5 A ghost

Chloe – "Should I call you brother or Micheal?"

Micheal – "Anything you want."

Chloe – "Master."

Micheal – "What the heck? Where did you learn that? Just call me brother."

Chloe – "Christina thought me."

Micheal – "So you learned how to make jokes from her huh?"

Chloe – "What? You think I live under a rock? For your information, I have many friends in school."

Micheal – "Fake friends too, some of them bad mouths you but don't worry I already get you revenge from them one way or another, you're welcome by the way."

Chloe – "As if I care about what they think, I only made friends so that I would have protection from men and,... so that I could receive news about you, I bad-mouthed you sometimes so,..."

Micheal – "No need to apologize, it's okay."

Chloe – "No it's just sad because I can't bad mouth you anymore."

Micheal – "You silly."

I tickled her sides while focusing my eyes on the road, It's a bit foggy coupled with the sparkling night so I took cautious while driving but, I can't really help myself interacting with her.

Micheal – Chloe – "ha ha ha, wa-wait, st- hahaha stop, haha wait."

I stopped tickling her and slowed downed a bit because the royal praielie I kidnapped was released on the shirt cage I made. She grabbed it and put the thing in between her arms, due to its characteristics it must be like hugging a pillow made of plastic but it's strangely warm. But something's bothering me so I still ask her.

Micheal – "Won't it be squeezed to death?"

Chloe – "No, they can be squeezed up to 40% of their actual size, I found that out when I accidentally parked on one, it's even able to slowly squeeze itself out under my hover."

Micheal – "Oh? You measured it?"

Chloe – "Of course not! I got curious so I searched about it"

Micheal – "I always thought they were easily killed, I mean I know that there's some that are more resilient than others but, I never thought they're this resilient."

Chloe – "Fun fact the place where they breathe, eat and release their excrement is all the same"

Micheal – "That's disgusting tho"

Chloe – "Well the eat astral trail so technically their excrement are super tiny black holes smaller than quarks that lack so much energy to form to the extent that they exist at least -1 second"

Micheal – "So your point is"

Chloe – "Time traveling poopy"

I was at a loss while staring at her, I thought she's about to say something like theories about it, like uses, importance, or anything because this isn't the first time I heard about those small black holes but, still that's food for thought.

*If there's a machine that could use and harness those excrements maybe we could finally advance our interstellar understanding. Those excrements would constantly affect the element that's surrounding the praielies because of the super small black hole that doesn't form but still agitates nearby quarks. The agitation of quarks shakes them releasing heat but it is said that the heat never reaches about 39 degrees but never went down 34. There's even a piece of news where a person stranded on an icy mountain, collected a bunch of praielie to warm himself up. Although he needed to constantly flip them after the heat transferred to his body, he was able to keep himself warm to survive until he was rescued. Maybe if we were able to harness the way to gather those, we could create a renewable natural fuel but first, there's already gas created by Prientiologists and astral machinists and there's so much money needed to study such super small black holes, even so, if we're able to turn it into dark matter or make fuel out of it, who would use gas made from, shit? And that time travel thing, it's just a speculation but, traveling through time isn't really possible is it? Teleportation is possible because if a coordinate was folded to another, it only needs energy or enough disturbance to open a path but, time? If time was to bend it will cause a great disturbance to coordinates and the source should have been stuck at the exact point in space and time it traveled, if that praielie really travel back in time then,... yeah, the black hole was the one that travels not the praielie, huh?

As I was pondering I saw a sudden flash of light, when I look at the source I saw Chloe holding a phone while laughing.

Chloe – "he, he you should see your face"

After she said that she projected the photo on the driving screen. I saw my own face in a state of deep thinking, it could've not been that funny if I didn't know what's the source of this pondering. After thinking about it, it's that time traveling poopy that made me pondered something so deep, I can't help myself but laugh to myself but of course did not forget to tickle her for a while until I saw a glittering hand try to slap my face. She was sulking, maybe I tickled her a bit too much so I focused on driving again but not long after, I saw a white structure from far away. When she saw that white structure, I felt something dark inside her was released and her face made a face of hesitation. I wasn't able to identify her feeling so I thought maybe she was just reminded of how I left her alone in this place. I wanted to attempt to clear her dark feeling so I spoke.

Micheal – "We're near, once we arrived there, we would be siblings once again."

I was driving towards a place that's so far but felt all too familiar, it's a plain-looking mansion outside the metro. We were about to land but she suddenly asks me something that surprised me. Her hesitation suddenly turned into words and her previous ominous feeling turn into something akin to determination.

Chloe – "Micheal, can we, can we delay for a while, no for a long while?"

Micheal – "You want to talk for a bit? I could set some stroll route near the mansion so,..."

Chloe – "No, can we go back to the city?"

Micheal – "Did you left anything important in your apartment? We're quite too far."

Chloe – "No, just return to the city, please."

Micheal – "Okay then."

Chloe – "Thank you."

*I thought you'd call me brother? Well whatever, I wonder why she wanted to go back? Oh, maybe she's hungry.

I rummaged through the small compartment below the driving screen to find food.

Micheal – "Hey Loe are you hungry? I haven't eaten my chocolates so I kept them, here."

Chloe – "No no, I bought it for you so you keep it, besides I'm not that hungry, you just focus on your driving while I think of a way to annoy you, okay?"

Micheal – "Oka-, what? So you're planning to annoy me, how about I tickle you to sleep?"

Chloe – "I'm just kidding"

We remained silent for a while when I suddenly felt something ominous so I looked at her. When I saw her smiling and asked me in a playful tone.

Chloe – "I wonder how many people have you tickled to sleep?"

Micheal – "None, that doesn't seem possible, I mean it's just an expression, why ask that?"

Chloe – "Really? None? Aren't you known for tickling people till they fall asleep?"

Micheal – "Huh?"

*What is this girl even saying?

I was pondering for a while then I suddenly choked on air when I realized what her "tickle to sleep" means,

*I am not that small to be tickling people.

I madly glared at her while raising my hand to tickle her but unbeknownst to my knowledge, I was already caught in the devils' trap.

Chloe – "What!? You want to tickle me too?"

Micheal – "You,..."

I was stumped by her remark, I know it's her dubious plan from the beginning so I just stopped for a bit but decided to tickle her anyway but, her attack wasn't finished yet.

Chloe – "Brother! Please stop touching me down there, it makes me feel funny."

*Where the fuck are you learning those? Tell me who's the bastard that tarnished your innocent mind? Before that let me have my retaliation first, a gentleman can be taken advantage of by a lady once and only once!

She's about to move her belly to dodge when I raised my hand towards the side of her face. I caressed her hair and swiped it to the back of her ear and told her.

Micheal – "Loe, did you know that ever since we're young your so beautiful."

She suddenly stopped moving and her brows raised.

Chloe – "mm?"

She looked at me as if expecting me to say something. I immediately turn on autopilot to fly straight to the city.

Micheal – "Even until now"

Chloe – "(silent)"

Micheal – "Well I think its natural for you to remain beautiful until now since young, I mean you didn't grow up in the first place"

Chloe – "YOU!!!"

I grit my teeth and braced myself while blocking her punch and knees, she was yelling at me with the words "you're the one who doesn't grow up", and the likes of "you're the one who's small" for a while until we reach the city entrance. She looks so angry while crossing her arms, it's painful but it's a worthy retaliation because she can't get up after receiving the hit. I was staring at her and she's still ignoring me, but I know she wasn't feeling hurt though, I know she's just mad because she can't get back at me and so I laughed, then suddenly she flailed her arms at me once again and I can't help myself to stop laughing either.

*What a pain, I was never really able to do any retaliation without paying a price huh?, why is it okay for you to bully me but I was not allowed to bully you back? Silly girl, you're really a cheat in this annoying game huh.

She stopped flailing and crossed her arms again, I already stopped laughing but my smile was still kept in my face and I moved my face near her to mock her because I defeated her on her own game but, she took it as a sign of me letting my face to be slapped so the moment I felt extreme danger and saw some glittering lights I instinctively moved my head up then I finally remember the sufferings of a tall person. I hit the top of my head on the roof. She looked as if her son met with an accident but suddenly she realized she doesn't have a son and it's an enemy that received misfortune. Then she laughed herself out, to get back at me and her laughter reminded me that I was not a gentleman, a true man need to recover his dignity no matter what. I put on a shocked facade and frowned slightly before saying.

Micheal – "I think there's blood"

When she heard what I said her face instantly turned pale, I was touching the top of my head as if my fingers were able to feel something but in reality, there's not even a bump there. With the resilience of my body, I would need to receive a strike from a sharp weapon before I get wounded. It produced a loud sound when I hit the roof and I was worried, not with my head but with the place my head bumped into. Anyways, her mouth was left open and I think she's quite blank in the mind right now. I enjoyed that image for a bit before I removed my hand and placed it in front of me as if I want to inspect it carefully. While making sure that she too could see my hands, I turned it back and forth then put on my normal face and said nonchalantly.

Micheal – "Seems I made a mistake"

She's still gawking until she realized that I duped her. Once again she flailed at me, punching while screaming "Blood? You think there's blood? I'm gonna make you see blood!" and something like "I'm gonna make you regret your mistake!", and then she threw the praielie at me but instead of hitting me, it flew to the back of the hover because of its extremely light characteristic, and the fast movement of the hover. I was not able to contain my laughter because of the spectacle, then she grabbed my arm with both of her hands then bite me.

Chloe – "OWWW! You fu,... It hurts!"

Micheal – "mhp."

It took at least 3 seconds before she removed her mouth at my arm, I cannot move my arm away because it might cause damage to her teeth, I can only watch her leave a feral mark on me, and she really did let me see blood, it's not bleeding though it's just clotting on the bite mark. I'm caressing my arms while groaning. It really is painful though, it was placed near the muscles that would move whenever I use my fingers so it would be agitated every time turn the wheel. It's really an inconvenient place to put so I had an annoyed face, and because of it, Chloe thought I was really mad at her because she went overboard so she suddenly hugs me and buried herself at my side. She then spoke in a meek and sorry voice.

Chloe – "... sorry,...sorry, sorry, sorry,..."

Micheal – "It's okay, It's just,...."

Chloe – "Does it hurt too much? Sorry, I-I,"

Micheal – "It's just I might need some anti-rabies shots"

She immediately slapped me at my lap but, I was surprised when she only did it once, and instead, on returning to her sit properly she put her head on my lap and hugged me. We've stayed up all night, maybe she finally got tired but, I don't think it is because when I looked at her I saw her eyes that express she's thinking something deeply, I stopped caressing my arm and used the bitten one to caress her hair and occasionally fix the troubled parts while putting the other one on the control. My hand was caressing her head that's resting on my lap while I was driving. It was peaceful for the mind but, it's awkward because in my memories this sort of event happening with other people would usually lead to something.

*The only thing left is to ask me if it's okay to do it while I'm driving.

Chloe – "Is this really okay?"

She suddenly spoke up out of nowhere, with a question that is full of hidden and unknown context.

*What does, Is this really okay? Implies, I-I don't want to think of bad things but, maybe she's asking about her placing her head on my lap? No, I mean, I caressed her hair which means it's okay for me to let her head stay there and she would think that's obvious. So if, if she means something other than that, I can (gulp) I can always try to find out what it is.

Micheal – "Of course it's okay for me, is it okay for you?" (gulp)

Chloe – "It's like, I feel a little weird, but if it's okay for you then I think I'd get used to it"

*It is quite the brave remark, so, um, I hope you don't mind if I check if it is really okay with you,...

I smile at her when she tried to face me, and then she put her head down again and begun speaking.

Chloe – "I'm just a little bit confused, I mean at first, we're angry, then we're sad then we suddenly felt happy, it's as if everything that happened in the past few years was just, a dream. Is this normal? Or is this special? Is it really, is it really okay for us to act like nothing bad ever happened?"

I felt my soul left me, I was not able to keep my smile, I immediately feel that if there's a god maybe he cursed me or something. I lost any signs of life in my eyes, and then there's a voice that suddenly spoke from below.

Chloe – "Um, did I say anything wrong?"

*Yeah!! You should've made your statement clear in the beginning.

I don't want her to realize what got into my mind so I tried to immediately reply.

Micheal – "No, no no it's just I thought of something unrelated"

Chloe – "If you feel weird, maybe, maybe we can talk about it"

Micheal – "You shouldn't mind if it's normal or special, this thing is something that's only us, I mean I don't really care what happened in the past, I only want to focus on what's right now, I'm only focusing on you right now."

Chloe – "Okay"

She went silent but remained frowning, after a while it's as if struck by a lightning her cheeks and ear turned a bit pink. She raised herself while smiling at me, she held my bitten arm sensually as if she's delicately treating it. As I was expecting her to apologize about the bite mark, she instead used her other hand to press against it and yelled at me.

Chloe – "PERVERT!!!"

After that, I received a slap at me but I was able to dodge it.

Chloe – "PUT ME DOWN NOW!"

*Fuck me,... Why was I always seen through? Is my reaction really that obvious? Tsk tsk tsk, Okay I'll just park somewhere okay, I didn't even know where are we now, I just know we're near a familiar cafe.

She just glared at me for a while before she opened the door. As she was about to go outside she yelled once again.

Chloe – "You didn't even deny!!"

*Fuck me, now I'm really fucked up, she just thought of that situation and doesn't have proof and here I sold myself as a pervert. I really am a pervert, but only if I was provoked. But why was I too honest? Fuck it really is true that when a man's second head wakes up the first one sleeps, shit!

Before she got out I grabbed her hand and tried to talk it out, surprisingly there was only little resistance and she closed the door again after sitting and I feel her anger was slowly subsiding and being replaced by something.

Micheal – "Let me explain"

Chloe – "Explain what? Explain how you want to harass me?"

Micheal – "No! I won't do that to you, it's just, I mean."

Chloe – "It's what? You wanted me to do that?"

Micheal – "No no no no, It's you see, your location and your words, it's quite a provocative situation, my mind wandered off somewhere it shouldn't."

Chloe – "Then you should've just corrected me, instead of thinking about those."

Micheal – "Sorry."

Chloe – "You think I'm that kind of woman?"

Micheal – "No!, I was swayed by my own imagination."

Chloe – "What kind of messed up imagination is that?"

Micheal – "The kind that could fall for his sister, that kind of fucked brain I have, sorry,..."

I started floating once again, I checked the fuel and there's still 58% left, normally I would only have this amount left after using it for a week but, now the 90+ was consumed like it's leaking gas somewhere. We were both silent but I feel something ominous coming from her, so I tried to apologize again.

Micheal – "I'm really sorry, I think it's better for me to just bring you to your apartment."

Chloe – "Just shut up, and don't drive."

She turned autopilot and input my address, not the name but the coordinates. I don't know what's happening but I know it's not good. I feel some trace of resolution and determination from her words and her eyes were giving a strange sense of coldness.

*I think I royally fucked up this time.

My apartment is located a the top floor of a high-quality building, each tenant owns an entire floor and the elevator is a see-through capsule-style located on both sides. Me being the top floor means I own an exclusive hover pod because top floors are used to be exclusive for Astrahumans or those who can afford to pay. It's my prided man base, my prided field of freedom, but now, I can have an ominous feeling when I saw that roof, that H that's supposed to mark my home became akin to HELP or HELL because of what is happening right now. The time the hover lands are when the time of my judgment draws near and the executioner grabbed my own key card for the hover before hurriedly walking out and heading for the stairs. I knew this is the end, she just put the hover here and took the key card so that I won't be able to get inside once I go out, maybe she wanted me to lose the hover. As I was counting my own sentence I saw my cellmate, this praielie that I almost forget exist at the back of the hover.

Micheal – "Did you know that this is all your fault? If you just hit when you're thrown at me, if you even at least just touched me, I wouldn't have laughed at her, she wouldn't have bitten me"

I grabbed it, squeezed, and stretched over and over again but it really feels like it's not really affected at all. I stayed seated for a very long while and pondered about what kind of punishment I would get. I took a deep sigh, I think it's been an hour since the sparkling night passed, there's no rain anymore. There are only thin clouds and a blue sky and it's nearing sunrise. I steeled my resolve and went outside. I hope she wouldn't take it to heart, I hope she could still forgive me. I'm sorry my cellmate, I need to face whatever punishment I have.

I think she already found a ride home. Tsk tsk tsk, now it's only me and my fucked up mind. Or maybe not.

She was sprawled on my bed, and her hair was wet.

*She took a bath huh? Wait, those are my clothes.

I grabbed my clothes that's neatly folded at the side of the bed

*It's complete huh? Does it mean I need to change or something? Well, it's near the morning anyway might as well as just take a bath.

I went immediately to take a shower and ponder about everything. Maybe she would just forget what happened after waking up, there's too much that happened tonight. I was so caught up at the moment that I never really realize how absurd it is.

* Is it really okay? Being tortured for 4 years then suddenly become normal, being an almost stranger to each other then suddenly becoming close enough to the point of letting her harm me physically. This is really absurd, is this the right choice? What if we're only okay at the beginning? What if this happiness, this closeness, what if it slowly deteriorate? How was I able to promise her I could make this lies the truth? Maybe she's right about thinking if it really is right to pretend we're okay or not. I need some time to talk with her after she wakes up.

I wrapped my lower half and walked out of the shower. I was about to grab my clothes when I saw the clothing hanger empty so I immediately look below. Nothing's there, no trace of the clothes I prepared. I immediately thought of possibilities.

*It's impossible for Chloe to just wake up and grab my clothes right? And if there's an intruder then there should be a dead body lying somewhere somehow, Christina went to her mother's house and she would spend a week there. Is it a ghost? is this the ghosts? I clearly remember those clothes were hanged but, wait, even my worn clothes disappeared. Oh god, am I encountering the ghost prank? Wait it is said that when people face ghosts they should plead for mercy.

Micheal – "Hear me, oh lost soul of the astral, may you bring mercy upon this mortal life"

Ghosts can travel through hard surfaces and, usually they play tricks on people on a whim, there's a chance to meet one during times astral borders appear

*But, is there one in my apartment?

Micheal – "Oh lost soul of the astral, I am but a mortal with a weary body in need of rest, may your mercy be placed upon me"

In ancient times ghosts were always followed by horror and paranormal but when the astral borders appeared and the ghost humans were fearing became only a semi-sentient kindred astral creature who just plays pranks on people, it became a stroke of pure chance luck for the possibility of meeting one. If prank on by ghost mercy is needed to be pleaded if one wanted for the ghost to return their missing item. if not asked for mercy then wherever the ghost left your thing, it'll leave it there until you found it.

*But it seems, there's no ghost. Huh? Then where's my stuff?

I spent quite some embarrassing time talking to myself inside the bathroom when light from the horizon slowly shone outside. I was about to head for the bedroom when I saw the culprit, she was facing me, I was just staring at her. She's wearing a females bathrobe, one that I saw Christina wore after taking a bath, at her back was the horizon with the sun slowly rising. Its light illuminates the sky as if the myriad of stars dissolved and turned into a blue sea above the sky, like her glistening blue eyes. It's a little bit cloudy outside and there's also a little number of tears pouring beside her face reflecting the light behind her. I was staring at her as the sun finally peeked at the sleeping world without the hindrances of clouds, she too finally revealed the marvelous sight of her body without the cover of the robe. A healthy upright breast, further presented because her arms were pressing against her body, a slender body that is anyone's definition of perfect fit was further illuminated by the rays of light provided by newly peeked sunrise. And the one between her thighs that has little amount of hair, it was a place that I never believe I would see, staring at it was like staring at the sun, if I stared at the sun I would be blinded and I don't know what to do if that happens, but this, if I stared at this long enough I might be blinded and I don't know what I can do. She was the personification of the morning sun trying to bestow her blessings upon the land, and I wish I was the land.

*I never thought that some ghosts have this kind of hobby. Tsk tsk tsk, but this is quite rare for me. I was so horny I became sober and both my heads work together to appreciate this rare image of her beauty. I wish I had my phone right now.

I bowed at the ghost to pay respects for its hobby and head for the bedroom when I heard a familiar soft voice that was showing a conflicting element of both resolution and hesitation.

Chloe – "If,... if you can be if you are satisfied? Are you going to stop thinking of me, the same as how you think of others?"

I was stumped, dumbfounded, and petrified. It was as if I woke up from a dream just to enter a nightmare. I felt goose bump but immediately cleared my emotion and focused on her words.

*So it's her, is this her plan? Did she set me up to take a bath just to make me naked?

Chloe – "If you can do, everything you want to me, will your desire for my body disappear? If you, got bored of me, will you stop thinking of those?"

*This, no matter how fucked up my mind is, I can only cry, so this is what I've done? This is what happened? She's confused to the point that she thought that she just needs me to use her however I like then things will become a bit okay? And she only demands me to not think of her like others and do not have any sexual fantasies about her. Does she think sex is a game? Like if you did missionary you're not allowed to do it anymore? Or does she really believe that I would just do her over and over until I get bored of her then I'd just throw her away and never think about her again. Did she really not think that if sex is like that then no marriage can last 3 years heck some people could've done all positions that exist in a year. Does she think just because a man got erected, once they had sex long enough, that man would never get elected again? She didn't think that being able to do that on the person you love would be like an endless cycle of want, and want and want with no feeling of being bored. I said I will move on but you suddenly presented yourself with an offer of a devil? I am not a cut-out pervert, I am a man who has a passion for good sex, and the pinnacle of the greatest sex is doing it with someone who you love and loves you. But, this isn't different from rape. Forcing yourself to be violated so that you could be treated better, I don't know what kind of fetish is that but I'm not in, if we're doing it then it should be on a premise that we are feeling a great sense of emotion not forcing yourself to do it.

I need to answer her now.

Micheal – "Ye- I mean, why? I already admit my mistake, I was dumb, I was really just caught up but, it really is not my intention to think about you that way. It's just, I was reminded of the girls that would do those things, that's why my mind had gone haywire."

Chloe – "That's why, If, if you use me and get tired of my body, I wouldn't ever remind you of other girls, right?"

Micheal – "NO! It's the other way around, once we do it, no matter who I spend the night with you'd always be the one I think of. Sex doesn't work like how you think, you don't get bored with someone unless you don't have any reason nor drive to do it."

Chloe – "But don't you got bored with Christina? In the past she would always complain about how active you are, then after you, two did it for a long time she never spoke about it anymore, she said you two only do it when drunk, didn't you get bored of her"

Micheal – "That's not being bored, we just lack the drive to do it, she's already satisfied with what she has, in the past sex was our way to escape reality, now we only had sex when we're too drunk to have proper reasoning, not like you, using your own body as a bargaining chip isn't something that gives a drive, it's like asking me to rape you."

Chloe – "..."

Micheal – "I don't get bored of people, I don't get bored with sex either, I just have no reason to do it, because we're happy together even without it"

After leaving those words I walked towards her, picked up the robe, I rose to make her wear it again, of course, I couldn't stop myself and give the last close up view of her body before I say goodbye through my mind. I held her by the shoulder and looked at her by the eyes. To be honest I was stimulated with a close-up meeting on the real thing.

Micheal – "Silly girl, never do this again, not to me, not to anyone, if you promised that, I'll promise that I won't ever compare you to the girls I knew, I will always treat our time together as something separated to others."

She was crying and just nods at what I said. I was really getting excited down there.

*I think I can do one handy in the washroom, right? I mean I promised something like I will never think of her as a woman of pleasure so, I think I need to put a strong seal for it.

I was about to go back in the bathroom to cement the promise but she suddenly hugged me in my front.

Chloe – "Sorry, I promise I will never do this to anyone"

*I appreciate the skinship any time but not,... now,... oh god,... Silly girl, why did you wake him up?

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