I do not believe in ghosts, but even if I did, I probably would not worry about it. I believe that ghosts are only a part of our messed up thoughts and imagination, which is true. Psychologists have developed the fact that when our minds are in a state of fear or anxiety, it creates certain images out of these and tend to create what we call 'ghosts'. And my view of paranormal occurrence is nothing but the mind playing with us when we are afraid and intermixing fantasy with reality.

Halloween was near, everyone in the classroom was buzzing about their ghost outfits. Carter said that he would make an outfit so scary that he will give us nightmares and it is all at his pleasure. I hardly believe that, besides what is there to be afraid of when ghosts do not exist. And afterall, Carter was the bully of the class. Yesterday, he locked up one of our classmates in the toilet, who claimed to have seen a ghost walking by. But I never took them seriously, so my mind was at peace and undaunted.

Carter used to scare all the girls from our class on every Halloween but I was the only one he could not scare. He and his bully friends tried a lot of methods to bring out my fear but I did not move an inch. Then he started calling me 'Silent cat'. 'Silent' because I usually...