I squinted my eyes as they came in contact with the sun across from me. I steadied myself as a wave a nausea rolled over me, most likely a result of the rapid climate change. The eerily chilled room with the three creatures was replaced with blistering heat.

'Don't forget to put on sunscreen,' I could practically hear my mother saying, though after twenty one years we both knew I didn't burn. Or tan, unfortunately.

I examined my arm carefully, the almost translucent look to it bringing comfort. A familiarity.

I sighed. The nausea was getting to me. I walked slowly to the park bench, testing the control of weight distribution. It was returning.

I tried to make sense of the previous events. I was a smart girl, I knew good and well that ghosts did not exist. What would my colleagues think? Not that I'd ever tell them, this ridiculous tale I'd almost believed. Though, it'd never really mattered before what people thought of me. In that way I was odd.

An older couple – mid fifties most likely – started to head my way.

Subconsciously, I brushed a lock of mahogany hair behind my ear. Not to aid my appearance, just to do something.

"Hello," I started to say as they walked straight up to me, but then, they just sat down. The woman was sitting on me!

I screamed in shock, but mostly because I didn't want the horror I feared to really be true. I couldn't feel anything. Why aren't they noticing me?

But, like I said, I was a smart girl. I understood that clearly the odd men knew what they were talking about.

Breath, Bella. Calm down. I got off the bench, looking back at the oblivious couple, holding hands and smiling as the man fumbled through his bag for bread scraps to feed the pigeons.

I took a deep breath and started walking. At first it was calmly, but it turned hurried pretty fast. The pavement was blurring beneath me.

Finally, I reached my house. The blue sedan was parked outside my garage. A grin passed my lips. My mother was home. I reached for the faded gold door knob. My hand slid right through the door. I'm pretty sure my heart stopped for a second.

When in Rome, I thought bitterly and walked straight through the door, still half expecting to break my nose against the door.

"Wow," I spoke out loud, shaking my head to get my mind clear.

The green pale walls welcomed me as I examined the room. Same picture of me, Charlie and Mom on the beach at Christmas when I was five. Same ten dollar exotic chandelier Renee got from the flea market last spring. Same leather sofa and matching armchairs.

The recognition seeped through my body, sending relaxing tingles throughout my body.

Now to find Renee. I was almost tempted to take my shoes off at the door, but instead I just walked across the wooden hallway leading to the kitchen. I was hoping to find Renee there cooking so I could sort this mess out.

Wait, I halted in my tracks. If the men were telling the truth and I am really dead, how is Renee taking this? I mean, it was only yesterday that it happened.

That was another thing. I really had no idea what did actually happen.

I stopped my brain before it got too carried away. I am only twenty one, it's bound to be in the paper.

I put my brave face on and headed towards the kitchen, expecting the absolute worst.

"1,2,3 not only you and me, got 180 degrees. Countin 1,2,3." She sung to Phil, laughing happily. He smiled back at her and continued cleaning the remaining dirty dishes in the sink.

I froze up. Her bright eyes were most definitely not the tear filled, puffy set that I'd expected.

Well, maybe this was her way of dealing with grief. Certainly not how she acted when her mum died, but maybe with me it was. She's my mother; it's not possible for her to just be indifferent to my death. She cried over a cracked rib when I was a kid.

I was watching the happy scene play out when I noticed a silver ring with a decent sized diamond center on her left hand.

I couldn't help it. As relieved as I was to see my mother, this was too much. I fled.

Jake will care. Jake always cares.

Hot moisture slipped down my cheeks, burning like acid. I closed my eyes and the moisture stopped failing like raindrops. I reopened them and I ran.

I ran through street after street just feeling freedom, not the overwhelming exhaustion I would usually feel. Although smart, I'm not the fittest.

At last, I reached Jake's house. I sprinted up the rocky driveway and tapped on the door out of habit, only to run through it after my hand went in.

"Jake!" I yelled, though it was becoming pretty clear they couldn't hear me. I leapt up the stairway I been a million times and into his room.

What I saw was probably the thing I least expected. The worst possible thing.

Jake was lying on top of Seth Clearwater's older sister Leah, trying to suck her face off.

She moaned loudly as he detached his tongue from her mouth to kiss her neck, moving slowly up to her jaw. He ground his hips into hers and she started to lift at the hem of his shirt.

Suddenly, I was back at the park. Though I was thankful to be away from the most disturbing scene I'd ever witnessed, I was perturbed as to how I got back to the mall park.

But that could wait, I had more important things to think about. I couldn't stop replaying the scene in my head. I shrank down to my knees, letting out a quiet sob that shook my entire body like an earthquake.

I pounded the dewy grass underneath me, as if it was the cause of all my troubles.

I stopped soon though, not feeling like crying anymore. Instead, I just sat in the grass waiting.

Not sure what I was waiting for. In some part of my mind, I knew it was for someone to acknowledge me, even though that obviously wasn't going to happen.

Or so I thought.

" Hello, Bella" I voice called. Not one I recognized, but it was a voice and that was all I cared about right now.

I turned to match the voice with a face. I was met with perhaps the most stunning man I had ever seen.

He had aperfect, lean figure, angled nose, strong jaw, crooked smile, emerald green eyes and the oddest color of hair. Bronze, almost the color of a penny.

"You've kept me waiting for quite a bit."

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