20. I'm a ghoul ?

Bee

Where did they take him ? I wondered .

I had gotten up and decided to check on Yuree myself . The woman with black hair hadn't come back and I wanted to know if he was alright .

I had turned the same corner the two humans who had Yuree used . But there were three corridors to choose from after .

I looked at each one and decided to pick randomly . I picked the one on my left . If he was not on this corridor I would try the other two until I found him .

I walked down the corridor ignoring the humans who passed by . They didn't glance at me much , they seemed to be busy .

That was good , no one to try and stop me then .

Oh , this was getting hard .

I had just made another turn and found two more corridors to choose from .

I thought about asking the humans at first but they would tell me to go sit down like that woman with black hair had . I didn't want to sit down anymore . I wanted to find the nymph .

I chose the right corridor this time .

The corridor didn't have any people walking down it . That was odd but I found it suited me . No humans to watch me or chase me .

There was a big brown door up ahead . I hoped that Yuree would be behind it . I walked faster and opened the door expectantly but I was immediately disappointed .

There was no one in the room behind the door .

There were beds with wheels and what looked like people underneath white sheets but none were like Yuree . So he wasn't here .

I would just have to check the other corridors .

I turned ready to leave when I heard something .

It was a giggle , it came from the room .

I walked back into the room and looked around . Was there someone in here ? I wondered , could they help me find Yuree ?

" Hello , can you help me find Yuree ?" I spoke aloud into the room but nobody answered .

Nothing in the room moved and all was still and quiet . But I felt certain about hearing a giggle .

There had to be someone in her-

" Corpse ." a voice said behind me , I turned to the wheeledbeds , but there was no one except the bodies on the beds . I had seen that they were dead as I walked back in , at first I had thought they were asleep .

But they were dead , so who had spoken ?

I moved closer to the beds and then turned around looking at the room .

It was a grey green room with one wall covered in shiny metal . It was big and there was no furniture but the beds and the bodies . Well there was a open cabinet on the far wall but it didn't seem to have anything inside .

" Why are you here ghoul ?" a whisper next to me .

I turned but there was no one . I was getting irritated . If someone was here then they should show themselves !

" Show yourself !" I said angrily and then something strange happened .

The lights above flickered and a slight wind came into the room .

I looked around and felt a tugging sensation , it felt like a premonition of some kind .

Then the room went dark .

The lights just turned off and darkness consumed everything .

I was not worried though , my eyes could see well in the dark .

But before even five seconds passed , the lights turned back on again .

And I wasn't alone in the room anymore .

There were two people in the room . One was a little girl in a blue white dress and the other a man in a brown suit with dark brown hair . The girl looked about 10 years old and stood holding the man's hand and both of them were looking at me .

I felt something stir as I looked at them ... an awareness of some kind . But I didn't know of what .

" It's the Corpse I saw the other night ." the man said to the girl without turning his head , he had a tough gravely voice .

" It's a ghoul ... I never saw one before ." the little girl said , her voice was like bells .

I tilted my head confused , were they talking about me ?

" Who are you ?" I asked and the man startled as if shocked I could talk .

But he didn't answer my question .

" Who are you ?" he said repeating me .

" I am Bee . Who are you ? " I said looking at them both . Something was wrong with them , I felt it . They didn't make me feel the way the humans outside did . But why was that ?

" We are spectres . This is our haunt ... and why are you here , ghoul ?" the little girl said with a giggle . So it was her who had been giggling .

Wait ... did she just call me a ghoul ?

" What do you mean ? " I asked .

" Mean of what ? " the man answered with a question again .

" You said ghoul ... who is a ghoul ?"

The man laughed but it wasn't a real laugh . His mouth moved like he was laughing but the sound of laughter didn't come out . His mouth was silent as he laughed .

What was wrong with him ? I thought and then the laughter stopped abruptly .

" You , ghoul ... why are you here ?" the man said ominously .

" I'm a ghoul ? " I asked incredulously , those were monsters and he was calling me one ... was it true ? I was a monster but ... a ghoul ?

" The corpse is lost in thought , the ghoul is thinking , and his body in the grave is sinking ." the girl sang sweetly but it had eerie tone .

" Why are are you here Corpse ? Why do you wander our haunts ?" the man said and then I finally realized what they were . The words sunk into my grey and blurry mind .

They were ghosts .

That's why they called themselves specters . And why I had that strange feeling about them .

" Are you ghosts ?" I asked them ,

" Are you a Corpse ?" the girl asked with a smile and I felt irritated again . To ask a question and get no answer but another question was infuriating . It gave me nothing !

" I am Bee . I came back to finish something I wanted when I had been alive . Now I am looking for Yuree ." I said , now there would be no more questions .

" Yuree ? ... Yuree ?" the man and girl said at the same time ," Is he departed ?"

" I don't know but I hope not . I don't want to be alone ." I answered softly . I did not want to find Yuree departed , it made the dark feeling come back again to even think about it.

" A ... Liver ?" the man asked surprised ," Is he your ... prey ?"

" What ? No , I would not hurt him ." I said quickly ," I am not hungry . I ate a while back ."

" So ... what is this Liver to you ?" the man asked but I didn't know how to answer this question .

What was Yuree to me ? He was a human I had helped , a nymph I admired but was that all ?

" I don't know ." I answered honestly and the man laughed his silent laugh again .

" So fresh , so pure and so LOST ... You are very ignorant I see that . The dark ones will hunt you down if you do not learn more . And this ... Liver will be a good prey for them ." he said with a serious voiceand I frowned at his words. Who would hunt Yuree ? Who were these dark ones ? I wouldn't let Yuree be hurt again , not again .

" But if he is yours ... then you are beloved , ghoul ?" the ghost man asked suspiciously but this question had me confused .

" Mine ? No ... I would not make him mine ." I said slowly touching my face and the man chuckled ,

" A Corpse's scars and a ghoul's mind . But no matter ... if you do care for him then ... you maybe beloved ... " he said meaningfully then he let go of the girl's hand .

The girl then appeared infront of me in a flash .

" To Yuree ... his to be beloved ." the man said and he disappeared.

The ghost girl reached up and took my hand , " To the beloved ." she said and I felt a twinge as her hand clasped mine .

It was a cold sensation and spread across my whole body . I had forgotten how it felt to be cold but this was a different type of coldness . It was not the coldness of the flesh but the icy chilling touch of the Dead .

I looked at the girl who had her head bowed . I was about to ask her what she was doing when the lights flickered and died again .

A second later they turned back on but the girl was gone , i was no longer in the green room with the dead bodies but another different one .

I looked at this new room . It had white floors , a wall made of glass and machines circled a bed on wheels . Someone was on the bed .

I stood frozen , looking at a face I remembered so well . Those firey tips of his blonde hair , his pink skin and those delicate lips .

I moved next to bed and looked at the nymph closely.

His eyes were closed like he was asleep but he was breathing . He was alive , he hadn't departed . I smiled happily .

" Nymph ... are you mine ?" I asked out loud but he didn't answer . What the ghost man had said had made me feel something new . It was like a flickering of something . But what ?

I saw there was a chair next to his bed. Good , now I could watch the nymph closely and not have the black feeling bother me anymore .

I sat down and looked at his face .

It was clean and there was a white cloth where he had been bleeding before on his forehead . He didn't look pale anymore and I felt relieved by that .

I looked down again at my hands with the now dried blood .

I felt bad about not having cleaned them now , what if he woke up and saw it ? Would he think I had done something bad ? I hadn't known he was bleeding ... I wish I had known . I didn't like to see him hurting , I knew that .

The blood on my hands was bad though , I knew that too .

If he saw it , he would think I was a monster . Or a ghoul like the ghosts said . But I didn't want that , I didn't want this beautiful person to hate or fear me . I didn't want to be alone .

" Nymph ... are ... you mine ?" I asked softly , but the nymph slept on .

I smiled , it would be good to just have some time looking at his face atleast . I could be happy with that .