I Can Hear Your Heart

19. Aladdin and magic lamp

"Alex!" this time I shouted his name. It's up to someone to listen and ask me who I'm looking for.

Your kidding, Man? We're really going ghost hunting tonight?

Not tonight. Tomorrow night maybe. We have to survey the location?

To that place?

What is the hotel called? Lamara Hotel?

You know all this time it was just a gimmick, and now you want to do it?

Take it easy, guys. What if there's nothing there, too? You know all this time we didn't find anything either, right?

We lie to people! You know it. We're filming as if there's a creature. As someone who pretends to be psychic I don't agree!

You're just a fake cenanyang. I wrote everything including this content scenario, I will also live that place. And I don't mind.

Your crazy, Man!

My madness keeps us at the top of life, doesn't it? With many subscribers and lead us to a life of abundant treasure.

I heard the quarrel of the youtuber and one of his colleagues. The fighting inside their heads was clear, not a scream from their mouths. Do you know what comes out of your mouth is from your heart? That was the concept, so I heard it from that heart. Even I was not on the same floor as their room, but still the sound of their voices bombarding me with the voices of other hotel residents. I realized that now my hearing distance was getting farther and as a result more and more sounds were hitting me. The more noise made it easy for me to lose my focus.

Alex! I called him in my heart. But not find it either. After searching for it thirty minutes in vain, I chose to return to my room. And I found him sitting quietly in front of the television while reading a book so engrossed that he didn't even notice me or pretend to be unaware of me.

There's a pushtable with food on my bedside.

How did he cook this food for me? Do not let anyone see his actions in the kitchen of the hotel, it could be not only guests who fled the hotel, but hotel employees also flocked to resign because they saw pots and groceries flying.

Usually he would protest my words, but now that he seemed to be kept busy with his reading, was he not peeping this time around? Tumbens.

"Alex," call me. This time with my mouth and right by his side. But he doesn't budge either. Staying engrossed with the book in her hands. I tried to touch it, not succeed my hand through it. I intended to grab the book in his hand just to fill it in, but he closed the book first and moved from his position to the bookshelf. Put the book back on the shelf and roll over the black sofa by the side of the glass door to the balcony.

I didn't expect ghosts to be either.

He should have been angry after the taunting, but miraculously now he's just sick.

In my room was a handsome male ghost, his lips were red and his smile was sweet.

No need to try to please me, I understand everything. I'm a ghost and you're human.

The deg!

He let me hear his heart again. He was sitting on the couch, no longer lying down. Crossed legs. His eyes were clearly looking at me with sadness and made my heart feel uneasy.

He stands.

Where are you going?

Just staring at the stars out there. Don't worry, you can still call me if you need anything, 'cause I'm just a protective ghost to find?

Well, my heart ached because of his words. I know he hurt me, but the logic is me and he's not together?

He stopped his steps and looked back at me.

Yesterday you asked me where I came from...I'll tell you where I'm from. I come from a small hut in the Pine forest.

The deg! The greatness of the creepy memories from the small hut in the Pine forest jerked me. The shadow about the practicum bottles in the glass cabinet in the reot hut makes my hair bristled.

You dropped a bottle hanging from a rooftop platform hut tied to a rope. That's where I was tied up and excommunicated from the other ghosts. Whosoever sets me free shall be my master, I shall submit to you. But if you were to expel me or deny my existence for real and expel me with your mouth twice, I would definitely be sucked back into the small hut in the Pine forest.

I remember how he went berserk when I kicked him out, so here's why. He doesn't want to be locked up there anymore. I don't know what she's going through there, but imagining my experience - I'm sure what she's feeling is an unspeakable suffering.

I wanted to hug her right now, just make sure she knew I would always be there for her as a friend. But he moved. Take a distance from me. And how I don't like that.

Thank you for letting me be by your side. I'm going out. Go take a shower and finish your food.

He disappeared while I was still struggling with my thoughts. I've read the one thousand and one night fairy tale about Aladdin and the magic lamp. When Aladdin is approached by a male witch who claims to be his uncle and takes him away in search of a magical lamp. After a long, exhausting journey they finally arrived at a cave. The mouth of the cave was too small for adults to enter and the witch forced Aladdin to descend into the cave.

The young and inexperienced Aladdin is terrified to enter the cave and thinking for his greed the witch gives Aladdin a ring that will turn into a magic carpet and will help him get out easily from the inside cave in if something bad happens. So, according to Aladdin and went down into the cave.

When the cave collapsed, the witch asked Aladdin to thrust a magic lamp from the mouth of the cave, but Aladdin refused. He was buried in the cave. It was in that dark cave that Aladdin first rubbed the dull, dusty lamp and mentioned his request to the giant genie figure that came out from inside the lamp. Then in a moment he arrived at his home again. That was the beginning of Aladdin's poor life change. The genie in the lamp granted his master's whole wish: Aladdin can eat well without work, Aladdin has a luxurious house without any effort, he said, even to marry a daughter Jasmin she carried a dowry of a palace along with its contents and ladies and warriors.

I always remember what the great genie said every time Aladdin asked for something: 'your request is my command.' I remember Alex also once said that to me. This must be a very unpleasant life for him. If I release him, will that be a good start for him?

"I'm liberating..." My mouth was smothered by a strong hand so I could not speak.

"I've asked you not to bother?!"

I just want you to be a free being. You're not my slave!

"Thank you for your thoughts, but I have only two choices in my life: one be your servant and two: go back to that hut. That's all and I don't want to go back there, the only thing I want is to be by your side. If that makes things difficult for you: I beg you to hold on for a moment."

I could see her grieving face, then she slowly faded away. I came back invisible before I could say anything.

"Alex, sorry." There's no answer. "Alex, I didn't mean anything bad. You never made it difficult for me either, I made it difficult for you! Alex, please speak! You can be mad at me!" All the words I said were just hitting the walls of my room. Then all became quiet after I closed my mouth. He seems to be disappearing. It might take some time to calm down, so not wanting to urge her I chose to give her time to think about her feelings.

Maybe it's not just him who needs to calm down, maybe me too. It takes time to think about all these things. His presence in my life. About what it means to me.