AFTER PILL
Wake up. His voice, much more clear than the other days, is making me decide that I will forever stay sleeping, with him. In it.
♫ Every now and then
We find a special friend
Who never lets us down
Who understands it all
Reaches out each time you fall
You're the best friend that I've found
I know you can't stay
A part of you will never ever go away
Your heart will stay
I'll make a wish for you
And hope it will come true
That life would just be kind
To such a gentle mind
If you lose your way
Think back on yesterday
Remember me this way
Remember me this way ♪
As the music plays, I just keep on staring at Lee with a lot of thoughts going through my head, this was during our high school days when we usually cut classes and run back home to play chess, watch a movie or go to the Ice cream parlor. I'll get the mint chocolate with crushed oreos on top and he'll just get a Vanilla. Of all the movies that we were planning to see before this day, some choices are documentaries on the web A ghost caught on camera, Visiting the haunted mansion in California and some more, we end up watching Casper. Lee and I both saw this movie a hundred times. For someone who doesn't like the idea of love at all, or hasn't had any crushes I find it really amusing to see Lee enjoying this child cheesy movie, in his defense Casper, is still a ghost which he is fond of since the first day we met.
"WHAT?" he asked while his eyes are a little wet when Casper turned into a human and dances with the girl named Kat for a limited time.
"You're so emotional" I laugh, but at the same time I feel a little teary eyed too.
"I get emotions sometimes, it's a secret just between you and me." He winks while wiping his tears with the sleeves of his pullovers.
"Well, your secret is safe with me." I promised him.
"why are you crying though? They're just dancing." I questioned him.
"I don't know really, maybe because he was finally able to touch her." his eyes fixed on the TV.
"and the fact that Casper is not a resentful kind of ghost that is, I feel for him, he deserves that" while his hands open and point at the TV. So fucking cute.
"Did you know that ghost can really touch stuff? like hurt the people, I mean us the living ones? When they're full of hatred? they're able to move things, throw them and stuff, we should definitely put poltergeist in our watchlist." Lee and his ghost facts sometimes scares me but I love seeing him share these stuff with me. He likes Ghosts stories, he dreams of hunting them, he likes crime documentaries, serial killers except for killer dolls just the opposite of me who loves butterflies, and rainbows, and cakes, and love. We're two different people but almost the same. It's hard to describe how our friendship grew over the years.
I went with Lee mostly on his hunting for ghost escapades in different towns, We didn't get anything though on the cameras when we visited the haunted places, we ended up just taking pictures together on our trips hence the thousands of photos I have on my phone, probably in his too. Given the unfortunate events of not being able to see at least one ghost or something paranormal happening on our trips, Lee doesn't seemed to give up on it. We still make plans here and there until we finished college and got busy with different work. I have always supported his likes and he has too with mine, I can't even imagine a life---my life without Lee in it.
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A week past and we've been so busy with events and meeting up with clients. Lee and I didn't dip in to the topic of Frank being not good for me ever again after that night. Actually, it's like we've been avoiding each other for the whole week, I haven't seen him as much and he usually leave the office early without me knowing, I always end up peeking at his empty desk when I'm done with work and head home. No Calls and No text messages, It's weird but I felt it was for the better rather than him being around and me always trying to shake the thoughts of us being together.
