The Awkward Call

The call

Ghosts p.o.v

See I have an anxiety disorder, the only time I feel comfortable talking is when I am angry, so when Ash forced me to go on a call with a boy I had only heard about I was terrified, what if he didn't like that I didn't want to speak, or made fun of me because I hid my face.

As I got thrown into the call I saw a boy who was just like me, he covered his face with a scarf and didn't talk (which I found cute for some reason)

As we were getting to know each other more by text we felt comfortable enough to uncover our faces and we listened to music together. I was playing my favorite song from my favorite rock band wrong side of heaven by five finger death punch and then I heard it a high pitched voice singing along with the lyrics, his voice made me blush and he sung half the song without realizing I could hear him, when the song was over I whispered "that-that was the f-first time I-ive heard you s-speak" my voice cracked and stuttered but from his end I heard a squeak and saw a bright red face as he realized what happened

we talked over text for hours on end and this boy was willing to speak to me for so long, I told him where I was from and he said that he had been there before. Ever since I woke up in the void nobody has been able to see me, I can't even see myself. The boy -who I learned is named Komoro- told me that was normal but only for ghosts and that he could help me find my true form.

My first try was a complete failure, I looked like a big purple rock, he told me to visualize my energy in little wisps and that they like to play tricks so I can't just look in one spot but find them all around my head.  I found the few that I was missing and turns out I am a hybrid between a dragon, ghost and hydra (which does not have more than one head by the way.)

As I was looking at myself I felt this weird pounding in my chest that in less than a minute it felt like I was being punched, I asked what that feeling was and he said it was my mate. Now after we did this experiment we talked about the different types of 'monsters' that are real and which ones where fake, that's how the rest of the night went.

Even after the conversation, I could not stop thinking about him the way his voice changed when he started to trust me, how he cutely stuttered before that and how he made small hints that he liked me.

He may be my mate but I can't be sure.

I don't even think he likes me and I'm not sure that I like him but I will think about this another time. Right now I need to think about my true form and how he looks.
The next day was even worse because I constantly had him on my mind plus the fact that he might be my mate. When he told me to concentrate on my energy and consume it, there was a reddish greenish light that went from my soul to the picture on the phone, was that telling me he was my mate?

That very night ash and Alex (the friend that Komoro is originally from) decided to video call, halfway through the night they decided to let me and Komoro talk.

This time was different, I was a little bit more awkward and nervous, but the funny thing is so was he, we talked about what different mating rituals there were and if our species had one, turns out that kitsunes (which is one of the main things he is mixed with) have two different types of matting rituals, the older and the newer version, the old custom consists of cutting off someone's head and giving it to the other person( let's just say they don't use that method anymore) then there is the new method of mating which is a kiss on the hand and a mate proposal.

There is also a thing a kitsune will do if they are not accepted as a mate, they are forced to commit suicide if they get rejected.