Haunted Afterlife

Hello one and all. My name is Diana, but you can call me Primroseku. I'm a new writer hoping and dreaming to share my creativity with any lovely person that desires to give my stories a shot.Please enjoy and like/subscribe. ❤️🌸❤️

(Warning this is a short horror story that may contain some mildly disturbing context)

So here we are again.. I was just with my family enjoying a meal with the kids when I couldn't help but feel the staring eyes of my son Ethan.. Something I- don't know, just always felt off about him. I don't know if it was just me, him, or the way he always acted around me. My husband would always tell me that it's probably just stress and that our son seems perfectly fine.

One day though we'd gotten a call from his middle school about a disturbance between classmates. He apparently started to follow one of the girls around school for about a week and wasn't leaving her alone. She apparently said he'd leave weird notes around places he knew where she'd find them. Apparently they'd talk about her hair and looks, or try to convince her to meet up with him. She had enough of it but didn't want to confront and cause a fight or hurt his feelings. So she'd told a teacher who'd called us.

We'd sat down and talked to him about it. I said- “Sweetie, we'd gotten a call from the school.. We know you've been following a girl around and we want to tell you how.. wrong it is and how that's not an ok thing to do to people.”

He replied- “mom what's so wrong with it? I was just leaving a few notes for her. I- I like her.. She reminds me of someone I knew.”

His father then retorted and chuckled as he'd pat Ethan's back.. “I get it boy. I had a few crushes myself when I was your age. But look, you're doing it all wrong. You can't just follow girls around; they really don't like that. If you really like this girl just take it slow. Don't push or rush her or you'll scare her off. Start out with an apology note and maybe even confess your feelings a little. If you want we can even buy a stuffed toy and a rose as an apology gift. Girls love those things and before you know it she'll come to you in due time.”

I didn't disagree with my husband's statement. It was a good way to apologize to the poor girl.. But I also felt like that wasn't right either.. As you see in the notes that the girl gave to the teacher later on. The teacher mentioned in the call that they'd talk about weird things like sniffing her hair, wanting to stroke it, and loving the smell of her perfume. That he wanted her to spend every day with only him.

Maybe I was just overthinking it and to a still growing boy it seems more innocent.. But it just seemed really off to me.

After that a few months went by and things seemed to have gone back to normal. We haven't heard of anything else from the school and Ethan hasn't spoken of the girl so the incident was soon forgotten. On the day after his 13th birthday me and my husband along with my dad and two of his cousins had a small family birthday party. We had one on his actual birthday with his friends but because it was his 13th just like his cousins he got an extra party this year.

We'd set up a few balloons and decorations from the day before. My dad and his cousins each had presents for him. When he opened the first one it revealed an old framed news article photo of a family, dated 26 March 1951. Two girls and a mother that were unfamiliar to Ethan. He'd looked at my dad in confusion, as dad just smiled sadly. As he said “you see these two girls Ethan? The mother and girl to the left? They were special to me.. You see they were a family I lost a long time ago.

See the girl to the right?

That's actually me 73 years ago.. I was 14 then..

Yes I know it's crazy right? First off I'm clearly a boy, and I'm 72. So there's a 15 year age gap here. Also why haven't you seen my mom or sister right..?

Well it's simply because all three people in this picture have passed away..

You see, an accident happened one day. It actually happened a year after this photo was taken. A car was driven off of the edge of a road into the water below after a truck had lost control and rammed into them. None of them survived..

The next day I was born again into this family. I didn't know at the time but after my 13th birthday I myself was told a similar story of how my uncle had a previous life. Then not long after I'd discovered my previous life over time..

You see I was this girl and this was my mom and sister. After I'd passed away I was luckily reborn into this family.”

I'd stepped in and talked to him next. “You see sweetie, a certain part of our family can see our past lives. You are a part of this. Your cousins too.”

His two cousins then went over and shared their stories as they gave him presents. Stephanie was 71 when she'd passed away from age and complications. She gave him a picture book containing some of the photos of her past.

Then came Jacob. He was 46 and died from cancer. He had gifted Ethan a photo of him at the hospital along with an old board game that he owned and loved to play during his time in the hospital.

Ethan seemed more than intrigued by this as we finished up telling him about everything and that he too should soon learn about his past.

To be continued~