Opinions Matter

"I don't know who she is, maybe if I see her I'll feel something. I should probably go back again." I was about to leave but suddenly Oliver grasped my wrist and pulled me towards him, and prevented me from going anywhere.

"Are you crazy? You forgot what happened when you went in there?" He tried to reason with me.

"As if you know?" I challenged him. I mean I was there alone, it's not like he would know what happened.

"Yes! I followed that lady to her apartment. And guess what's the first thing her husband asked her? 'You were standing right there in the study room, how the hell did you disappear and managed to change your clothes so fast?'"

"So what?" I asked

"I think I'm pretty sure whom he saw!" He told me in an accusatory tone. Now that he was in his own form and looked quite intimidating, including his expression and the tone of his words, he could have scared anybody.

But I wasn't so easy to scare, so I tore my wrist away from him, "Then what should I do? Give up again? I have to know who that woman is!" I said desperately as if I was about to cry.

"Well, I'll tell you who she is. Her name is Virginia, I heard her neighbor call her that, and she is Timothy's wife. The way I saw them, the way she knows him, and he knows her I'm pretty sure she belongs here." He told me as a matter of factly.

"No she is not! She is an imposter! Believe me she stole my life? I can feel a connection to Timothy, so how do you make explain that connection? Or you think I'm lying cause I have nothing better to do! " I retorted. I was so angry now.

"Maybe you liked him as a human. Maybe Virginia is your twin sister?" He tried to draw another logical conclusion, but of course my non existent guts refused to believe him. "Or maybe you had an extramarital affair, I don't know."

"Are you telling me, that I would do something like that to my own sister, let alone my twin? I'm not that gross alright! I would never do that, at least to my own sister!" I was furious at his accusation? Was he kidding me? Why the hell would he say something like that when he clearly doesn't know anything about me. Neither as a human nor as a ghost!!

"Guys calm down! Let's not argue about this okay, we can figure it out calmly. Let's not fight amongst ourselves." Ken interjected, but of course I ignored him completely, however few passer-by didn't. Now that he was possessing Darryl people could see him. They looked at him as if they saw some crazy man.

"How do you know you won't? you don't even remember anything. Maybe you were a different person as a human. It's not wrong to like someone you know. So what if he's married? " Oliver tried to reason with me again but calmly.

But I was done being calm! I was furious! Here I was more confused than ever, plus I had no memory and this guy is telling me I can't even trust my own guts now?

"Thanks for your opinion! However I didn't ask. Neither did I ask for your help. You've done enough for now! So you can do whatever the hell you want but don't you dare bother me with your ridiculous theories and baseless accusations. Your opinions don't matter to me alright! There's no need to wait for me I'll go back on my own." and with that I stormed off.

I went back to the building and was about to enter the apartment when I felt maybe that was really not such a good idea. I can't control my apparition but they somehow seemed to be dependent on my emotions, and emotionally I was very unstable right now. So maybe I shouldn't try my luck too much. I pressed my ears to the door and eavesdropped on their conversation. As a ghost it was not that hard for me to hear them, even if they had soundproof walls.

"Gina, I know I drank too much last night but I can swear I wasn't hallucinating." Timothy said.

"I'm not saying you were, but maybe you dreamt that? I mean look at the facts here, first of all I wasn't with Momo, why will I drop her off at playschool after such a long journey, she's only three!? Plus you said I was wearing the the brown top you gifted me, you know how I sorry I was that I lost that." she sounded sad as she said that.

"I don't know, I didn't pay much attention to the outfit, it could have been something different." he sighed. "Never mind, looks like I need to stop having drinking nights with my buddies after all."

"Now that's something sensible I hear from you." She chuckked after saying that and Timothy followed the same.

As I took my ear away from their door, Oliver's words started to play in my head. What if he was right? What if I was the bad guy in their story? What if I really liked him or worse had an affair with some married guy? I felt so overwhelmed and depressed right now that I wanted to escape everything around me. I ran out of the building from the back exit and I kept running without any aim until I reached the seashore. I sat down there in the sand and stared at the horizon for a very long time. When the sun was about to touch the horizon I felt someone's hand on my back. As I turned around I saw it was Ken.

"Hey! Mind if I sit down?" He asked.

"I'm not in the mood to talk." I told him nicely.

"It's okay, I'll just sit and do most of the talking." He sat down to my left. "So, I know you're upset and things have been really overwhelming for you lately, so how about before drawing any conclusion let's calm down first."

"Are you suggesting I could be wrong?" I didn't want to argue with him, maybe because at this point even I started to believe I was in the wrong.

"I'm suggesting you need a break. We should not make assumptions or decisions when we are overwhelmed. Believe me, I learned that the hard way." he said sadly.

"Why?" I asked even though I could guess maybe he was referring to his suicide but I didn't want him to suspect that.

However he remained silent.

"Chloe!?" I turned around to see Oliver standing in my right side. He sat down next to me "I'm sorry for reacting the way I did. I know I can be an jerk sometimes." He apologized quiet sincerely. "As a cop I always looked at every possible outcomes, but I shouldn't have accused you like that without proper evidence."

"It's alright, Even I think I could have reacted better. I shouldn't have taken my anger out on you. I promise you it wasn't personal." I told him.

"I know, but I am still sorry." he apologized.

"Me too, and just so you know I appreciate your help and your opinions." I told him with a smile as I hugged him by his shoulders. He smiled back.

"Since I judged too early I went back to look for important stuff. Want to know what I found?"

"What?" I asked him

"This is Virginia's diary, and I stole it since you were so sure that woman stole your identity." He smirked. " Guess what I found inside it?

"You finished reading it already?" Ken asked.

"No, but I did see a pattern. And take a look at this." he showed me a page from the Diary. I was confused at first but I finally did get what he was trying to show. Suddenly I started to feel better because maybe my guts were not so wrong after all.