Can You See Me?

Loving & Hurting [ Lisoo Special ]

Past Events

"Are you really okay with how things are going?"

Once again, there's brief silence before the man speaks up, "Even if I'm not okay, it's not like I can do anything and I just want her to be happy."

The sun shines brightly above them while sunlight pierces the man's transparent body. Lisa leans back on her seat even more as she asks again, "How about you? Is her definition of happiness is same like yours?"

"I'm a ghost."

Lisa shrugs. "Just because you're a ghost doesn't mean you don't have right to be happy."

The ghost's eyes look at the human for a few moments before he moves them to the scenery of park in front of them. This park isn't far from Lisa and Jisoo's university and at time like this, there are not many people in here. There are some ghosts though and a lot of cats, living and dead. Lisa never understands why cats like coming to this park so much.

"I want her to be happy," the man says suddenly. Despite those words, Lisa can sense the 'but'. Rather than saying that word though, the man merely repeats, "I want her to be happy. I've told myself over and over again, I want her to be happy. That's what I want."

The man suddenly stops while Lisa doesn't take her eyes away from him, patiently waiting for him to continue. The ghost then sighs. "I want her to be happy, really."

Yes, there's a 'but.'

"You know," Lisa begins, making the man look at her. "We can help."

Lisa doesn't remember how many times she said this already. She always says this every time she meets this ghost. "We can help. I can help. You don't need to burden everything alone."

Yet just like the usual, the ghost simply smiles softy at her before he answers, "Thank you for the offer but it's all right, I can handle this by myself."

And with that, the man stands up and begins to leave the park, not letting Lisa say anything in return.

-/-/-/-

"He still didn't ask for help, did he?"

Lisa nods with eyes that still look at the busy street from the car window. Seconds later, Jisoo's voice can be heard again, "Unlike usual, this ghost doesn't ask for help. Is it okay to keep being persistence at offering help? We can just let him try to solve his problem himself."

"I know but I can't help yet think about it. What ghost can do to solve their problem by their own is pretty limited."

The tall girl can hear Jisoo's smile when the latter says, "I know you'll say something like that."

Lisa smiles a little. Her eyes move slightly to her friend who sits in front of her with hands on steering wheel and foot on gas pedal. Her eyes then move back to scenery outside the car as she recalls everything they've learnt about this ghost. The ghost talked so little about himself but that's not a new thing. Ghost does that all the time. To compensate that, the two friends have looked for information themselves. From Internet, hospital, asked some people, met few people...

"Cha Eunwoo, died because of cancer that runs down in his family. His mother died too because of the same illness," Lisa talks out loud, making Jisoo give her a quick look from the front mirror. "At first he's worried about those he left behind that's why he has decided to stay in the world a little longer, to watch over his family." Lisa pauses for a second before she continues, "And his girlfriend."

"They began to date when most of Eunwoo's time need to be spent in hospital. Eunwoo was against it at first but the girl said she's going to be all right over and over again. In the end he relented." That ghost maybe didn't talk much about himself but he talked a lot about his girlfriend. "She was right there beside him till the end of his life. Eunwoo once said the girl has accepted his death but he knows she's sad."