The Chance

I felt happy and breathed a sigh of relief when he was next to me. Tristan tried to wipe my tears away, but he didn't have the strength to do so. And I was too jittery to somehow effectively use my skills and kept jumping from the spirit world to the real world. I couldn't recover, I apologized to my beloved and kept repeating how much I didn't deserve him. He silenced me and rocked me reassuringly until I almost fell asleep, exhausted by emotion and crying.

So I climbed onto the bed and covered myself with a blanket. A certain fear appeared in me that the moment I close my eyes, I would not be able to watch if he was nearby. Why was I afraid he would disappear? I didn't know if it was because I realized that I love him and it was a normal fear of losing a loved one.

"What are you doing?" I asked as soon as he sat down next to me.

"I'm sitting," he replied with a slight smile. "And I'm still trying to believe it really happened. So now I fear that whatever I do will dissipate this illusion."

"You're stupid," I said, covering my face.

Tristan was able to throw romantic lines as he wanted, but this time it sounded so sincere and touching. I didn't want to give him that satisfaction, and isochronally I was ashamed of so many new emotions and reactions. I blushed and wanted to hide it. I assumed it wasn't worth getting involved in anything serious, I was dating someone from time to time, but I was thinking about building something for real because of my difficult commitments, and well, most of the time I wasn't alone.

I reached out and tugged at his clothes, asking him to lie down next to me and just hug me, only then did I dare to close my eyes and fall asleep. But I didn't think that when I woke up, I would be so scared when he wasn't by my side. I called to him and after a while, Ronald appeared with him, who was basically holding him by the collar.

"Sorry, but I had to have a little chat with him," Judy's husband said furiously. "And I couldn't believe what I heard."

"What is it about?" I asked, surprised, and asked him to let go of Tristan.

"Is it true that you confessed your feelings to each other?"

"Right. Is that a problem Ronald?" I got up, ready to argue.

"Yes ..." he said in a serious tone. "I told him that before, but he didn't listen. Such a relationship has no right to exist, it has no right to succeed!" the ghost exclaimed. "I don't want you to end up like ..."

"Like your wife," I finished sadly for him.

I understood what he meant by that. Judy never married after that, and she would not have children, if not for me she would have been left alone in her old age. Practically speaking, in his opinion, the same fate awaits me. I smiled at him and walked over to him to hug him.

"Thank you for taking care of me," I whispered. "But you must give us a chance to try. I think deep down in their heart, everyone would dream of the love you and Judy have for each other. I thought about it sometimes, too, but I didn't want to admit it out loud."

"It didn't seem like it," Ronald finally muttered with a sigh. "And this idiot suddenly comes by asking me for a blessing over your relationship."

"I'm stubborn and not listening," Tristan said, proud of himself, with a ferocious smile.

"Truth." I nodded my head.

"Are you sure about this Camilla?"

"Yes," I replied, looking Ronald in the eye, trying to convince him that this is what I want.

"Good luck to you then," he announced seriously and addressed Tristan directly. "If you hurt her in any way, you will remember me again."

"Take it easy, I'll make sure he regrets it," I said seriously, scaring Tristan a bit and gaining some approval from Ronald simultaneously.