Chapter 8.

The photos I see before I sleep are of the face that sneaks into my dreams with constant desires to see you again. I have been confused through time, preparing the memories so that we jump in time even though we cannot replace yesterday. What would be more like an adventure? Time travels with my lines of thought and floats in the distance following the rays of light. Bring me your gift back to the past. If I can go back in time and find you again I will smile and say:... so long without seeing you...

While Reena slept, Darren lay down next to her watching her trying to admire each of the details of her face and even though he knows that they are nothing, he sighs and looks behind her at the starry night, remembering that a long time ago she did not feel sorry or refuse to talk to him and much less see him, then fate wanted it this way and forces her only to make him live as a nice memory of her childhood and although he knows that it is forbidden to fall in love with a mortal, he never planned the way to avoid it, how ironic... mortals can decide who to love, who to be with and even who to think about, but specters cannot fall in love or relate to mortals, because the moment they lose mortal life and are designated as specters, all kinds of feelings no longer exist, there is no longer a mind and a heart like the ones he had in his original body, only a pattern of movements and tasks that are different for each one of them. According to the actions you did on earth, that is what you will pay as a ghost after you die…

And returning again to the bed, he caressed her face only to hear her murmur, Darren you are here, without knowing what to answer, he said to her: look at me Reena, open your eyes and you will see that I will always be here, I will never leave, I cannot give you to anyone because you are a treasure for which I am willing to die 1000 times…

At that moment, slowly, she opened her eyes and upon seeing him she hugged him and told him that she would not abandon her, that he should not leave her, that she felt very alone, that there was no one to talk to or lie to, that if this was a dream then she did not want to wake up, at those words Darren, caressed her hair and seeing her eyes said: it is real, the pain you feel is real, you are alone, you are not in a dream, you cannot deceive yourself and I do not allow you to do so.

Time seemed to run between them and when the sun rose through her window his body vanished, leaving her alone again, making her have to face the reality that surrounded her at that moment.

It seems that the breeze has not gone very far, the roof where I accompanied you to take shelter from the rain, the old place of always never changed, that was what Reena was thinking, and listening to the leaves fall she considered again what it was that she really felt, and concluded with what before stopping a short time before meeting him, she already dreamed of him and in the name of love she already loved him, in her heart she drew love where there is not even a dream and if loving is a sin then she is a sinner and although a thousand times she considered that probably everything was imaginary and nothing was real, she knew that he did exist, but the most real and strange love she knew, was from the moment she saw herself in the reflection of his eyes, she knew she was in love; When the sun sets, her heart begins to beat uncontrollably for him and her name is engraved in her soul and it is a crack that will never heal...