It had been roughly an hour of speaking to Sam, we had been telling the other our favorite colors, food, books, things like that. Purple was his favorite color, and oddly, so was mine. The sky was almost pitch black, except for the moon, which illuminated the blue hue around him. His eyes also seemed to brighten. The sand was probably cool now, and the wind was blowing my hair around.
"So," his sweet voice began, and I tilted as I looked at him. "How did you die?" My already stopped heart seemingly stopped again, and I'm pretty sure my face paled slightly. I didn't want to tell him that I killed myself, I regret it now. So what would I tell him? Cancer? Car crash? No, I couldn't, why would I lie to someone who was being nice to me? I sighed reluctantly, closing my eyes before opening them again.
"I- uh, overdosed. On purpose." I sighed out, biting my lip as the realization spread across his face. "Yeah... I didn't exactly want to live, but I regret it now.. It was a stupid decision. He nodded slightly, pushing a hand through his hair.
"Can I ask why? What was going on?" he questioned, pushing the brown fringe out of his face once again. His blue eyes were full of sympathy and made my heart hurt a little bit. I sat up a little bit, tapping my cheek with my fingers. I was still resting my head on my hand.
"Well," I began,taking a deep breath. "I guess I was just tired of constantly coming home to no food, parents fighting, rumors at school about me. It's hard to be happy when your old friends don't even let you sit with them. I was always getting grounded for trying to be cool and skip school, or smoke cigarettes." I shrugged slightly, biting her lip.
Samuel's face remained almost the same, and he nodded when I was done speaking. "Well sometimes it gets hard. And this won't do any good, but maybe in the next world, remember that you have more than some people, and you are worth so much more. And hey, after some time here, you get sent back to the world. Don't mess it up again." he smiled, biting his lip.
I would get sent back? Then that means he'd be gone before me, and I'd be alone. I pushed that thought away from me, hard. I couldn't let that stop me from being happy now.
"So, how did you die?" I asked, and he began laughing. I thought it was odd. But nonetheless, I smiled at him, squeezing his hand, though I doubt he felt it.
"So, picture this. I'm doing parkour with my friends, running around on this tall building. A couple of my friends were jumping and I wanted to as well. So, I actually tripped, fell, and broke my neck. It hurt like a bitch, let me tell ya that." he laughed, and I didn't find it that funny, but his laughter made me giggle a bit. "It was the best and worst experience of my life. I felt free, like I was flying. It felt amazing, but then, all I remember is waking up in the same room my family was in, crying over this coffin. It was me."
"So where is this Max guy?" I asked, and his face shifted to a morose stare at the ground. I bit my lip as he replies gloomily.
"Oh, uh, one morning, I woke up and he was gone. I think he's back in the real world. I've been trying to find him but I've had no luck." he shrugged, and I felt the sadness he felt. Almost like we were connected.
"Maybe he's in a different world. Or he's a baby. Maybe he's a mystical dragon in a different world huh?" I smiled, and his frown changed to a sad grin. He nodded.
"Probably... Oh! Did you know that the carnival starts tonight? If you'd like to, we can go look around, look at the lights!" He pointed towards the city, behind a few buildings, all sorts of colored lights shone at us, one color somewhat matched his hue. I nodded my head happily.
"Sure! Let's go." I stood up, and he did as well. It's been about four months since I got here, and I wondered how long he's been here. "Hey Sam?" My voice asked, and his head turned to me. I looked into his blue eyes with my own amber ones. "How long have you been a... a ghost?" He gave a small smile.
"About five months. Max was here for six before he left. Why?" and that proved my prediction correct. But a month wouldn't be too short. Would it? I shook my head and gave a lazy smile.
"No reason, hey! Beat ya there!" I yelled, immediately running off towards the pretty lights. Maybe he would stay longer than a month, maybe we'd meet each other in the next life, who knows? All I was focused on now was to spend time with this new person.
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Yayyy chapter two is up ahah, so I think I'm going to upload every Friday or whatever ahah. So that's pretty much all, remember to vote and comment and whatever if you like this!
-Madison
