"Are you awake?" he whispered into her hair.
"Yeah," she replied turning around to face him.
"Do you want me to fix you something to eat?"
"You can cook?" she asked skeptically.
"I am a man of many, many talents," he said smiling.
"You got that right," she said kissing him.
"You're so beautiful," he said running his fingers through her long hair.
"So are you, you know," she said gently touching his cheek. "You can see that plastic surgeon, we can make an appointment for later today..."
"Casey, I don't want to talk about that," Ricky said shifting uncomfortably.
"Okay, then we can talk about how amazing last night was," she said laying soft kisses on his chest.
"I'm all for that," he said kissing her as they both disappeared under the covers.
Casey listened to Ricky's heart beat as his hand played with her hair. She would give anything in the world to stay like that as long as possible, to spend as many moments as she could just being with him, and then she looked at the clock on the wall and then it occurred to her that she only had an amount of hours, a very small amount of hours, almost half the day was gone. It was 12 in the afternoon.
Ricky felt Casey tense. "Are you okay?"
"Yes...no...I don't know." She said snuggling closer to him, trying to make herself believe that if she loved him enough time would stop and they could be together, but she knew deep down no amount of love could keep her on earth.
"I love you," Ricky blurted out.
"What?" Casey exclaimed sitting up in surprise.
"I love you," he said cradling her cheek. "I-I've never...I've never felt this way about anyone...ever," he said softly. "But you, you crashed into my world and turned it upside down and I've never been happier, I've never wanted to be with someone so completely, heart, soul and body,"
Tears welled up in Casey's eyes but she wasn't ashamed of them. "I wish I could stay with you forever," she managed to whisper.
"You can, I want you to move in here with me, today."
"Ricky, I can't."
"If this is about Frank, I'll talk to him, I'll convince him to let you stay with me, if that doesn't work I'll have GG call him."
"You don't understand, I still-I'm still leaving," she whispered and Ricky felt like his heart had just been broken apart and put together inside out.
"What do you mean you're still leaving? You said that you wouldn't."
"I know, but I gotta, I can't stop it, I have to leave."
"Then, I'll go with you, there's nothing for me here-,"
"You can't come with me, not where I'm going."
"Sure I can, I don't have a lot of money right now, but it's enough, I don't want to be away from you Casey."
"I knew this was going to happen," she said standing up with a sheet wrapped around her. "I knew I shouldn't get close to you but I couldn't help it, I have to go back."
"Go back where? College?"
"No, heaven." She said quietly.
"What? What do you mean you have to go back to heaven?"
"I'm an angel. I died a year ago, I was...I was trying to impress some people and I wanted this guy to like me so I took some drugs, it was my first time and I died, I was given 13 weeks to come back to Earth and experience life one more time and today, at midnight my time, it's up."
"Casey, how can you do this?"
"Do what?"
"Lie to me! I-I can't believe this," he said gathering up his clothes. "After last night, after everything, you're leaving and you lie about it!" he said hastily putting his pants on.
"Ricky, I'm not lying I swear, I love you!"
"So much for love," he said walking out the door.
"Wait!" said Casey quickly dressing, but by the time she made it out the door Ricky had disappeared.
Casey collapsed in the hallway, her last day on Earth was going to be spent alone, and heart broken.