Ch 2 Rising from the Ashes
Lex opened his eyes to see Chloe in the mists of getting dressed. She stopped to look at him in her black bra and matching panties. Lex sat up letting the blanket slide down to his waist. "Do you have time for coffee?" he asked
"Not today" She came over to him to give him a goodbye kiss.
As she was walking to the door Lex got up and grabbed her from behind.
"I can't be late for the meeting" she said removing herself from his grasp.
She walked out of the room.
Lex quickly put on pants and threw on shirt and followed her out of his room. But he got there just in time to hear the front door close. He knew he wouldn't be able to catch her she had a habit of disappearing.
Lex remembered that day, the day she walked back into his life.
MAY 2005
It the one year anniversary of her death, he was standing over her tombstone. The rain was pouring down around him; he was alone in the cemetery. He let the rain soak through his clothes.
But some unknown forces made his head look up. There on a hill not far from where he was standing was a woman.
The wind was blowing through her blonde hair as the rain whipped at her skin. The way the rain incased made her look like a ghost. He blinked and wiped his hands on over his face, pushing the water out of his eyes.
That can't be her
The woman started walking towards him, and some magnetic force pushed him forward too. I'm hallucinating
She stopped in front of him, not saying anything. This was the strongest apparition that he's seen. Her hair was longer then when he usually imagined, because in his dreams she looked exactly the same as when she died.
Right after her death, he imagined he saw her everywhere. It got to the point that he was stopping every blonde haired woman he saw on the street. They almost had him institutionalized again.
But this apparition wasn't going anywhere. She just stood there looking into his eyes. "Chloe" he whispered still not sure if she was a figment of his imagination. His hand went up to touch her shoulder it was solid she was real.
"Chloe" he said again
"Hello Lex" she said
"Chloe, how...your real"
"Yes Lex"
She was real and she was shivering from the cold, her shirt was plastered to her chest, her jeans were soaked through. Her long blonde waves were matted to her face.
"Lets go in my car"
"Ok"
They talked in his car, she didn't tell him where she was for the past year only that she was recovering. Her dad died in the explosion, she didn't know how she survived since she was in the house with him when it blew up.
After she told him not tell anyone about her being alive she just got out of the car.
"Where are you going, when will I see you again"
"I'll find you" was all she said and she walked back out into the rain. Lex got out to follow her but she just disappeared in the foggy mist of the rain. He drove around to look for her but she was gone.
For the next few days he was beginning to believe that she really was just a figment of his imagination, he thought his mind had made that up, to make him move on. But she came back a week later.
She had only one thing on her mind Revenge!
TBC