the spirit and the geek

chapter 8

I'm sorry for the very short chapter I hope I'll make it up to you guys with this one ...  and I wanna give credits to my best friend Jas who helped me with the ideas :)

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-w@me

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Vincent's POV

A message greeted me as I open my phone and it came from my mom, I stared blankly at my phone seeing my mom's name on its screen, I wonder why she had answered me so fast, is it because the Olivers declined my favor?, I kept staring at the phone waiting for my courage to be built up and then finally I have all the courage I need. I opened the message and I was shocked, excited and nervous, I never thought they would answer so fast and  they had approved to let me stay and what's even more greater about it is that I could stay as long as I wanted to. The feeling of being nervous about something that you've been waiting for is really thrilling, I can't even imagine myself finally being there for the first time - as human and not as a spirit.

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it's Saturday and I have nothing to do so I went to our library and got an album. After scanning for how many minutes I saw a picture of my parents, siblings and I together with another family, It was like we're having a camping, two tents were behind us in the picture, I was standing in front of my parents and my siblings were all around and a girl was standing next to me and she was also standing in front of her parents, we were all smiling and it seems we're very close to each other, the girl next to me seems familiar but I can't really tell who she is but in the picture we look really close. I scanned further and saw more pictures of that camping and even more pictures of me and that girl, I became really curious about who they really were because there's a lot of pictures of them together with my family as I scanned more albums. After staying there for more than an hour I came out and saw the maids cleaning up so I asked them what was happening since it isn't the schedule for cleaning yet untill two days, one maid told me that my parents are coming home tonight. I haven't eaten my breakfast yet so I went straight to the kitchen and took a box of cerial and milk, I brought my breakfast with me to my room's balcony,  the weather's great today and flowers were in their finest beauty, it looked simple yet its captivating and it reminded me of Kaithlyn, simple yet very beautiful, inside and out and maybe it's the reason why I fell for her so easily and I've never felt this crazy way before, it's weird, crazy, undescribable and unexplainably amazing. I dialed Kaithlyn's number but she didn't answer, I kept calling and for the hundredth and final call she finally picked it up.

"yeah? who is it?" her voice sounds like she just woke up.

"good morning.." I said softly.

"oh hey "good morning"..(chuckle).." I smiled and answered back.

"hahaha really funny smart head, did I woke you up?"

"nahh..I was just awoken by 17 missed calls, you really didn't" she answered sarcastically but she sound like she's joking.

"I'm sorry... I was just bored so I decided to bug you" I lied.. actually I missed you that's why I called..

"you know what you're evil..bugging a person in the morning in the midst of her beauty sleep is not cool"

"I have no one else to bug...I'm sorry"

"bug your girlfriend"

"who? Vicky?"

"yeah who else is your girlfriend?"

"she's not my girlfriend"

"so why are you sticking up together? and the rumours are all over the school"

"well for some crazy reasons that I don't want to mention..and those are just rumours"

"those rumours are spreaded by Vicky"

"she thinks were like that so I let her be"

"that's stupid, you're just playing with her... you'll only break her"

"you think she's really into me? the reason why she's sticking up with me is for her to be more famous and she's sleeping with different guys"

"chill, I'm not arguing with you...uh I'm gonna hang up bye"

"wai ---".

I didn't finish speaking cause she disconnected the call. Damn, if only I didn't say that we would've talked longer.

stupid, you're really stupid.

I have nothing else to do now because of my stupidity, I slowly finished my breakfast and headed to the shower. I stood in front of the mirror with my hand against the wall beside it, I suddenly remembered the secret cabinet behind that mirror, I haven't opened it for a while, ideas came to my mind with what's inside and when I opened it I saw some of my old stuff, my soccer medals, drawings, toys etc. but there was something that made me confused, there was a small music box - a girl's music box.

shit! I played with a music box before? of course I didn't, why would I have a music box with the letter K on it? if its mine, I should've engraved V.

Why would I have a music box with K on top of it?, I do have sisters but none of them has a name that starts with K not even my siblings nor my parents, but it seems familiar,  I wonder what's inside. When I opened it, there was a silver dusty half-circle necklace locket, I rubbed its surface cause there's something that's engraved on it.

tempus est, nequaquam facies animo mutabitur.

I remembered this locket, I got this from Romania when I was 7 when my family and I went there together with another family but I can't remember who was that family who were with us back then, this locket is very memorable. I got separated from my family while we were having our tour but I wasn't alone, there was a girl about my age with me, I believe that girl was my best friend, we were walking in a gypsy street, there were fortune tellers along the way and there were charm stands everywhere and an old woman called us, I pointed at myself while looking at that old woman and she nodded, my "best friend/mystery girl" squeezed my hand and she hold on tight to it. The old woman looks like a gypsy (like everyone else) and she smiled sweetly and spoke softly with her latin accent.

"its my first time to meet two souls that had found its other half at such young age."

that "best friend/mystery girl" and I looked at each other, confused, then I replied.

"what do you mean granny?"

"you will find out soon." then she smiled and suddenly she reached out for something under her small table. She held a wooden box and took a round necklace locket from inside of it.

"take this as a gift children." the round necklace was actually half, she gave the half to me and the other half to the girl. Mine has a key hole on the side of it while she has the key, when the necklace is joined it must be rotated to for us to be able to open it. I reached for my pocket and took some dollars but she refused then minutes later our parents found us.