1 Ghost Love

The person I saw in the back alley back then is a girl that become part of my childhood memory, the girl is crying. Her tears made me realize one thing I want to make her become happy, or so what I want to do before. She never speak and write so I teach her using the old phone so that we could communicate to each other, she can't talk for some reason so I teach her how to use the phone to communicate with me. I also give her my favorite white stuff toy.

How nostalgic as I could remember, that is how my childhood memory is all I can remember. For me that girl is my one and only childhood friend. It has been 8 years since then, and I become splendid student. While walking in the street in the same place where she always seat, I always feel the nostalgia about her.

One day, I found a girl carrying the same white stuff toy just like the stuff toy I give to her back then... Coincident? That's how I describe it to myself, it's not good it always makes me want to see her again... that white stuff toy, now I remember it I give her the phone with my old number so that she can text me whenever she felt it.

However, the last time she text me all she said is "Thank you very much and goodbye". Since then she never reply in all my text... and sometimes I knew to myself she would not respond I call her. Although it is a cruel way of saying goodbye, so I accept it.

One day, one text message came in my old phone saying, "I am there in the same place" I was like "Is this for real?" and shout in excitement. I ran fast to see her, I run in where that back alley is, and... Found one girl sitting in the same spot while hugging the stuff toy. I found a girl who is more alluring and beautiful than celebrity, her white grayish hair sway and light that covers the half of the back alley made her become like angel that descend in the earth.

Is that really she is? Is that really her, the person who don't even know how to talk before? Why did I not realize her beauty before? After having a commotion she look at me and smile beautifully, she wave her left hand and I saw her old phone that I give it to her. It is like heavens and earth, my feeling burst out like nostalgic and... It is heavy. H-huh? Tears?

She walk near me until she can reach my cheeks with her hands, it looks like she want to wipe out my tears with her hands but suddenly stop and giggle softly.

"You never change... Roman."

"Y-you can now talk!"

"Yes, Ha-ha it feels nostalgic, that time you're teaching me how to use this phone so that I can talk to you"

Every word she spout makes me surprise, her high pitch voice and cute way of smiling... there is no longer the childhood friend who I knew before. My new colorful life start as she fill up my empty heart, every day we meet up in the same place, talk in the same place, and say our goodbye in the same place.

However, she never spout anything about her life before. However, I did not suspect her a bit that time. One day she say something unusual to me.

"Will you still remember me after this?"

"Yes, and I will never forget you."

Suddenly tears flow in her cheeks flow in her cheeks while she still smiling in front of me... I try to extend my hand and try to remove her those tears of her with my finger. Nevertheless, my finger slip through in her cheeks.

"I am no longer alive Roman... I made a contract to some devil in exchange for meeting you for a month... I glad that you still the same and I like how you turned out to be."

Little by little, her body become transparent... she is going to leave me again alone, she is going to go away far again.

"No! Don't leave me alone again! #@!$"

I cannot speak her name... I shout her name many times, but no words came out in my mouth... it is as if her name does not exist in this world anymore.

"You should not tell that name anymore, because it is cursed... However, I have fun Roman it's okay now... I am satisfied. And from the beginning of my life you are my whole world... my light... and..."

She banish in front of me without finish her words... it looks like she is not existing anymore and I am more looks like a crazy who is talking to non-existent... The only one left is the old phone and the white stuff toy that never become old.

It is painful.

I open her phone and found a diary like message... the date start when she disappear, and the next date is when she came back again... and the last date of her diary is today saying the same old message from the beginning

"I love you Roman Millennium"