i can see spirits i can touch them i can talk to them that’s all. they often just disappear like this i never know what happens to them but sometimes they leave behind bloodstains only i can see and the faint smell of fear.
some of them have nothing to talk about they just want me to stay with them until it’s they’re time to be collected most of them however want to share their life story and then some
my “gift” woke up in me as a child and i spent a summer with a little girl who didn’t know she was dead we hugged each other all the time we held hands she kissed me on the cheek and i didn’t even come to the realization she was a spirit until i turned 14 and how sad i was when she disappeared
an old man who was a writer came to visit me yesterday he’d very recently killed himself che had no living family and weeks prior he lost his wife in a terrible car accident he said that even without any parents siblings or other family he didn’t feel alone
he told me his wife possessed an ethereal beauty that her very being shown like the sun all revolved around her she unconsciously commanded the reverence of a room animals and even the weather shifted with her moods
he went on and on about her the only other man i’ve heard talk about his wife that way was my dad talking about my mom and my dad it seemed could go years talking about my mom and after hearing the old writers life story i understood now why i man in love couldn’t keep his mouth shut about it to say the least love real love is extremely rare
today i spent alot of time with a young girl i’m guessing a few years younger than me she couldn’t remember anything of her life when she was alive the spirits i encounter usually have faint scars or wounds indicating how they died she was so pale but that was in the back of my mind for now
she didn’t stray very far from the park i’d see her there face first in a bunch of flowers leaning on trees eyes closed absorbing rays of the sun on my way to work and back she always greeted me and walked me back and forth
she said she was protecting me from the bad guys i couldn’t help but laugh we told each other about our days i spent a few hours with her each day after work and asked her what it was like not feeling hunger or thirst anymore she said that it’s something she hadn’t thought about until my question i always enjoyed our talks it felt like we had become brother and sister over a few months
today was different though i woke up earlier than usual which was rare for me a present i got for her and a few ideas in my notebook to make a name for her since she couldn’t remember hers
my dad and my sisters were in the usual positions at the table and surprised i was awake so early i didn’t have work but of course i felt a surge of dread remembering i had school today i made my usual way to school but i didn’t see her in the flowers or by the tall trees just a bright day filled with laughing kids and parents but my new sister was gone i thought maybe she broke routine today
even though spirits rarely do that i brushed it off and kept walking towards school and i bumped into my friends of course they couldn’t help but poke at me about always being late and that it’s about time i got up early this went on for at least 30 minutes but i love my friends despite the constant wise cracks
in class i kept thinking maybe someone scared her off that did happen sometimes whenever i left her flowers kids on skateboards would knock them over by mistake but never picked them up until I intervened one day and luckily that stopped happening
school felt like a blur and the sky fell to a brilliant golden color red blue and purple accompanied the sun and I couldn’t help but stop and stare for a bit my friends wanted me to go with them for noodles at my favorite place in the world i was so tempted and it had been a few weeks since i had these amazing noodles but i had a project creating a name for my new sister i had to disappoint them but they made me promise to come next time
the sky was still so beautiful i felt as though my mother had frozen time for me just so i could enjoy these colors awhile longer another gift from my guardian angel
i made it back to the park and she still wasn’t there i walked around her favorite spots and still not a sign of her i went to the tall trees and my instincts told me scan the ground for some reason so i did
and there it was her jade bracelet on the ground by the tall trees and somehow i knew where to go looking further past the park and further and further i felt a surge of energy pull me towards the alleyway
there was blood on the ground i had a sick feeling now because i knew it was hers a trail that goes into the alley and suddenly the trail ends and there’s just a big puddle of blood that only i can see and the smell of her fear
who or what could have done this i don’t know i made my way back home and i thought of a name for her sora like me she was always fixated on the sky during the day and even at night something in the sky captivated her and i think she saw exactly what i did
i knew i would never forget her and somehow i would find her again
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