My fiancee .... A GHOST?

2. A promise?

Chapter 2's

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"Ara, come here.."

"I don't want to. Who're you?"

Suddenly a black shadow that had been seen perched on the ceiling of Bella's room, was seen moving closer to her. Instantly, Bella's hair also bristled. He shook and held his breath. He was afraid that if he breathed a little, the shadow would swallow him alive.

"Breathe! Don't be afraid of that. I won't hurt you!" the black shadow again. His face was invisible, just an abstract black shadow and indistinct form.

Bella inhaled as much oxygen as she had lost so much oxygen while holding her breath.

"That's better, isn't it?"

Again the voice dominated the dark room - which contained only Bella and the black shadow itself.

"Ara, if you continue to fear me then you will not be able to see my true form."

The voice was heard again.

"If you forget who I am, I am Felix. We've met even engaged, in other words right now I'm coming to collect your promise."

"Be-engaged? Ja-promise? What promise?" ask Bella scared.

"I can't say it, you have to remember it yourself because it's your promise to me."

"How can I remember? I don't remember at all" Bella said.

"You really forgot about me, huh? I remember you every day."

Bella was getting creepy hearing the statement, she did not remember anything promised to the formless black figure. He was afraid, even very afraid now, because the figure seemed to demand him to keep a promise that he himself did not know what kind of promise he had made.

"If you don't remember me, don't remember your promise to me, don't even remember if we were ever engaged.. That means I'm not important to you."

"I think that's right" Bella replied trying to be brave.

"But I love you, Ara."

"How can you?"

"I don't know either, probably because I'm tied to you. I just want to collect your promise."

"But I really don't remember what kind of promise I made with you!" hardik Bella's.

"Remember a few years back. You made an appointment with me."

When Bella heard that, Bella suddenly jolted and woke up from her sleep.

Again, he dreamed about the black shadow again. This time it felt more real because they were even talking to each other.

I don't know why today Bella is not surprised anymore as usual. He glanced at the clock on the wall, as if he had woken up. Fortunately, it was Sunday and Bella did not have to rush to get up to the campus.

Bella got up and decided to splash her body with cold water.

In Kos's room, there is his own bathroom, there Bella lives alone because she wants to be independent and the distance of the campus is closer.

Bella's parents' house is still in the same City, only it would be too far and long if Bella traveled from Her Parents' House to Campus. Therefore, Bella decided to spend and live independently.

On Sundays, Bella usually goes home to her parents' house, but not in recent months because Bella has been having strange dreams and sometimes getting carried away in the real world.

Although actually in the real world he never spoke directly with the black shadow. But, Bella's existence is monitored by the figure and sometimes Bella can see it accidentally.

Although in the dream the figure was always good and said that he would not hurt Bella, but still Bella was afraid.

Bella is ready with her clothes on, she's tidy by noon. Bella doesn't know where to go, because usually if she doesn't go home to her parents she can only mess around in the room. At best, Bella will hangout with Sera, her best friend.

But at this time, Bella is not possible to contact Sera because last night Sera had said goodbye to go to her brother's house, Sera's sister had just bought a house in Kota. And likely, their desire to settle in the same Kos will not be realized, because it is certain that Sera will stay with her brother later.

"Why are you?" Bella started looking for activities. The girl is not used to going alone and she is not a girl who likes to wander. Bella pulls the canvas on her bedroom table. He thought for a moment before finally throwing a brush into the oil paint that is now in his hands.

Bella began to doodle the white canvas, she began to paint even though she did not know what object she was imagining to be her painting.

Bella paints while daydreaming, thinking about her increasingly strange dreams. The black shadow even expressed love for Bella in her dream last night.

All this time, the shadow was chasing Bella without any communication between the two because Bella was too afraid to answer the mysterious voice.

Sometimes when they start having conversations, Bella wakes up from her sleep. Bella never sleeps well lately. Always disturbed by the same dream. Sometimes he was afraid to fall asleep and ended up sleeping on his own without him noticing.

Bella was stunned when she realized from her daydream, her eyes catching her own painting, a painting she had just made without thinking focused on the canvas.

His mind was still muddled thinking about his dream. But now he was agape at the image before him, an abstract black shadow that was exactly the same as the one in his dream was painted there-on the canvas.

"Jeez..Why can I paint this black shadow?" Bella muttered while scratching her own head.

Bella closed the canvas and turned around to tidy up the oil paint that was in her grip. When he turned around, he was shocked because the black shadow seemed to stick clearly on the wall of his room.

The oil paint in Bella's grip fell and spilled. Bella saw it was already splattered on the floor and she let it go.

Bella instead retreated backwards in fear, but the figure seemed to be motionless.

Bella regulated her sudden irregular breathing. He stared at the figure occasionally, then started rubbing his own eyes.

Bella hopes this is a dream as usual, but it looks like this is reality.

"You are. Is it not enough to be present in my dreams? Why follow me to the real world?" ask Bella to start the conversation. He could not stand it anymore because he felt constantly terrorized by the black shadow.

"Mom..." The figure began to make a sound like in Bella's dream.

"And why do you keep calling me Ara, you're not part of my childhood!" Bella glared at the figure as if to scare him, but here Bella herself is the most afraid.

"Because Ara is your name too, right?"

"But only certain people call me that. Not many know my little name."

"I know, Ara. I know so much about you even from your childhood to your soon-to-be twenty years old" he said.

"What?" Ara was wide-eyed at the figure's words, how could she know that Ara's birthday was about to happen in a moment.

"You just need to remember me. When you remember me, my current appearance will change and will not scare you anymore."

"There's no way I can remember something that never stopped by in my life."

"Remember all right, Ara. Try to remember it before your birthday."

Suddenly the shadow flew and disappeared somewhere.

Bella gasps, her sweat falling on her temples. Sweating because of fear. Bella rubbed her face repeatedly.

"Who is he?" inner Bella.

...TBC......