"No!" I shake my head denying what I just heard. "I can't be dead! I never died!"
"You sorta did." He shrugs with a sly smile still clean on his face. What's so happy about this?
"No I didn't! You did! I'm still alive, I must be!" I beg as I stand up and back away from Conner.
"Lis, it's ok. You didn't feel a thing. That's the best way to die." He tries to comfort me.
"But that's the thing! I didn't die. I couldn't of!" I say before sliding against the wall and onto my butt. I bring my knees to my chest and hide my head as I whisper no, over and over.
I hear Conner get up.
"Lis, I'm sorry but this how things are gonna be." I hear Conner say.
I peak up and he's sitting in front of me. I glare at him. It's his fault I'm here! I was peacefully sleeping, well sorta, until he had to come back from the dead to drag me down with him. But what said dawned on me.
"How are things gonna be?"
"You know, in the realm along with me and a wed......" He mumbles after saying wed. Wed what?
"What?" Conner scratches the back of his neck and doesn't look me in the eyes.
I keep glaring at him as he stares at the ground, with no speech being released. I widened my eyes at him to see if it would affect. But all he did was look at the ground. After a while he looked me in the eyes and did a double take.
"Knock it off! I hate when you stare at me like that!"
"Like what?"
"Like that!" He points at me. "You have dead blue eyes. I haven't seen anything so obscured other then my pancake of remains after the bus hit." I shuttered at the memory
"Don't remind me. Now what were you saying?" I push. He sighs and looks me in the eyes.
"Your staying in the realm with me and were going to get married."
My heart stopped for a split second.
"Married?! Who said anything about marriage? Conner I barely know you." I try to joke with the idea. Hoping he is too.
I am not getting married. That crazy. Getting married to a guy who's dead? Yeah; not happening. Plus I just wanna get out of this place. I'm scared that creature will return to paralyze me again.
"Doesn't mean I'm oblivious to you." He responds looking up at me with hope in his eyes.
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"I know quite a lot about you,Lis. From when I was alive and now."
"Have you stalked me?" I gasp at the thought of him peering in at me through my window on nights I was alone, which was always.
"No, not technically. I just know a lot. We use to play together, so I know your history from when you were smaller." He simply states.
"Played together? Conner, I've only ever known you from school. Even then we weren't much friends."
"We did to play together!" Conner says looking enraged. "Your mom was friends with my mom and you and I would have play dates! You would always have me on my knees to do what you wanted to play just by...." He shook his head not finishing. But I felt a ping in my heart when he spoke of my mom.
"Don't talk about my mom." I warn.
"Why? Because she's dead? News flash,Lis-" Conner stands up and looks down at me in disapproval. "- I'm dead and so are you so get use to it." He spits.
