AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER...
Chapter Four: Dying Slow (Part Two)
Quizás no sientas lo q yo sentí.. Quizás no hay lagrimas ni miedo, tal vez no piensas ni un omento en mi, tal vez hay alguien en tus sueños, ¿Donde esta el amor? ¿Donde esta tu corazón?... Te necesito ya nada es igual y es que al pensarte todo me ase mal, si tu no estas dame una razón para no morir lento...
Dime que debo hacer para olvidar, que alguien me escuche en el cielo, esta tan roto ya mi corazón ¿Cómo le digo q fue un juego?... ¿Donde esta el ayer? ¿Donde esta el amor? ¿Donde esta tu corazón? No te pareces nada a quien yo ame, y lentamente seme va la fe, si tu no estas dame una razón para no morir lento...
Soplaba el viento a nuestro favor y tocábamos el cielo, mira mis ojos y dime si es verdad que nuestro amor llego al final.. ¿Donde esta el ayer? ¿Donde esta el amor? ¿Donde esta tu corazón? Te necesito ya nada es igual y es que al pensarte todo me hace mal si tu no estas dame una razón para no morir lento...
No te pareces nada a quien yo ame y lentamente se me va la fe, si tu no estas dame una razón para no morir lento...
Muriendo Lento, Timbiriche
"Abby, are you ok?" Emilio Tavares asked sweetly to his wife after dinner "You have been quiet since you got back"
"I'm ok E., no need to worry" Abby answered absently "It's just that I thought I saw someone at the aquarium, someone I used to know"
"A spirit?" Even when it's weird to him, Abby did told him the whole truth about herself before telling him she was pregnant, before he asked her to marry him. That included the Mediator business, Oliver and lots of other things. When he married her, he knew she had a past and a gift from which she couldn't run away
"Oliver's" she answered slowly, still absently. Emilio looked at her sighing, sometimes he still feels second best next to Oliver. He knows how much Abby loved Oliver, and even when he is sure of the love she has for him, he never dares to ask if she loves him the most.
"I see" he said, Abby looked up "Well, do you know if it was him?"
"I guess so, he was never the kind of person who will come back to haunt me" It was the truth, after his passing, Abby never saw Oliver again, till that day… She tried not to think of him, it took most of her strength for months just to start to feel like she was alive again, and that didn't really happened till Emilio had came around and made her laugh and smile and made her take joy in life again.
However, sometimes Abby still feels like she betrayed Oliver by falling in love again...
There was an awkward silence that made the air in the room feel thicker… "I'm just confused, I never expected to see him again"
"But you wanted to…" the words came out harsh and left his mouth before he could stop them
"He was my best friend for years, of course I would like to see him again, but not like you think…" she said frustrated "Gosh, how many times do I have to say that I love you… Oliver is SO in the past"
"You always say that, but I always find that a little difficult to believe"
"It was Oliver" Isabel said breaking the silence that settle between her parents "but he didn't came to haunt you, mom. He comes sometimes to talk to me… and Daisy, he keeps an eye open for us. He told me to watch out for Mr. Slater, that's all."
"Isabel, how can you?" Emilio asked, realization already hitting him "You're a Mediator too" Isabel just nodded
"But how can you see him and I can't"
"Because he doesn't want you to see him, he says that you two are over, that there is no point in you seeing him. You have move on, you don't love him anymore. He reckons that you love my dad, and he doesn't want to cause trouble between you two, but I guess that's just what he did…"
"How does he know?" Emilio asked sarcastically
"He said that mom's eyes have this light in them when she looks at you, and they didn't had that when she looked at him"
Meanwhile, a few blocks away…
Daisy was doing her math homework, she so didn't wanted to stay in detention with Mr. Slater. So she was in the middle of problem number 15, just about to end it when this bright light lit her room, she knew what it was, so she lifted her eyes from her note book to look at the person in front of her
"May I help you?" she said, but then recognition hit her "I know you, you are the father of one of my brother's friends"
"Yes, you do look familiar… well I guess this will make it easy for you. Please tell Jenny that is ok, that I'm fine and that she found the one. Would you tell her that?"
"Jenny, Ok, fine, the one, got it" Daisy said scribbling it at the edge of the not book. The ghost just smiled "Anything else I might help?" The ghost shook his head no and then disappeared, finally moving on to the great beyond.
Daisy wondered what all this meant, and made a mental note on finding out who this Jenny was, maybe she could get Oliver to tell her, or she could get Hector to tell her who of the friends had lost it's father recently… But that would have wait till tomorrow, she was hungry now, so she decided to go to the kitchen and fix herself something to eat, she only hoped that her parents weren't in BPDA (Blatant Public Display of Affection), it was rather gross watch her parents make out.
Next Day, at school…
"I tell you Is, my parents are going mental" Daisy was saying as they ate at the Cafeteria, under the ever vigilant glare of Abby and Jesse "Last night after that ghost appeared at my room and I went out I found my mother in the kitchen and she just stared at me, not even blinking as if I was an alien that took over her daughter's body "And this morning, Dad kept looking at me over his paper… it was so odd"
"Well, what can I tell you… our parents are Odd"
"You think they know?" Daisy asked looking at Jesse, her fork in mid air
"Shot!" Isabel exclaimed loudly hitting her forehead "I told them"
"What?!"
"Last night, mom and dad were fighting over Oliver, so I told them about him and why he was here, how he can come and go from the GB (Great Beyond)… Mom didn't said anything afterwards, I thought she would just let it go, but now she knows and I bet she told your parents too"
"Isabel, ¿cómo pudiste decirles? (How could you tell them?)" Daisy yelled
"Lo siento, se me escapo (I'm sorry, it slipped out)" Isabel answered looking miserable "sé que querías que lo mantuviéramos en secreto pero… (I know you wanted to keep it secret but...) quería que se dejaran de pelear sobre algo tan estupido (I just wanted them to stop fighting over something so stupid)"
"Argh!" Daisy exclaimed taking her tray and walking out the cafeteria. Isabel looked around, Jesse and Abby were still looking, the usual knot in her stomach made her leave five seconds after Daisy.
She ran for the bathroom, going to the last stall and proceed to empty her stomach, a ghostly hand held her hair up "How did you knew I was here?" She asked to Oliver's ghostly form, the toilet flushing sound in the background
"You always get sick when you don't know what to do" Isabel looked at him like saying 'you-are-crazy' but Oliver smiled, tucking a stray piece of hair behind her ear "I remember when you were six and your parents were going to take you to get the anti-flu shot, you over heard them and the night before you had to go, you were in bed with fever and all, you just didn't want to get near the needles. And the next year when they trick you into the doctor's office, you threw up afterwards"
"Make it sound so funny"
"Sorry I got you into trouble with Daisy"
"Daisy's moods shift rather quickly, she'll forgive me soon"
"Then why you got upset?"
"I'm sensitive"
"ISABEL!!!" Yelled Daisy while entering the bathroom "We are late for math"
"Told you" she said, Daisy had already forgiven her for telling on her. Daisy opened the stall where she was
"Told what?, do you know, Oliver, that this is a girls bathroom? Here, drink, you look like hell" Daisy said all this speaking fast and giving Isabel a coke. "Why you always have to throw up when you're in emotional distress… it makes me feel bad when I'm angry at you"
"Told you" Oliver said, then vanished
"He is so weird" Daisy said after Oliver vanished, "Lets go, this time I actually made my homework"
"Are you going to tell your parents that you know that they know"
"Nah, I'm going to toy them around a little while"
Later… Senior math class
"Miss Stuart, could you stay for a second?" Paul asked as the class cleared the room. Lissette Stuart was one of the most popular girls at Mission Academy. Once Paul and Lissette were the only ones in the room
"Yes, professor?" she asked politely
"It has caught my attention that you seem to have a, lets say, crush on the History teacher" Lissette blushed deep red "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone, I just thought that, perhaps, you might be interested in a making a deal with me"
"What kind of deal?"
"Well, you're not to know it, nor am I here to tell you but I knew Mr. De Silva's wife well when we were young… it would be on my best interest if they split, if you know what I mean?"
"I understand but where do I come in?"
"Well, you want old Jesse, don't you? Some people would even say that you are a bit obsessed… all that pictures you have of him in your room, all the love letters…"
"How do you know that?"
"I have my sources"
"You're creepy"
"I guess you could say that, but I could help you… or not" Lissette was sure he was about to say 'or hurt you', but she didn't stop to think in that "I know Jesse very well too…"
"Ok, as long as this stays between both of us"
"Of course, dear Lissette, of course"
End Of Chapter Four.
Notes, I know this doesn't have Suze/Jesse fluff, this is more of a transition chapter! The troubles will start to come later, well not much of a trouble since… oh well. You will find out later.
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