Invisible

~ Chapter 2 ~

Chapter 2

LEA

"What do you want, Cane?" I grumbled through my gritted teeth. I didn't want to deal with him now. Not when I just got my memory back.

"Well, aren't we a little grumpy this evening? Did you wake up on the wrong side of bed?"

His voice sent a surge of anger through me as I turned to face him. It was taking all the self-control I had to not rip him apart, even though that was physically impossible.

Cane could be considered really attractive but I pushed that thought out of my mind as soon as it came. I could see his icy silver eyes, looking me over, through his shaggy bangs. His skin was as white as bone which made his black hair look somehow "out of place."

He noticed me starring and smirked. "Okay, I know you have the hots for me, but you need to have some self-control."

Dear God, I hated him. "You have an ego as big as the universe. Now, get out of my house!" I said sternly.

Cane chuckled. A low rumble came from his abnormally built chest. "Your house? Lea, babe, the house is no longer yours, it's in the past. The shadows of the past are deceiving and you can't keep clinging on to something that isn't there..." He trailed off as he came towards me with open arms.

Before I could realise what was happening, there was nothing I could do to stop it. Feeling his arms wrap around my hips felt strange since I haven't experienced the feeling of touch in weeks. My blackout must have lasted longer than I thought.

Keeping my eyes shut, I could only imagine what I would see if they were open. The next thing I know, Cane's lips met mine and at that moment, I could feel how much he loved me. He's always loved me, from the moment he started watching me to the moment when I first woke up confused and alone in the Border.

Cane pulled away as he could feel the tension in my body. The problem was, no matter how much he loved me, he still took away something that I will never get back: my life.

"There." He said as he pulled away from the kiss and placed his hands in the back pockets of my jeans. "That wasn't so bad, was it?"

"Yes, it was." I spat at him. He needed to get the message. I know nothing I do will change what’s been done, but he had to somehow be punished for his evil deed.

"Lea, I'm the one who's still here, aren't I? Your parents just left you. I will never leave you."

"Yeah, they left because you made me invisible!" I could feel the anger coming out of me now, as I've been holding it in for the past few months. Since no one could see me, I became a mute, wandering around town going unnoticed by everyone. I would occasionally blackout, waking up weeks later, not knowing how long I was in the darkness. I would call it sleeping but let's be rational here, do ghosts sleep?

I would always wake up in the same place. My home. It will always be my home, even if my parents moved out and don’t live there anymore. I would occasionally wake up remembering what happened to me but lately, my memory has been slipping away. That is something I don't want to happen since I'd like to think that my human memories keep me sane.

"You think you've saved me from the dangers that lurk around in this world but here's a new flash, you're the danger that I should be saved from!" My eyes started to blur, causing me to lose my focus. Great, I was crying. The last thing I wanted was for him to get the wrong message and comfort me. "I will never love you, want you or need you, so why don't you just leave!"

Surpassingly, Cane started laughing."You say that every time, Lea but you always come crawling back. I did you a favor. The way those humans treated you..." Trailing off again, he shook his head as he took my hand, linking his fingers into mine. "I will never treat you that way, I swear on my life."

I sighed. He never had a life. Cane was an angel. Unlike the angels I had always pictured as a child, Cane didn't have wings. He looked like an average teenager and that was a problem. If he had wings, I probably would have noticed him and would have avoided him at all costs.

Cane wasn’t just a regular angel though. He seemed to have control over all the ghosts that are still on earth or as I like to call it, the Border. When I first woke up, I thought I would wake up in a scene of white with golden gates in front of me, welcoming me to happiness. My vision was shattered when I woke up to seeing the person who caused the whole mess. Ghost who still inhabit earth have "unfinished business" that they have to complete before they can go to heaven. The problem is no one notifies you what task you have to complete, not even Cane. So here I am, stuck on earth, not knowing what to do next.

Realizing that Cane was still holding my hand, I yanked it away, and started heading for the back door of my house, which was surprisingly wide open (probably from Cane breaking and entering). Being one myself, I realized that there were stereotypes created about ghosts that weren't actually true. Unfortunately, ghosts can't walk through doors or any other objects. I've tried to do so before but all I accomplished was getting a couple of "metaphorical" bruises. It may sound lazy but I would rather just walk right through stuff then actually take the time to go around it.

We can't even touch or go through humans. Inhabiting and possess a human bodies was impossible and looking back, I had always thought watching it occur in horror movies with my friends that it was really scary. Now that I know firsthand that such ability was impossible, those horror movies seem completely absurd.

Cane’s voice broke its way through my thoughts as I made my way through the door. "See you soon."

Of course he wasn't chasing after me. He thinks I'm going to just turn and come back to him, but he's wrong. The thing is, I never come back to him. He always just finds a way to be near me at the worst of times. .

I walked out the door and floated into the sky. One of the perks of being a ghost was that you could go anywhere you wanted in a matter of seconds. That is, if you're planning on going anywhere.

I bent my knees and jumped, feeling as light as a feather blowing in the breeze. While soaring up into the clouds, I realized that since I awakened, I've never really seen any other ghosts. Cane told me that there were none in these parts but I never believed him. I guess that I was just hoping that there had to be more nearby like me and being the stubborn person that I am, I still keep my fingers crossed.

It would be nice to have someone else to talk to other then Cane. Having a decent conversation with someone would probably help me accept my fate since there is nothing I could really do to change it. Talking to Cane isn't exactly a walk in the park. Instead, it was more like a walk in some strange scary woods where crows would come out of nowhere and a creepy fog would trail by your feet as you walked.

I shuddered. I have had enough with Cane. He needs to just leave me alone. Why doesn't he understand that he is the reason my life has changed so drastically, the reason that I can't to talk anyone other than him and the reason that my life was cut short?

Not knowing my current altitude, I went above the clouds to admire the view. The nicest thing about being so high up is that the silence is calming and it almost lets me forget the horrible events that have happened to me, even if it just for a moment. I could stay up here for hours on end, having no plans, no curfews to make or places to be.

The sun was setting as I watched the sky turn from a light blue to a dark purple in minutes. The beauty of nature was always so mesmerizing and as the sun settled beyond the horizon, my thoughts drifted to my past. Skimming through some of my human memories caused me to smile, leaving me with a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Vanishing as quickly as it came, that fuzziness was gone when I got to my most recent human memory. The day when my life changed forever, also known as the day I died.

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