Challenge #01511-D050: This House is Not Haunted
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"I just turned to my housemate and said, “y’know, we’d never know if we were haunted” because we have four cats between us, so every clunk, bump, and crash gets entirely ignored
and now I want a movie about a ghost becoming increasingly desperate to haunt a family but they have cats and so the poor dear goes completely ignored" -- Gallifreya
I was, once.
Nothing more than that. Simply that I was, once. As in, I was a single lady living alone. I was incredibly protective of my home and my things. I was alive. Not any more. I'm still in my house and I don't like it when other people move in. I make... trouble.
Shifting things around. Throwing things off of their places. Moving things into odd places. All the usual poltergeist stuff. And it did work for years. I kept my house all to myself. And then they moved in. Two nice lesbians and their five cats. They say ghosts and cats don't get along. They don't know anything.
Cats ignore ghosts. Except when they really want to chase something, and then it just looks like Kitty's Crazy O'clock. Knocking over things and moving things doesn't really work. The cats are just as good at it as I am. Possibly better. Bumps in the night are also an excellent occupation for cats.
I did not die violently, so I can't manifest blood on the walls. The most I can do is wreck their stuff. And, as I said, the cats are just as good at it as I am. My attempts at talking to them is also easily masked by the cats' chaos.
The lesbians, in so far as I can tell, are living happily ever after. My best hope is if they manage to adopt or engender a kid, and then become the creepy invisible friend. Which doesn't seem likely, because these ladies prefer having the cats.
I wish I could do anything about it. But... I was good at this.
[AN: Thanks to The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing for the title of this piece :D It's also a song that I rather like.]
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