It had never occurred to me, that Jesse might come back. He had died. Died. What was I supposed to think? And now…now he was trying to get me to choose. The nerve. You would think it would be an easy choice, right? Think again. You see since Jesse was dead, Paul had become…well, a different person. And Jesse…what future could we have? And I couldn't base my decision on the past. Could I?

" Susannah. You have to decide. I don't like to pressure you, but I have to. If you don't want me, I'll leave and never some back." I cringed. Life without Jesse? But then again, I was about to …well, you know, with Paul. It would be bad for me to just blow him off like that.

" Suze. Come on, tell ghost boy that we are together." How could they pressure me like this?

" Slater. Shut up." Then he walked over to me, and lifted my chin with his hands. They weren't warm. " Querida. I'm not forcing you to choose me. I know- I- I know how you msut feel." I started to cry.

" Its just so hard. I love you Jesse. Or, I did. I… It would have been easier if you were here. But Paul…" I walked over to him, and kissed his cheek. " Paul. You know I can't-can't say I love you." His eyes grew angry.

" Yeah. Whatever. Ok, if you want to be with De Silva than do whatever the fuck you want. Don't care anyway. But if you aren't going to be with me, you better leave." He turned away.

" Paul…please. Don't you understand? Jesse and I- we are meant for each other."

" Whatever."

" No. not whatever. What we had, " I pointed to him ,and back at my heart. " it was special. Ok? I'm not going to pretend that we can go back to being enemies. I mean, I can't. This is hard for me, o.k. And I never broke it off with Jesse. So you have to understand-"

" Understand what? Understand that the moment your dead boyfriend calls, you come running?"

"It's not like that!" I tried to grab his arm, but he pushed me down. Within a second, Jesse was pulling back his arm. " Jesse! No… let him leave."

" Susannah, he hurt you-"

" No. It was the other way around." And then Paul left. And I was left alone in my live boyfriend's house with my dead boyfriend.