Chapter Three: Let's Find Out Who You Are

Author's Note:

Chapter Three: Let's Find Out Who You Are is finally here! Sorry for taking so long. Ever since school started, the math homework just began pouring in! Not to mention during the past three weeks, I couldn't go on the computer as much for two reasons. Reason one: I always had to go to my dad's Art Nouveau Academy Studio with him, which is where he works as a self-employee. He's the only worker there. And Reason Two: During the four days before Halloween, I had to make my costume by hand. Which meant blanket stitches, overcast stitches, you get the picture. Those stupid pins and needles... Anywho, I'm back now, and I'll be posting up new chapters for a while. Graceful Swan is now up, and two chapters are ready. You can find the cast list for "Graceful Swan" on the first chapter of "Graceful Swan." So, here's Chapter Three: Let's Find Out Who You Are. Please enjoy and review! Until Chapter Four: Some Help, see ya! ;-)

-CelestialTime93

"Okay, so the question is why did I have to leave my body." Inez said, as they sat on the couch back home.

"It's a difficult one, but it's the right one." Matt added.

The two sighed.

"The answer's hopeless." Inez frowned, "It'll be almost impossible to find out why I left my body."

"Jacs said that the right question has the right answer." Matt explained as Inez began to stand on her head against a wall. She kept her knees bent against the walls, since she was wearing a long skirt.

"I'm the ghost here, I should be the one to know!" Inez whined, "Why don't I?"

"Maybe you're a ghost for a reason." Matt suggested, "Nobody can come out of a car accident unscared. They have to at least be in a coma. Which, you're in now."

"At least I'm not dead in six months." Inez frowned.

"But if you stay as a ghost any longer than a week, than you're gonna be lost forever, both spirit and body." Matt reminded.

"Yeah, thanks for reminding me." Inez said sarcastically. She rolled to her side and stood back up. "We need backup. Unfourtunatly, Jackie isn't of much help. We can only talk to her so rarely."

"I'm meeting up with one of my old friends here in Boston tonight." Matt explained, "Wanna come along?"

"Nah, I'll just explore the place after six months." Inez replied.

"Okay." Matt said, "If you need me, you can - oh. Almost forgot. You can't pick up anything yet. Except for that coffee mug, which I don't know how you did it."

"If I focus my mind on picking the object up, I can pick it up." Inez replied, "So, what was your cellphone number."

Matt wrote his cellphone number with a pen he found on the coffee table with the scrap piece of paper. He handed it to Inez. She took it from him and looked at it. "You still didn't change your cellphone? It should be broken by now."

"Ha ha, very funny." Matt frowned, standing up, "Better get ready. Man, time flies by so quickly. It's almost time for the meeting."

"Get ready then." Inez smiled, as Matt walked towards the bedroom. Her smile faded as she gazed out the window. She can't tell why she was only in a coma, unscared. When you're in a coma, it's like you're dead for a temporary time. If you don't return to your body before the given time, then you're lost forever. Inez was alive for a reason. She wanted to be alive when Matt returned.

Jackie was right. Inez did have a crush on Matt. Ever since the cybersquad's last adventure in Cyberspace. After that, their lives were peaceful. Before Inez got a chance to tell Matt her feelings, Matt moved to New York. And now, he returned, six months after the car accident. Was it worth it?

Inez hoped that she could live to tell Matt that she loved him. What if he said no? Worst of all, how would it effect their friendship from the aftershock? If only she could read his mind. But, she couldn't. She wouldn't. She'll let things happen naturally.

"Matt, what took you so long?" Matt's old time friend, Robbie McFarlan asked. He was sitting at a patio set outside a coffee shop.

"Sorry I'm late." Matt said, sitting down across from him. His coffee was already there.

"So, what's up?" Robbie asked, noticing Matt's expression.

"Robbie," Matt asked, "Did you ever see someone, but other's can't see her?"

Whoops. That didn't come out right.

"You mean emotionally unavailable?" Robbie asked.

Matt frowned. "No, Robbie." he said, "Like, a ghost, that only you can see and speak to. There's a ghost in my new apartment. She happens to be an old friend of mine. She's been in a coma for six months now, and if she doesn't return to her body in a week, then she's gonna be lost forever. I have to save her, she's my friend."

"You mean Ineza Garcia, don't you." Robbie asked.

Matt nodded.

"She got in a car crash six months ago." Robbie explained, "Of course, I'm sure Ineza already told you."

"I call her Inez, but I guess." Matt replied, "But here's the thing, she wasn't the one who told me. You know Jaclyn Edwards from the Edwards' Family Bookshop?"

"Yeah." Robbie replied.

"She's also a friend of mine." Matt explained, "She can see auras. She saw Inez's and she was able to identify what her personality was. She told me about the car accident six months ago, and she even reminded Inez who she was. When we first encountered two days ago, Inez couldn't remember anything from her past. Not even her name and friends. The only thing she remembered was that the apartment that I live in now was hers six months ago and the neighbours. She couldn't remember her friends and family."

"What are you saying, we need to find her body?" Robbie asked.

"And get it out of the hospital for Inez to enter." Matt said, "If Inez suddenly comes back to life in the hospital, people are gonna get a little suspicious. We have to take her body out of the hospital."

"Then we're gonna get in trouble!" Robbie hissed.

Just when Matt was about to reply, his cellphone rang.

"Excuse me." Matt said. He checked the caller ID. It was his own phone number. Inez.

He answered the phone. "Inez, what's up?"

"Jackie just called." Inez replied, "She said that she wants to see you. Now."

"What about you?" Matt asked.

"Don't worry, I'll be there." Inez reassured.

"I don't care what you say, I'm coming to pick you up now." Matt counteracted.

"Matt! I'm not a baby anymore!" Inez snapped.

"I don't care!" Matt cried, "You're still two years younger than me! When I first met you, you were only nine and I was eleven!"

Before Inez could get a chance to retort, Matt hung up.

"I have to go." Matt said, "Jackie wants me at the bookstore on the double. I'm so sorry about today's meeting."

"It's okay." Robbie smiled, "Meet me at the bar tomorrow. Bring Ineza along with you."

"I don't think she likes being called by her full name." Matt frowned, "Me and Jackie just called her Inez since we were eleven and she was nine."

"You were friends with her since she was nine?" Robbie laughed, "Ha! Oh, man. Matt, I have a feeling she's the one!"

"Ha! Fat chance!" Matt cried, resisting the thought of kissing Inez, "Nezzie'sjust my friend. That's it."

"You even gave her a nickname!" Robbie laughed.

"I called her that since she was nine because it bugged her!" Matt rolled his eyes.

"Matt..." Robbie smirked.

"I'll see you tomorrow night." Matt said, as he grabbed his stuff and drove back home.

"You just have to treat me like a baby, don't you?" Inez snapped in the car.

"Just be quiet and live with it." Matt replied through gritted teeth.

"Arf! Arf!" Obi barked.

"We're here." Matt said.

"Jacs, what's the emergancy?" Matt asked, as he, Inez, and Obi rushed in the shop.

"Inez," Jackie explained, "Her body can't last much longer! You only have less than a week to get her back!"

Matt and Inez's hearts sank. They only had less than a week to get Inez back. That wasn't enough time. They needed more time!