Chapter Three

What? I lay there startled by the presence of my dead boyfriend. "Zzzz...ach?" Surely I was knocked out or dreaming but I sure wasn't waking up. Zach stood there every so quietly just watching me still trying to pull the hair out of my face but I was convulsing. This couldn't be happening...it couldn't?

"Ava, Ava you have to calm down, stop please stop!" panickes Zach. Breathe, just breathe it tell my self. After a few minutes of having a hissy fit on the bathroom floor I started to calm down a little bit.

"Zach, your dead." I know that was not the best thing to say but it was the first thing that came to mind. "I know." He replied in his usual relaxed voice. If he new than why the hell was he stroking my hair!

"Zach your dead." Oh my god. Am I a broken record or what! The look on his face told me he wasn't keen on me repeating that he was dead. "Why are you here? Your dead." Well at least it was a start. I could talk. Zach held me to try stop me shivering. Something felt different about him, he wasn't human but more fairy like.

"Are you a vampire?" I ask.

"No"

"Angel?"

"No"

"Fairy god mother?"

"No"

"Then what on Earth are you? Are you going to eat me?"

"No! I am..well you won't believe me."

"TELL ME!"

"Fine but when you tell me I am mad I will be annoyed" threatens Zach.

"Shut your big talk and tell me-I am curious as to why the spirit of my dead boyfriend is sitting here with me." I condfindently say.

"Okay. First of all I was shot to the head by ...somebody... in the forest that day we were together. You probably don't believe my on this but heaven and hell do exist. I was lifted to the gates of heaven where most would be allowe to rest in peace but I was summoned to Lord Berggren's office."

"Lord who?"

"Lord Berggren is the Queen of the world and controls everyone and everything. Anyway Lord Berggren explained to me some details about my death. She told me about the different magical beings that help her care of humans. She was telling me what I was to become, I still had to fix something back on Earth."

"What are you?" I really should stop disturbing him.

"I am a Halo."

"A what?"

"A Halo. They are humans that have died with unfinished business back on Earth. Lord Berggren sends them back to do what ever they have to do. The only thing is they are only allowed to be seen by the person they must protect."

"Protect?" I don't know why Zach is here then.

"Yes Ava, protect."

"Then why am I allowed to see you?" I question.

"Because Ava, the person that killed me is going to kill you."