The Lonely Moon

Life goes on

Finally, after what had felt like forever, I was finally all healed and able to do everything myself again. I'm not going to say that I won't miss having someone take care of me, but it's good to be able to do things on my own again. I get out of bed and get dressed. I make my way downstairs where Sarah is already making breakfast. I say to her, with a slight annoyed tone, "I thought I told you that I would cook this morning, but here you are doing it again." She turned around and said, "Well if someone didn't sleep for so long I wouldn't need to make it." I go and start getting the table set for us to eat, while doing so she looks over at me and asks, "So how are you feeling?" "A lot better thanks to you." She turns away from me, but i'm sure i saw her blushing before she did. As we are eating breakfast she stops to say to me, "Are you really okay or are you just trying to tell me you are so I don't worry?" I respond, "Other then some small aching i'm completely good, so no need to worry about me." Once we finish eating we chill on the couch and watch some TV, after a little while I ask her, "Hey do you wanna go for a walk with me?" She stands up and responds, "Of course, I gotta make sure you don't do anything dumb remember." I roll my eyes at her, but decide not to say anything back. We walked all around town occasionally stopping to look at a particular spot or place that we liked. Eventually we ended up at the diner where we found my grandpa and dad sitting down at a table and eating. We approached them and I say, "You guys sure are getting along a lot better now aren't you?" My dad looks up in surprise, not knowing that I was all healed yet and says, "I didn't know you were already all better. Yeah me and your grandpa have been talking a lot more now and he's told me somethings that I didn't know about you since I stopped trying to be your dad." I look over at grandpa and ask, "So, what did you tell him?" He just chuckles a little going, "Oh you know just some of this and that." I sigh in frustration, clearly i'm not going to get a straight answer out of him so instead I simply tell Sarah, "I'll get us a table." Sarah eventually comes and joins me after talking to my grandpa and dad for a little. She sits down with a smile on her face and says to me, "Your grandpa is a funny man." I give her a raised eyebrow, waiting for her to elaborate, but instead she simply shrugs and buries her self in a menu. After we left the diner we decided to head to the look out, hoping that Cindy was there today. Once we got there we see Cindy sitting on the ledge staring at the moon. We walk up and I say standing right next to her, "That's a pretty sight isn't it." She responds without looking down at me, "Yeah, it is. It really is isn't it." Sarah speaks up and says, "Well I can definitely say that it doesn't look nearly as lonely as it did when I first met you two." I nod my head in agreement and ask Cindy, "Why don't I see many other ghosts around and even on the rare occasions I do they won't let me approach or try to approach me when they realize that I can see them?" Cindy looks down with a troubled look on her face saying, "Ghost will only interact with certain people they choose to trust. Most people who can see ghosts will never actually met one, but as for the reason I approached you when I did. I wanted you to live a life you could be proud of, one without the regrets of the past for things that weren't your fault and I thought that I could give you the push in the right direction." I am simply speechless for a second, not knowing what to say, but eventually I find the right words to express my feelings, "Thank you, Cindy because of you I never gave up, even when I had no reason to live and just wanted to all go away, you were always here to listen. I even got to meet Sarah because of you, indirectly yes, but you helped me along that path too." I look up at Sarah after saying that and see that shes slowly starting to disappear. Sarah says, "Leaving already?" Through tears that we could see when she tilted her head up she choked out, "Ghosts are also so rare because it is rare for a ghost not to move on after death, but in rare occasions a ghost will stay till they are no longer needed or when they feel like they have finished what they needed to do before moving on." Stumbling on my words I say, "Does... that mean what I think it means?" "Yes it does John. All I've wanted since I died was to save you, even if I could not do it myself. I was tied to that, preventing me from moving on all this time. Now that you have found your way back to life, I'm no longer needed here, so it's time to move on for me." I start to tear up and before I can say anything Sarah speaks up, "Are you really going to move on?" "Yes, I will, I wanted to move on, but I didn't want to leave John alone because he was the first friend I ever made. It didn't matter to him that I was a ghost or that I was the girl with those thugs. He looked past that and told me things that he never told anyone else and in return I told him things about myself. So John before I go, I just want you to know that you were the best thing to ever happen to me." I start to cry and shake a little, knowing that I didn't have much time till she was gone. I finally manage to talk, " You were the first friend I ever made too. You were the only person who ever showed they cared, even if you weren't alive anymore, you cared more then anyone alive did. I'm glad that I met you on that first day I found this place because to be honest I was just trying to find a place for a quiet end away from people, but instead I found my best friend." I stand up with a smile on my tear stained face looking at Cindy, "I don't want to see you off crying so i'll smile instead. You have been the best friend I could have ever asked for." Cindy looks at me with a smile and says, through her tears, "I hope you have the best life that you can possibly have, both of you. Thank you for taking the time to talk to a girl who wanted nothing more then to disappear. Goodbye..." As she says that she slowly and finally disappears. I'm still standing there smiling the whole time, but as soon as she leaves, I fall to my knees and start to cry my heart out, for the friend that I lost. Sarah sits down next to me and puts her arm around me waiting for me to finish crying. Once I did we stood up, hand in hand, looking up into the night sky. At that moon that was so beautiful in the sky, surrounded by stars all around. I leaned against the railing thinking back on all the things that had happened in the recent past. Sarah faces towards me with her hand out, smile on her face, and asks, "Ready to go home?" I look over at her and her offering hand and think, a happy future, a better life and someone to come home to everyday, all here in the palm of her hand. I look back at the moon one more time, thinking to myself, guess i'm not as alone as I thought I was. Looking back down I grab Sarah's hand, knowing that this was the beginning of happiness and say in return, "You are my home." We walk off into that bright night, the sky full of stars around the moon.