"wee wee wee!" An ambulance with the remains of Fedina drove into Third World Mortuary, where Sarah and Grace work.
Sarah, upon hearing the siren of the ambulance, got up to inform Grace about the arrival of a corpse, saying, "Please help me to inform the guys that they have work to do".
"Ooooh!" Grace lazily got up from her peaceful seat and went to inform the guys to carry the corpse inside.
The three guys on duty dressed up immediately with their handgloves and nose masks and went outside to meet the people.
"You're all welcome; can we take the corpse in?" One of the guys asked as they positioned themselves to carry the corpse.
"Hold on, where is the manager?" The father of the deceased asked.
"You'll have to come inside and meet him." The guy answered.
"Okay, you can carry on". Fedina's dad said as he waited for them to lead the way.
The dead body, being covered with a rapper, was shifted to the brim of the car's entrance, and they carried her to Room 6, where new bodies are kept to be attended to.
After documentation and payment, they were about to leave when the woman among them which happens to be the late Fedina's Aunty, walked to one of the guys that highlighted the corpse and stretched forth her hand, giving him a content wrapped in black nylon, and said, "Please keep this close to the girl's corpse; this is chocolate, and this was her only food before she died. I learned that dead bodies wake up sometimes to eat. I don't want her to get hungry when she wakes up".
The man smiled, collected the pack, and went inside to keep it close to the corpse as instructed.
Sarah and Grace were in charge of tagging and placement, so it was time for their duty. They dressed up, put on their nose and entered Room 6.
"What's this?" Grace asked as she saw the black nylon placed beside the corpse.
"What's that? Check the content," Sarah said to her as she continued to wear the corpse its tag.
Grace skeptically unveiled the black nylon and saw it's a chocolate, "it's chocolate" Grace surprisingly showed her what she found.
"It must be that the parents forgot it." Grace tore open the packet of chocolate and began to eat.
"Grace! What are you doing? Don't you think we should keep it and wait for her parents in case they come back for it?" Sarah angrily grabbed Grace.
"Haaa! This small chocolate! What would make anyone come back for this little pack of chocolate? Please let me continue eating if you're not going to take a bite." Grace smartly collected the pack from Sarah and continued to devour the chocolate.
"Okay, you won. Give me the remaining part and let me eat. You know I don't joke with chocolate." Sarah reached out and collected the remaining part while Grace laughed at her, "hahaha. So you were pretending before."
They did their work and closed for the day around 6:30 p.m.
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The two of them are best friends and live together in a self-contained apartment.
At night, around 1:00 am, Grace became pressed. She got up, turned on the light, which penetrated to the eyes of Sarah, and she slightly woke up. "Please turn off the light", Sarah said in a calm tone while she turned her face to the bed to avoid a ray of light.
Grace turned off the light and walked towards the bathroom to relieve herself, but immediately she entered the bathroom, she ran out with speed shouting loudly,
"Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!"
The scream made Sarah jack up from the bed, looking scared. "What's that? What's pursuing you?" Sarah asked her as Grace ran out of the room without replying her friend.
She became terribly scared and hop into the marathon race displayed by Grace, to the parlour.
"It's a ghost again!" Grace said immediately she saw Sarah running towards her.
"Did you say ghost? Whose ghost? Sarah asked her while panting, as they were hiding at the back of the only sofa in the parlour.
"It's the lady we attended to before we closed from work—that lady that we took the chocolate beside her," Grace said with a shaking voice.
"So you mean...?" Sarah was trying to insinuate while Grace interrupted her, "Yes, it's exactly what you're thinking. She's come for her chocolate because she was holding the empty packet of the chocolate."
"Babe, we have to brave up and get that white handkerchief; if not, we won't be able to sleep in this house," Sarah said.
"The handkerchief is in the drawer in the room, I don't think I'd be able to go into that room again, you should go for it," Grace replied while taking more behind the sofa.
"Mtchew!" Sarah looked at her and hissed, but that was never a concern to Grace.
She got up to tiptoe to the room to get the handkerchief, but to her surprise, the ghost was seen stepping out of the room to the parlour, on the dress she was in the Mortuary, holding the nylon of the eaten chocolate.
"Please don't harm us, we didn't know the chocolate was meant for you. Please!" Two of them were beseeching the ghost as they were running around the house as the ghost faced them.
It wasn't their first time being chased by a ghost since they started working in the Mortuary, so they were scared but not to the peak, which is why they didn't bother to run away from the house. All they needed was to get the handkerchief given to them by the company, which had the capacity to chase away ghosts.
The ghost was mute all through, tormenting them alone with just its presence.
As the ghost turned and rotating to face them in their direction as they run around the parlour, Sarah bravely ran past her to the room, pulled out the drawer, brought out the handkerchief, and ran back to the parlour.
As soon as she got there, she showed the ghost the handkerchief, and it disappeared into thin air instantly.
"Bravo!" Graced hailed the bravery of Sarah, and she peeped out of her hiding place behind the curtain of the window.
With a deep sigh from Sarah, "we need to reach out to the manager now to inform him of what happened so this ghost doesn't keep coming," Sarah said as she collected her phone to call the manager.
"Wait first, what are we going to tell him about the chocolate? That we ate it?" Grace said, looking confused.
"Ummm, I'd tell him that we threw away the chocolate and he should beg the parents for forgiveness because I'm sure mercy lies in the hands of the parent that dropped the chocolate beside her," Sarah replied to Grace, and Grace nodded her head hard in affirmation while Sarah called the manager.
She explained to the manager what they had just experienced. The manager was very pleased to hear that they were able to chase away the ghost via the handkerchief.
The following morning, the situation was explained to the parents and they brought another chocolate to place beside her..and that's how they met peace.