I stared in horror as the blood left Beatrix, she looked as if she thought it was nothing. I gulp. "I'm... I'll call an ambulance." I reach in to my pocket for my phone, but Beatrix's hand takes mine firmly, hers feels cold and lifeless I shudder.
"You can't call anyone." Beatrix says firmly.
"Your... gonna die if-"
"Clarence, " Beatrix cups my face in her hands and looks at me intensely."I'm already dead."
I stare frozen as Beatrix pulls back and stands up putting pressure on her wounded side.
"Help me stitch this up." She says pleadingly. "Please."
***
I wait on my bed for Beatrix while she showered. Mom and Marco were out of town.
Beatrix came out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel looking pale. She sits on my chair.
I stare at her and she gazes back at me.
"Okay I'll start from the beginning." Beatrix sighed. "You remember what I said about my parents being suicidal ? I died and my aunt she... brought me back to life somehow." Beatrix bends over takes my hand and places it over her chest. There wasn't a heartbeat.
"I'm sharing her life force to survive. Do when she dies I... so will I." She said the last part hesitantly squeezing my fingers.
That's why the strange thing didn't have any butterflies of her own.
I laughed and it was the only thing I knew how to do. Beatrix looked surprise at my reaction.
"Do you need a lift home?" I say composing myself.
If Beatrix could get any more depressed than she already is she does and looks down. "I can't go home."
"You can stay here then. You can borrow whatever shirt you want. I'm gonna go make you something to eat. You lost s lot of blood and it needs replacing."
***
For dinner we had sandwiches and it went on in complete silence, after that we went straight to bed, Beatrix went up to my room and I went to make my bed the couch comfortable.
I lie awake. Beatrix reminds me of myself after the car crash, I kinda knew how it felt when you were supposed to be dead.
My phone rang, without opening my eyes I take out my phone and answer.
"Hello?"
"Sorry I can't sleep." Beatrix says.
I sigh. Lately this girl has been everywhere. My house, school, my thoughts if she appears in my dreams I'll think fate is trying to tell me something. "What do you want me to do about it?"
"Listen about my problems?" Beatrix suggests.
I turn over and lie on my back."Sure."
"The reason I've been moving a lot is because of a psychopath who thinks that I'm a bad spirit that's trying to get revenge, he's trying to kill me. Did I mention that?"
Panic welled up in me in a ball. "Oh you happened to leave that very important detail out somehow."
"Will you still be my friend?"
Urrrrrrrggghhhhhhh!! Her voice is too damn cute!! Curse her feminine voice! Damn this entire situation! "Sure. Why not?" I reply beating away the this is a bad idea feeling.
There was a pause, then I realized that Beatrix was falling asleep.
"I... see." She murmured.
I roll my eyes. This girl will be the end of me.
