Chapter 8- 'Goodbye, Reagan'

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"There's nothing I know I wouldn't do, I wouldn't do

Just to get up next to you"

Louis POV

It's official. I've gone crazy. I have literally lost my mind.

"Well, it looks like I have right along with you," Kai said from under me.

Oh. Maybe I was saying those words out loud.

"No. I have to be psychotic because my wife isn't standing in front of me right now," I argued.

The ghost of my wife stood in the doorway, running her hands through her hair, amusedly looking from Kai to me simultaneously.

"Well make that two for the crazy train because I see her too."

Kai and I hadn't moved from the position that we were in. It was starting to get uncomfortable, me trying to hold my body weight from off of her, but I couldn't bring myself to move a single inch.

"Make that three," Reagan said, "Because I see her too. You're talking about the girl standing in the doorway waiting to officially be invited in? The very attractive girl who is looking at her ex-husband lying on top of his ex-girlfriend/best friend/boss seconds away from finally giving into his feelings and ripping her clothes off? Yeah, I see her."

Silence.

"Louis, babe, I really am here. And, if you two would stop thinking that you're hallucinating for a second, you'd realize that."

At those words, my body froze. I was already pretty still when she first spoke, but the possibility that I wasn't hallucinating or dreaming rocked me to my very core.

She couldn't be here. I buried her 4 years ago. We all said goodbye to her.

We all cried over her.

"Maybe you should get off," Kai whispered after she snapped out of it, "Go talk to her."

"I think he's getting off quite nicely with you being right under him."

Neither Kai nor I laughed as I finally got off her and stood up. Reagan was laughing at her own joke that I didn't find very funny.

"Come on!" she laughed, "A sexual joke about you two? From me? That's hilarious!"

Complete silence. I wasn't sure to think at this moment, but no part of me found it humorous.

"Maybe I should go," Kai finally said after she also stood up and straightened up her clothes, "You two need to talk."

"No, stay," I told her without taking my eyes off Reagan, "I need someone to keep me from killing her."

After the shock and disbelief had finally subsided, now there was anger. I buried her. I said goodbye to her. I cried over her.

And now she comes back with jokes and insensitivity? No. No, I'm pissed.

"Look Louis, I know that you're mad. Baby, I don't blame you. I 'die' for four years and then come back with no explanation whatsoever? I would be mad too. But, as much as I understand, I'm not going to apologize for it."

How dare her.

"Wrong answer," I spat.

"Excuse me?"

"You're not going to apologize for it? Who do you think you are? Are you serious? Get out."

"Wait, what?" she was stunned and even Kai gasped from behind me.

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