1 Ghost

Dead. Gone. All life as we know it.

I withered away. I was gone in the end. I live on, but yet I'm dead. I have been many names, and many faces. Reincarnated over many life times. Nobody can see me as a ghost, nobody can hear me, nobody can feel me.

Sometimes I'm a ghost for days, weeks, months, or even years. I can't control it, because I don't know what 'it' is. I just wake up each time in another body, and in a different place. I'm always a girl though, and always 21 years old. I don't know my first life. So I don't know if the reason why I am always 21 is due to the fact that I first died at that age, but there's no one around to ask.

I just live on. The memory that I do have though, is intact throughout each body that I live through. The way I live, is somewhat unusual though. I live within a body of someone who's soul has passed.

They died in a horrific accident but I'm able to bring their body back to life. I live inside their body, and they become my shell. I live inside them until their loved ones are able to live on with the knowledge of having peace for when I pass. Or in better words, when there loved one has to pass once again. When that time comes, I am gone in the wind once more.

Their body fades in a peaceful slumber, and their loved ones are better off than before. They aren't broken with the thought of sorrow, but instead have a meaningful purpose. They make the experience impact them by making them stronger.

They don't crumble with the knowledge of loss of life, they celebrate them. They celebrate the life once lived, and cherish it for what it previously was. Right now, even as a ghost, I still have a name though.

My name is Lillie. Yesterday though, I was Cali. I don't know whether or not tomorrow I'll be someone else, but I feel like it will be a while. I feel like I'll be stuck in this 'waiting place' for a while. The waiting place is what I call this world I live in.

It's the same as the regular world, but instead, nobody can see me. The world also looks like it has this weird glazy like filter. I can interact with things and float if I'd like, but I can't interact with anything alive. Can't touch humans, animals, but I can touch plants.

I mean what a gift am I right? Who cares about touching something living when I can touch plants? As I float through the wonderful city that I live in, I decide to go to the store. I'm like any normal person and need to eat, but I don't see how I could ever pay when I can't even say hello to the cashier.

As I arrive at the store, a man appears before me, catching my breath. He is absolutely breath taking. He flashes a smile my way and I almost fall to me knees, before I realize someone's behind me. There's no way someone would be able to see me. Right? I laugh at the thought, loneliness has overtaken all of my senses apparently.

This man was beautiful though. He had dark hair, that reminded me of pure midnight itself. His tan skin looked kissed by the sun itself. His smile almost brought me weak to my knees when I saw it earlier. His white teeth were so blinding and perfectly straight that I felt he was sculpted by the hands of a god themself.

But his eyes. Oh his eyes. His eyes were a beautiful hazel, but somehow an emerald and diamond decided to join the party within his eyes. A perfect mixture of colors so vibrant, my heart started beating fast. I didn't even know within the 'waiting place' my heart could even beat.

His clothes were neat and plain. A casual wear but yet so tight that his muscles shown through. His plain white shirt and denim jeans even made my heart speed up. What was this guy doing to me? I didn't even know him.

His name, age, anything, all unknown. A man flashes a smile your way even though he can't even see you, and suddenly you've gone head over heels. I finally took in my surroundings and I walked past the unknown man in the chip aisle. It was pretty late at night, so it was just me, him, and the cashier.

This was a small store. So it was just an area for the cashier to ring you up and a couple of aisles of food, accompanied by a freezer section. I grabbed a drink and whatever I needed for dinner plus groceries for tomorrow, and walked past the guy at the register. I mean, I didn't have to pay when nobody could even see me.

As I walked out of the store, my mind jumped to the handsome man. I wish I'll see him again, in another life. I wish he would be able to see me.

"Hey!"