"Kirsten? Oh my god honey. I am so sorry" Julie rushed in to the room. Kirsten looked up at Julie, tears streaming from her eyes.
"Mum" Marissa said, she had heard Kirsten whisper Sandy's name, and she had no idea where the beautiful necklace came from.
"Ryan and I have said our good byes. Do you want to go home?" Seth asked his mother. She nodded slowly, and got out of the bed, before she did anything else, she put on the necklace. Ryan grabbed her arm, not wanting her to fall again.
He couldn't believe he was gone. The only real father he ever had. The only person who had given him a second chance. What was going to happen to the family now? Kirsten was destroyed, the humor in Seth's eyes had disappeared, and he felt totally empty. They finally got out of the hospital and in to the car. On the way home, Kirsten didn't say a word. When they entered the house, she walked straight to her bedroom and locked the door.
"This can't be happening" Seth murmured, he sat down on the couch, Summer was still with him, she wrapped her arms around him.
Ryan and Marissa was in the pool-house.
"I kinda understand your feelings, I mean, my dad has left, too. Twice, actually. And I told not to come back." Marissa tried. Ryan just nodded.
Kirsten was in their room, the crying was never going to stop. She knew she could see him 9 minutes a month, but what difference did it make? She needed him here twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year.
She was lying on her bed, hugging one of his Berkeley sweatshirts.
"Sandy. Sandy. Sandy" She whispered, she needed to talk to him, there was one thing she'd forgotten to ask him.
She saw a bright light in front of her, and he suddenly appeared. The light disappeared, and he looked like he used to, only he was dressed in the same white robe as earlier.
"Kirsten, hi again. Did you want to see me?" he asked. The sight of her husband like this made her cry even more, if that was possible.
"Honey, what's the matter? Come on, talk to me baby" he sat down on the bed next to her.
"Sandy, I can't do this without you!" she cried out.
In the living room, Summer and Seth heard Kirsten's scream. They looked at each other.
"Oh my god." Summer whispered. Seth wrapped his arms tighter around Summer, and he started to cry.
Back in the bedroom, Sandy wasn't surprise by her words, and he had an answer.
"Yes you can. I know it. You just have to…" he didn't got the chance to finish his sentence, before she yelled.
"Don't tell me what I can or can't do! And I don't have to do anything, I can't do anything, if you're not here" she freaked out completely and grabbed the book lying on her bedside table and threw it across the room.
"Kirsten, calm down! You can still see me, that must be better than not seeing me at all" he tried. She shook her head.
"Right, I can see you for nine minutes a month! That is not enough! I need you twenty four hours a day for the rest of my life!" she shouted this too, oblivious to the fact that Summer and Seth was down in the living room, hearing every word of it, so loud was she shouting.
Seth and Summer looked at each other, worried. Was Kirsten going crazy? At first they thought she just talked to herself, but what was this thing with 'see you for nine minutes a month'?
Now it was his time to shout. "Kirsten! You're not the only one hurting. I feel the same way as you do. Do you really think I haven't tried to change the rules so that I can see you more? Do you? I love you as much as you love me, but I have to stay focused, I have to do my job, and my job is to protect you. I know you're upset and I am too, but I try to control myself. And I need you to do that too!"
She looked at him in silence. "I'm sorry. I was just wondering, can I tell the boys, about this, about you?"
"Well, you're allowed to, but they can't see or hear me. I am only meant to be seen by you. I have tried to become their guardian angels too, but it's a little more complicated with Ryan than Seth, since Ryan isn't my biological son. But I'm trying, I am Seth's. But I can only see him for three minutes a month, witch sucks." He smiled. She smiled weakly back at him.
Seth thought he was going crazy too. Had he just heard his dad shouting at his mum? No that was impossible. He figured that it must have been in his mind.
"I'm sorry about what I said, it wasn't your fault. I just love you so much and I don't want to lose you" she cried again.
"You are never going to lose me. I'm going to watch over you every second until you die. I am always going to be with you, you can feel my presence. But I have to go now, remember, only one more time this month" She nodded and he kissed her, and then the white light came back, and he disappeared.
She closed her eyes and fell back onto the bed, now crying more than ever. But she smiled through her tears when she realised that she actually could feel his presence. In her imagination she saw him smile at her.
