Sean propped his head up behind his head, frustration flaring in his chest.
Everyone was calling him rebellious.
Had he rebelled?
He just had his own views and values! They couldn't accept them, and turned to calling him rebellious. Anything he said was turned into a lecture against him.
Who were they to do that?
Sean did not want to keep talking to Lilly.
Lilly said kindly, "Sean, I wouldn't rebel so much if I was you. You might see a ghost!"
"There was this kid who was so rebellious that the rebel ghost found him, and ate him alive!" Lilly said, in that adorable voice of hers.
Sean tilted his head, staring at her with a mocking smile. "Whoa, are you trying to scare me because the advice didn't work? Listen up, I grew up with horror! I watch horror movies like I watch the news, so don't even think about trying to scare me with ghosts! It's not going to work!"
Lilly said, “Uhh… Sean, do you dare open your closet?”
Sean scoffed coldly, taking his legs off the table and getting up before walking towards the closet.
"Why, are you going to say there's a ghost in my closet?"
There was going to be a ghost swinging from his hangers, wasn't there!
Get a life, honestly!
Forget about whether ghosts were real— even if they were, he wouldn't be scared.
He was the kind of person who dared to watch the scariest of movies even late at night.
"If you manage to get me even a little, I'll run out and apologize to my mother this very second…"
Sean yanked the closet door open.
All that was on his hangers were clothes, and nothing else.
Sean was about to burst out laughing, when he felt something moving the mirror on one of the closet doors…
Sean's full-body mirror was inside of his closet, like most closets were designed.
Sean was standing right next to the mirror when he opened the closet.
He turned his head, and saw a bloody, ghastly-looking 'person' draped over his shoulder. The 'person' stuck their head out, putting it against his face.
At the sight of Sean, the 'person' turned around as well to look at Sean from the mirror, their protruding eyes staring right at Sean.
He sprang backwards, his eyes widening in terror. "What the f*ck—!"
Sean stepped heavily onto the weighing scale behind him, which broke from the sudden force.
Lilly said, "See? Told you you shouldn't have made promises you couldn't keep."
Sean said, "Y-y-you… Help! Get it off me!"
Lilly stared at the rebel ghost on Sean's head.
All she had to do was get the rebel ghost off Sean, and he would behave. RIght?
She wasn't so sure.
Because the rebel ghost only possessed someone who rebelled first. It would never be attracted to possess a person otherwise.
Problems had to be solved from the root!
Lilly said, "Get 'em, get 'em!"
She ran over, reaching out to grab the rebel ghost off Sean.
At the same time, she asked, "Sean, what really happened in the past? Aunt Melanie said that Cathy was sick from the moment she was born. The rebel ghost possessing you has to have something to do with that."
Sean's face was completely pale, unable to help flashing back to the past upon hearing Lilly's words.
His rebellious streak got the best of him, and he shoved whatever was next to him away as he roared, "I don't need your help! Get out, get out!"
Just then, the bad aura of rebellion rolled out from the rebel ghost, surrounding Sean completely!
Sean grew even more agitated, refusing to cooperate even more. "You're all the same, saying you want to help me, that you love me! It's all conditional!"
"My Mom says she loves me, but only if I'm nice to my sister!"
"My Dad says he loves me, but only if I do well in school and get straight A's!"
"They'll take their love back and get mad at me the second I don't fulfill what they want! You call that sh*t love?"
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