✯ℝ𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 ℙ𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕖, 𝕎𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕘 𝕋𝕚𝕞𝕖✯ ᵗᵉᵃᵐ ʳᵃⁿᶜʰᵉʳˢ

7. To know you

Another week started to pass . Jimmy couldn't quite believe how lucky he was to have Tango as his first friend in so long and what was more important Tango could see hjm. He couldn't imagine himself  spending another countless years driving himself nuts - the loneliness was making him crazy but it stopped after he met Tango.

The walking ball of incredible ideas and knowledge of things Jimmy had no idea.
Tango was also very kind to him and his laugh warmed the place where his long dead heart was.

There was a long forgotten feeling in him- not that he could feel much now- feeling that he tried to put off his mind. For now or maybe eternity.

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Tango was working on his new project /game "Detected Out" quietly in his room when suddenly a noises from downstairs cough his attention.

He went down to see Jimmy floating above the sofa and the TV on.
He and Jimmy never finished the conversation they had when his friends were staying over.
They talked to each other but both were desperately trying to avoid the topic.

"Sorry.. I touched it and it lit itself up." Jimmy apologised as he saw him.

"Oh, it's alright. Don't worry." Tango took the TV remote control and turned the TV off.
They stared at the black screen until Jimmy asked -"So what now?"

Tango shrugged, normally he would go back to his room, close himself in his room and start doing stuff on his computer but he didn't want to leave Jimmy.

" What would you say to a small walk around the ranch? The sun hadn't set yet."

Jimmy's mood lights up.
"Sure!"

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Tango sat under an old apple tree that was growing behind the Doccy goat pen. Jimmy was floating around it, giving the tree a close look like he saw it for the first time. It made Tango laugh but also made him wonder if Jimmy was stuck in the house before he moved here .

"Jimmy?"
Tango said finally catching the ghost's attention.

"Yes?"

"Have you been trapped in the attic before I've moved here?"
Tango asked shyly.

" No.. I wasn't really... At first I could move around the town, that's actually how I came here after my funeral... Then I just stayed here and I accidentally bonded myself to this place ... Why?"

" You were staring at the tree and that made me think.."

Jimmy went red, he laughed embarrassed.
"Oh... It's.."
He sighed.
Jimmy 'sat' down next to Tango, looking at the horizon.

"I haven't told you much about me ..
I think I should -"
Jimmy started but Tango's look made him stop.

" I haven't told you much about myself either. That's not fair if you would be the only one, I want to tell you about me too...
Uh.. if you would like?"

Jimmy smiled, Tango l̶o̶v̶e̶s̶ like that smile, it makes his heart beat faster.

"If you are sure..., I don't want you to say anything you feel uncomfortable to say loudly."

Tango laughed ironically.
"Trust me, I would feel hundred times better if I say everything that lives in my mind out loud."

Jimmy nodded, he understood what that feels like, being trapped with your thoughts, too scared to tell anyone- but he wanted to try to speak up. Got himself and Tango who was the greatest supporter he could have.

"Let's start from the beginning shall we...

As you know I have lived here before I died. I lived here with my husband his name was Scott.
The tree -" Jimmy looked at it.
"I planted it right after I moved here with my love."

Jimmy took Tango's hand and led him to the place when the tree was gouged in the bark a heart with two initials S+J. 'Scott and Jimmy '

Jimmy ran his fingers over it.

" After I passed away he sold the ranch , he couldn't live here without me and then he moved on ... Find a new lover, that was the last time I saw him .." Jimmy looked at Tango, he tried to smile but it didn't work.

"Are you mad at him..?" Tango whisper, sympathy in his eyes.

"No.. I'm not. I'm actually glad he managed to move on after everything... I wouldn't forgive myself if he would get depressed and do something very stupid because of my unfortunate luck."
Ghost tears fall down on his cheeks.

Jimmy felt sudden hit of hot.
Tango was hugging him.

It was strange, not because Jimmy wasn't used to his alive 'roomate' but because this time the hug felt special.

Jimmy in that moment understands that Tango was starting to fill up the special place that got broken that many years ago.

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TW.: mention of d€ath , mūrder and fatal accident.

"Do you remember how you died?"
Tango said not really thinking.
"Sorry... I shouldn't have ask." He quickly apologised.

Jimmy smiled shyly but for real this time.
He had calmed down a bit now and if Tango wanted to hear more about him more which strangely made Jimmy happy.

"I do, it's nothing really .. I mean it is my death.. I wasn't murdered or anything. As I told you it was an accident.. I remember it till this day.., there was a gas leak. Scott was working night that day and I was alone. I must've let the cooker on or maybe one of the pipes broke... I never got to know what was the reason.
I woke up to a strange smell, I ran downstairs to check it out but..."
Jimmy voice broke.

"I ..I fell on the stairs... I hit my head..
It was hurting... Very much... I lost my consciousness ... I died to the gas leak.. if I didn't feel.. I might still have a chance to live.."
Jimmy noticed he was sobbing in Tango's arms.

Tango was drawing circles on his back to calm him down.

"But if not that accident.. I wouldn't have the pleasure to meet you Tango." Jimmy said his voice was very weak.

Tango was silence for a moment and then he whisper back.
" That's nice but also quite scary... Saying you happy you died."

"No , I'm not happy I've passed away, I'm happy because I met you." Jimmy looked in his eyes.

Tango's face was pink...
'did he cry too?' Jimmy was confused and then he noticed that he still was in Tango's arms.
'Oh.. ' Jimmy felt a strange feeling filling him...
'oh no '

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