I’d been seeing Sam for nearly a month before he told me he’d seen a ghost as a child.
‘Really?’ I said, pulling away from him on the sofa so I could look into his eyes. ‘So why haven’t you told me this before?’
‘Because I didn’t know what you’d say,’ he replied with a shrug. ‘Other people have looked at me as if I’m mad when I’ve told them about her, so… well, I didn’t want you to think the same.’
‘But I believe in ghosts, Sam!’ I said.
‘Yes, but I didn’t know that until we watched that film,’ he said, nodding at the television, which I’d just turned off. ‘And I was scared you’d go off me, Beth.’
‘Oh, I’d never do that,’ I promised him as I ran my fingers through his hair. ‘And I’ve always believed people when they’ve said they’ve seen ghosts because I’ve had weird experiences as well.’
‘Have you?’
I nodded. ‘Yes.
The weirdest was some sort of time-slip thing, but I’ve never seen an actual ghost. What was she like?’
‘She was all shimmery.’
‘Shimmery?’
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