Clair's Imagination

Part two

It's now the first day of summer break for Clair which means we can finally move. We move in a few days, so the house is completely empty and all we have is just a blow-up mattress and some microwavable dinners. It hardly matters since we move in a few days, it better to be prepared anyways. It's the next morning and we have about four trucks outside with all of our things inside, so we are totally prepared to move on Monday. The rest of the time at the old house was the same so that's nothing important. It's now Monday and we are finally moving so that's a big weight off everyone's shoulders especially Susie's. We are now on our way to the city to start unloading all the boxes into the new house. The drive didn't feel that long to any of us because everyone was just making sure all the trucks were on the right path and on schedule to show up to the house by 12:00. We got there earlier than everyone else by about an hour so Susie and Claire's dad started unloading what they could, while Clair and I started exploring more of the house together. It was around 45 minutes later when the trucks started getting there, they had the bigger things with them. Susie hired a crew of movers, so they were going to do most of the work while she directed them where to put the stuff. All of that lasted most of the day, we were done by around 7 pm and Clair was running around all day so once one of the beds was put together, she fell asleep.

I stayed up late to finish constructing my plan to go see my mom. It kept me up most of the night but then again, I don't really need sleep to function. Clair is on summer break at the moment so I just have to wait until Susie takes her somewhere for the day, then that's when I will start my journey to go see my mom across the city. It's been 3 days since we moved in so I think tomorrow they will go for groceries and that will be my perfect opportunity to go without being away from Clair for too long without her noticing. It's the next day and they are going to go to the store later so once they leave, I will go. They took a while to leave but finally they are gone, and I am finally on my way to my mom's house. I begin my trip around 10:30 and I'm now about a quarter there and it's been about an hour. Finally, after hours of trying to get there, I finally made it to my neighborhood just a few houses away and I'll be home. I MADE IT, I really did and I'm now walking up to my front door, I went in and... I saw her for the first time in almost a year and I'm so happy. I spent about an hour going through the house and just watching her, I got to my room and it was the same as I had it when I died. I was surprised that everything was the same down to the things I had hanging on the fridge. I miss her so much; I wish she could see me. I've been here for about 2 hours. I think it's time I go home to Clair now, I feel horrible for leaving her, but I had to see my mom. I hope she doesn't think I left her for good, I left around 5 pm and got home by 9 pm and of course Clair is asleep. The next morning, she woke up and hugged me, which was insane because she's never been able to physically touch me before and neither have I been able to. I hugged her back without question but while we were hugging, she said in a soft voice "please don't leave me again." My heart shattered into a million pieces as I responded to her saying 'I will never leave you... ever.' So that was the end of our moving day.

We've been in the new house for about a month now and it's already early July. We celebrated one of Clair's favorite holidays, the 4th of July. I never knew just how much Clair loved this holiday. Her mom bought her a lot of fireworks to set off, and of course she didn't light them, but she watched from a safe distance. She adored all of them with passion. I think she loves the lights and the patterns they make in the air as they explode and fizzle throughout the sky. That was a fun day for Clair, but that was just the beginning of her amazing month. In a week and a half she will be turning 6 and I was clueless until I heard Susie talk about it to someone on the phone. Probably a family member or friend that she was telling but that's not the point, I'm kind of nervous about it, I mean what if when she turns 6, she stops seeing me or she starts to slowly forget about me. I possibly have only a week left with her, so I better make it count, instead of being paranoid about me disappearing.