Souls

Chapter 3

When light threatend my eyes, I awoke. I had not moved an inch from where I fell. My hazy vision scanned the room. David was asleep in a chair a few feet away from me. The time was 1:42 am, he should sleep. I knew I should wonder about what happened, but I decided to put it out of my mind and explore the home.
A few hours later, when I had found a ball room across the house, I heard David stretching and I was there in a flash. I did not want to confront him just yet so I hid behind a dark, velvet curtain.
His light eyes blinked sleepily as he looked around.
"Jessica?" His huskey voice called out in wonder. When I did not reply his features twisted in confusion.
"Jess, I thought we could talk?" He pleaded sounding like a lost puppy. I cringed with disgust at the nickname, it is what Tefuel does when he teases me. I decided David needed punishment. I playfully danced out of my hiding spot and around behind him. Every time he turned I went the other way, I knew David could sence my presence, him more than anyone else, all humans have that one 5th sence.
"Jess I know your here." He stated with a half smile, getting an idea of what if coming. I decided it was time and pushed right through him, sending shivers down his body. Strangely I didn't just float through, I felt heavier somehow. When David made a face like he had just ate a lemon, I burst into a series of giggles. Now I am not the type of girl who giggles, or laughs, not even a smile, but David gave me a foriegn feeling of forgetting my past and becoming the girl I always wanted to be.
"That was rude." He scolded playfully as he continued stretching, send more giggles raking through me.
"Sorry." I got out through a break of my continuing laughter.
"So what was the uh... The thing last night?" He tested, obviously curious.
"I thought you could tell me." I muttered, the time for play was certainly over.
"Anything feel... Different?" He asked each word very carefully as if he was expecting me to do it again. I thought about his question, and the more I thought of it, the more I realized a difference.
"I'm happy." I simply said. It was enough difference to last a lifetime.
"That's new?" He wondered.
"I've never been happy before." I muffled out, embarrassed that my dream girl play was just that.
"An emotion. All triggered but what?" We both knew the answer.
"Are you always like this?"
"What?"
"Thinking all the time. I thought you would be different, I mean we did meet with you cheating on your girlfriend." I teased.
"Awe well, I never liked her anyway."
"Then why did you date her?"
"Lonely."
"Why are you lonely?"
"You know Jess, you have a lot of questions about my personal life, almost like you are interested." A blush rose in my cheeks. A look of puzzlement took over David's perfect face.
"What?"
"Your face, your blushing." His fact embarrassed me enough for me to feel the heat rising in my cheeks.
"Yea?"
"Jessica, you don't have blood." My eyes widend as I realized he was right. My blood was left in my human body, ten foot under. I remembered how when I pushed through him I had felt thick, instead of just floating through.
"Why are you?" Horror and fear filled his eyes as he looked at me.
"David, I am a soul."
"How did you die?" His features faded back to his puzzle solving face and he stared intently at me.
"I, I don't want to say."
"Jessica." His eyes pleaded until I broke.
"Midnight of my 17th birthday I shot myself in the head." I spilled and all the shame of that night came rushing through me. Shame, I remembered it well. I also remember that I couldn't feel it yesterday.
David's face softened and he looked at me with a conclusion,
"I don't know."
"Don't know what David? Don't know what is wrong with me? Or even if it is so wrong to feel. It is wrong to make me feel." I yelled and collapsed into a heaping mess. My attack had given me feelings, and so many I had stored tightly away all came flowing back to me. So many emotions I could not even identify them all; embarrassment, loss, shame.
"Tefuel will kill you, you know." I said as he crossed the room and sat on the dark, wooden floor next to me.
"I don't care. I have nothing here."
"No," I whimpered between sniffles, "you have so much you can be, do, talk to." I raised my puffy head and smiled a reassuring smile. He turned to his left and looked me in the eye.
"What are you, you beautiful creature?" He said in a low huskey voice, and he tried to settle his hand on mine, but his palm just slipped right through it and landed with a loud thump on the hardwood. I knew we both thought the same thing; what am I doing? We could never be together.
We talked for hours on end, and soon it became dark.
"I should get back." I finally broke the conversation.
"To where?"I hadn't been expecting that one,
"Outside, you should sleep."
"You are welcome to stay and explore." He offered.
"I did that last night, and really I'm fine. The people are funny at night, I'm always entertained." I smiled.
"Okay, but be here in the morning please?" He asked with a half smile that I loved.
"Yea." Moments passed and we just stared at one another. I knew what we both wanted to do. I wanted to lock my lips onto his and hold him through the night. I wanted him to touch me and want me like I've never been wanted before. But this was impossible.
"David!" I gasped and fell as the same pain took over.
"Jess, I'm here." And he was, but his presence made no difference as my body exploded with heat and I was fadeing fast.
"Don't ever go." I struggled to whisper as I melted into darkness.