didn't have anything to go against it in the color blue, she took 2 cards from the stack. The game continued like that till I did a reverse in her +4 card, making me win since the reverse card was my last one after all. "You won again! Not fair!" Yuki told, clearly in denial, "I won fair and square; you're just in the first stage of grief, and stop whining" I replied back, she huffed in annoyance, this girl seriously can't be this stubborn by the fact that she lost. "Changing the subject" I said "You heard that voice as well, right? the unfamiliar one?" I waited for her response; she earlier nodded when I asked the same question earlier "That voice? Yeah, I heard it too" Yuki replied. "It's weird , the shifting of the furniture hasn't been done in the past 1 and half hours" I said, "You got a point but I am pretty sure they packed their clothes and 100 percent ours as well"
"Our clothes can be donated but the furniture is still here, maybe it's those 'well- furnished home', the chances are high"
"You got a point, let's go out then they might have already left"
"Yeah…the house is quite a lot quiet"
I stood up, Yuki did the same, we walked through the door; we have gotten too lazy, that we don't even want to open the door but instead we just walk through it. We walked through the quiet hallway of our house, our footsteps won't be heard in any way, it was reasonable enough, we were ghosts after all, though I will miss those Erie vibes that happen to come, whenever I walk in the quiet, empty hallways, the way my footsteps used to echo there, it just gives those Erie or mysterious feeling perhaps oddly satisfying?. It still felt weird not being able to hear my footsteps no matter what.
As we continued walking, there was no one in the house except the furniture which was covered by those white – fabric and all. It seems that our house has been turned into those…what do you call it again? Furnished - something or something-furnished…It's hard to remember that word, I just told it earlier. Ah!, well-furnished houses!, I am pretty sure they called the person who helps in the shifting of furniture when moving houses at like 6 am but they might have changed their mind, not like it's my problem. "Seems like our guess is correct is correct after all" I broke the silence as me and Yuki continued to walk. "What guess? - "Oh! that one about this house being well- erm…Well-something house" Yuki replied as she also struggled to remember the word, it seemed easy but our brains just forgot it somehow.
"Well-furnished, it was called well- furnished home or house" I told to her as we reached the stairs, "Yeah!, well-furnished home!, now that this house will be…like empty for some or maybe a lot of time, why not test out ghost powers- wait a moment" Yuki suddenly stopped talking, her eyes widen slightly in realization of something "Why the fuck did we have those UNO and why didn't 'mom' and 'dad' come to the room, your room?"
"Language, Yuki. Who even taught you these well, not like I never used to swear when I was 13 as well-" I paused, Yuki's words started to sink in and then realization also hit me, why didn't they?, it was literally my room though my clothes were in the same wardrobe as Yuki's, taking the clothes…check, the furniture of my room?... not done, they didn't even enter, it was as if they had cleaned our rooms already when we sent to school… wait, what if they did, I turned my head to Yuki
"I got a theory and lets check out the ghostly powers at the same time" I said as I grabbed her hand, we hadn't climbed down the stairs yet and since Yuki's room was downstairs, I just jumped off the stairs "HUH?! YUNA!" Yuki exclaimed in surprise and shock, we somehow managed to fly like those ghosts but what's the fun in that? I didn't control that flying mode and bang! we fell on our buts on the floor; "Seriously?" Yuki said, her tone still had the sense of surprise present in it.
"Yeah, seriously, I did jump off with you, I mean at least how we can somehow fly and all" I answered back. I honestly had thought that if I jump off from there, we might be able to go a bit through the ground but seems like we can't go any below the ground, weird?, yes but I am not question it for now.
"Let's go to your room" I said as I stood up from the spot we fell on, "What's the theory you got though?" Yuki asked; curiosity present in her voice. "Since Madako and Hirotu never came in my room and it still seemed cleaned…I mean almost everything out empty except the stack of UNO in the secret part of drawers, they could have done it in your room as well" I replied back as we started walking to her room, "Are you trying to say that they cleaned our room when we were in class?, that could have been true…I came only like half an hour before you because of extra class and all" Yuki said, she seemed to grasp the idea, wait extra class?
"What extra class though?, you didn't got to detention now, did you?~"I said, there was teasing tone somewhere near the end of the sentence. "Shut up, I can never get detention and I was taking extra dance class for a program" Yuki replied, program? she was in it?, annual day program, what a pity, it was right around the corner, she missed it and it's going to be a huge pain for her team, oh well, not like we have our worries at the moment.
"These go-through-objects ghost power is pretty useful" Yuki told as we casually went through the door of her room, it still felt weird but we will get used to it, "Hmmm, as suspected, your room is also cleaned like it was about to go through an entire school hygiene checking done by the principal or something like that" I told as I looked around the cleaned room.
I glanced at Yuki, she was also looking around but I think she was giving me a side eye mixed with a glare.
"Since the theory was correct, we got nothing to do now" Yuki told as she plopped in the bed. "Nothing to do, In this big house? not of my watch" I said as I tapped Yuki's shoulder , before running off and screaming, "TAG!, your 'it', Yuki!" I exclaimed as I ran. It took Yuki a minute or two to realize it before chasing me, "How dare you!, I am catching you now!" she yelled as she chased me around, I should be thankful, that as a ghost, I can fly. I obviously flied to the second floor with Yuki still chasing me, she still had issues with flying but it wasn't that bad as well, just a bit unstable that was it