Note before the story; Hi, I'm glad you want to read more about Milo and his Ghostly lover. This time around the story will explain few little things while also showing few new things that I hope you, as a reader, will find interesting. I will be really glad if after reading you would leave some form of feedback so I can learn how to please you all better!
As always, all characters are above 18 years old.
My thoughts about what I just told my psychiatrist were flowing like a storm inside of my head. I was just joking around, trying to sound optimistic but her questions were so specific. I should keep quiet but now she might think I actually went mad in between our visits.
The older lady that I called my psychiatrist looked at me with her deep green eyes, her full red lips painted a smile on her face but also, some kind of other feeling I could try to pinpoint to be confusion or curiousness or maybe worry? I never could read her face. To be perfectly honest, this is the fourth time we meet eye to eye and I still feel like I know nothing about this older, always formally dressed woman. She always feels so uptight, her full womanly body glows with femininity but her cold acting makes her look almost scary. She reminded me of a teacher but when we talked about our life and problems, it all changed. I felt safe within the walls of her office, I could talk about my insecurities with my mind at ease, and that is why I slipped.
"So you want me to believe you found a ghost." Her voice rang like a deep bell, putting confidence in every syllable of the words spoken. "A ghost that became your roommate." Her eyes looked from behind her wavy long black hair that was resting on the side of her face.
"I know how it sounds." I whimpered. "I know that it might sound crazy and..."
"We don't use the word crazy here, darling. But I think you don't tell me all the facts here." Miss Evocador's voice made me shiver at the moment. It was almost as she knew about the things I wanted to avoid speaking of. The many days of making love between me, a young adult male with my lover, a god knows how old, a ghost of a woman.
The woman before me stood up and leaned over the desk, her breast almost spilled from her deep cleavage in her white shirt and only now my eyes could see her bright green bra.
"Saying it bluntly, Mister River or rather, just Milo. You fucked the ghost, did you?" My heart skipped a bit. A question arose in my mind; how? How does she know or maybe she is joking? Or maybe she knows indeed about the paranormal world, the same as I learned past those weeks. Holding my anxiety at bay I opened my lips and spoke up; "Yes! I had sex with her!"
Her lips moved into a smug smile, her eyes slightly closed as she looked down at me, slowly sitting back on her leather chair. No words for what I felt like it was ages before she did what I did not expect of her. She giggled. Her long smooth hand arose and she covered her lips, green nails matched her eyes.
"Good. I suppose I was right. Not that I was doubting myself, but I'm happy you accepted the situation. Shows you are growing as a person, Milo." To say I was confused would be understatement. And I can tell that Miss Evocador could read me like an open book.
"After your ex therapist told me about you, my dear, I had an idea in my mind. Weren't you surprised I told you to wait with a new therapist or other people to talk with? Was it not suspicious I told you to, just for a while, talk only with me, your psychiatrist? A person that should give you medicine?" Now that she talks about it I felt stupid that I never thought about it. It was quite weird but not suspicious. And I thought it was just easier this way, but it seems like I fell into a trap.
"See, dear Milo. You needed medicine for a lonely soul. And I gave you one. And she needed to feel a connection again. She was just as lonely as you."
I didn't know what I could say. My throat felt dry and now my mind went back to the day I thought I saw her for the first time. The ghost I call my lover, the first time I saw her fiery yellow eyes was on the bus, when I was returning from this very office.
"How?" My voice finally pushed a word out of my throat.
"Too long to explain and please, don't think about it just yet. Let's just say, I know a few things that are very special." She stood again and slowly walked around her desk, her long pale legs standing on black heels slowly stepped closer, only to place her knee in between my legs, as she leaned down on me. I felt small and trapped, like an animal before a predator. Almost like I felt with the ghost some time ago. But this felt more scary because I know how deep the woman above me knows about how my mind works.
"You can end it now. We can stop it. Your lovely ghost will pass on to the next life. Able to because of you, darling." Her voice was like silk to my ears, like the softest touch of a seductive blade, cutting deep into me.
"Or you can continue. In this option, you need to be careful. Your life will change forever, the world beyond the veil will open for you. You can choose, it's your life. You can choose to stop, and I will help you or you can continue, and even then I will still be helping you."
"I can't... leave her." I wasn't thinking, my voice just escaped my lips like it was the most natural thing to say at the moment. And it made my mysterious psychiatrist smile.
"I'm glad you can choose so quickly. Next meeting, two weeks from now." And like that she stepped away and walked back to her chair, comfortably sitting down. She then looked at me and chuckled. I fixed my clothes and felt my cheeks were red, probably for the entire time of our interaction. I looked away at the wall, full of certificates and diplomas, all in glass cases.
"If you want to have sex with me too, just ask. And talking about the paranormal, do not summon or go anywhere you aren't supposed to. I will teach you how to stay safe."
And I thought I could cool down but her proposition almost overheated me, wanting to leave immediately...
"Oh, and one more thing. Her past life name. It was and still is, Elaine."
"Elaine." I whispered. Can't wait to go back home, Elaine.
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My trip to my home was quite uneventful, yet another grey and boring everyday jungle with people that always look forward, never at each other. At least the weather was a little more sunny than usual, blue sky peaked from above the grey clouds. But it wasn't important as I just wanted to return to my cosy little hideout, my apartament that I now share with my dear roommate. And I felt great relief and happiness when I opened my wooden doors, always so comfortably snuggled in the shadows from the great tree outside the building. The inside of my apartment smells like a winter night but it is not the cold air. Such a paradox wasn't even the thing I realised for the longest time, not until my old school friend came to visit few ago. Fortunately my dear ghost understood and didn't show herself so that was helping to keep the secret. The visit was mostly for us to reminisce about the time in the school and old memories when we still lived door to door. At the same time my friend was a great finder of old books and archives that I was deeply interested in. In fact my friend managed to contact someone who might bring me more, "underground" papers, as he described it, about the paranormal world. After all, now I want to learn as much as I can to make her life easier, while being with me.