Spectral Love

Chapter 1

Emilia's POV

Have you ever felt as though you were a crazy person because you seemed to see something that no one else seemed to see? Well that's me right now as I stand near the hospital entrance watching a guy pacing up and down but the weirdest thing was that people were walking right through him. I couldn't believe my eyes.

I was suddenly bumped out of my one man staring contest when someone bumped me and quickly apologized before entering the hospital.

"What a weird day this is turning out to be." I quietly mumbled a little freaked out as I decided to make my way into the hospital before I was late.

I made my way to the receptionist in order to check in.

My name is Emilia Venessa Woods and I'm a volunteer here at Jackson Hospital. I'm 20 years old and I'm turning 21 in 6 months time. I am a mixed race so I have hazel coloured eyes and Brown slightly ginger coloured shoulder length hair and cinnamon coloured like skin. I like helping people so it's normal for me to volunteer, I usually volunteer at Orphanages but I decided to change and come to the hospital this time.

"Good morning, I'm Emilia Woods, I'm supposed to start volunteering here today." I said to the receptionist and watched as she typed something on her keyboard and then looked back at me.

"You are on linen changing duty today, you're only going to do the ones on the first and second floor though and the person who is supposed to help you is..." She said as she looked back at the screen to verify the name. " Grace Davis, I think that she's already here but I'm not completely sure and then please sign this list to confirm that you arrived today. Oh you will also find some scrubs in the cabinets you can wear those while you clean and everything.

"Okay, thank you." I said taking the volunteer form and filling everything in before handing it back and heading towards the first floor to start my duties for the day.

"Nessa, you actually decided to volunteer over here with me." My friend Grace said the moment that she saw me. As you can see Grace prefers my second name over my first one.

"Yep, besides I also wanted a change of scenery, I love helping out in the Orphanage as you know but something new is always nice to try." I said now contemplating on whether to tell Grace about the weird morning that I have had.

"What's on your mind?" She asked with a raised eyebrow and she put on her green scrubs and gave me mine.

"Nothing." I said putting on the scrubs and deciding against telling her about my morning experience. What if my mind was playing with me and there was actually nothing out there. I did have less than 8 hours of sleep last night since I was having a solo movie night.

"Mmm" She hummed in response. "How did that solo movie night of yours go?" She asked as we entered the first room which happened to be empty and began changing the linen.

"It was fun like always, I slept around 04:30 so I only got about 5 hours of sleep." I said as I released a yawn.

"You're a funny person you know that, you don't like waking up early but you sleep late and for few hours." Grace said with amusement as she changed the pillowcase.

"You know it." I said not regretting anything.

"Well let's get to work then, these things won't change themselves." Grace said with determination glowing on her face.

"Yes Ma'am." I teased and received a pillow on the face for that.

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5 hours later

"That was a long day." Grace said stretching her body as we made our way to the reception table to sign out for the day.

"Well we did practically finish our jobs 2 hours ago, but out of the kindness of our hearts we helped with the washing and that took some time." I said and frowned when I heard the pouring rain.

"Well I'm going to visit my Dad so I'll see you on Thursday." Grace said signing on her check-out form.

"Yeah, I guess I'll see you then." I said more focused on the sound of the rain than my friend.

"Bye Nessa, call if you need anything." She said before sending me a kiss and exiting the door.

I waved in response after signing my check out form.

When I got outside I saw the guy again but he was crouched down and looking at faced at the floor. He seemed to be wet from the rain. I knew that I couldn't leave him there even if he was a stranger and a strange one at that.

I looked around and noticed that it was a bit empty outside of the hospital, people were probably at home or in Cafés because of the rain plus it was 16:30 now.

"Excuse me sir." I said to the guy, even though he was a stranger I couldn't help but want to help him, what can I say I love to help plus I doubted that he would hurt me.

The guy looked at me in surprise before he began looking around as if he was expecting me to be talking to someone else.

"Yes?" He hesitantly asked in a sexy masculine voice.

"Are you okay, do you need help with another?" I politely asked smiling at him.

"I'm okay Miss, thank you for asking, I'm just a bit lost." He responded

"Oh, well is there any way that I can help you?" I asked feeling more helpless than before.

"I doubt it but thank you, I should probably be heading back into the hospital." He said standing up, I was a bit surprised with how tall he was standing up maybe 6'4 or so.

"Oh okay, it's just that I saw you here earlier." I said with my head cocked to the side.

"And to think that I thought that nobody could see me." I heard him quietly mumble to himself.

"Wait no one else can see you?" I asked feeling more crazy than before.

"Nope, you're the only person that seems to see me, others just pass through me." He said looking a bit annoyed.

"So what are you doing at the hospital?" I asked a bit confused.

"Well, my body is kinda in there and since no one can see me, I honestly don't know where else to go." He said seeming so lost at the moment.

"Well, how about you come with me then?" I offered. He was a ghost or something so I don't think that he could harm me in any way at the moment.

"That's very nice of you, but I don't want to intrude." He said looking surprised at my offer.

"You wouldn't be intruding plus I live alone so your company would be beneficial for me." I said trying to encourage him to come with me.

"That would be nice since I'm also in need of company, thank you Miss...?" He said realising that he didn't know my name and me also realising that I didn't know his name.

"I'm Emilia Woods." I said reaching out my hand to shake his.

"It's nice to meet you Miss Woods, my name is Demetrius Walker." He said shaking my hand.

"You can just call me Emilia." I said surprised with the title.

"Okay Emilia and of course you can call me Demetrius or just Demetri." He said with a gorgeous smile showing his pearly, straight, white teeth which happened to just brighten up his whole face and made him look 5 years younger and slightly familiar.

"Okay well I'm planning on calling a taxi over so we might have to wait for a bit." I watched him slightly frown but quickly covered it up with a smile.

"It's no problem, beggars cannot be choosers." He said making me laugh as we waited for the taxi.