Chapter 8: I Will See You Again
"Atha..." Poe trailed off, he did not know how to handle a situation like this—he looked over to Phoebe for help but she just shook her head and mouthed 'Talk to her', he just nodded his head and sighed.
"Don't" Agatha said while putting a hand up to stop what Poe was about to say. Stunned Poe shut his moth immediately, "Hear me out first" Agatha said while smiling sincerely at everyone in the room.
Her worn out shirt along with her worn out jeans clung to her body like a dead skin, "You guys probably wondering why I am still here, aren't you?" Agatha said while making herself comfortable on the sofa.
Everybody nodded at what she saying, even Poe, yes, even him who loves her with all his heart.
"That night, 13th October 2018 was the worst day of my life, until this day I still hate the person that hit my mom, dad and me myself—even at the time when I was about to die I still think of how I can avenge the death of my mom and dad, the truth is, I die first before mom and dad" Agatha explained and sighed "The news got it all wrong, well, most of it" she chuckled halfheartedly.
Everybody in the room went silent, listening to her story—as if one sound will make her disappear. Looking as frail and as pale as a sea pearl, the appearance did Agatha no justice-- the other four persons in the room are afraid to scare her away.
"At the car accident that day, I am the first one to die—since the car also swerved and hit the backseat of our car first, since I am the only one in the backseat my body flew to the other side of the car and my head hit the glass of the left door—I was bleeding, a lot, I die right then and there" Agatha continued looking into the distance.
"The last thing that I heard was the voice of my mom and dad screaming my name 'Hagatha', it's the first time that I knew my name was not only Agatha without the 'H'—as ironic as it is, I only discovers my real name when I am about to die, literally" Agatha smiled sadly to herself and out of instinct—just like always, Poe pulled Agatha to his side, rubbing small circles around her back.
"Why Hagatha?" Phoebe asked timidly, still afraid that somehow Agatha will attack her out of nowhere—typical Phoebe, Agatha raised her head from Poe shoulders to look straight at Phoebe.
"Good question, until this moment I don't know why my parents named me that" Agatha answered truthfully, looking straight into Phoebe's eyes, she asked her "You look like you know why, care to explain, at least I deserve to know why after all that I've been going through" Agatha smiled warmly at Phoebe—and for the first time since like, forever, Phoebe smiled back.
"Hagatha means evil, while Agatha means good—probably one of the reasons that your parents decided to leave the letter 'H' out is because they hope that you grew to be a kind person, and in my opinion they did a great job, seeing you are so kind even as a spirit" Phoebe explained to Agatha who just chuckled at her explanation.
"I believe you then, I am sorry if all I ever do to you is evil Phoebe, I just don't want to lose my only friend here, Poe, you know how much he means to me" Agatha said while nudging Poe in the ribs and Poe started to let an 'oumph'.
Phoebe just nodded and chuckled at the two, doing their weird stuffs.
"Sweetheart, Agatha, I just want to ask, why is you surname Mary, when both of your parent surname are Hawkins?" Mrs. Smith suddenly ask out of nowhere.
Hearing the question Agatha stopped being playful and smiled sadly again at Mrs. Smith, "It's because I was adopted Mrs. Smith, many people doesn't know the truth, but I am adopted, my mom was a widow and she died because of cancer—Silvia told me these things, she thought I deserved to know" Agatha continued and sipped her now cold tea.
"So, Atha, what are you going to do now?" Poe said while looking at her questionably and smiling sadly.
"Oh Poe, don't be sad, if there's an afterlife I wouldn't have missed you in a heartbeat" Agatha smiled and kissed Poe on the cheek—to that little gesture his whole face got red, he was just being kissed by a spirit and he liked it, wow.
"Promise me that? If you are born again you will come and find me?" Poe said looking at Agatha expectantly—she just laughed and said "I swore on my death bed Poe, I will".
"What words can I hold from you?" Poe said, looking straight at Agatha's eyes—it felt like there's no other people in the room aside from both of them, and for a fleeting moment, he thought he saw the human, beautiful Agatha in the spirit's presence.
"Oh, you don't need words Poe, I can assure you that, you just have to believe, right here, in your heart, that it was me all along that you've been searching for" Agatha said as her body slowly becoming translucent—minute by minute.
"Promise me Poe" Agatha said as she almost disappeared from the world—from the eyes of Poe. Poe tried to reach and hold her but he just plainly can't, there's no way he can play God in this matter, it is the rule of nature—once something has to go, it goes.
"I promise Agatha, with all my heart, I'll see you once again—and when that time comes, we will be more than just best friend, we can be more than that, if you still want us to be more" Poe said as he lets go of her hand and with the wind bringing Agatha away she whispered in Poe's ear,
"I'll see you again"
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