Dylan POV
"Hey, Dylan. Did you know that the students are talking about you?" I got confused about what Jeff, my co-professor told me. "What do you mean?" I asked him. He leaned closer to me and whispered, "They say that they saw you talking to yourself. They said your crazy." I laugh just to make clear that I am not talking to myself and also to escape the issue. "Of course not! Hahaha, I'm talking to someone on the phone. I use my earphone to talk." and of course I used that excuse.
"Okay fine, I believe in you. Come, let's grab some lunch?" he asked and I agreed to eat lunch with him. "You know, sometimes I thought you can see ghosts." I got shocked by what he said. Is it that obvious? I should be more careful next time, no one should know that I can see ghosts. "You suddenly talk to yourself or you stare at something that I can't see. I mean, you just stare at the air." he keeps on explaining. Sometimes I stared at a ghost, looking at what they are doing but I didn't know someone will notice me doing that. Maybe I should look around first if there is someone looking at me. "Ghost doesn't exist, man, they are not real. So can you please chill?" I joked, he just laughs about what I said. I just hope that he will forget about what we talked about today. I don't want anyone thinking that I can see ghosts.
After we ate our lunch, I was about to go to my next class but I noticed that I haven't seen Anika for the past 2 days. After what happened to her, she suddenly stayed quiet and disappeared. She said that she wanted to figure something out on her own first. I thought of it, maybe I should help her with her situation. After what happened last time, I can see that there is something big that is happening to her. Not just by losing her memory, I feel like there is something more.
I'm walking towards my next class but then I recognize someone. I stood still and look at her from afar. She's here? I can see her smile even from our distance, she looked at me like we haven't seen her for so long. She walks towards me and greeted me. "Faye?" I said when we got closer to each other. "Hey Dylan, it's so nice to see you," she said, the happiness of her seeing me again is painted on her face. "How are you? What are you doing here? When did you come home?" I asked her.
Faye is a friend of Nicole. We got close after when Nicole left, we always hang out together and she tried to bring happiness to me. But after our graduation, she left our town and studied far away from our home town and now she's back.
"I'm good. I just got here a week ago. Let's catch up Dylan, meet me at the park after you do your thing professor Torres haha." she said as she teased me about my job. We always teased each other just for fun. "Of course, let's meet up later. See you!" I said as I walk away. I need to go to my class, I'm nearly late. I wonder why she's back. She said she won't going back here again, but now she's here. Maybe I should ask her.
After I finished all of my classes and as my day has ended, I walk towards the park to meet Faye. "Dylan!" Faye called as I walk towards the gate of the university and to the park. "Hey! Did you wait for me too long?" I asked her as we walk to the nearest bench so that we can sit and talk. "Not really, I'm just walking around the campus while I wait for you. You know, there are a lot of memories in here and I remember them all." she said, "Even if I go here every day and I can still remember them." she just smiled about what I said.
"Oh did you visited Nicole already? If not we can go there right now." I offered her, I also wanted to visit Nicole again. It's been 2 days since I visited her, and I wanted to visit her as often as I could even if it's sad to know that I can't be with her anymore. "No I haven't but I'll visit her next time when our friend visited her too." I got confused when she said their friend. Do they have a friend? I thought Nicole and Faye were best friends, I didn't know there is someone else.
"Friend?" I asked who is she talking about. "Yes, we're actually three. We were friends since we were in kindergarten and we've been together ever since." I'm still confused, she never mentioned that before and I have never seen them together as three. "Why haven't seen you together? I didn't know who she was." I asked her. "Well, when you and Nicole got close, we had a problem. We stopped talking or meeting. That's why you are never seen as together." I guess maybe that's why I haven't met her or seen them together. But I hope to see her this time because I know Nicole wants her closest friends to be together too.
"How will you know if she visited Nicole already?" I asked her. "I'll just know if she visited," she said. "Right, because you're friends with her. But I also hope to meet her, I haven't met her before." I said but she just smiled. "But I think she already visited, I saw an anemone flower when I visited her last time. I guess that belongs to her and she finally visited Nicole." I continued. "I don't think that's her, maybe it's from someone else or maybe her friend too." maybe Faye is right, Nicole might have other friends that we didn't know. Nicole doesn't talk about her other relationships or friends before when we're still together. I just hope to see Nicole and Faye's other friend. Maybe she could answer some of my questions about what happened before when Nicole died.
"Speaking of friends, I need to meet a family friend of mine. Thanks for talking to you Dylan and I hope we could grab something next time I come here," she said as she stood up and said goodbye. I just nodded as an answer to her offer, I would love to catch up with her. I have a lot of questions that are needed to be answered.
Anika POV
I have no plans on showing up to Dylan these past two days. I feel ashamed when he saw me in that situation last night, and I don't know why but I have this feeling whenever I'm with him. I always want to show more of my happy side, I don't want him to see me in pain and I don't know why I feel that way. Maybe I'm just too shy.
But anyway, I wondered around for the past two days and I haven't seen anything. I'm about to go to the park at the back of the university when I saw a girl walking from the gate of the university. But I have a feeling that I should follow her, I don't know why I should follow her but still, I did follow her.
She's also going towards the park and when she got there, she sat on a bench and pull out something from her pocket. I stand close to her, it looks like she's not from here because I haven't seen her and this is the first time I saw her there in the park. I looked into her eye and I saw her pain and anger. She must be going through something and she might be thinking about it right now.
I looked at her hand and saw a picture of her and a girl, but the picture is ripped off and it looks like there is someone besides the other girl in the picture. I wonder who is that girl. "Don't worry Nicole, you'll be at peace soon," she whispered into the air. Nicole, is she also the same person that Dylan is close with? Maybe they're close friends but I wonder who is that person was ripped off the picture.
"And I hope you'll be at peace too." she continues as she is holding the ripped part of the picture. I felt the chills when she said that, it's like she's talking to someone that she wants to be gone. I also felt that she is also talking to me but she doesn't see me at all, why would I think that she is talking to me.
I can't stop thinking about what she said. I don't know if that is something to do about my life. But all I know is once a ghost wanders around, a sign or a feeling will lead us that is something related to our previous life.
Maybe, everything that is happening right now is somehow related to my past life but I can't pinpoint what it is.
There are still things missing, puzzles are still needed to be solved and a lot of bigger things will keep on happening.
I hope...
To Be Continued...