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Chapter Seven
Moon Kitty 2005
May 22nd, 2006
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Ran sighed and drew her knees to her chest, gazing out at the stars from her small window. Her routine sure had changed since she had met Shinichi. Her entire existence after him had been pure hell. She wasn't trying to chase intruders from her house anymore. No one was coming. The only one that ever came was him.
Shinichi...
He's so weird, Ran thought. He made her think. He made her care. She wondered, why? In the 50 years that she had been stuck there, no one had ever bothered to care about why she was there and what had happened to her. So she hadn't bothered to explain. It was pointless.
She placed a hand against the cool glass and sighed. What was he doing to her? Everyday when he came, she was looking forward to it. She looked forward to their conversations. He didn't run. He didn't yell. He listened, and that was rare.
Ran glanced at her hand, then blinked. What the-? She lifted her hand in front of her face, gasping. It was transparent! She could see the wall directly in front of her! What was going on?
Had she found...
... what she was looking for?
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"So, since my class is going on a trip, I won't be able to come for about a week," Shinichi explained apologetically, hand resting on the doorknob.
"That's all right. I've been alone for 50 years now. One week won't make much of a difference, will it?" she retorted. A whole week of silence. Wow. What could I do? Not like I'll really miss him or anything...
"I don't know. Will it?" he replied cheekily before winking and shutting the door behind him.
Ran sighed and looked towards the stairway. She hadn't even been able to tell him what was going on. She was fading. After talking with her mother and father, she discovered why. She had found it.
She had found it in him.
She was ready... to go.
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Shinichi pulled his duffel bag over his shoulder and climbed the first step of the bus, looking back. He couldn't understand it, but he didn't want to get on this bus. Something was going to happen. He could feel it in his gut.
Something he didn't want to happen. Or did he? He couldn't be sure. All he knew was that all these new feelings and experiences were foreign to him. But he wanted more.
He wanted to know more about her. And, he vowed to himself that he was going to be the only one who ever knew more about her than beyond the first glance. He didn't want others looking at her. But, he thought to himself, of course other people are going to. She's a ghost. He couldn't understand why he was so possessive over something that didn't physically exist. But she exists enough, he thought. Enough to where I... where I lo-
"Shinichi! Get on the bus already!" someone yelled.
He turned, startled into silence by his thoughts, and nodded before climbing up the steps and settling into the battered vinyl seats.
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Authoress Notes
Hmm... well, I think we're close to the end of the story. I really don't think it's been that bad, but I guess we'll wait for the ending and see how you guys like that. I don't even know what's going to happen in the end. (lol) Laterz!
