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Rae sat me down at the table about ten minutes ago.
I can't believe this.
This girl is dead.
She stares at me, waiting for some kind of reaction.
Her shoulders are slumped, her hands are in her lap, and she looks like a child, adding to her doll-like appearance.
My eyes avert to the ring on my finger.
This is hers.
"Do you want your ring back?" I whisper.
She simply shakes her head.
"So, you're dead?"
She nods, "yep."
This is awkward.
"What's it like?"
What kind of a question is that?
"Boring. I don't sleep, I don't eat, I can't feel anything physically . . . It's lonely."
"Are there more people like you?"
"Yeah. They mainly hang around the cemetery. I just kind of adventure and travel because it's something I've always wanted to do." She shrugs.
"Do you have emotions?"
"Yeah, hence how I feel lonely." She chuckles.
I shake my head, "oh, right, sorry. That was stupid."
"No, you're fine."
"Where have you gone? Like, traveled?"
"Um, I haven't gone too far. Like, I haven't been to anywhere in the Midwest or far south. I've been to L.A., which was kind of interesting, and Nevada . . . I walked a lot, but sometimes I'd sneak into semi-trucks and stuff. You can do a lot of things when you don't get tired."
"Why are you back here?"
She smiles slightly, "I wanted to come home. And when I came home, you were here. I'm not gonna lie, I got kind of mad. Like, how-dare-you move-into-my-house? But then it clicked that I wasn't living anymore."
My heart aches for her.
Her family split, I'm assuming no one knows she's still around, and she's been traveling by herself, day in and day out, for a year.
I can see how she's lonely.
"Do you want something from me?"
She looks at me for a moment.
Her eyes are thoughtful and her smile is small.
"No. It's just nice to know I have somebody to talk to."
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