Hello there!!! I'm here again! I'm updating fast this time since I don't know, I feel like I want to do it. So, here I am~ Anyway, enjoy!!!
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'You never know the value of a moment until it becomes memory.'
-Anonymous-
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"Hey, Aiden." he called out for me.
I turned my head at him. "What?" I asked.
"You want to put it here? Or here?" he said, putting my flower vase on the dining table as he asked me and then on the tea table near the sofa.
"You have to date him. He's cute." my granny said, floating just behind me.
Perfectly ignoring my granny, I looked at the spot he showed me in calculating eyes, it would be better if I put it on the dining table? Or the tea table? I didn't really know. House decorating was not actually my interest.
So, I just shrugged and said, " Put it anywhere you think pretty. I don't really mind." and then I continued to hang the clothes that I just bought with him at the mall this morning before moving to the kitchen to finally cook something for the both of us.
"What do you wanna eat?" I asked, didn't even bother to wear the apron since I didn't really liked to wear it everytime I cook.
"Can you cook chinese?" he asked.
"Do you love him?" my granny asked.
"No." I answered.
"Thailand food?" he asked more.
"He really likes you." my granny said.
"No." I answered.
"Maybe you should try open your eyes more." my granny said.
" India-" he started.
"Can you please asked something that is not out of United States since I will have no idea how to cook them." I said, looking at him, annoyed as I ignored my granny that was currently pouting like a 5 years old.
He laughed, clutching his stomach and I just looked at him in annoyance.I had no time to play with two insane human, no, one of them was not even human anymore, ghost was more likely what she was.
"You're so interesting." he said.
" See?" my granny said and I had to rolled my eyes at that, continued to search my refrigerator for the ingredients.
"How about mac and cheese sounds for you?" I asked, putting the cheese on the kitchen counter when he, at the same time, came towards me and casually take the other ingredients from my hands.
"I'll help you." he said, smiling at me. I just sighed and trailed him from behind.
It was a peaceful lazy day for both of us. We ate and lying down on the sofa, watching TV all day long, doing nothing. We chatted about his life, he told me the story where he fell off his bike when he was 6 and got 3 stiches for his knees and 2 for his forehead as he showed me the scars.
He then told me the story where he was 14 when he first kissed a girl and apparently he really liked it and that girl was not even his girlfriend. She was his best friend's girlfriend and because he felt guilty because of that one kiss, he finally told his best friend what really happened and fortunately, his best friend also knew of how slutty his girlfriend was and he already broke up with her when he kissed her that night.
And then he told me the story where he got his first job that he was so proud with, bragging to all his family members and friends even though what he achieved as a mechanic was not so much but he was happy since it was his own effort.
I laughed my ass off when he told me he had once fall in love with the blue flower that I planted and gave to him for his birthday, that he, kissed all the time even after waking up, before going to work, after he got back from work, even before he went to sleep. He also had the flower saved as his mobile phone lock screen. It was so out of control when the flower died, he cried all day long, refusing to go out of his room until I finally came to his house and forced him to hang out with me.
We spent the evening with his head resting on my laps and I played with his dark hair as he continued to tell me stories, my granny was busy at the time, focusing on the drama that we supposed to watch but I was too distracted with his stories.
The day went on and on and then I realized what actually happened.
This was not real. It was a memory. A dream of him where we spent our time together one evening. He was dead. This evening. He was found dead in his house.
I didn't get it. Why would he had to be dead. He was a good person. The only one who managed to stay close with me even though I'm weird. Why? How?
The images crumbled in front of my eyes, the walls behind collapsed, my granny disappeared. He disappeared too. Leaving me a lone in the dark cosmos space with nothing there.
"Hello?" I called out.
I knew all of this was not real but I couldn't stop believing that I would have another chance to meet him.
And that was when the cosmos gone and I was in my house once again, in my room, on my bed, lying down to sleep. I didn't need sleep. I was already asleep. This was a dream. I stood up as fast as I could, looking around, for my granny, for him. But no one was there. Just me.
I looked at the window, it was dark outside. The room was dark too. Only the lamp near my bed was on.
'KREEEAAKKKK'
The door opened slowly, making me turned my head to the door. It was dark past the door, but it was wide opened. My heart was beating faster, my breath became laboured and I was sweating so much.
'KREEEAAAKKK'
I heard the sound again. My eyes glued at the opened door. Waiting.
'KREEEAAKKK' 'TAP'
The sound again.
'KREEEAAKKK' 'TAP'
Again.
'KREEEAAKKK' 'TAP'
Again and this time I could see something moving behind the door. It was a hand. A hand that was bleeding by it's wrist.
'KREEAAKKK' 'TAP'
The sound again and this time, a silhouette appeared, soaked to the bone. It was big, at least twice my size. It was crawling towards me, stopping only by the end of the bed as I was plastered at the bed post in fear. It didn't move for quite some time, just stayed silent as I stared at it wearily. Slowly, I moved towards the 'thing'. I didn't know what came over me but I didn't feel inferior of the 'thing'. I felt like I knew him.
"...den...Ai....de......n....r.....n..." the 'thing' mumbled.
"What?" I asked.
My hand was about to reach him when suddenly, "RUNN!!!!" the 'thing' screamed as he snatched my wrist so hard.
And I opened my eyes, gasping for air as I woke up. I looked all around me. I couldn't find my granny around. I felt heavy on my chest and when I looked down, I saw a kid without a scalp was smiling at me. On my feet, a woman without a hand and a man without a chest crawled onto me. I looked up and saw the white ceiling. The curtains was light blue. I looked at my left and saw the I.V drip attached to my hand. And that was when I knew where I was. A hospital. A goddamn hospital. Alone. Without my granny. At night.
Great. Just great. I was about to have a panic attack and I was when I saw more coming towards me, moving through the walls, the door, the window. Hospital was 'their' places. Same as prison. Or cemetery. Or abandoned building. Or river. Or anywhere people died in it. I pushed the kid off my chest, still feeling weak all over and I certainly didn't need to faint the second time to be arrest in the hospital. I still wore my clothes, fortunately, not the hospital gown that was probably wore by a dead person before.
I kicked off the crawling one at my feet and in a rush, I just pulled the needle out of my hand, didn't really bother to find my shoes, I just ran out of the room. Running into anyone I met since I didn't know if they were real or just 'them'. I ran and ran in panic when 'they' were currently chasing me until I hit something soid like a wall in front of me.
I fell on my butt and when I was about to stand up and run again, suddenly, the big wall took a hold of me. And that was when I felt the same electric shock coursing through my body. I had felt it before but when? And this wall had hands? I thought I couldn't think straight anymore. My visions had gone hazy from all the adrenaline spurt but when I looked around, all of 'them' were gone. None of 'them' were in my sight again and I finally calmed down, didn't realize of the wall who had been holding me as I just leaned my dizzy head on the solid wall in relief.
"Are you okay?" the wall asked.
I snapped out of my bliss and pulled out from the wall's embrace, looking at the wall's face. This wall had face? A handsome one too.
"Wall?" I asked out of haziness.
"What?" the wall asked back.
The wall that was actually a man with a very very very very handsome features from my personal opinion. He was big and had dark short hair. Greyish-green eyes and dark lashes. His jaw had this five o'clock shadow and he smelled like aftershave. Husky and masculine. Not like me. I smelled like flower. Well, duh! I worked with flowers all day long.
"Hello? Are you seriously alright?" he asked again, snapping me out of my dirty thoughts.
"Yeah.Yeah. Sure." I said as I tried to stand up again only to have my stupid knees giving up on my very light weight and fell again, only to be caught, again, by the handsome man.
Really? Handsome man? Now, I really had to check my sexuality.
"You're not alright. I'll get you back to your room." he said and immediately I pushed him off me but still, hold onto his shoulder.
"No! No! Please. I don't want to be here. Home. Please." I pleaded, looking at him with my best puppy-eyed look.
He stared at me with confusion. His eyebrows knotted in confusion as he looked at me. He had to look down though since I was shorter than him. He was like a monster. So tall and big and muscular and sexy and handsome and.........what were we talking about?
"Okay, sure." he said and moved forward, ignoring the staring eyes looking at us in questions.
Maybe they never saw anyone been chased by ghosts before and the one who chased off the ghosts was the extremely good looking sex god he just met. And that was definitely what happened to me. I followed him walking to the room I was in before, still holding his large muscular hand and since he didn't say a word, I just let it be. No ghosts all around. Just human and this was the first time I could see the world without 'them' in my sight, at all. And I was happy. Really. No words could describe how happy I was. Plus, I got a bonus came with the gift. Yay to me!
"Here we are." he said, gesturing me to enter the room and took my things.
I glanced into my room and then looked at him.
"Can you go with me inside?" I asked, looking at him with my usual pleading eyes.
Once again, he stared at me like I was an alien with ten eyes and sixteen butt.
"Okay." he said. Just that. Just okay. He was absolutely a man with a little or no word at all. I could work with that.
I still was holding his hand when we entered the room and that was when his eyes captured the bloodstain on the white hospital cover.
"What is-" he started, stopped as he saw the I.V drip by the bed and immediately grabbed my left hand. He looked at my now profusely bleeding hand since I just snatched the needle out of me.
"You just took it off by yourself?" he asked. And I just nodded innocently, looking at him in confusion. Yes, I was not a doctor but I definitely can take the needle out just fine..........okay. I saw why he had this angry look on his face.I was practically pouring my blood out from my hand. Yes. Amazing me. Managed to cut my vein as I ran from 'them' and did I said that I hated blood too?
"Hey, wait here-" he said but cut off as I fell onto him, dizzy from running, from fear, actually because of the blood. He managed to guide me to the bed, taking the bed cover to cover the blood from my sight.
"I'll call the doctor." he said, starting to move toards the door when I caught him by his back coat.
"Don't leave me." I said, looking at him with teary eyes.
"But, I need to call the doc-" he started.
"Please.." I begged.
He just sighed and when he sat on the bed beside me, I just leaned over his shoulder, resting my throbbing head as he made a call.
A few minutes after that, a nurse came with a doctor.The doctor more likely babling all over the
I.V drip things and I just listened to him half-heartedly as he treat my hand. The man just stayed beside me all the time because I forced him to and after all treatment was done, I got my medicine and received a permission to be charged out of hospital. That place was creepy. I didn't know how people managed to survive there but no. They didn't survive in the hospital. They died. And I didn't like that.
I was currently with the man that I didn't even know his name on our way to my apartment. And I didn't know how he managed to chased off the ghosts everytime he was with me, touching me but the most important thing was, how supposed I told him that I needed him 24/7 in my life. We're strangers and he didn’t know me. I didn't even know him but I practically had pleaded and forced him to stay with me for hours. I'm no one to him but he was everything to me. How should I tell him that?
Hahhhhhhhhh.............
I hate my life.
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I hoped you enjoy the second chapter.
And here's the mysterious man ------------------->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>