regardless,

after a week of constant staring games with cici winchester leo grew careless one friday and approached her during lunch while cici's friends alerted her that the handsome boy was coming her way

"cici"
cici turned around in her seat, eyes low "leo"

"wanna hook up?" leo says bluntly prompting  her friends to blush but all cici did was smile.

two weeks later on a saturday leo spent the day at cici's while mr. winchester was out shopping

leo brought cici's body closer to his, both nude and laying under the sheets while talking about absolutely nothing — both breathing hard from the high they just came down

"leo" cici gained leo's attention "what are we?"

she lost him as quickly as she got him

leo looked away from her nervously and blinked a couple of times to try and process the question she'd just asked him, wasn't this enough?

"uh cici...i" leo starts before the sound of a door unlocking and opening downstairs was heard

"cici! come help me with the bags!" the voice of mr. winchester echoes throughout the house  and rung through their ears; leo felt his heart start to beat fast

cici flinched out his arms as leo jumped out of bed to hurriedly put his clothes on; cici gasps before quickly getting dressed as well "coming dad!"

"how far up is this window?" leo asks, motioning towards the only window cici had in her room

cici shrugged while putting on a shirt; "i dunno, just go!" she opened the window before helping him sneak out — leo had steady feet on the ledge at first, looking down from 15 feet above

"you didn't answer my question," cici points out before leo looks up to face her; his fear prompting him to be blunt "cici, i could fucking die from up here and you're worried if we're serious or not? it's only hooking up cici—nothing more cause i don't like you like that."

cici's face scrunched up in anger before she put both palms on leo's chest and pushed him back; stomping away as leo slipped off the edge

leo saw his life flash by; from playing basketball with the boys, eating ramen with his mom and grandma while watching old cartoons every friday night, to going outside and laying down to look at the skies alone

he had a rude awakening when his body hit the ground into a pile of leaves, groaning from the impact "fuck me," he moans aloud.

the blonde boy stands from the ground ~ golden red leaves tangled in his hair and stuck on his clothes as he started to stalk away from the house without trying to be noticed

but he knows the world ended when he heard

"daddy, daddy! look, it's leo!"

cici's voice was sickeningly high-pitched,

leo turned his head in the direction of a shocked mr. winchester and a smirking cici who stood right behind her father with her arms crossed

he could guess what winchester was thinking after leo himself checked his own appearance: tousled hair and shirt, belt unbuckled and jeans undone, shoes terribly tied and the hickeys and scratches on his neck didn't do him so hot either

and if winchester wasn't thinking what leo assumed, cici sure made it clear for him when she whispered in her father's ear — her blue eyes on the blonde boy as she spoke,

when cici pulled away there was a dark change in winchester's features and stance

i can't exactly remember why, but i stood there in front of them thinking 'holy shit'

"you had sex with my daughter without her consent?" mr. winchester yelled so loud that the distance between the two of them and himself barely seemed to exist; cici started to fake tears

leo glared over at cici with all the burning hate he could muster before he turned around picking up his feet to run away without saying a word, constantly looking back as he ran

looking for someone to follow him home

but nobody did. not winchester, not cici.

he came home with tired feet and a beating heart.

he fell asleep at midnight after his third hyperventilating session; paranoid and apprehensive about today's earlier events — he was so fucked.

in the middle of the night bad dreams struck him out of sleep forcing him to jump up and look around his dark room in fear; sweating and shirtless

he breathed in and out deeply before noticing his bedroom door was open; he remembered shutting it earlier

he sighed before getting up to close it assuming it was either his mom or grandma checking up on him earlier and that they had simply forgot to shut the door after

he shut the door close before hearing a loud shuffle behind him, he froze when he heard it — his eyes shot up to the wall where he saw an approaching shadow opposite of his own; the light of the moon reflecting from his bay window making the darkened figures apparent

leo gulped before he slowly made his way towards his desk not daring to turn around

leo grabbed his swiss army knife from the desk drawer and flipped out the sharp blade before pivoting around quickly and making a swift slash movement with his arm out in front of him — someone else's blood splattering on his face

the last thing leo ever heard was a grunt,

and then i died.

i remember things clearly after i was dead;

leo woke up in a purgatory-type state; where he was briefly explained to by an unseen spirit that he died of an awful, unjustified death and that he would have a second chance to be dead with the living; but this was only temporary before he would die again. the voice then told him of the one task he had to complete ~ simply, he was given a chance to say goodbye and correct things.

after weeks of mental anguish and confessing all his sins painfully; he returned back to the mortal world as a spirit — waiting in the house of his death; his mother and grandma moved out (presumably out of sadness or fear) when he came back to earth so he waited for someone, someone to move in so he could explain his story and correct the past.

he waited 22 years before he met kimberly;

"and it was worth it"

and at this, she smiled.

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