Endlessly

2

The sun ray is waking me up. And a soft voice in my ear. It's so weird because its not my sister's or mom's. It was a voice I haven't heard for a very long time. It was the voice I've been longing to hear and It took me a single snap of moment to realize that.. it was Jane's!

I almost jumped out of the bed. Actually napatalon nga ako. Someone's there beneath the covers. Is it really Jane? The hell out of me is really scared right now. I think everyone who'd be in my shoes would feel almost just the same.

"You said you wanted to see me. Here I am."

"Ahhh!J-- Jane? Ikaw ba yan?" I turned around to see her near the veranda. "Is it really you? Oh baka naman engkanto ka lang na naghahanap ng paglalaruan."

"Hey. Would you calm down? It's just me alright. It's Jane. Not some wicked spirit you're talking about."

"Why are you here?", I know I just said that I wanted to see her, ghost or not. But this is entirely different when you see your dead girlfriend coming back as a ghost o kung ano man.

"Everything okay in there son?", Dad shouts, knocking in the door.

"Yes?, I--I'll go there once umm-- Im done here.''

"Okay. But fast enough. Food's getting cold."

I slowly move around the corner of my bed. Kinuha ko yung kumot, ewan ko kung bakit. Gusto ko sanang italukbong. Pero di ko ginawa trying to see if Jane's figure would disappear. But she just stands there, looking at me, like she's about to burst out laughing but she did not.

"I'll be waiting in the tree house. If you have gathered enough courage to talk to a ghost, don't hesitate to come. I've been meaning to talk to you for some time now." She said in her most calm voice.

She's wearing a white dress in barefoot, her face glowing and fresh. Jane took one look at me then she disappeared.

I was stuck in place for like 20 seconds and when I finally felt like moving, I head first to the bathroom and splashed some cold water in my face. I'm sprinting down the stairs to the kitchen with my blanket still wrapped in my body.

"Goodmorning anak! What were you doing up there?", Dad smiling at me.

"What's with the jumping and shouting like a girl? Plus the running. Haha.", Maddie is obviously teasing me.

Mom held my face, "Why are you so pale iho."

"Uhm, ah.. may i--ipis .. sa kama."

Anong palusot yan men?? Hindi naman ako takot sa ipis. Nahihiya ako pero malabo na ang isip ko para mag-isip ng iba pang dahilan.

Maddie snorts. I realize I was really looking pale and stunned.

I hardly touched my food and head back immediately in the guest room. Every other while, I take a look in the veranda to see the treehouse from afar.

She wanted to talk to me? What should I do? Should I go to our treehouse? Am I being delusional? Loosing my mind or something.

One way to figure it out. I first took a shower to make sure that I'm wide awake. I put on my jeans and gray t-shirt slid on my black hoodie and slowly I walk my way up to the hill. For a moment, I stood there convincing myself that it was all my imagination but a part of me wishes it's not, siguro kasi gusto ko nga siyang makita kahit kinikilabutan ako. I wanted to ask Maddie to come here with me, I wanted to tell her that it was not a cockroach in my bed earlier in this morning, but Jane. But then I decided to do this alone. I climb up the tree and open the door. The room is empty, except for the pictures, there is no Jane waiting for me. I chuckled. What was I thinking man?