Benjamin Williams

All my life it seems like I never made my own choices. I was put up for adoption right when I was born and was told that my parents didn't have enough money to support me. Finally when I was five, I got adopted only to realize that my adoption parents were abusive and made me do all their dirty work.

 At the age of 6 I waited till they were asleep and snuck out the window and I ran. I lived in the big city of L.A so I didn’t know where to go. I started sleeping on the streets until Mike found me. Mike was the only person I know who actually seemed like a parent to me. He took me in, but I found out he was a gang leader. I didn’t care though because I didn’t know what was right or wrong.

Mike raised me like a son but he made me join his gang. He said, ‘If you don’t join, I ain’t taking care of you no more’. I had no choice,  I had to join his gang. Like I said before, I didn’t know what was right or wrong, so I ended up doing some bad stuff.

One day Me, Mike and some of the other fellas were driving when a gunshot fired and a bullet hit the car. Mike sped up, looped around; then he hopped out of the car and opened fire. He missed the other shooter, but the other shooter didn’t miss. He shot me and Mike.

 I was a… ghost?, so as any other ghost would’ve I checked on my folks, well Mike and the other fellas. It turned out they all lived, even Mike. I also learned nobody attended my funeral, but meh, there was nothing I could do. I was pretty bored being a ghost so I floated around till I found someone. He seemed like a good folk so I said, What's up, but no response. Eventually this impolite Man said’ Help me scare children,’ I responded by saying ‘man that's kinda creepy. And he grabbed me. He took me to some weird building that looked like it was made out of bones. He forced me to go down to Earth as a ghost and haunt kids. I was so sick of being told what to do. I was miserable. 

I hated scaring people. Eventually I came back to Bone castle or whatever it was and the same guy who grabbed me told me to get back to work. I said No i'm sick of it. He did nothing. It was as if he was scared of me. I thought what a wuss, to make me scare kids and be scared of me what a disgraceful man. So now I was finally a free ghost who could make his own choices without being forced to do stuff I aint like to do.