My Ghost

Chapter 6~ Running and the truth (edited)

After talking, I dozed off. When I woke up it was 3am and I sighed. What am I doing? Tyler is a damn ghost! We would never be able to be together. 

I wonder how he died. He never explained that to me. I also forgot to ask why he has been following me since I was younger. I guess I got caught up in the little things, regardless everything seemed sketchy. 

I look around slowly, its quiet. I wonder where Tyler is when he isn't here. I need to talk to him about what happened, the kiss and I need to know the truth.

I sit up on my bed and quietly whisper, "Tyler? Are you there?" 

"Yes I always am", Tyler says, appearing next to me making me flinch.

"We have to talk about something, please don't be mad at me", Looking down to avoid his eyes, I feel his weight shift on the bed so he is facing me.

"Whats wrong Alex?" He says while staring at me, I can feel his eyes on the side of my head.

" I-I " Stuttering, I finally sigh and say, "I'm sorry Tyler but I cant be with you. You are a ghost and I'm not, It just wouldn't work because I would grow, and you would stay young. And wouldn't you have to cross over or something." I finally finished talking and he looked shocked.

"Then why did you kiss back if you knew you couldn't be with me?"He yelled.

"Why would you kiss me then Tyler. You knew you couldn't be with me. YOUR DEAD. Why would you put me in a position like this. You knew that we couldn't be together so this is partially your fault." I yelled back

He looked so upset that it hurt me. " You are in no position to say anything about my death. You know nothing about what happened to me."

"Yes I do. You have been following me since I was a little girl so I have every right to say anything I want."I said to him calmly. 'Sigh'

I heard a sniffle and looked up. What... He's crying? I didn't know ghosts could cry. I moved more onto the bed next him and got on my knees by him. "I'm so sorry I said those things to you. I'm so sorry." After I said that to him I gave him a hug. It took him a couple minutes to hug back but he did.

"It's ok I guess I deserved it for being rude to you and yelling." He said almost a whisper.

"No, nobody deserves to be yelled at like that. Especially about their death. I'm sorry."

"It's okay don't worry about it."

Then I remembered when I saw all of the blood in the water and on my feet. It was an illusion. I wonder if it was Tyler. I pulled away and looked at him.

"Can I ask you a really personal question?"I asked him

"About what?" He asked while looking at me.

"Um..... Your death?"I said looking away for him.

He froze but slowly nodded to me.

"Was it you in the lake?" I asked slowly then looked at him.

He was looking right into my eyes. It kind of scared me how intense his stare was.

He slowly answered, "Yes it was. Somebody attacked me then threw me in the lake. I was bleeding badly so the blood spread threw the water. I was dying from blood lost and from drowning."

"Can I ask another question?"I asked slowly

"Yes, what is it?" He said

"Why did you start following me in the first place?"I asked while looking him in the eye

He looked shocked that I would ask him that.

"The reason I started following you?" He said out loud as he thought about it.

"I started following you because I just though you were familiar. You looked like a girl I used to know and I couldn't help myself. But now I-I uh" he stopped talking and looked down.

I looked at him confused and I lifted his chin." You what? It's okay you can tell me" he looked my in the eyes and smiled.

"Over the years I have seen you grow and as you got older you got more beautiful. I started to like you but now I-I uh I think I have possible done something that will never be possible."

He paused for a second the sat up on his knees. He bent down slowly and gently kissed me. I was shocked at first but then responded to the gentle loving kiss.

After a minute I pulled away and asked "and what would that be?"

He smiled and said "I fell in love with you" then he disappeared. 

I slightly frowned, he knows we cant be together, I don't know what to do anymore

I got up to change into pajamas so I could go back to sleep. 

Changing into my pair of black shorts and a purple tank top. I crawled back into bed and was almost asleep.

Then I heard Tyler talking then I felt a presence next to me. He was near me. I felt the bed dip in front of me, he was sitting next to me.

Then I heard what he was saying. " I love you Alex. I have or a while. I will always love you and I don't know if you love me like I love you but even if you didn't my feelings will never change."

I felt the bed go back to normal and his presence disappeared. He loves me? He can't love me. This will only hurt him in the end. I am so scared but I can already tell I have caught feelings for him. I will have to see what happens. I finally doze off into a deep sleep.