Written in the Stars (completed)

Chapter 11

   It had been three years since Jayden's death and Alex was now attending college, she lived alone in an apartment. She missed Jayden dearly still and hadn't felt those strange unexplained feelings in about a month. It was her twentieth birthday tomorrow and she was laying on top of her covers, starring at the ceiling, her phone in her hand, waiting for a call that would never come. She looked at the alarm clock on her bedside table it was five minutes to midnight. Every birthday she had waited for him to call, even though she knew he wouldn't.
    She closed her eyes, wishing with all her heart he was still alive. At that moment her phone wrang, it was exactly midnight. She jumped and looked at her phone. There was no number, just an empty calling screen. Alex answered, "Hello?" she asked, a little scared.
    "A-" the start of their sentence was cut off and static came through the phone. Then they spoke again. "Happy Bir-" their sentence was cut off again, Alex sat up. She knew that voice. "Jayden?" she asked, before he could answer back the line was cut and the call ended. Alex looked at her phone and she tried to recall the number but her phones logs had no log of the call. It didn't exist.
    Alex starred at the ceiling, that had been Jayden, she had no doubt. She knew his voice as well as she knew her over parents, that was Jayden Johnson, somehow, he had called her.

    Alex hadn't gotten any sleep that night, she had searched and searched on ways to contact spirits and if an afterlife existed. She sat in her small kitchen and wrote on a piece of paper the alphabet, she put her finger on the paper and looked up, hoping this would work, that Jayden could somehow tell her he was there and he was okay, if he didn't she would be forced to think she was crazy.
    "Jayden? Are you there?" she asked softly. She felt someone touch her hand on the paper like they were trying to guide her finger. The feeling left almost instantly.
    "Jayden? Is that you?" she asked softly. Silence, then a penny on the counter slowly slid over to the edge and fell off the counter.
    Alex would have been terrified if she thought it was anyone other than Jayden. She ran to the coin, thinking she understood. She picked it up and set it on the paper.
    "Jayden? Are you here?" Alex asked, watching the coin. It slowly started to move and then it moved faster as if whoever was moving it was frantic to tell her something. It spelled out the word "yes" and Alex put her hands to her mouth.
    This couldn't be real could it? When she felt him touch her hand she remembered the countless other times she felt someone touch her but there was no one there.
    "Jayden, have you been following me?" she asked. The coin spelled out yes again, Alex nodded slowly. "How long have you been following me?" she asked.
    The coin slowly spelled out "three years" Alex felt tears surface as she put her head in her hands, resting her elbows on the table.
    "it's actually you, you've been trying to tell me you were here all this time." Alex whispered through her tears.
    The coin quickly moved to spell out a sentance. "need to speak to you." Alex said allowed.
    "What do you mean?" she asked
    "out loud Spirit box." she read as the coin moved from letter to letter.
    "Okay, I'll get one." Alex said.
    She had researched on spirit boxes last night and she drove as quickly as possible to the grocery store. As soon as she realized Jayden was there all the sorrow of the past three years had instantly vanished. He was here, he had always been.

    Late that night she set up the spirit box in her apartment, turning it on. "Jayden? What did you want to talk about?" Alex asked. After a moment of nothing but the crackle of the spirit box she heard his voice.
    "You."
    "Why do you want to talk about me?" Alex said, trying to hold in her tears of relief and hope.
    "I'm sorry." Jayden's voice said through the box.
    "Why are you sorry?" Alex asked.
    "It hurt... Hurt too much." Jayden's voice broke through the box.
    Alex immediate thought to the day Jayden died, she had asked him to not leave but he said it hurt too much to stay.
    Alex's heart throbbed, "JJ, it's okay, I wouldn't want you to stay if it hurt that bad." Alex said.
    "Alex?" Alex nodded,
    "Yes?" she asked.
    "I... I love you." his voice said through the crackling radio. Alex buried her face in her arms and looked at the box, she felt more happy than she had in years. She never thought she would be able to tell him this, but she did, she got to tell him.
    "I love you too JJ."