Ghost Boy

Ch 7. Bea

Keykey reads to Caleb everyday until he gets well, and he does the same for her when she catches the same cold he had.

The day he started reading to her, he came by to thank her and so Naya could see Ivy.

Caleb parks in front of my family's house "We're only going to be here for a couple hours, so you can stalk your siblings." Caleb smiles, looking at me in the back seat of the car, right next to Ivy.

Caleb knocks

Keykey opens the door, "Hi Caleb, come on in." She says groggily.
"Keykey, are you ok?" He asks, handing Ivy to Naya.
"Yeah, I just have a small cold, that's all."
He frowns "Schwester, du bist krank. Now lie down, I'm going to read to you."

Keykey coughs, "Nein, mir geht es güt, Caleb."

Caleb rolls his eyes, "Mhm sure sis. Lie down."

Keykey sighs, sitting down on the couch.

Caleb smiles, "I know exactly what to read to you."

"Oh really?"

He nods, before running upstairs to my old room which looks the same as it did the day of my funeral.
"Caleb.. what are you going to read to her..?" I ask him.

He grins, "you'll see..."

He grabs a book before running out of my room, the door closing with a small click.

He sits down on the chair next to the couch, brandishing the book.

He grins, "the book he started writing because I dared him."

Keykey stares at him, "you went into his room..?"

"Yeah."

She sneezes, "are you out of mourning already? He was your best friend.." she asks

Caleb shakes his head, "No, but the pain is more bearable now. At least I didn't lose his family as well. But I've been wanting to read this for a while, and he would never let me."

Keykey smiles, "then read."

Caleb clears his throat dramatically and begins to read. "In honor of Caleb and my stubbornness. It was a mistake to play truth or dare with you, you bitch.
8-4-18,
God this is stupid, but I guess I'm supposed to write down my FeEliNgS. So today I'm a little depressed? I guess my pills aren't working? If it gets any worse I'll tell Caleb, he always manages to make me laugh somehow, no matter how sad I am. Yesterday Key made dinner, I guess it was supposed to be lasagna or casserole? It gave Naia food poisoning, and it was pretty funny when our brother, Jason, who never yells started yelling. He was fuming mad, Naia had to come out of the bathroom to calm him down. Naia ended up sitting on the couch with a giant bowl in her arms for the rest of the night.
Keykey isn't allowed to cook dinner or lunch unsupervised anymore except if she's baking or reheating something."

My sister frowns, "it was supposed to be a pot pie.."

Caleb laughs, "you can't cook for shit, meine schwester."

They're having fun, and laughing again, Caleb is happy again. Keykey is getting happier slowly, Naia and Jason are too.

Caleb smiles, "I feel like he never left us, and that he is still alive and with us."

Keykey nods, "I feel that way too, he is still here in many ways.. but I still miss him. I always will, from the second he stopped talking about his feelings in our sophomore year in highschool, he was always happy around our little group of friends; you, me, Lock, and Bea. But he started distancing himself from us, except for you.. He really did love you, he was jealous of your boyfriend. He wanted to be him.."

Caleb simply nods, "I know sis, I know he did."

Keykey starts to cry, "I just wanted my baby brother back, I wanted that happy little boy who I grew up knowing, but that little boy is dead now. And my brother is gone. He's dead. Dead! My best friend is gone and I'm never going to see him again! He ment so much to me, I wish I was the one who was the one in the car crash!"

My big sister, she was never the strongest or wisest of us, but she was always the most caring and burden bearing of us. She has grown to be so strong but she lets her guard down around him, she trusts him. He has become her best friend, the one she trusts not to hurt her. She knows he would do absolutely anything to make her happy.
She's the closest thing he's got to a family here. His family is still in California.

Caleb smiles, "I know sis.. he became distant after Bea moved away. But he told me everything, he loved her. And it broke his heart to lose his friend. Believe me it broke mine too, and I know it broke yours."

"I miss hearing her call me spider, I've got to admit that." Keykey laughs to her self, smiling.

Caleb sighs, "I always wondered why she called us by the names of bugs. And to why she called you spider."

"She said it was because I'm as cute as a jumping spider. That was a huge lie, those things are cute as hell and I'm not."

Caleb smiles, "remember how she called Lock a hissing cockroach?"

Keykey snorts, "Yeah, how could I not? Don't forget about her calling him a dung beetle."

Caleb laughs loudly, "of course I do!"

As Caleb and keykey talk,
My dog walks into the room. She looks in my direction, wagging her tail, "hi girl, keep keykey safe for me, Okay?"
She tilts her head, curiously, "Connie, take care of keykey, and Naya, and Jason for
me. Be a good girl for me..."
She wags her tail and walks up to keykey, licking her face.

Keykey giggles, "Connie! What're you doing silly? You never lick me!"

Caleb smiles at me, it's almost time..