Chapter 6

** 2 years later **

Matt and Jeff receive a white envelope in the mail. At first Matt's impulse is to throw it away but then he recognizes the handwriting on it. He opens it and on the front of the card it says: "You're Invited". A knot forms in his stomach as he opens the card. "You're invited to Angel Pfeifer's wedding." When Matt reads those words a wave of relief swept over him. He ran inside to show Jeff the good news. He sees Jeff sitting there with Mateana on his lap. Matt shows him the letter and he thinks to himself, Dude you are so stupid.

"Oh I can't make it cuz me and Mateana have a date that night. Sorry." Jeff says distracted.

"Ok should I call her and tell her?" Matt asks confused.

"Sure why not?" Jeff says carelessly.

Matt walks away and goes to call Angel.

Ring

"Hello?" Angel says on the other line.

"Hey Angel?" Matt says happy to hear his old friend's voice again.

"Hey Matt wassup?

"Nothing much. Jeff said he can't make it to your wedding…but I can!"

"Well it's good that you can come but why is Jeff not coming?"

"He's got a date."

"With?"

"Mateana"

"Mateana DeLeon?"

"Yeah I think that's her name."

"That little whore."

"Why do you call her that?"

"Cause she always goes after Sandra's ex's. And now that Sandra is dead she's gonna take everybody. She'll probably come after you soon."

"Ok why?"

"Because she's a whore, she goes after all of Sandra's ex's and you're one of them."

"Oh really? Did Jeff know this?"

"Probably not. If ya put him on the phone I'll tell him right now."

"Ok hold on.... Ok here he is"

"Hello?" Jeff asks.

"Hi Jeff" Angel says calmly.

"Who is this?"

"Jeffery Nero Hardy."

"Angel?"

"No shit. Why aren't you coming to my wedding?"

"Didn't Matt tell you?"

"Yeah but I don't believe you are going out with Mateana DeLeon."

"Why not?"

"Because she always goes after Sandra's ex's and now that she's dead she thinks she can have anybody she wants."

"Ok. And this means what to me?"

"You are one of Sandra's ex's"

"Yeah so?"

"You're so dumb."

"Why?"

"Cause you don't think it's bad that one of her 'friends' is trying to go after her ex's."

"Ok well I'm gonna go now you wanna talk to Matt?"

"Sure"

"Hello?" Matt asks unsure if she hung up.

"Still here." Angel says with sigh.

"Ok so what all happened?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well did you snap at him?"

"You could say that."

"Ok so what's all gonna happen at your wedding? Are we allowed to bring someone?"

"Yeah I guess. I just wish that everybody was still alive."

"Yeah me too cuz the I'd bring Sandra but I can't."

"Yeah and she'd be my maid of honor."

"Who is the maid of honor now?"

"My cousin Sarah"

"Oh ok. Who's best man?"

"Well that's why I'm glad you asked because Andrew's talking about asking you."

"Really? That would be so cool."

"I knew you'd say that. That's why I told him you'd do it."

"That's cool."

"Well knowing you all my life you'd think I'd know what your answer would be."

"Yeah I guess so. So do you miss everyone?"

"That's a dumb question. Of course I do. Mostly Sandra and Christian."

"Christian? Ok. Why?"

"Cuz I could always talk to him about stuff like… I could always talk to you."

"This may sound dumb but why do you miss Sandra so much?"

"She was my best friend. We talked about everything, I mean everything…almost."

"Oh ok."

"Do you miss anybody?"

"Yeah of course. I don't know about Jeff though cuz right now he seems pretty wrapped up in whatever her name is"

"Who do you miss?"

"Everyone. Why?"

"Curious. So what's new with you?"

"I'm getting a tattoo."

"Cool what of?"

"Sandra's name"

"Awwww. That's sweet."

"Yeah well it's more that Jeff would ever do for her"

"That's the truth."

"Yup it is. Can you believe that he's almost completely forgotten about Sandra over these two years?"

"No. That's one thing I'll never forget. It's kinda hard to forget a lifelong friend."

"Not for Jeff it ain't"

"Well he seems to have forgotten me and I'm still alive."

"Yeah well he only cares about himself and Mateana."

"That's how he was with Sandra but then he actually cared about all of us. He's gotten really conceited."

"Yeah tell me about it. He's been buying her stuff from everywhere it's like so expensive that it's gonna drive us out of our house."

"Why do you still live with him?"

"Cuz I ain't got nowhere else to live and if Sandra was alive I'd live with her but she's not so."

"Just cuz Sandra's dead don't mean you ain't got me and Andrew"

"Yeah I know but won't Andrew get mad at the fact that I'm living with you guys."

"I'm not saying live with us. We're moving and then we can give the house to you."

"I would say ok to that but I'm afraid I can't."

"Why not?"

"Cuz when Sandra was alive she and you used to hang out in that house and then if I move in then I'm gonna have the memories of you guys and then I'm gonna go crazy cuz she's not here anymore."

"Just because she'd not physically here doesn't mean her spirit isn't here."

"Why have you seen her?"

"Maybe."

"Dude have you? When and where do you see her? Can you tell her I said hi?"

"I can tell her more than that I see her all the time. Her spirit is in this house. One reason why I wanted you to live here."

"Oh really? That is so cool when does she visit you? Can you talk to her or does she just sit there?"

"Of course I can talk to her. She's talking to me right now and even if she's just a ghost she's as pushy as ever."

"That's me!" An extra voice chimes in.

"Dude was that her?"

"No it wasn't. It was just me."

"Oh"

"Stupid I was being sarcastic."

"Oh then tell her I said hi"

"She says hi and you can say more than that."

"What else am I supposed to say?"

"Whatever you want."

"You haven't talked to me for two years and all you can say is hi? "

" No but I don't know what else to say."

"You should come live here so I can haunt Jeff when I'm not busy with you."

"Ok"

"Good it's settled then."

" I wish you were alive so that we could start where we left off."

Angel laughs. "There should be some kind of spell you can do to put me into a body or something."

"What?"

"Nothing."

"Sure it's nothing tell me."

"You're just as bad as Angel."

"Why would you say that?"

"Cause you know me I'm always nosy."

"That's true."

"You're mean."

"I was kidding."

"Sure you were."

"Fine then leave me out of this conversation."

"You can talk when ever you want I'm not stopping ya."

"Me either. I wanna hear you talk."

"Why I'm not interesting?"

"Yes you are. You just won't admit it."

"So what's up with Jeff what's he doing?"

"I thought you knew?"

"Knew what?"

"That Jeff's going out with Mateana."

"You're kidding right?"

" I wish he was."

"Unfortunately I'm not. He's even more self-centered and conceited then before you died."

"How is that possible?"

"I don't know but it is."

"I hate to have to break up this conversation but we'd better get off the phone me and Andrew have some errands to run. But why don't you just come over here Matt? Then you and Sandra can talk face to face."

"Ok. I'll be over in five minutes. I love you"

"What?"

" What?"

" Nothing… I said I love you."

"To who?"

" Who do you think?"

"I don't know that's why I asked."

" To the only person on the line I can say that too without getting my ass kicked."

"Oh ok. No bodies ever said that to me before I don't know what to say."

"It's ok. Well did you get off the phone over there Angel?"

"No I'm here I'm just not getting into you guy's conversation."

"Ok. Well I should let you two go if I'm going to head over there."

"Ok."

"Ok. It was nice talking to ya Matt.

"Same here. I've missed ya Sandra."

"Awwww I'm special."

"Well maybe now things can be different."

"See ya."

"Bye."

Click

Matt arrived at Angel's house about 4 minutes later. Matt and Sandra don't talk much. They just sit there and wait for Angel to come home so she can give Sandra a new body.