A Thousand Miles

The Warning

*************Leon****************

     It was late when we return to the dorm, good riddance tulog na si Brook. I don’t have the energy to go on a replay mode and for answering his unlimited questions.

              I undress and change to my sleeping clothes. I know that ghost don’t sleep, they don’t need to, but the thought of losing her any moment make me want to hold her more. She doesn’t object, she lie beside me and I drift to a good sleep, inhaling the death essence;that was her perfume.

**********Lyka**********

                  He slept peacefully, looking at him like this and remembering his kiss makes me happy. It was not my first, but that kiss is different. How I wish na nakilala ko siya ahead of time. 

        *I Love You!* Those words still echo to my ears. I wanted to tell him the exact same words but I know better not too.

        When I sense that he was fast asleep I started to get up. Macho man Is looking at me. But unlike me his looks shows nothing, it was blank and lost in the space. 

         I started to look at the calendar with the days marking. Si leon ang naglalagay ng X sa bawat araw na lumilipas, to make sure na hindi kami lalagpas sa nakatakdang araw. Hundred days huh? I ask to myself, bakit one hundred days lang? I started the X marks and when I stop on the last X I counted ninety one days. Ninety one days had pass, my reason on being here will end up so soon, so soon that I don’t want to. 

         It was pass twelve when I saw her, on the far shadowed side of the room. Leon must have sense her when I saw him get up and stand on my back, tense and all.

        “Don’t worry kilala ko siya.” I said to him.

   His hands relax along with her aura.

       “Cornelia pwede ka nang lumabas, useless na magtago ka pa, he knows and he sees you already!”

      I’m right, it was her Cornelia my death angel.

       “Lyka, I’m here to collect you! Tapos na ang mission mo dito, the mirror had done it’s job, we are ready to welcome you back.” She seems pleased by the news.

       I was relief and all, but a hollow on my heart started to get bigger.

      “Natutuwa ako Cornelia na pwede na akong pumasok sa paraiso, but right now can you spare me for a while. Can I finish my nine remaining days here? Please!” I said pleading.

      She look at him and her eyes darted back to me, then she focused on our hands that was tightly held and then she smiled.

      “Give me the mirror, and I will get you back at the hundred days. But remember no more no less, hundred days is just one hundred days. Kapag lumampas ka sa takdang oras you will disappear forever. ” The warning was all written in her eyes, but she kept smiling.

    I handed her the mirror, as soon she hold it, she turn back to the shadow and she disappear.

     The warning was true, alam ko yun, but right now all I can think is having to be beside him for another nine precious day of my ghostly life.

***********Leon**********

                I look at her! When I proposed my feeling to her I forgot the hundred days time limit. No wonder na hindi niya ako sinagot sa question ko. I don’t know what will come next but right now I was looking to her glass eyes. The fact that she requested to saty behind and be collected after nine days, I have a short time pero at least it’s me that she chose to spend her remaining time on earth.