SUNSET AT NOON

                    DECEMBER 30TH 2007

      Just when I was beginning to get comfortable with the fact that the year is ending, we got word that my cousin was killed in a car accident. She had just left the house to get something from a nearby kiosk when the car skidded of the road and on to her. It’s like the drunk driver planned on hitting her cos she was the only one that was hit by the car. If that was the end to it, I would not have minded but on the day she was hit, the news hadn’t gotten to me yet when I saw her in the bathroom with me when I was taking a shower. She just stood there and said nothing. When I saw her, I got goose pimples all over my body. I asked her how she got it but she just stood there and by the time I blinked, she was gone. When I came out, I asked my siblings if anyone had seen her come in but no one saw her at all. I was beginning to think that I was maybe imagining things when later in the day we got the call.  I could have sworn that I got a shiver down my spine that day. First, I was shocked at her death and secondly, I was doubly shocked that I saw her ghost. Of course no one believed me when I told them she appeared to me... the sound of my words are even unbelievable. I wonder why she came.