“It was really early in the morning,” Joey began to recount his ghost dog encounter. Also when he started talking, it startled me a bit, but I was hoping he hadn’t noticed.
In truth, he did an exceptional job of telling his ghost story, because I’d gone from being a little bit scared to trembling with fear. Despite the fact that my brain was telling me that it couldn’t have been real, my heart believed every word of it.
When the movie got to the scene in the school, when Haley Joel Osment’s character sees the ghosts hanging in the school, Joey and I held each other for comfort. It was at that very instant that Beth walked back into the room. She walked in and started to ask us if we were done with our dinner, but all she got out was, “Are you two…”