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Has anyone ever listened to Exogenesis Symphony by Muse? There's three parts, Overture, Cross Pollination and Redemption. I realized that if I listen to any of the three parts that I can get a lot of writing done. Awesome right?
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Disclaimer: Darkest Powers is not mine. Oh darn.
Afterlife- Avenged Sevenfold
Like walking into a dream, so unlike what you've seen
so unsure but it seems, 'cause we've been waiting for you
Fallen into this place, just giving you a small taste
of your afterlife here so stay, you'll be back here soon anyway
Your Friendly Neighborhood Ghost, Nick
Chloe POV
"Wh-what do you want?"
A chuckle next to my ear made me jump. "I just want to say hi."
"What?" Is that all? Really? I highly doubt that he just wants to say hi.
"Well, and I want to talk to you. I get bored by myself. See, even though I can-" a picture on the wall moved to the left and then back to its normal spot. "Move things, I can't talk to anyone. That's no fun."
This was a very chatty ghost.
"I'm sure." I mumbled then louder I said. "Okay, you want to talk to me, let me see what you look like first."
"Don't like talking to air?"
"Not really."
"Oh, fine."
A man, who looked like he was in his early twenties, began to materialize in front of me. He had longer dark brown hair, hanging down close to his chin, blue eyes and he appeared to be a couple inches shorter than Derek. He was dressed in a pair of jeans with a hole in the right knee, a black Metallica shirt under a blue flannel shirt and a pair of black converse.
He smiled before speaking. "Better?"
I nodded.
He cocked his head. "Is that your real hair color? You don't look like you would have hair that dark." He leaned closer. "Hmm, you don't. I see the blond." The blond was starting to show through again, after a couple days of vigorous scrubbing on my part.
But does he always talk this much. No wonder he got so bored talking to himself. I couldn't imagine wanting to talk so much and not having anyone to talk to.
Of course I don't usually want to talk that much.
"So what's your name?"
"Nick. What's yours? I bet it's something nice and sweet. You kind of look like the type who's nice and sweet."
Random much. "Um, my name's Chloe."
"Ah-ha! I knew it was going to be something nice!"
"Chloe?" I heard Derek's voice behind me and jumped. "Sorry." he paused. "Who are you talking to?"
"His name is Nick."
Nick looked at Derek. "Werewolf?"
I hesitated before answering. "Uh, yeah. But how did you-"
"Know? I know other supernaturals when I see them. I was a half demon."
He must've been like Liz.
"Okay. So what did you want to talk to me about?"
"I don't know. Anything really. I just wanted someone to talk to."
"Okay?"
"What?"
"I don't know. A lot of the ghosts I've come across aren't as happy as you."
"Oh." he smiled and his face lit up. "Do you think I'm nice too?"
"I haven't decided." when his expression changed to sadness I quickly explained myself. "You seem nice, but I can't figure out why you tried to scare me earlier."
"Scare you?" he looked lost in thought before he exclaimed "Oh! You mean the 'scary movie' kind of whispers and dragging my nails on the wall."
I nodded.
"Sorry. I like playing pranks, always did when I was alive and still do in my afterlife. Didn't mean to scare you, honest."
"Okay."
He turned to Derek, who was being really quiet this whole time. "So what's this guy's name?"
"Derek."
Derek looked down at me "What?"
"Sorry, he wanted to know your name."
"Oh." Derek lapsed back into silence.
"Doesn't talk much does he?" Nick said shaking his head.
I shrugged.
"I couldn't imagine being quiet all the time. Of course talking so much is what got me killed in the first place. But now it doesn't matter, since no one can actually hurt me now."
I've never seen someone so okay with death before, and it's his own death that he's comfortable with too. But how did talking get him killed?
"How did you die?"
"Well." he paused, thinking. "I was in college at the time. One night I was walking back to my dorm room and I got this feeling that someone was following me. So I called out to them, saying I know someone's there. Of course no one answers but the closer I got to my dorm the more paranoid I was becoming. I had almost made it to my dorm when someone ran in front of me. I made some sarcastic comment about watching where he was going. Then I heard footsteps behind me, and I knew I was really being followed. But I was stupid and made another sarcastic comment. Something about stalking people. Whoever was behind me grabbed me and threw me to the ground and before I could even react the other guy pulled a gun out and shot me three times."
"Oh my gosh. Nick, that's horrible!"
He shrugged as if it didn't bother him.
"You don't seem to mind"
"That would be because I don't."
"Really?"
He shrugged. "What's done is done. Some people killed me but I can't change what happened in my life now so I just live it up in death. Although in hindsight I think I should've kept the sarcastic remarks to myself."
"So why are you here?"
"You mean in this house? Because you're here. I've waited a long time to have someone to talk to."
"Oh." I paused. "A long time? How long have you been dead?"
"Only like three years. But you spend three years talking to no one but yourself and see if you don't crave attention from the living. It feels like forever."
"Oh."
"You don't talk a lot either do you?"
I shook my head.
"Darn. I'll have to change that. I'll get you talking just like I do."
I smiled. He really is a nice guy. As of right now I'm convinced that he isn't going to try to hurt me.
"So, do want to be my first friend in my afterlife?" he asked grinning.
I laughed. "Sure."
"Sweet!" he exclaimed. "So I pass your nice guy test then?"
I nodded, smiling.
"Yes!"
"Chloe. Derek." Mandy called from the kitchen. "Could you two come join us in the kitchen, we have some things to discuss."
"You have to go, huh?" Nick asked.
"Yeah. But you can come listen if you want. If you're going to be around me a lot you should know what's going on."
"Great!" he raced ahead of me and Derek.
"So, I take it he was friendly?" Derek asked.
"Yeah, very."
"A regular Casper." he said taking my hand.
"I guess you could say that. Though he was a bit more random." I said smiling.
"Come on." he said leading me towards the kitchen.
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Story Updates:
I'm kind of upset because I was an idiot and forgot The Summoning at my mom's house and I can't get it until after school on Monday. I was going to do a one-shot for something in Derek's point of view and hopefully get it up later today. But now it won't be up until almost seven Monday night. Not too much of a set back but I wanted to work on it and get it done. I've had the idea since like Tuesday of last week but I've been too busy to do anything with it.
And I'm still thinking of things for my new story idea. I can't really say what it would be about because I haven't thought of a good way to describe it. But I'm still not going to even bother writing anything for it until I get done with one of my stories.
More than likely that's going to be Five Years of Waiting for Your Love that I get done with. But I'm not going to be updating that anymore this weekend. I still have to write the next chapter and since it includes a lemon it's going to be a little difficult to write but I shall try my best.
I'm taking a temporary break from Their Choices, I will get back to it eventually but I'm not sure when.
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Any thoughts on Nick? Haha I love my ghost, sad story with him though. He'll be showing up in later chapters too.
Anyway, thanks for reading, my story and this long authors note. Reviews are much appreciated. Any questions or whatever, stick it in your review and I will do my best to answer them. Thanks.
