‘Audrey’s thoughts’
’Ryan’s thoughts’
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Ryan is still not back, good.' She smiled to herself. She felt happy again, she's going to be as normal as ever.
She ate a hearty breakfast and sat on the bed waiting for her roommates to come back.
They came yesterday and gave her the books that she was reading before, all novels and fantasies, nothing much. She checked her phone, it was Sunday, she might be able to go back tomorrow for her classes. She smiled happily, her heart felt as if it would jump out of joy.
And it did jump, though not out of joy, but out of surprise, a horrible one.
Just as she looked up, she Ryan's face poke out of the wall behind her. "GAAH!!" She shrieked and scrambled to the other end of the bed, as far away from the wall as possible. The face immediately went back inside the wall.
Then slowly, a nose poked out the wall, then a few strands of hair, and then his whole head came out the wall. "I'm sorry." He looked down. "F-for what?" She stammered, confused.
"For making you cry yesterday." He came out of the wall completely, and stared down at her with his beady black eyes.
"Oh- oh, it wasn't your fault. I...I just needed some time alone." She looked down at her own hands. "Oh. Okay." He said in a low voice. A silence grew between them sweetly, both of them smiling secretly with newfound understanding.
"Okay ladies!" The boy bursted into the room, followed by Irene, Stephanie and Tasneem. "Why are you here?" She asked the boy. "Why can't I?" He asked back, shrugging his shoulders. She showed him a disgusted face, he stuck his tongue out at her. "How are you now, Audrey?" Irene asked sitting on her bed.
"Better. Much better." She replied. A realization struck her head, she won't be able to go to her classes anymore, now that Ryan is back. 'Then what? How? Huh?' She got confused.
Seeing her stare at the floor in confusion, Irene asked, "what is it? Anything wrong?"
"Ryan is here. Will I be able to go back to uni?" She pointed at Ryan, who was speculating the new faces. "Have you met the doctor yet?" Stephanie asked, crossing her arms.
"No, not yet." Audrey answered. "Hmm, the doctor will tell if you're fine or not." Irene nodded. Audrey too nodded. "She seems fine to me, what is actually wrong with her?" The boy asked with furrowed eyebrows. "She can see ghosts." Stephanie replied.
"Ooo, cool." He grinned. "Not cool." Audrey shook her head. "Why not? You're seeing the unseen. Isn't it awesome?" Ryan asked her. Before she could say anything, the boy's ears perked up, he looked around him confused. "What's wrong, kid?" Irene asked leaning back at Audrey. The kid scratched behind his ear, "I don't know, must be my mind."
Ryan stared wide eyed at the boy, who looked confusedly around him. "Ryan?" Audrey asked with an eyebrow raised. "Nothing." He replied still staring at the kid. "What?" Irene questioned. Audrey shook her head. A confused silence refilled the room. Nobody knew what had just happened.
A tiny smile appeared on Ryan's face, 'he can hear me.' He told himself.'I shouldn't test it out, he can communicate with this world too.' 'Clairaudience.'He grinned at himself, he looked at Audrey and said in his mind, 'thanks for letting me know about this Audrey.'
The kid stared at the bed, then his eyes widened and he slowly rose his head. "My brain might be having a mind of its own." He said in a tiny voice. Everyone laughed, Ryan smacked his forehead with his palm.
"What have you been watching?" Stephanie scoffed. "Gamers on YouTube, but I've seen books about this." He said, scratching his head. "I'm sure there's nothing like that. By the way, why would you watch such stuff?" Audrey shook her head. "That is not the point." He pinched the bridge of his nose. Everyone laughed again.
After a full-fledged debate about cartoons, a doctor came in the room, "May I have the room with the patient?" "Yeah, yeah, sure." Everybody stood up from their places. "Good luck Audrey." Irene gave a thumbs up. Audrey gave a thumbs up back.
"Hey, no funny ideas with my girl, doc." The kid warned the doctor, Tasneem tugged at the boy. The doctor furrowed his eyebrows at him. When they left, the doctor asked her, "your brother?"
"No, just a random kid." She answered. "Okay..." the doctor nodded, looking at his notepad. "This is the report I got from the other hospital, could you check?" He handed the notepad over to Audrey. She took it and scanned it, surely, everything she had said to the doctors was written in it. She nodded and told the doctor that everything was correct.
"So you actually fell from a balcony two floors up from the ground and did not get hurt at all because a ghost saved you?" Audrey nodded. "But you got a seizure because you accidentally fell into the ghost. But you're still fine. Wait, AND you can see and hear the ghost?" The doctor asked with both his eyebrows raised high. "Yes." Audrey nodded.
The doctor pursed his lips. "Past traumas?" He asked looking into his notepad. "Umm... except for this... can you consider bullying as trauma?" She asked. He raised his head and asked, "why were you bullied?"
"So, I have this allergy on my hand, it used to be all over my arm when I was a kid, but now it has reduced to just my pinky finger and the side of my palm." She replied.
"What are you allergic to?" He asked.
"Heat."
"Hmm, no other traumas?" He asked looking back at his notepad. Audrey shook her head. "Hmmm..." he nodded his head. "What does the ghost look like?"
"Umm..." she looked at Ryan, who was sitting on her bedside, smiling stupidly because he's the topic of discussion. "He looks about 20..." "23." Ryan corrected her, "I was 23 when I got killed. So my mind perceives myself to look like this. I don't know how actually old I am."
"Okay, 23. And... black hair, black eyes? Maybe, he's a bit hazy. Umm... black shirt and black denims. But he looks super pale, like he's made of fresh snow, it's creepy. Oh, and he has a hole in his lower abdomen."
"Okay... how did he die? Can he tell you that?" The doctor asked, interest sparked in his eyes. "I got drunk with my friends on a weekend and... then... I got shot by one of them." Ryan looked away in pain.
Audrey told the doctor about this. He nodded. "I don't think it's anything psychological, because you had great appetite and you slept well, you also had fun with your friends so, I'm guessing it's rather..." he hesitated for a moment, "spiritual? Are you religious?"
"Yeah, sure."
"Then, umm, you can say it's a gift from God. There are people who can see spirits and demons and such. They just live with it. You can't really do anything with it." He shook his head.
"Wow, and still nobody else could see me?" Ryan asked, leaning onto the headboard. Audrey just nodded, trying to digest her situation. "I'm sorry." The doctor stood up from his chair.
"No, it's fine. Thank you for your help." She forced a smile. The doctor smiled back and left.
Ryan floated and came in front of her. Their eyes met, they both smiled, weak smiles.
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