Saying Goodbyes

Saying Good-byes

A small girl walked down the beach with two people who looked like her parents walked down the beach slowly talking to each other.

"Ro do you see that family ahead of us?"

"What are you talking about I don't see anybody on this beach besides us?"

"There's a girl with short blonde pigtails and a um I think couple walking slowly behind her."

"What do they look like?"

"Well one's wearing a loose shirt like a lot of men are wearing around here and the girl is wearing a long thin dress that is catching in the wind."

"Zee have you seen them before?"

"I think I have."

"I think that these past lives the fortune teller told us about is showing so you can only see them. Tell me what was in your nightmares last night?"

"Well the first one was like a flashback but I never had seen anybody in it before. A girl like you I saved from being shot and a guy named Red talked to me saying I was his best friend and my name was Andy."

"Andy?"

"What do you know that name?"

"Andy was my friend I told you I wanted to marry."

"Did he love you?"

"He told me he did but he couldn't because this world already broke my broken heart and I didn't need any more heart ache the day before he died. He haunted my dreams and it seemed he followed me a couple of months after. I left a blood red rose by his grave every year. Till this year when I forgot to." Ro's eyes teared up.

"Ro it's okay to forget."

"But I don't want to. I loved him more than anything did. He was funny, smart, sincere, honest and he had these eye that where…"

"Ro?"

"It's your eyes, you have the same eyes as Andy." She looked straight into them. She didn't remember till then he had his eyes. The only thing that was the same.

"Ro are you okay do you need to sit down or go back to the hotel room?"

"No I'm fine. Zee I found who I was looking for. He came back only this time as a robot."

"Hmm it could happen. Red said anything's possible."

"Zee I need to sit down." Ro sat down, Zee wondered if she was okay, was she sick? Ro fainted and she fell on the beach across the beach.

"Ro? Ro wake up." He realized she was out cold. He laid her down as he sat down to the left of her. He made sure that the tide wouldn't meet up with them anytime soon. It was low tide so it wouldn't.

Delusions.

After a half-hour she woke up. "Oh what a nightmare."

"Are you okay?" A soft voice whispered out.

"Andy?" I knew I heard him. It felt a cold presence around me.

"No, I'm Zee Ro." Zee? I couldn't see him.

"But you sound like him." Andy looked down at me, mockingly smirking at me, like he always did when he was alive. But I have forgotten about him. I am strong. I am strong nothing can hurt me. But then why did I feel so weak.

"Because you need me to protect you Rosalie Rowen."

I looked at Andy at my surprise. "No stop please don't hurt me."

"I won't hurt you Ro remember it's me Zee?" I know Zee would never hurt me but Andy always was adventurous and he never told me how he really felt.

"You're not Zee you don't look like him."

"Of course I am. Are you okay Ro? Ro talk to me." Her eyes were glazed over by a white film. She couldn't see me she was seeing something else. I retracted a bit from her to not scare her.

"Please stop haunting me Andy, I have forgotten about you."

"But you haven't Rosalie, I'm unforgettable." A boy with a dangerous smile on his face appeared. He walked up to me. He tried taking my hand. He acted to kiss my hand. He couldn't because he was just a spirit.

"Ro, I meant to tell you always. I shall not mess up this time. I have come back so to speak. I know you needed someone to protect you so I created part of myself in a robot. I shall say you grew to liking him faster than I expected. I am but nothing but a ghost, I have a unfulfilled purpose and I want to finish it. Rosalie I loved you always. I didn't realize it till it was too late. I needed you so badly that I rejected my own heart in an attempt to make myself stronger. It seemed to bring my own death in the end and the punishment of my selfish deed. I will make it up to you though and one day you'll see."

"Andy please just go I can't take anymore heartache. I thought about you for a while then stopped and went on with my life. Please don't hurt me any more."

"I'll leave you with my best wishes. Bye Ro." He left me alone. I felt a hand on my shoulder. His smile was different somehow. Friendlier, bigger something, I couldn't place my finger on it.

"Zee I think I need to go back up to the room."

"Are feeling okay?" I shook my head. I really didn't feel good at the moment. He placed an arm around my waist. When we got to the hotel room I laid down telling Zee I just felt a little sick. He didn't seem to believe me. I took a little nap to relieve my nerves.