The Soccer Ghost

                                                The Soccer Ghost

By Nuala Rodgers

One day a girl named Jenny was playing right forward in a soccer game. The other girls on Jenny’s team thought she had been acting a little suspicious. Like when she would be shooting on their goalie and BAM!  She would be gone. Well, it was getting closer to Halloween, but the girls just thought they were seeing something.

This suspiciousness had been in their minds for a couple of weeks.  Jenny’s mom or dad might have been in on this. It would only happen when she would be playing soccer, and her mom or dad were watching.

But on Thursday, they had a game. Jenny was so psyched!!!! When she got on the field, and she was playing, she seemed to magically disappear from the field to the bench, and then the coach started yelling and screaming “WHERE’S JENNY?? WE NEED HER!! GOSH!! WHERE COULD SHE BE??!!” And sure enough you couldn’t see Jenny on the field which made them think she was a GHOST! But the coach was too focused on the game that she was still in shock of where Jenny went.

And, if you were listening closely, you could hear Jenny speaking in a very low voice saying “How am I weird?”

And the girls on her team now thought that Jenny was half-girl, half-ghost, but they still acted like it was so normal, and everything was cool.

But, the girls on Jenny’s team panicked so much when they were at home. At night they panicked, at mealtimes, and at school. And then their next game came around…..

And the same ghost thing happened again!! But this time the girls knew something was up. So, at the end of the game the girls asked Jenny “Why were you turning into a ghost in different times at the game?” “What are you talking about,” said Jenny.

After the game Jenny told her parents about this ghost problem. Jenny said “The-e-ey-y we-er-re ask-k-ing m-e-e-, as though she were on the verge of tears, but her dad stopped her and said, “Oh honey, we just put a fog machine with a foggy ghost on the bench. We really didn’t mean to scare you and you friends.”

“You never even told me that,” said Jenny. “No, we didn’t”, said her parents. “We just thought that because Halloween was coming up, we thought we would try to like seeing a foggy ghost on the sidelines during the game.” “Wow! now I won’t have any friends”, said Jenny. “Oh yes you will said her father”.  “But how did you make me invisible on the field”, Jenny asked.  “Oh with a shadow casting projector, it didn’t make you disappear, it just made you look really dark and hard to see”, her mom added.

Jenny couldn’t wait to tell her friends, or wait she wondered, maybe she should keep the secret until after Halloween?

What do you think she should do?

The   End.

About the Author

Nuala Rodgers is 8 years old.  She plays soccer on the B travel team and loves it. She lives in Dedham, Massachusetts, and goes to the Avery school. Nuala enjoys traveling, and thrives on school, and soccer. Nuala has a dog named Sunny, and a cat named Benny, and loves hanging out with them. And she has a family with whom she laughs a lot.