Boo!

I yawned. Particularly loudly and conspicuously as the ghost looked at me

baffled at first, then a resigned look of disappointment spreading underneath the
rubber prosthetics and make-up, his ghoulish moan turning into one of sheer
dismay.
Come on, you have to at least pretend to be scared. Play along, my friend said
over the cackling and moaning echoing from the speakers surreptitiously hidden
in the walls of the haunted house.
A couple of minutes later we exited the building which in the last couple of
years had gotten somewhat scarier through no act of the park managers. The
building had simply fallen into disrepair, and the artificially dilapidated building
had begun to actually look derelict rotting wood panelling, real cobwebs
accumulating over the artificial ones that had been plastered to the corners.
It had been a couple of years since we had last chosen to meet up at the
amusement park my friends and I usually met at quieter locations. We werent
exactly fond of large crowds. I happened to be ambling along when I suddenly
noticed a little girl dressed in pristine white, hobbling around the park like a
little angel who seemed to have lost her way, and her parents as well. I slowly
approached her and said hello.
Wheres your mommy sweetheart?
She looked up at me, and stared at me with the brightest blue eyes I had ever
seen. She opened her mouth to answer but before she could say a word, her
mother appeared almost instantly as if she had emerged out of thin air.
There you are! Ive been looking all over for you she said, before turning to
me. Thank you for looking after her! Sorry to have bothered you, she said in a
fluster.
Not a problem, I smiled and said. You have a beautiful baby daughter.
Why thank you! She takes after my mother, she smiled.
Does she now? Im sure she would be proud.
She would have been Im sure. She passed away a month before my daughter
was born.
Im sorry to hear that. What about her grandfather?
I dont remember him that well, honestly. He left us when I was a child, she
replied politely.
Well, wherever he is Im sure hed be happy to know you have a beautiful
family.

She smiled, turned away and disappeared into the crowd once again, this time
taking her daughter with her. Meanwhile, my friends had managed to track me
down.
Wait. Wasnt that one of them started.
Vanessa. My daughter I replied.
Does she know that youre
Dead? No. I thought shed be better off not knowing