Chapter 10: The Ghost

The point of view of  “…..” on Ria's first night living in that house.

She had been gone for some time.

She didn't go out of fear, did she?

Judging from her aura, it's impossible. She was no longer afraid, instead she looked excited.

Ria she looked like she wanted to go shopping, maybe she'll be back soon.

This was all my fault. Actually she was very excited and wanted to welcome Ria who would live in this house.

But sometimes I forget, that I am no longer a living being.

I forgot, if the slightest change that I make will look strange in the eyes of humans who see it.

I went downstairs and stood in front of the window in the living room, looking straight at the small garden in the grounds.

Staring straight at the gate.

Hoping that the iron will soon shift open and Ria will come home with a beautiful face.

Eh? What no, I didn't mean that.

I mean yes, Ria is beautiful. Of course. But what I want to say is, I hope she's not really gone.

I just want the help. It might be a bit inconvenient, but I'm already bored here and don't want my time to be wasted.

There's a reason why I'm still in this world. There is a goal I must fulfill first.

But I can't do it alone. I need someone else's help.

And I've wasted a lot of time.

Not many people want to live in this house because they know its unpleasant history.

Most of them must have guessed, that I'm still haunting this house.

They knew it.

I can hear the clock ticking, the wind whistling, the sound of people passing by and vehicles passing by this house.

But Ria is nowhere to be seen.

How much longer must I stand here and hope?….

**

Not long after, I saw her.

She was  carrying two bags of groceries in both hands.

Yes! She came back! Hehe… I smiled like an idiot, behind this glass window.

Hmm? Who is she chatting with?

Oohh…

My smile expands seeing the friendliness of that beautiful girl to others.

She is indeed kind. I can see her aura.

They are talking about something.

Many people think I'm still wandering because I didn't accept my death at such a young age.

That reason is not entirely true.

I am indeed saddened by my fate to leave earlier without having the chance to continue living like other people.

But I don't really mourn it either.

It's just that, I have an important deal so why am I still in this house.

Aunt Jena had seen me many times. Well, I accidentally showed myself a few times to her.

Like right now. I was waiting for Ria, but I just stared at her.

Soon Ria entered the house and immediately entered the kitchen.

I didn't follow her but hid behind a door or wall.

At night, it's easy to see me. Not to mention soon is the anniversary of my death.

The energy waves that come out slowly will be very strong and make me more radiant than usual.

When I heard the bedroom door close, I immediately went to the second room upstairs to hide.

I was silent and lay on the bed while listening to her footsteps, the sound of clinking cooking utensils, her soft singing voice...

This house feels more alive than before.

Even when I was alive and breathing. This house has never been this lively.

I want to go downstairs and see what she's cooking. But I will definitely scare her and stop her activities.

The worst thing is to make her leave.

She is a good girl. She.. surely want to help me right?

After all her work in the kitchen was done, I smelled delicious cooking.

Yeah I don't know how but my sense of smell is still working.

Not long after that I heard the rare sound of Ria's feet heading towards the bedroom.

**

After making sure Ria was fast asleep I got up and entered the next room.

I looked at the girl who was lying on once was my bed.

She looks so adorable…

What? No, no. This is not my purpose here.

I'm looking for other ways to ask her for help without scaring her.

First of all, she must know that I am in this house. She had to notice me first. In a bold line, without scarring her.

But how?

Ria suddenly turned around, changing her body position.

I saw her smile in her sleep which automatically made me smile too..

She must be having a nice dream, I thought.

Ah, that's right. How about through a dream?

I've done this before, but not to introduce myself or something nice

But to expel people who have a bad, rotten aura.

I hope I didn't give her a dream that she thinks is horrible.

I'll just send my memories...

I approached Ria and sat on the edge of the bed.

I brought my face closer to hers and stared at that pretty face for a long time. Before sending a wave of energy in the form of a piece of my memory in the past.

“Welcome to my home…” I whispered in her ear.

Ria didn't respond. She won’t wake up until morning.

The concept of dream time and the real world is indeed different.

After all done, I looked at her face one more time, hoping my memory is working properly and left her there.

I immediately went to the kitchen and saw what Ria had done here earlier.

It smelled like soup...

I searched around the dining table and kitchen but it looks like Ria only cooks for one person's portion.

Ah… I didn't get any taste of it…

Of course, she doesn't know that I'm here anyway…

I wonder what else she bought? With that I slowly opened the fridge door and looked inside.

Pretty complete…

There are some packs of meat at the top, there are foodstuffs whose names I don't know… Oh what's that on the back? Oh I don't know what this is...

Hmm.. looks like she likes to drink full cream milk...

What's this?….

There are vegetables too…

It looks like Ria had bought some stock for a few days.

Tsk, too bad I didn't get to taste the cooking earlier. From the smell alone, it must be very delicious..

**

This morning, Ria woke up in a hurry. I watched her from the couch in the living room.

During the day it would be very difficult to see me, even if I moved.

But if she paid close attention, maybe she could see me…

I moved slowly towards her who was slightly bent in front of the fridge.

She was standing in that position there for a while, making me curious too.

Is it very difficult for her to decide what to eat for breakfast this morning?

I'm also quietly stand beside her but not too close. Trying to see the expression on her face.

Wow.. she smells so good...

Wait, what?

No- not that. But I mean, the expression on her face was confused. sje seemed to fix the arrangement of the objects in the fridge.

Shit.

I forgot to fix it last night...

Then I saw her shrug her shoulders, didn't care and started to get some bread, eggs, vegetables and butter.

sweet! Shee makes sandwiches!

I patiently stood where I was and waited for her to finish.

I've assigned one mission last night.

I want to taste her cooking.

And I will taste it before she eats it, hehe…

Just this time… Right, just this once. Besides, I haven't eaten anything in a long time...

When she finished making one toast, I immediately silently moved towards the table.

The smell is very delicious.

Ria was still busy buttering near the toaster and I had finished inhaling the smell of one delicious toast…

Then I started eating one part of the egg that she had fried in butter.

Woaah… This is so delicious!

I haven't eaten food like this in years.

I froze silently when Ria's hand penetrated my body to take the toast that I had eaten earlier.

I couldn't see her expression because she turned towards the fridge.

She must have felt something strange.

Sure enough, her face looked confused as she chewed the bread.

Hehe.. Sorry Ria…

**

I was wrong when I thought Ria would find out something about her dreams that I sabotage every night.

She doesn't seem to care about the dreams I gave her.

No matter how weird it was, she still didn't care.

It was as if she wasn't having any strange dreams.

She would wake up with her pretty dazed face and look around for a moment. After that she will get out of bed and do her activities as usual.

I didn't know it would be this hard to deal with people who don't believe in anything paranormal at all.

Of course I know Ria is a person who doesn't believe in supernatural things.

It was evident from the first day she lived here.

Her aura that was afraid and suddenly turned calm.

Her confused face as something happened right in front of her eyes but she still didn't say anything.

It seems she made her own conclusion with her pretty head's logical answer.

But that just got me in trouble.

It's true that I need her help but that doesn't mean I want to scare her.

I doubt if I showed up, she would just accept me.

It could be that the reaction even exceeds normal people in general. Who knows?

Even worse if she reacted like the woman who lived here when the house was first rented out…

Tsk…

I even ate all the food she cooked.

….Err, so that she knows I am here of course, not because I'm foody….

But instead of suspecting something, she even cooked another portion.

-_-

Today, as usual, I'm waiting for Ria to come home from campus.

She is indeed very busy, she will leave in the morning and come back in the afternoon.

I once saw her carrying a very large number of books.

Look, she put it next to the brown cupboard. The stack of books was almost half the height of the cupboard.

What will she do with the many books?

It's impossible to read it to the end right?

Looks like, Ria will make this room into a book warehouse.

Heh, I used to make my childhood room a place for my personal belongings.

Before I finally took over the master bedroom after the two of them didn't live here anymore.

This room holds a lot of things that I kept sentimental.

There was a feeling of anger that I felt when they took all my things and I didn't know where they were kept.

I got out of bed and headed towards the brown cupboard which is now plastered with many of these old stickers.

In the past, in some of the drawers, I kept things that were given to me by D and my other friends.

Oh, if I’m not mistaken, something was left behind. The only my belonging that still left here.

D took a photo of me by a Polaroid camera while I sitting on the window sill….

Bingo!! There you are!

**

As usual, I waited when Ria was fast asleep and entered the room.

I saw her hugging her family photo again.

Which she often does.

Ria… I hope you look up that photo and understand what I mean this time…

This is my final plan, otherwise… I will be forced to take the ancient path.

**

It was almost night and I waited restlessly for the girl.

She came home a bit late today.

This morning when she woke up, Ria seemed to think for a while before starting her activities.

But then she immediately got ready to go to campus. Which made me feel hopeless again.

However, if you look at her gesture. She must be up to something.

So I have to  wait patiently.

A moment later I heard the fence gate open.

Ria is home.

In her hand, there was already a paper bag that smelled very good.

If I'm still alive maybe my saliva drips smelling that smell.

OK, I know that's overkill and gross.

After placing two food boxes on the dining table, Ria went straight upstairs and entered the bedroom.

I immediately went to see what food was in the box. But when I was about to open the food box that smelled so tempting, I immediately stopped.

Today she order some foods? And two servings?

It seems, my mission today is showing signs of a good start.

I will wait like a gentleman and enjoy this dinner together with.

It was already night and I had to hide if I didn't want Ria to see me easily.

She has to find the object I want her to find first.

**

I watched Ria from the other end of the room and didn't move.

She was enjoying her food and I gulped a few times.

You heartless girl.

I assumed she would check the cupboard before eating.

If I knew this, I would eat the fried rice first.

But then I saw her surprised by something.

Ria suddenly stood up and ran upstairs.

Yes! My plan worked...

When I heard the bedroom door open, I immediately moved towards the sofa and sat there preparing to eat this delicious food.

Soon after that. I heard her footsteps coming back this way.

Ria came down with her eyes not moving from the old photo in her hand.

She looks to squint and look closely at the photo and seemed to realize something.

When she raised her head, our eyes met.

She looked really surprised.

Her steps stopped, her eyes widened and her mouth slightly agape.

I held back my smile seeing her cute face. In times like these you have to be serious.

She still didn't move and I noticed she hadn't even caught a breath.

Is she that scared? I also didn't dare to move and stayed where I was sitting.

I was also afraid she would scream and run out of the house because she saw a ghost casually sitting on the sofa staring at her.

“What… the hell are you….” Finally I heard her mumbling.