The Reason

I knew something was wrong, I felt this piercing cold lounging on a Hawaiian beach. I quickly followed my spiritual instinct, something was happening with the watch and it was no good. I almost ran into my great-great-great niece who was going with her husband for a purpose unknown to me. They were arguing with each other, she was waving the bundle, from which a precious memento of me will fall out.

I wanted to scream that she should stop, and ask what she was doing, but I couldn't. I was dead and had no influence on it. I gathered the energy to mark my presence with the cool air around me.

"You felt it too, right?" The scared woman said, putting her hand on her huge belly with a protective gesture.

"Yes, but you must have just missed something. Why do you want to suddenly give the family memento to some random person," her husband teased. "If you want to get rid of it, why not sell it, we will at least gain some profit".

"What else?!" She shouted at him and sped up. "You don't understand, you fool, and you don't believe in ghosts anyway, and I do, and I just feel like it must get to her."

I don't feel anything like that, I thought furiously. Why do you want to do this?! Who dare you give it away?! I did not understand any of this. What happened?! Why now?!

“My great-great-great-grandfather Henry was the first owner of this watch and wished it would be passed directly in the male lineage to the eldest from generation to generation, but the plan did not work out right away. My great-great-great-grandmother got it because her brother died young in some tragic accident that nobody wanted to talk about. Grandpa Henry broke down but handed over the watch on his deathbed to his daughter," my relative finally explained, using it to catch her breath. "Since then, no boy has been born in our family, but today I just found out that we will have a son and I felt that he could not stay with us anymore. I need to get rid of it."

But that's exactly why you shouldn't do it! My rage grew, even more, my father loved this watch and he certainly wouldn't let it, but I didn't have time to look for him now. Even after his death, he didn't want to talk to me. I had failed him all the way because I had died of my own fault and I didn't even admit it to Camilla. When I was alive, I have labeled a seducer and I liked to show off in front of women. It was then that a beautiful, but still wild horse came to our stable. The road to tame it was still a long way off, but my stupidity knew no bounds then so I died.
I decided that why should I care, and furious, I returned to roast in the sun. Since the family was even ashamed to talk about the cause of my death. I just huffed, wondering why the watch was bound to me after all. My “I don't care” resolution took a month or so, and my curiosity brought me to what was going on with this damn thing.

Then I saw a beautiful girl who was sitting at the desk, leafing through some bloated volumes. Why did my relative say that she should go to her? It didn't make sense to me, but there was no trace of him, at least not from the outside.

"I'm not on duty right now, so get lost," she muttered, not even glancing at me.

"Where's the watch?" I asked, guessing that I was dealing with a medium.

"You have some business, go to someone who is at work at the moment, go away from me," she repeated irritated.

"I want to know what you did with the watch."

"Get out," she muttered again and then began to ignore me.

I didn't want to leave her alone until I found out that she was treating my memento with due respect. I teased her, and pissed her off on purpose, initially just to force it, but with time I liked her and even fell in love with her completely. I enjoyed spending time with her, admired her resourcefulness, and loved her smile, especially when it happened thanks to me. I wanted to take care of her and make her happy.

But she made me the happiest in the world now. I remembered it all when I held her crying in my arms after she confessed her feelings to me. I laughed silently that it didn't seem like it at first, and I wondered that maybe that was why the watch was supposed to go to her.