Moonlight

I reached home about an hour ago and I was comfortably seated on my bed watching music videos on YouTube.

I still didn't know where Josh was. I came in a cab from the museum since the bus stop was near to it and I was too scared to wait for the bus there as the security of the museum might catch me.

The call that I got earlier was from my mom and she wanted to inform me that they reached their destination safely. Her call sure gave me a hard time.

After sitting there and watching videos for a while, I was starting to get bored and wondered where Josh had disappeared. I was angry at him too, I was at the museum for him and he decided to disappear from there.
He should have the courtesy to inform me before leaving at least.

I decided to take a warm bath to relax. I always loved taking bath, it's always a calm and a peaceful feeling. I loved getting lost in deep thoughts as I felt the warm water on my body.

I spent almost an hour in the bath tub, listening to my favorite songs and just thinking about stuffs. I only got out when I noticed the water starting to yet cold.

I dried myself with the towel and got dressed.

I was sitting in front of my dressing mirror, blow drying my hair when I suddenly noticed a hand waving through my door.

Who else could it be? It was the ghost, Josh.

I let out a sigh of annoyance and said, "You can come in."

"You sure you aren't naked?" I heard him chuckle quietly behind the door.

"Screw you, Josh." After I said that, he came in.

"Since I can't knock, I thought it was a better idea.." He said and continued, "Or I could have just directly appeared in your bathroom. It seems like it could have been more fun."

"Do that and your soul would vanish too." I said, glaring at him.

"Woah okay.... I give up." He said with a grin as he raised his palms up.

"And how dare you leave me in the museum alone? We went there for you remember?" I yelled at him angrily.

"I was bored to death. You were doing the reading for me so I thought I wasn't required there." He said.

"Yeah right. I got into trouble because of you." I spat at him with anger still burning inside me.

"What happened? I am really sorry. I remembered about something so I decided to leave. I should have told you." He replied.

"Never mind. Just let it go. Where were you though?" I thought telling him what happened would only lead to unnecessary arguments.

"You need to know?"

"Of course I do, I am the boss."

Josh sighed after I said that and cleared his throat.

"My girlfriend started to cross my mind so I went to see what she was up to." He said.

"You had a girlfriend? Was she hot?" I asked.

Josh pulled a weird face on me and said, "Yeah... Why? You les?"

I guess the second part of the question was bit too much. "Nope but I am bi. So..."

"Bi?" He sounded shocked.

"Yeah... I love dating both boys and girls." I replied calmly.

Josh started to laugh at me, making me laugh a little as well.

"What?" I asked.

"Nothing... It's just funny. I hope you know that the flesh would be more satisfying than a plastic though." He winked after he said that.

I got what he was saying but decided to not encourage him to spill his dirty thoughts on me and lied, "I don't get what you're saying and I don't want to know either so how's your girlfriend?"

As soon as I asked that, his expression turned a bit sad.

"She's doing fine... Even much better without me. I guess she is with someone else now." He said.

"You will get someone else, don't worry." I said.

He looked at me intensely and said, "You wanna be mine?"

As I heard his question, I simply started to blush and I got stuck not knowing what to say.

Josh burst out laughing and said, "I know I am hot but your expression is priceless, babygirl." He continued laughing.

I tried to think of something smart to say to him to bring his head down from the clouds but I couldn't. All I could do was get embarrassed with myself.

I luckily remembered about the mantra which was written on the book and about the picture so I decided to show him that to change the topic.

"Alright, laughing duck, come here and check this out." I took out the phone as he walked towards me still smiling.

He reached near me and said, "You're cute...What is it?"

I ignored what he said and replied, "It is some kind of a mantra I guess. There were some information about it on the next page along with some other mantras but I couldn't take pictures due to some inconvenience" I raised my eyebrows when I said the word, "Inconvenience".

"I don't know what you are talking about so could you tell me about everything that you read from the book first?" I was pissed at him for not being there to read the book by himself but I knew there would be no point fighting with him either.

All I could do was sigh and pour at him about everything I read from the book.

"Wow... So I am in the process of being sacrificed, huh?" I thought he would freak out on hearing all these but surprisingly he was so calm.

"Seems like it." I replied.

"I don't know who I am being sacrificed to but she's going to definitely love me." He looked so serious as he said it, as if he didn't realize it was nonsense. I guess I had a major research to do on my own.

I turned away from him, combed my hair and hopped on my bed ignoring him. My head would only hurt more if I didn't ignore him.

I picked up my phone and went through the picture again. I read the mantra out loud just for fun. When I looked at Josh, he looked at me like I was crazy and shook his head in dismay making me laugh.

Just in the moment, my bed started shaking and when I looked around, I noticed the other stuffs shaking too.

I got up from my bed and shouted, "Earthquake!"

I ran to Josh and he tried to comfort me as he said, "It's okay, it's okay, it will pass."

After about three minutes the floor stopped shaking and I felt like I was holding onto something cold.

I opened my eyes to realize that I was hugging Josh and that he had his arms around me. I pulled away a bit from his hug still leaving his arms around me and placed my hands on his chest and then took them up to hold his face. I couldn't believe I could touch him. I could feel him, only he was cold.

"I can feel you! Josh, I can feel you!" I screamed out of joy.

Josh looked too shocked that he just looked into my eyes for a while and then pulled me back for a hug. Our hug lasted for a long time but I didn't mind.

I felt, comfortable, peaceful and safe with his hug even if it was weirdly cold. I didn't like hugging or touching people usually.

Was it because Josh was a ghost?
Maybe because he wasn't a bad person, maybe we had the same vibe or most importantly, maybe I found myself a friend.