BitterBlue - Book two of the Bitter novels -

3. Veil

I'm sat on the window sill watching the cars drive passed when Clay finally brings himself together. He'd been crying for hours, for days, and now as I turn my head I watch him pull himself up with shaking hands,

"Hey...are you ok?" I ask and not for an answer but because it feels normal and I just want to pretend that everything is the same. Like it use to before. As if in a miniet Clay's gonna stare at me with a cheeky grin and a perfect smile. It's true we didn't have a best relationship and it didn't last long but it was real...what me and Clay had...has...lasts beyond death. He walks over to the window and glances through me. I stare up at his soft green eyes that still seem to touch me even if he doesn't know it,

"I'll get him Scarlett" He whispers softly,

"Get who?" I ask but of course he doesn't answer because he can't hear my question. I can guess who he'll get though. The man who shot me was his dad. It's a long story but that's all that matters...his dad pulled the trigger of a shotgun and now I am dead and Clay is alone. Well alone apart from Flynn and who knows what his crazy reckless brother is up too. I frown and stare at Clay,

"I'll come back....just let me try something" I say and close my eyes. Gabe said you just had to remember and I wonder if it can work with anything. I think about Flynn, his huge strong hands and the black tight clothes he wears like a second skin. I remember his darker green eyes and strong jawbone. The over grown blond hair that he always ran a hand through and my body is away from the ground in a second. The first thing I'm blasted by is loud heavy rock music. Bursting the eardrums with each bass pound. When I open my eyes I'm surrounded by a hundred bodies dancing to the beat and in front of me if Flynn. He's not moving...just standing in the middle of a club staring into space. A pint of beer is grasped in his hands and it spills when someone knocks into him but Flynn doesn't do anything. He just...well he just stands there,

"What are you doing!" I whisper and his eyes blink in confusion,

"Scarlett?" His lips sound out my name and he leans forward....staring at me,

"You can see me?" I gasp. Flynn blinks a few times and a sad smile linguares on his stubbly face. If he did see me, he can't now,

"Veil laspe" A soft voice says beside me. In a instant the music is merly a soft drumming in the background. I turn and stare at the peircing blue eyes of Gabe. My cheeks flush because the last time he saw me I was sobbing my heart out next to a breaking down Clay,

"Veil lapse?" I frown and turn watching as Flynn downs his pint with a shaking hand,

"Yeah Veil lapse it's what we call it when an alive see's us for a moment...it's rare" 

"You mean Flynn saw me? Accually saw me?" I'm already stepping over to Flynn ready to be embraced in his arms and feel a touch once more,

"Scarlett...don't! This is only going to hurt you! You have to let them go!" Gabe is stepping behind me,

"How do I do it?" I ask,

"I don't know! It just happens...it won't happen again, not so soon" Gabe darts in my path and holds up his hands, "You have to leave them" He says softly,

"Why do you even care!" I snap and step towards his outstretched hands thinking I'll just go through them like every other person I try to touch. Only he touches me. His hands rest on my shoulder. I stumble back,

"Scarlett..." He says but I'm already running through the club. I have to get away from Gabe. I have to go back to Clay.........