The Squad Short Stories

The Story Where They're Dead

Jaden's POV

I can't recall how it all happened, it just did. One minute was different from the next time I opened my eyes. But, please allow me to tell you the story of how it all began.

Everything was black, and I couldn't feel anything. My body was motionless, as if I just experienced sleep paralysis. I heard a loud whisper in my ear. It got louder, and louder, until it wasn't even a whisper anymore.

"Jaden."
"Jaden."
"JADEN!"

I opened my eyes and groaned. Instead of pitch darkness, my vision was blurry, even with my glasses on. I squinted my eyes. My body felt...different. Something wasn't right. My vision slowly came to me. A familiar face was slowly becoming clearer, but that looked different too.

"J A D E N !"

The person shook me lightly and tried to sit me up, succeeding.

"What...?" I spoke, my voice sounding groggy. I looked at the person again. They're skin was a pure white. They seemed to be glowing. I looked at their face. I could tell it was Ant. Why did he look so different...?

"Jaden! You're awake. Thank god. I've been trying to get you up for a while now." He said, a slightly worried look in his eyes. My vision was clear now. Ant looked the same, same clothing, same hair, same voice, same face...etc. The only things different was that he was glowing white, and instead of legs he had some sort of tail, like the ghost decorations that people put up during Halloween. That's when it clicked. He was a ghost!

Finally having control of myself, I looked at my hands. They were the same glowing white as Ant. In fact, my entirety was the same color as him. I had the same tail thing too. I was a ghost as well.

"What the hell is going on?" I cleared my throat, asking with a serious tone in my voice.

"I have no idea. But check this out." He gestured me to come towards him. We were both floating, as ghosts usually do in the books. He didn't speak, but pointed towards the floor. I gave him a weird look, my eyes following to where his finger was pointing.

There we were. Ant and I's corpses where on the creaky wooden floor of wherever the hell this place was. My corpse had stab wounds, and Ant's had bullet holes in his chest. Puddles of what seemed like dried up blood was soaked in the floor of where our corpses were. I covered my mouth at the sight. I looked around the room some more. There was a trail of some liquid leading out the room and down the stairs of this horrid place.

Ant and I followed the trail and it lead to Kenzie's corpse. From how her body was placed, it looked like she drank something, presumably poison, from a glass bottle, which shards were scattered on the floor.

"KENZIE!" I shrieked, and floated over to her body. I shook the body desperately. A glowing light pink soul came from the body, and I stopped my shaking. The soul turned white, and it took the form of a ghost, like Ant and I.

"H-huh?" Kenzie, in the form of a ghost, spoke. She held her head.

"Kenzie, take a look at yourself! We're all ghosts." I said, desperately trying to explain the situation as quick as I can. Ant nodded.

"Wait! Wait! WAIT!" Kenzie floated over to her corpse and reached into the corpse's sweater pocket. She pulled out her phone. She desperately tried to turn it on.

"FUCK!" She screamed.

"What's wrong?" Ant asked.

"My phone is dead! You hear me meme boi? D E A D. That spells dead! Aghhh!!" Kenzie yelled in frustration.

"Woah, woah. So you were just told you're dead, and all you care about is your damn phone?!" Ant replied. I put a hand on his shoulder.

"It's not a surprise, trust me." I said, defeat in my voice. He looked at me and nodded. "Now, let's try and find the others."

"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WATCH MY DAN AND PHIL?!?!" Kenzie yelled, somehow being a lot louder.

"Kenzie, please. Let's try and figure out what's going on. I promise I'll help you later." I snapped back with a serious look on my face. She sighed and started to follow us.

The three of us arrived to the kitchen of this place. The first thing I saw brought tears to my ghostly eyes. There was Jackie's corpse. It had an axe split right through her skull. I quickly floated over to the corpse and pulled the axe from her head. I gave it to Ant, since Kenzie was still trying to get her phone to work.

Ghostly tears streamed down my face as I shook her corpse like I did Kenzie. She was my younger sister. My own damn sister had to get dragged into this. A soul flew out of her body, but it was a hot pink. The soul did the same thing as Kenzie's did. Jackie was now a ghost.

The ghost was holding a phone and was focused on something on the screen. I snapped my fingers and tried to get her attention.

"Jackie." I cleared my throat again and quickly wiped the tears.

"What." She said, uninterested. She looked up from her phone.

"What the...okay, I have a lot of questions." She floated over to us. "Why am I a ghost, why is doofus here," She pointed to Ant. "And, why is my dead body right there." She then proceeded to point to her corpse.

"Well," Ant crossed his arms. "We don't know the answer to any of your dumb questions you brat." He said, with a light smirk on his face. I lightly elbowed him in his side.

I looked a few feet next to Jackie's corpse. There lied Izzy's body. A table was seemed to be smashed over her body. Jackie went over to Izzy's corpse and whispered in her ear, but it was loud enough for us to hear.

"I got new Ant memes."

Izzy's soul was a purple pink color. It did the same as both Kenzie's and Jackie's. She was a ghost too.

"What's up guys? Why do you look so weird?" She said, clearly confused.

"You're a ghost." Kenzie said, still focused on trying to get her phone to work.

"Well." Izzy said, looking around. "What do we do?"

"I say we try and find our killer." Ant speaks up.

"Oooh...I like that idea." I replied and nodded in approval.

"Why are you listening to HIM?" Izzy shouted.

"Well, don't you want to get revenge?" I asked.

"Yeah. I heard in books online that there's ways that ghosts can come back to life if they kill their killer." Jackie said, smirking and cocking an eyebrow.

To be continued...

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Part 2 coming if you guys liked this.