Chapter Two: The Wrong Question

Author's Note:

Chapter Two: The Wrong Question is here! Sorry for taking so long! It's finally here! Enjoy and review plesae! Until Chapter Three: Let's Find Out Who You Are, see ya! ;-)

-CelestialTime93

"What are you doing, Inez?" Matt asked.

Inez was staring out the large window, to the night time view of Boston.

"Just looking out the window." Inez replied, "I can't remember the last time I looked out the window."

"Probably six months ago." Matt said.

"Oh, well." Inez shrugged, walking away from the window, "Now I get to see it whenever I want. It is my apartment."

"I wouldn't call it yours..." Matt muttered.

Inez heard that. She whirled around angrily. "Get out!" she cried. She was about to push Matt outside the window. Matt shielded himself, only to feel a cold rush go through him. Inez accidently slipped through Matt's body, and out the window.

Matt looked down the window. He turned around and yelped when he saw Inez, angry, infront of him. Her arms were crossed over her shoulders.

"I'm not leaving, for the last time!" Inez shot.

"Fine!" Matt retorted, "Whatever's clever..."

Matt was getting dressed in his pajamas, and Inez was sitting on the toilet's lid, arms and legs crossed.

"I can sleep in the bed tonight, right?" Inez asked.

"Sure." Matt shrugged. She was a ghost after all.

"Aren't you getting in?" Matt asked.

"I changed my mind." Inez replied.

Matt tried to think of a way to get Inez in the bed. Even as a ghost, she'll freeze! He couldn't say she could freeze to death, because she was already dead. Sort of. Just on a coma.

Then, an idea struck Matt. He snuck to the other end of the bed while Inez stared out the window. He took a deep breath, and grabbed Inez's arm, only to slip through her.

"Whoa! Oof!" Matt fell off of the bed and onto the floor, face forward.

Inez whirled around and giggled. "You really want me to sleep with you, don't you?"

"I just want you to feel comfortable." Matt replied, standing up, "It's your apartment, too, y'know."

Inez smiled. "At least now you agree."

"Ha ha, very funny." Matt said sarcastically as Inez got in bed.

The two faced each other. Both couldn't help but smile.

"I don't get it." Matt whispered, "Why can't you remember anything?"

"I don't know." Inez whispered back, "Before the accident, I knew everything. What I was going to do, what I was thinking. Then, that's when my car accidently swerved onto the opposite lane. I drove into a truck, and the blinding light was the last thing I saw."

Matt thought about it. "You must've had a concussion."

"I don't know what happened." Inez whispered. Then, tears sufficed through her eyes as Matt asked her, "How can I touch you now? At least give you a hug."

"If you could ever touch me I probably wouldn't be here in the morning..." Inez whispered hoarsley through her tears, "Goodnight."

Matt woke up the next morning to find that Inez wasn't in the bed beside him. He bolted out of bed, changed from his pajamas to a brown t-shirt, denim jacket, pair of jeans, and brown boots.

He rushed to the kitchen to find Inez, sitting in a chair at the dinner table. Surprisingly, she was drinking a cup of coffee, and she was eating a french toast.

"What the..." Matt wondered out loud.

Inez noticed. "Good morning. Had a nice sleep?"

"I was gonna ask you the same thing." Matt replied, sitting down across from Inez, "Sorry about last night."

"Hey, it wasn't your fault." Inez replied, "No biggie."

"Okay." Matt said, "But still. I don't know why nobody else can see you. Not even Jackie can see you, and all three of us have been friends for 14 years! Why just me?"

"Don't ask me, I have no clue." Inez replied, taking another sip of her coffee.

Matt thought about it, then got up from his seat. He put on his cowboy hat and took his keys. Then, he looked at Inez, who looked at him dubiously.

"You comin' or what?" Matt asked.

"We're here." Matt announced, parking the car along the sidewalk. Matt got out of the car, and walked over to the sidewalk that The Edwards' Family Bookshop was on. Inez melted through the passanger seat car door, as Obi pushed open the door and followed the two inside the bookshop.

Jackie was behind the counter. She looked up from a book to see Matt on the other side of the counter. Obi was with him. But so was Inez. Too bad Jackie couldn't see her.

"I sense another aura with you." Jackie said, standing up, "The exact same one in the apartment. Let me guess... Inez, right?"

"Wow, she's good." Inez said.

"Yep." Matt replied to Jackie's question, "We still have some unanswered questions."

"Are you sure they're the right questions?" Jackie asked.

"Right questions?" Matt repeated dubiously, "No, no, my question is why can I see Inez while others can't?"

"Okay, that'sthewrong question!" Jackie corrected.

"Please tell me more about myself..." Inez muttered.

"Tell me more about Inez's aura!" Matt said.

"Alright." Jackie said. She sat back down and closed her eyes. "Let's see... she's a nurse at the Boston Clinic, no relationship ever in her life..."

"Already know that." Matt said.

Jackie opened her eyes. A mischiveous smile crept upon Jackie's face. "Well, whaddya know? Inez has a crush on you."

"What?" Matt wondered out loud.

"That is a total lie!" Inez defended, blushing violently, "I do not have a crush on him!"

"Ooh, somebody's embarrassed!" Jackie laughed.

"For the last time, I do not have a crush on - wait." Inez stopped, "I like reading..."

"I like sports." Matt said.

"Working,"

"Playing,"

"Studying." the two said in union. Matt and Inez looked at each other.

"Look, all I can say is that you're asking yourself the wrong question, Matt." Jackie said, "Find the right question, and you'll be able to find the answer."

"Oooh, why was Inez out of her body in the first place?" Matt groaned.

"Now, that's the right question!" Jackie said.

Matt and Inez stared at Jackie dubiously.

"Like I said." Jackie explained, "Find the right question, and you'll be able to find the answer. Right question, right answer."