Don't ask me why I said yes. I really don't know. Maybe it was just watching him dance around in front of me and make those weird faces, as if he was yelling at someone in his mind for making him ask me. That day had been surreal to start with. How was I supposed to know that the day before when I'd spoken to him for the first time in months that it would inevitably lead to the fact that I'm here almost a year later still protecting him from the spirits that want to eat him?

Who knows why? I just said 'okay', but I was not about to let him and his little guests run rampant through my house before I'd met them. I'd seen Kunogi Himawari in passing, and had talked with her once or twice as we were both on the student council, but she had never held my interest. And I had no idea who this Yuuko-san person Watanuki had been yelling about was either.

All in all, things went far beyond what I had ever expected. From ghost stories to suddenly learning I had exorcism abilities. My life has never been the same since. I'd never thought that I had any ability like my grandfather, though I had admired him for a very long time.

"Shizuka!"

"What?"

"You're just staring off into space. Snap out of it!"

I know why I did it. I said yes because Watanuki has always intrigued me. He was always fine with other people and strangers, but with me, he always acts like an idiot. I think I wanted to find out why.

Those lips are so enticing that I can't help but kiss him as I lay in bed with him. All I have are speculations about why I said yes so many months, nearly a year, ago. It was just a feeling of impetuousness that I'd never been accused of having before. I always think things through so much, but I didn't that day.

I never thought it would land me my soulmate or a job that I don't get paid for or being drawn into a spirit world that only sometimes I can see.

But I don't ever regret one second of my decision.