Ghostly

Chapter 12

Chapter 12: Today, Tomorrow , and Never!

Four rooms. No ring. Just more questions. Rachel had to find the answers before she could ever figure out where the ring was. How come Adam's family not locate the ring ? Am I not looking close enough ? I am trying to locate the ring in plain sight? That was the easy answer. I am looking in plain sight, if ghost couldn't find a ring in plain sight, why would I think I could ! Who is Angel? What does she have to do with anything? Why did Adam lie about her ? If I could get Cadence alone maybe she'll tell me. Rachel thought.

"Cadence ," Rachel waved over Cadence, "Come here, Do you want to search this room while Adam searches in here? " Rachel asked. She nodded excitedly. They crossed over to the next room while Adam busied himself with boxes. He so was lost in thought that he didn't notice that the girls had left him in the room.

Adam sat alone in the room staring at Angel's glowing face. Why ? That question lingered for years. Suddenly a sting in the back of his heart beings to grow. His stomach tightens. What going on? He asked himself. He tried to put the picture away, but he couldn't. Her face captivating , her beauty stinging like a bee. Why? Why? Why? She was everything to me. Could I ever be happy again? Does this pain every subside. He thought. He glided his fingers across her face, her face stared back at him watching him in pain. He loosened his clutched fingers, and the picture fell scattering into a thousand pieces. He stared at the broke frame, and ruined picture.

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The room dark and drank. Dust cling to every inch. Rachel and Cadence found a bed, a closet, a desk. The closet was empty and so was the desk. The room was leaved to decay and Rachel notice that. The walls were like every other room; old and dead. The floor were the same as well, decaying and getting weak as the minutes go by. Everything in this house seemed to be dying. Rachel need to find out how to help this family before there would be nothing left but memories and lost souls.

Crash! sound came from the other room ," What was that? We should go check Adam" Cadence remarked. She walked towards the door. " Wait!" Rachel said. She grabbed Cadence's arm. " What?" Cadence asked.

" Who's Angel?" Rachel questioned. She knew it would be the only time she could ask Cadence that without her brother finding out.

" She's was my girlfriend," Adam answered. Rachel's heart leaped. Adam stood at the doorway staring at Rachel's face his eyes like draggers to her heart. He looked miserable and angry that the same time, " She was someone who I thought I could spend my life with, but that didn't happen, so now can you drop it ." He kept his eyes locked on Rachel's. She wanted to know more. There was too many question racing in her head. She didn't want to push him so she nodded. "Good, lets try another room."

No one asked who had caused the sound they heard, but Rachel was sure it was Adam. He kept quiet as they enter the next room. Again the same decaying mess. Cadence silently began to looking around the room. Adam stood in the doorway. Rachel stood next to him. He stood with his shoulders apart, his head high, and his arms across his chest. Rachel leaned against the doorframe. "You know you will never be able to help us?" Adam remarked in a hushed voice. He turned his head towards Rachel.

"I can only help someone who wants it, Do you want help Adam?" Rachel asked. She across her arms. She glared at him. Something snapped when they had leaved the other room. She was going to get answers at any cost. "Well?"

"Does the devil torture souls?" Adam remarked. He looked into Rachel's eyes. There was a fire burning in them that he didn't see a second ago. He liked it.

" Then tell me everything you know, about Angel, your death, and anything else you might have forgot to mention, because searching a house seems useless that this point," Rachel replied. She looked into Adam's eyes there was sadness in them that she know was there all long.

"Fine, let's do it outside, ' Adam said. "Adam!" Cadence blurted. She had watched the two of them from the window, but she couldn't let him tell Rachel about the past, she knew that if Rachel find out what her and Adam know she would never help them. " It's fine Cadence, she has to know, let's go outside and talk. The walls have ears you know."

Outside the air was warm. The dark clouds disappeared as if they were never there in the first place. A yellow glowing sun hung in the air. Birds joyfully chirped in the distance. the last of the rain quietly dripped toward the earth. The earth was soaked. Rachel and Adam took a seat on the wet bench. It felt like days ago that we were sitting here but it was only hours ago, Rachel thought . "So spill," She said.

"Ok, so Angel was my girlfriend,. We had been friends since grade school. I asked her to the prom as a friend then we started to like each other. We would go have picnics, see movies, go out to eat. Her father never liked me so we kept are love a secret. When he found out he irrationally said he would move his family far way just to keep her from me." Adam spilled.

" Why did he hate you so much? "Rachel asked.

" He thought I wasn't good even for her. If only he know," Adam laughed, " where was I ?"

"Angel's father threating to move," Rachel replied.

" Right, We said had a saying, " Today, Tomorrow and Forever " it meant that were meant to be together forever so we wrote to each other. I really believed we would last forever. One night I had an idea that we could runaway together and live well happily ever after, but she denied. She broke my heart. The next time I saw her she was distance, she didn't care to acknowledge me. That was the end to the relationship. Stupid I know but that's what happened. I don't know why she didn't want to runaway. Maybe she never loved me? I don't know, but one thing I know is that I loved her. The day I was murder was the day she and her family moved. I never saw her again. I thought that the reason I was stuck here was because I love her, but now I don't know. My family has searched the house looking for that ring, that I had given her but we are still stuck here and I don't know how were are ever going to leave," Adam convinced, " And I don't remember who ? or why we were murder.? I just know that we stuck here because of me." Adam rubbed his neck. He couldn't bear to look at Rachel, he watched the puffy white clouds slowly move across the sky.

"Adam you really think that you're the reason your family is stuck here?' Rachel asked. She moved closer towards him, she quietly slip her fingers around his . She felt firm warm fingers against hers. Adam smiled, and blushed.

" Yes, I do. Every pain , every bad experience was because of me," Adam said sadly.

"Not everything," Rachel remarked. "The rainbow wasn't too bad of an experience," She nudged him. He smiled.

" Any more questions?" Adam asked.

"Not that I can think of," Rachel remarked.

The two sit there hand in hand , enjoying the fresh air. Could I lean in to kiss her? Would she hate me if so? I am foolish to think I can love her . How can I love her and Angel at the same time? She's a human alive and with a future. Angel's a memory that stuck in the past. I'm stuck in another realm of past and future with no present. I have no today, no tomorrow, just forever, a never ending cycle. I will never have a life beyond this never-ending torture I am in Adam thought to himself.