Well I only got three reviews and I never got that goal of 90 total. There are only two chapters left (including this one) So enjoy and stuff! I thank the three anonymous reviews I got as well…it is short, sorry.
Till the Morning: Frozen Heart
Sam had gone home from the Nasty Burger in a daze. In the middle of her conversation with Tucker, she had felt strangely out of it. Before that, she had convinced him that she wasn't crazy, and he, from his previous experience, was beginning to believe that Danny was really a full ghost now. He had walked her home, and now she was in bed, contemplating and looking out the window when she wasn't.
'Where is he?' She wondered. 'He said he would wait here for me…maybe he wandered off…'
Her emotions jumbled before she felt a breeze of calm sweep over her from nowhere.
'At least I'm keeping calm…'
She got up in her insomnia to pace by the mirror. After a while, she stopped and looked at it again. On her once empty chain was now a glassy heart. That wasn't there before…she reached to touch it, and it was cold. She immediately thought of Danny.
"Danny…I know you're there," she said aloud. "Thanks for the gift!"
There was no response, but she felt good all of a sudden.
"I'm sorry I was late coming back. Now Tucker believes me…that you still exist. Can you come out now?"
She held the heart tighter as she heard no response but for the rustling trees outside. It seemed to pulse warmth and sleepy feelings.
"Danny!" She began to panic. She felt sleepy but where was he! He promised that he would be with her forever…so why wasn't he here!
She ended up crying herself to sleep at her desk, which is where Danny had slept the day before.
"…and now he's gone."
"You think he moved on, Sam?" Tucker asked, after sipping some milk.
"I don't know…we haven't really talked about anything much. He said his goal was to keep me happy, so…"
"Maybe he sees that you're happy so he was happy?"
"I don't know Tuck." Sam fingered her tofu burger before continuing. "Maybe…but I feel so lonely…" She let go of the burger and grabbed onto the charm on her neck. "Hey Tucker, have you seen this before?" She indicated it to him.
"Yea, you had it on yesterday."
"That's strange…if he came here yesterday I would have seen him, wouldn't I?"
"What do you mean? He gave it to you yesterday?"
"When I came here with it there was nothing on this chain. But I would have noticed it if he had come."
"Hmm…" Tucker thought for a moment. "Maybe he came but thought you had moved on?"
"He couldn't have! He knows that I love him…I would never forget about him…"
"That's the only possible explanation I have for you. That and your new charm, which he left before he left for good."
"Tucker…why would he?"
"Maybe he wants you to move on just as he wants to. I don't know if he'd want to be a ghost for eternity."
"He didn't even stay with me that long…oh." She took a deep breath. "This thing tends to calm me down."
"Weird…" Then Tucker thought of something, something which he couldn't possibly tell Sam, for otherwise she'd never forgive herself. He knew why the charm appeared with Danny in absence. But that would mean haunted buildings and things were really ghosts…time to avoid the basement.
"Well, I've gotta go. I'll take this with me." She picked up her bag of untouched food.
"Take care Sam."
"You too." Then she walked out of the building with a sense of lost purpose flooding her senses again. She turned left instead of right.
"Guess she's going to the park to think." Tucker said to himself, watching her departure. "Hope she doesn't stay after 10."
Sam walked aimlessly down the street. She couldn't think straight even, so lost in her empty feelings of not being haunted anymore by her true love.
'Danny, why did you leave me?' She thought, but she couldn't cry for a wave of calm hit her again. She grabbed the necklace. 'Is this all you leave me? I want you.'
A song echoed in her head:
Peace, be at peace
Love, peace for you
Love you eternal
Let nothing get to you
But love, yes, I love you…
Let me take you far away,
Far away in my heart
Peace, be at peace
Love, peace for you…
She crossed the street, lost in her thoughts. It was dark, and she was in the middle of the street when the light turned red. She heard a screech and turned to face red lights approaching her rapidly. 'Danny…are you coming to get me?' She smiled with glee.
Tucker received a call that afternoon.
