Ken was a kid after all so it only made sense to start with the kid rides. He would probably end up getting too scared with the adult ones and that would lead to some issues.

"Alright Ken, let's start with the kid rides first since I remember those being really fun when I was your age and came here for the first time, trust me you'll enjoy them."

Ken seemed a little disappointed at your starting choice, though he didn't argue with you over it and instead followed you while you took lead.

The two of you started to ride some of the kiddy rides that could also be ridden by adults, though those were a bit few in between, with Ken having a sad face on almost all of them.

It wasn't until then you noticed that you couldn't really do the kiddy rides if you couldn't ride with Ken, you would probably also look really creepy if you just stared at kids riding on the rides without having a little brother or sister with you, your plan was meeting lots of dead ends.

"Alright Ken never mind I'm picking another option for our rides."

Ken's sullen attitude so far changes immediately as he beams at this sudden news.

"About time!"
> You medium thrill rides
Ken was probably a little too young for the extreme roller coasters that they had here, with him also being a ghost, there was a chance of an accident happening that you wouldn't be able to intervene in.

The medium rides wouldn't bore him but wouldn't be too dangerous either.

"Alright then, let's do space mountain since the drops on that aren't really too bad," you say giving Ken your decision.

"Yes! I knew you would pick that one! Come on I think I know the way I saw it on one of the billboard maps, I want to get those boring rides out of my mind!" Ken says as he starts running.

"Hey wait!" Ignoring the looks of other park guests you start to run after Ken.

Running throughout the park while taking breaks to look at the maps posted around, you finally reach the section containing space mountain as the two of you get into massive designated line.

There were a pretty decent amount of people waiting, but it wasn't the size that you were expecting which was good.

When it was finally your turn to take your seat, you picked the spot all the way in the back hoping that nobody else would ride with you, with Ken already taking up the seat next to you.

By your lucks, you were able to save the empty seat as the man gave the thumbs up for the ride to start.

"Are you sure there aren't any big drops or anything?" Ken says with genuine worry.

"Yeah don't worry about it, it's just a really fun ride that swoops you around in the dark."

Ken slowly nods as the lights begin to dim while the track starts to pull you with speed.

"Oh my god that was awesome, I felt myself laughing the whole entire time! That as probably one of the best roller-coasters I've ever ridden!" Ken exclaims with adoration for what he had just experienced.

"Yeah, it was pretty fun reliving that memory." You agree while keeping a steady pace along with the eager kid.

On your walk to no actual destination, you stop by a cotton candy vendor and buy a stick. There was actually something you were looking to experiment with to see if it worked or not.

Sitting down on a bench, you take off the covering for the cotton candy and point it at Ken's face who's taken aback a bit in surprise.

"I can't eat that..." He says.

"Don't eat it, lick it." You reply.

"Huh?"

"Try it, trust me." You say.

A bit hesitant, Ken does as you say and licks a bit of the cotton candy.

His eyes light up instantly as he begins to lick it more, with much more vigor.

"I know you ghosts can't eat stuff, but I thought that you guys would still be able to taste since you can touch things and all." You explain while Ken indulges in pleasure.

"I never thought I could do this since I was never able to grab anything before! This is great!"

Touching the cotton candy with your hand, you felt no wetness from where Ken had touched. Still, though you were a little grossed out with eating the parts that he had licked, so you had torn off the bottom section for yourself to eat alone.

After finishing your snacks and taking a quick trip to the bathroom, you went on the find the next ride that you could do together, though you already had two in mind.

"Alright, kid do you want to do splash mountain or the rapid one where they put you in that circular tube kinda thingy." You say, letting him decide.

"Splash mountain yes! Everyone at school always wanted to go on that and the ones who had said the feeling of your stomach dropping was so fun! I want to sit in the back though."

"How come?" You ask.

"Reasons, besides wouldn't it look weird if I sat in the front and no one could see me?"

"Yeah that would be pretty weird, O.K, let's go get in line before it gets too big."

The line to Splash Mountain was unsurprisingly the biggest one you had encountered at the park, mostly for it being the ride that almost everybody could go on, and everyone wanted to go on.

While in line, Ken kept on racing back and forth from the front to where you were waiting to see how long it would be until it was your turn to ride, you were a bit worried he would push people which would lead to questions and hysteria, but he was careful to glide through the crowds with ease.

When it finally came to be your own turn to get on after about ten minutes of waiting, you were able to get a log to yourself since you were the only single rider who wanted to get on in your section. Ignoring the weird looks some people gave, Ken asked you a question as soon as you were out of earshot from everyone else.

"Are you sure this ride is safe, shouldn't it have seatbelts?" He asks worryingly.

"Don't worry, people ride this thing every day. If you're really worried though just hang on to me when we reach the top." You assure him in which he just nods.

As you begin to ascend the mountain, you and Ken both laugh at the animatronics that sing and talk throughout the ride. Though upon reaching the top, you feel Ken squirm behind you as if he's nervous.

Even you feel a little queasy as you see the park before you atop of the drop.

"Actually you may want to han-."

You are interrupted as the log tips over the edge while you both let out a scream and Ken latches onto your back with his arms.

The log causes a tremendous splash at the bottom as both of your bodies jerk forward from the momentum. A bit of your pants are soaked as you exit the ride.

The same laughter that Ken had at Space Mountain is mirrored here as his head bobs up and down in enthusiasm.

"That was freaking awesome! I want to go on it again!" He says with glee.

You also shared his sentiment, but with how long the line was, you decided that it was best to just go on it later tonight when you had the free time.

"Let's go to the picture kiosk, I want to see if I made a funny face." You say to Ken.

You were the last one in line in the Kiosk, and since it was so crowded, you couldn't really see your own picture until it was your turn up in front. When the lady manning the kiosk looked at you, a bigger smile than she had before appeared on her face.

"You and your little brother are probably one of the better pictures I've seen so fa today, his smile was so cute when he was hanging on behind you." She says with a laugh.

At first, you think she had mistaken you with someone else, but as she points at the picture and you look at it, your heart drops almost instantly.

Ken was indeed in the picture behind you, though his whole figure was a little bit hazed as if he wasn't all completely there.

"Sorry about how he looks, the cameras can be a bit iffy with the water and all, I have to remember to tell my manager to get it checked out." She remarks.

"N-No it's fine! Say how much is that picture?" You quickly stammer while taking out your wallet.

I didn't do anything wrong did I...." Ken meekly says while the two of you sit on a bench as you look at the picture before you.

"No, not at all! It's just I didn't think you would actually show up on the picture. Though honestly, I think it made it all the much better, the lady was right you did have a pretty dumb face while going down." You laugh trying to change the mood.

"Not as dumb as yours, look how scared you look!" Ken replies with a smile while pointing at your face.

Putting the picture away, you get up from the bench and give your arms a stretch.

"Well we still got a lot of time to kill today with all these rides, we got to get as many done as we can before we leave." You say while pulling out your pamphlet map.

"Yeah, I want to ride this one next! Someone at school told me that it was pretty fun and the lines aren't that long either!." Ken says with eagerness as he points to one of the attractions on the map.

"Well let's get to it then." You say, putting the map back into your pocket.

Off the two of you were, enjoying the rest of your day with the park that was before you.
> You later that day
You didn't realize that you had been on so many rides until you felt the soreness of your body kick in as the sun had already set awhile ago.

Ken was racing to get on as many rides as he could before the park was to close for the day, and you sluggishly raced after him as fast as your body could keep up. Though when it finally came time to leave, it seemed as if Ken was satisfied as he wasn't begging to stay longer.

On board the bus back to the hotel, Ken kept on talking about the events that had happened throughout this long day.

"Man Space Mountain was still probably one of the best rides I went on at the park, nothing else topped it," Ken states with absolute assuredness.

"Yeah, I agree, though the whole entire day was pretty fun since we were able to ride every ride we wanted. For some reason though the day also felt so short." You state while thinking back at everything that happened.

Ken nods in agreement. "Still though, it's not like I'm leaving regretting anything, I did everything I wanted too...". Ken's voice seemed to drop heavily as all the enthusiasm that he had seconds before almost instantly vanished.

"Well that's good, this entire trip was for you to have a good time, I had one too. I honestly wish I could do this every weekend." You say with a little laugh, though Ken doesn't respond, and the rest of the ride is filled with an awkward smile.

Upon arriving at the hotel and getting off the bus, Ken is slow, dragging his feet while you keep looking behind you to make sure you didn't lose him every two or three minutes.

"Everything O.K man?" You asked worryingly since this was really out of place behavior compared to what happened today. Still, there was the silence, though Ken increased the speed at which he was walking this time.

He didn't even bother opening the hotel room door, he just walked straight through it. You've never seen the kid be able to do that and now you were actually starting to worry, hastily opening the door with your key-card, you push it open and look for Ken in the main room, in which he is nowhere to be seen.

"Ken!" You shout heavily, starting to look everywhere around the hotel room to see where he could be.

You finally end up finding him as you see his legs sticking out from under his own bed.

"Ken what the hell are you doing, you scared me. Get out from under there." You order with a sigh of relief.

Seeing that his hiding spot had been compromised, Ken starts to squirm his way out while sitting himself down as he finished doing so, facing away from you.

"Ken you have to tell me what's wrong, you're really starting to worry me. Did something happen on the bus?" You ask, remembering that his change of mood started there.

He weakly shakes his head as he continues to not look at you, which makes you a little frustrated.

You try to grab his shoulders in order to turn him around so that he can face you. Though your arms go straight through his body as the only thing you grasp is air.

Seeing that, that wouldn't work you walk around him and kneel down so that you can get a look at his face.

You kind of cringe a little on the inside when you see all the tears and snot that had built up all over his face, making it one big twisted mess while his red puffy eyes didn't want to make direct eye contact with you.

"Ken you got to tell what's wrong..." You ask again, although this time with a much softer voice.

Ken begins to wipe away the tears and snot from his face, but more keep flowing so it only makes them spread more.

"I tho-thought I was h-happy. But after remembering everything, that I I-I'm going to leave soon. I just g-got scared..." Ken cries with numerous hiccups in between his words.

"I don't want to leave, I had so much fun with you today and now I'm going to forget it all! I know you're going to make me leave as soon as we get home, but I'm not ready to leave...I'm scared.....I want to stay here and keep on having fun with you!" His tears were really falling now, you tried to grab his arm to console him but once again your hands went through his body. This probably had something to do with his emotions.

You didn't really know what to say to him either. He was going to ascend as soon as G gave the word for him to do so. It's not like you didn't want him to stay either, you were having lot's of fun and you wish he could experience more with how young he was when he passed. Though you saw no way around this, he was going to move on whether you liked it or not, the only thing to do now was to try to give a positive outlook on the whole situation.

Sitting down next to Ken you begin to speak.

"Listen, kid. I had a lot of fun with you today, more than I probably had in a long ass time. I don't remember the last time I even went out before this, to be honest. Look I know you're scared, I would be too in your situation. What I'm trying to say though is that you should enjoy the memories that you've gotten to experience so far, the fun that you've had up to this point, there's no use in dwelling on the past or on things you can't change. I wasn't a very religious person before all of this, but if I was chosen to help you ascend up into the sky above, then that has to mean you have something to look forward too, something is waiting for you, and who knows maybe it's a lot better than this life." you say, trying to help him feel even a little bit better.

Ken sniffled a little bit more as he wiped his nose with his palm. You didn’t know ghosts could cry like this, how it was even possible, but now wasn’t the time to question things like this.

“Life’s so unfair, I don’t know why my dad had to take that bridge, if he hadn’t none of this would have happened…”

You let Ken vent a little more as you just sat there in silence since there were some things that you weren’t able to refute or deny. The more he vented, however, the calmer he seemed to become, along with acquiring a more lax attitude.

“Is there any way you can visit me...?” Ken asked you, which made your whole body freeze a little.

Taking a moment before responding, you chose your words carefully.

"I mean I'll probably see you again eventually when it's my turn to ascend in the future. Though I'm sure there's some way for me to try to contact you, and if there is then I promise you that'll I'll find it."

"You really promise me that?" Ken asks, with a heavy voice.

"You bet I do."

Ken keeps a bit of eye contact with you, before looking back at his knees while he hugs them.

The two of you sit there in silence until you feel a buzzing from your pocket. Getting out your phone, you see that G had sent you a few messages.

G- Alright so here's the deal, you're going to have to do the ascension there at the hotel room, I was planning on you doing it here, but I don't want to risk anything so get ready to start the preparations.

You feel your heart start to rapidly beat as you type in a reply.

"What the fuck do you mean I have to do it right now? That's way too soon!"

G- Listen to me, if you don't do it now then there might be some complications getting him up. I didn't just spend all that fucking money for you to have a happy make a wish foundation day for this kid just so that he can't fucking ascend, follow the instructions I'm about to send you and get it the fuck done.

G then sends you a list of instructions, much similar to the ones that he had given you when you first bonded with Ken.

Ken seems to see your frustration. "Is something wrong?"

You bite your tongue as the words you want to tell him won't leave your mouth.

"There's.....there's been a slight change in plans."

Another instruction in the list that G had given you said that Ken couldn't be sad while doing this ritual, which would be fucking hard to pull off seeing as what just happen.

"Ken, I'm going to help you ascend right now, it's time to do it." You say, coming off as blunt as possible.

Ken's eye furrowed in a type of fear and panic, as he quickly got up from sitting down, in which you joined him.

"Now listen, it's not anything bad it's ju-."

"Why does it have to be right now! Why can't we just wait a little longer!" Ken cries as he cuts you off.

"I'm sorry but your time has been designated for this moment. Ken, please remember what I said earlier, just take a moment to console yourself and I'll help you through this, but we have to get it done today, I'm sorry." you apologize again, though Ken himself seems to be getting himself under control as he sits down on his bed.

You look his face and see that he's trying to get a straight expression on it, but his mouth and eyes keep on twitching, and before you know it, he starts weeping once again, although this time it's more of a soft one, one you couldn't bear to look at.


The flight was around one or two hours, you couldn't really tell with how fast time seemed to go. In the corner of your eye, you saw Ken's body bouncing up and down as he looked out the window as you started to descend.

"I really wanted to fly one of these...."

He said it so quietly, that you don't know if he meant to say it at all. Though you decided to just pretend that you didn't hear it as sad feelings started to enter your head a bit.

You would make this kid's day today.

The two of you quickly got off the plane and entered the main airport which was much smaller than the one in you had first arrived at. It was probably already close to midnight and you needed to get yourself to a hotel before you crashed from exhaustion. Luckily there were already Ubers patrolling around the airport so finding a ride didn't take all that long.

You had already researched a hotel that you would be staying at so that was all covered too. You just needed to sleep this night off.....

---

"Wake up, wake up! We're going to be late!"

You felt someone pushing you from side to side as your eyes slowly opened. You saw that this was Ken, but his bright eager face startled a bit, enough to get you awake and to your senses.

"Jesus, when did I go to sleep?"

"Oh, you fell asleep as soon as you walked in the door. The room is pretty boring and the only kids show on TV is Arthur." Ken complains with slight annoyance.

"But hurry up and get up, I want us to get there before the gates open at nine and it's already seven!"

"Relax kid where like a few blocks away, let me get showered and dress and well get a bus over there..." You yawn as you start to open your backpack and dump out your clothes onto your bed.

"Ughhhhh, well hurry up. I'm sick of watching Arthur." Ken grumbles before stomping back over to the T.V and plopping himself down on the carpet.

Once you were done and ready, you took Ken with you to go downstairs while you served yourself breakfast in the cafeteria. You felt a little bad eating in front of Ken though while you waited, it seems he took notice to this and just waved his hand.

"I don't get hungry ever." He says reassuringly.

Even so, you raced to finish your food as fast as you could before leaving the Hotel itself and heading to the nearest bus stop that would get you to Disneyland. Ken always seemed to race ahead of you as he motioned for you to hurry up while he bounced side to side most likely from anticipation.

The bus probably won't get here for ano-."

"Look there's the bus!" Ken exclaims while he points down the road.

Well shit.

Getting onto the bus with your passes, Ken made you sit in the front row saying that he wanted to be the first one off the bus upon arriving.

Though it didn't really all that much since the bus ride was only about five minutes anyway. The parking lots outside of Disneyland didn't seem all that full either, even though there was a lot of people around the entrance of the park you guess this would still be considered a slow day.

"The line isn't even that long we're going to get in soon!" Ken says with eagerness.

Just as he predicted, it took no time at all to get in with how fast it was to get through the gates.

Upon entering the main section of the park, even you were overwhelmed on where you should start, Ken was already bouncing up and down while giving endless suggestions.

"Let's go on the tower of terror, my friend said that he peed his pants when he went on that one because the drop was so scary, or we can go on Space Mountain since that's the one everyone always goes on first since it's the best ride in the park!"

It looked like Ken was looking onto you for guidance on where to start in this ginormous park.
> You medium level thrill rides
Ken was probably a little too young for the extreme roller coasters that they had here, with him also being a ghost, there was a chance of an accident happening that you wouldn't be able to intervene in.

The medium rides wouldn't bore him but wouldn't be too dangerous either.

"Alright then, let's start with space mountain since the drops on that aren't really too bad," you say giving Ken your decision.

"Yes! I knew you would pick that one! Come on I think I know the way I saw it on one of the billboard maps!" Ken says as he starts running.

"Hey wait!" Ignoring the looks of other park guests you start to run after Ken.

Running throughout the park while taking breaks to look at the maps posted around, you finally reach the section containing space mountain as the two of you get into massive designated line.

There were a pretty decent amount of people waiting, but it wasn't the size that you were expecting which was good.

When it was finally your turn to take your seat, you picked the spot all the way in the back hoping that nobody else would ride with you, with Ken already taking up the seat next to you.

By your lucks, you were able to save the empty seat as the man gave the thumbs up for the ride to start.

"Are you sure there aren't any big drops or anything?" Ken says with genuine worry.

"Yeah don't worry about it, it's just a really fun ride that swoops you around in the dark."

Ken slowly nods as the lights begin to dim while the track starts to pull you with speed.

"Oh my god that was awesome, I felt myself laughing the whole entire time! That as probably one of the best roller-coasters I've ever ridden!" Ken exclaims with adoration for what he had just experienced.

"Yeah it was pretty fun reliving that memory." You agree while keeping a steady pace along with the eager kid.

On your walk to no actual destination, you stop by a cotton candy vendor and buy a stick. There was actually something you were looking to experiment with to see if it worked or not.

Sitting down on a bench, you take off the covering for the cotton candy and point it at Ken's face who's taken aback a bit in surprise.

"I can't eat that..." He says.

"Don't eat it, lick it." You reply.

"Huh?"

"Try it, trust me." You say.

A bit hesitant, Ken does as you say and licks a bit of the cotton candy.

His eyes light up instantly as he begins to lick it more, with much more vigor.

"I know you ghosts can't eat stuff, but I thought that you guys would still be able to taste since you can touch things and all." You explain while Ken indulges in pleasure.

"I never thought I could do this since I was never able to grab anything before! This is great!"

Touching the cotton candy with your hand, you felt no wetness from where Ken had touched. Still, though you were a little grossed out with eating the parts that he had licked, so you had torn off the bottom section for yourself to eat alone.

After finishing your snacks and taking a quick trip to the bathroom, you went on the find the next ride that you could do together, though you already had two in mind.

"Alright, kid do you want to do splash mountain or the rapid one where they put you in that circular tube kinda thingy." You say, letting him decide.

"Splash mountain yes! Everyone at school always wanted to go on that and the ones who had said the feeling of your stomach dropping was so fun! I want to sit in the back though."

"How come?" You ask.

"Reasons, besides wouldn't it look weird if I sat in the front and no one could see me?"

"Yeah that would be pretty weird, O.K, let's go get in line before it gets too big."

The line to Splash Mountain was unsurprisingly the biggest one you had encountered at the park, mostly for it being the ride that almost everybody could go on, and everyone wanted to go on.

While in line, Ken kept on racing back and forth from the front to where you were waiting to see how long it would be until it was your turn to ride, you were a bit worried he would push people which would lead to questions and hysteria, but he was careful to glide through the crowds with ease.

Luckily, the line was going in a zigzag formation so it didn't mess with the boundary either luckily, even then though, your boundary felt bigger than it did last time for some reason.

When it finally came to be your own turn to get on after about ten minutes of waiting, you were able to get a log to yourself since you were the only single rider who wanted to get on in your section. Ignoring the weird looks some people gave, Ken asked you a question as soon as you were out of earshot from everyone else.

"Are you sure this ride is safe, shouldn't it have seatbelts?" He asks worryingly.

"Don't worry, people ride this thing every day. If you're really worried though just hang on to me when we reach the top." You assure him in which he just nods.

As you begin to ascend the mountain, you and Ken both laugh at the animatronics that sing and talk throughout the ride. Though upon reaching the top, you feel Ken squirm behind you as if he's nervous.

Even you feel a little queasy as you see the park before you atop of the drop.

"Actually you may want to han-."

You are interrupted as the log tips over the edge while you both let out a scream and Ken latches onto your back with his arms.

The log causes a tremendous splash at the bottom as both of your bodies jerk forward from the momentum. A bit of your pants is soaked as you exit the ride.

The same laughter that Ken had at Space Mountain is mirrored here as his head bobs up and down in enthusiasm.

"That was freaking awesome! I want to go on it again!" He says with glee.

You also shared his sentiment, but with how long the line was, you decided that it was best to just go on it later tonight when you had the free time.

"Let's go to the picture kiosk, I want to see if I made a funny face." You say to Ken.

You were the last one in line in the Kiosk, and since it was so crowded, you couldn't really see your own picture until it was your turn up in front. When the lady manning the kiosk looked at you, a bigger smile than she had before appeared on her face.

"You and your little brother are probably one of the better pictures I've seen so fa today, his smile was so cute when he was hanging on behind you." She says with a laugh.

At first you think she had mistaken you with someone else, but as she points at the picture and you look at it, your heart drops almost instantly.

Ken was indeed in the picture behind you, though his whole figure was a little bit hazed as if he wasn't all completely there.

"Sorry about how he looks, the cameras can be a bit iffy with the water and all, I have to remember to tell my manager to get it checked out." She remarks.

"N-No it's fine! Say how much is that picture?" You quickly stammer while taking out your wallet.

I didn't do anything wrong did I...." Ken meekly says while the two of you sit on a bench as you look at the picture before you.

"No, not at all! It's just I didn't think you would actually show up on the picture. Though honestly I think it made it all the much better, the lady was right you did have a pretty dumb face while going down." You laugh trying to change the mood.

"Not as dumb as yours, look how scared you look!" Ken replies with a smile while pointing at your face.

Putting the picture away, you get up from the bench and give your arms a stretch.

"Well we still got a lot of time to kill today with all these rides, we got to get as many done as we can before we leave." You say while pulling out your pamphlet map.

"Yeah, I want to ride this one next! Someone at school told me that it was pretty fun and the lines aren't that long either!." Ken says with eagerness as he points to one of the attractions on the map.

"Well let's get to it then." You say, putting the map back into your pocket.

Off the two of you were, enjoying the rest of your day with the park that was before you.


The flight was around one or two hours, you couldn't really tell with how fast time seemed to go. In the corner of your eye, you saw Ken's body bouncing up and down as he looked out the window as you started to descend.

"I really wanted to fly one of these...."

He said it so quietly, that you don't know if he meant to say it at all. Though you decided to just pretend that you didn't hear it as sad feelings started to enter your head a bit.

You would make this kid's day today.

The two of you quickly got off the plane and entered the main airport which was much smaller than the one in you had first arrived at. It was probably already close to midnight and you needed to get yourself to a hotel before you crashed from exhaustion. Luckily there were already Ubers patrolling around the airport so finding a ride didn't take all that long.

You had already researched a hotel that you would be staying at so that was all covered too. You just needed to sleep this night off.....

---

"Wake up, wake up! We're going to be late!"

You felt someone pushing you from side to side as your eyes slowly opened. You saw that this was Ken, but his bright eager face startled a bit, enough to get you awake and to your senses.

"Jesus, when did I go to sleep?"

"Oh, you fell asleep as soon as you walked in the door. The room is pretty boring and the only kids show on TV is Arthur." Ken complains with slight annoyance.

"But hurry up and get up, I want us to get there before the gates open at nine and it's already seven!"

"Relax kid where like a few blocks away, let me get showered and dress and well get a bus over there..." You yawn as you start to open your backpack and dump out your clothes onto your bed.

"Ughhhhh, well hurry up. I'm sick of watching Arthur." Ken grumbles before stomping back over to the T.V and plopping himself down on the carpet.

Once you were done and ready, you took Ken with you to go downstairs while you served yourself breakfast in the cafeteria. You felt a little bad eating in front of Ken though while you waited, it seems he took notice to this and just waved his hand.

"I don't get hungry ever." He says reassuringly.

Even so, you raced to finish your food as fast as you could before leaving the Hotel itself and heading to the nearest bus stop that would get you to Disneyland. Ken always seemed to race ahead of you as he motioned for you to hurry up while he bounced side to side most likely from anticipation.

The bus probably won't get here for ano-."

"Look there's the bus!" Ken exclaims while he points down the road.

Well shit.

Getting onto the bus with your passes, Ken made you sit in the front row saying that he wanted to be the first one off the bus upon arriving.

Though it didn't really all that much since the bus ride was only about five minutes anyway. The parking lots outside of Disneyland didn't seem all that full either, even though there was a lot of people around the entrance of the park you guess this would still be considered a slow day.

"The line isn't even that long we're going to get in soon!" Ken says with eagerness.

Just as he predicted, it took no time at all to get in with how fast it was to get through the gates.

Upon entering the main section of the park, even you were overwhelmed on where you should start, Ken was already bouncing up and down while giving endless suggestions.

"Let's go on the tower of terror, my friend said that he peed his pants when he went on that one because the drop was so scary, or we can go on Space Mountain since that's the one everyone always goes on first since it's the best ride in the park!"

It looked like Ken was looking onto you for guidance on where to start in this ginormous park.
> You adult mega thrill rides
You remember being totally scared of all the big roller coasters when you first came to this park when you were younger, but after riding them once they weren't all that bad, so maybe it would be the same for Ken. Besides you were looking for a thrill too.

"Alright Ken, were going to try out that biggest rides here, starting with that one."
You say pointing at a towering roller-coaster with a giant drop that you could see from the entrance, which was the California Screamin.

The joy that Ken had earlier seemed to vanish, as he took one look at the ride and looked back at you with honest fear in his eyes.

"Why that one?"

"Didn't you want to ride all the rides?"

"I never said that." He states.

"Oh, Well we might as well since we're here. Or if you're not up to it we can just ride all the kiddy rides if that's more your style.

"NO! That's not it, I just thought we could work our way up is all, that's way to much for me to start with."

"Trust me kid, I thought it was scary too at first but it's honestly pretty fun, now I'm not taking no for an answer so come on." You say as you begin walking towards monster that dominates the park.

"Wait, Wait!"

You don't listen to Ken though, as you hear his fast footsteps behind you catching up to your pace.

Surprisingly the line for this ride wasn't all that long, you remember it taking ages to get on this, but you were the second ones to get on after the first group was finished.

With it being empty, you were able to grab an empty seat next to you for Ken since you went for the middle. He was careful for the bars to not to nick him as they dropped over his body, but with that out of the way, the two of you were ready to ride.

Looking over at Ken he looked as if he was right about to shit himself at any moment, seemingly shaking.

You slightly punch his shoulder as he looks over at you.

"Hey, I wouldn't make you go on this if I didn't think you would have fun alright?"

"Yeah....I trust you..."

Ken takes a few deep breathes as the ride starts to lurch forward with all the preparations ready and set.

You took the liberty of getting the seats in the far back to mitigate Ken's fear from the look of the drops, which seemed to be working as he only bothered to look down at his feet.

Upon the first major drop, you could start to hear the laughter of everybody else in front of you as you yourself started to laugh to try to cheer Ken up.

He laughed, but his seemed to be a much more forced and nervous one.

When it got to the very top and you look down even you were starting to get second thoughts since you hadn't ridden one of these things in years, but before you knew it your cart lurched forward as kinetic energy took over with your stomach immediately dropping with the cart.

Screams and laughter took over your ears as hands started to go up in glee as you did the same.

You tried to look over at Ken but the coaster kept on shaking you around that you decided to just keep looking forward to avoid a neck injury.

The ride didn't last as long as you were expecting it to, but that was probably on the account that you were having a blast on it, and once you had gotten off you already wanted to go on again.

Spotting Ken, you looked at his facial expression to see what he thought of the ride.

Emotionless at first, in some type of daze, though as soon as he made eye contact a grin from ear to ear went to his face.

"That was frickin awesome, I want to go on it again!" He yelled whilst jumping up and down.

"Maybe later, we still got another ride I want to try that's an even bigger drop."

"You don't mean...?"

"Yep!" you simply reply.

"Let's go!" This time it's Ken who takes the lead as you chase after him in order for the boundary to not yank him back. You knew he knew what you were referring to as he was heading directly towards the tower.

The tower of terror.

The line for this ride was about the same, though it seemed that it went by faster though you had no clue as to why.

This would be the first time riding this ride as even you were too scared to go on this thing when you were little no matter how much your friends had begged you too.

The scared look that Ken had when he was in line for last ride was mirrored on his face at this moment. Though this time there seemed to be a bit of determination in his eye as he looked at you.

"This ride isn't going to be scary, it's going to be fun!"

You were glad at his assessment as the two of you got in line. The group that you were tied to was a rather large family, though because of this they themselves including you were the only ones to ride at that given time. You were kind of lucky since you were riding these rides by yourself, you were an outlier in these large crowds that rode rides together, so there was always an empty seat somewhere since everyone else wanted to ride with their families and friends.

As the room darkened and the narrator began his speech, you saw Ken swaying his body back and forth a little as he looked all around the room with a smile on his face.

You, on the other hand, had no smile on your face as you were a little bit scared on what was to come, you didn't really enjoy the drops at roller coasters, and this one was probably going to be ten times that.

"Hey look, we can see the entire pa-." Ken was cut off as the elevator you all were sitting in drastically fell floors below you as everybody started screaming, including you. Ken, on the other hand, was laughing his ass off as the elevator kept on going up and down with drastic height differences. You hadn't eaten anything before hand but a sick feeling was starting to form in your stomach as you just wanted the ride to fucking end.

You actually ended up closing your eyes, in which Ken seemed to notice.

"Don't tell me you're scared!" He continued to laugh with the drops.

"No, I just feel sick..." You weakly reply.

When the ride finally comes to a stop, the grouped family and Ken get off laughing while you straggle behind trying not to vomit.

"Yeah kid, I think I need a break from rides for a little bit." You say while sitting on a bench.

"Aw really, did you feel that sick from it?" He asked with a mix of disappointment and worry.

"Just give me a couple of minutes kid...". You say while taking a few deep breathes to get your stomach back in functioning order.

"Man you were right though, I really did enjoy those scary rides, I think I want to ride all of them now if those two were the worst ones out of all of them. Let's get those done first before anything else today please?" Ken pleads.

"As long as you give me a few breaks in between Kid then you can get on anything you want today."

Ken smiled at this.

"O.K I understand, I'm going to go check out the nearest line to see how long the wait is O.K? I promise it won't be too much of a scary.

You groan while getting up to your feet.

"I have to come with you remember. Anyway, I'm ready to get anyway so let's do this."

"Hooray!"


You'd best just follow the instructions of G to the word, he probably had a good idea of what he was talking about.

"Ken listen to me, I've been sent here to this exact location to specifically get you and only you. I don't know the exact process of things but they want you to ascend and get up to the heavens for your eternal peace. Don't you want something like that?" You say, lying about a few things in that statement as you really had no fucking idea.

"Hey, why won't you answer me." The girl asks again, seemingly irked that she was ignored.

Ken still seems pretty indecisive on what he wants to do. You were running out of options on what to do, this girl would probably get to his head to stay if you let this drag out for too long, you had to get ballsy.

"You know what this is a waste of time. You stay here Ken because trust me now that you've decided to come you'll be put at the bottom of the waiting list, and you'll stay at this bridge for hundreds and HUNDREDS of years. I have other ghosts that need help and can't have my time wasted, good luck boy." As finished that heavy statement, you started to turn around and walk away, not looking back or slowing down your pace.

'Come on'

Silence.

'COME ON.'

Even more silence.

You were internally panicking as you didn't know what the fuck to do if Ken didn't give in to your bait, G was going to get pissed.

"WAIT, PLEASE."

"Ken stop!"

Oh, thank fucking god."

You turn around to face Ken, who you heard running towards you. He couldn't make it all the way through as he reached the boundary for which he could travel.

"I don't want to stay here forever, please help me, I'm sorry for wasting your time, mister!" He cried with many tears and snot running down his face. You felt a little bad about that, but in the end, this would benefit both of you so you were also relieved.

"Alright kid calm down, I'll help you get out of here, just do what I say and this process will be easy." You assure him while taking out your phone to contact G.

Though you see he has already sent you a message.

G- Alright good job, you didn't fuck yourself over with unnecessary interactions and now you won't be fucked with other burdens. This next part will be easy, touch the kid's hand and twist it, he'll be bound to you and then we can work on his need in order to ascend.

Doing as what G instructed you turned to the Ken.

"Alright for this next part I need you to grab my hand while I turn it, you'll be with me until I can do the work needed to get you up there alright?"

"Yes, I understand," Ken says while wiping away some tears from his eyes.

Beginning the process you start to turn his rest as your hands clasp with one another, instantaneously he starts to let out a blue glow, and you yourself feel a tingle up in your brain.

Though other than that it doesn't seem like anything has happened. Ken is still standing there like normal. Though he tries walking forward, and much to both of your surprise, he manages to get out of the boundary.

"I can leave!" He exclaims with surprise.

He tries to walk farther with quick haste but ends up being blocked by another boundary, though this time it seems closer to you.

"I guess you're bound to me for now."

"I thought you said I would be going to heaven?" Ken says with a little disappointment in his voice.

"You will don't worry, we just need to do a process and you'll be all set to leave." You promise him.

Looking back at your phone you look to see if you were sent any more messages from G.

G- Ask the kid the top three things that he wants to do. We have to get him really happy for this to work, Even if we can't do the things on his list we can still take him to an amusement park or some shit.

That's probably what he was talking about when he said this would be easy.

"So Ken is there anything that you would like to do before you leave, anything that would make you happy. Trust me I can probably make it happen with my connections." You say to him which causes him to have a look of surprise.

"Well...like what?"

"Like anything. Something you'd like to try, something you'd like to see. I can make it happen to an extent, give the top three things that you'd like to do."

"Are you sure, it can be anything?"

"Like I said, to an extent." You remind him again.

"Well ok..."

Ken seems to take some time to think over what he would like to do. Though it doesn't seem to take long as his mouth opens quickly.

"I always wanted to go to Disneyland....and I wanted to be pilot when I became a grown-up......and I guess I wanted to play that new call of duty game that came out too."

As he said these things on his list, you were also typing them to G who himself was already getting ready to reply.

G- To tell you the fucking truth I think the pilot one is probably going to be easier, I may have a connection that can get you a plane ride, and the pilot is even a ghost-seer such as yourself. Though if you want to go to Disneyland instead you can also do that if you want. A fucking call of duty game isn't going to make him happy enough to where we need to be though.
> You flying
Going to Disneyland would probably lead to a whole set of problems that you weren't ready to deal with. If G said he could hook you up with flying then might as well take his offer.

You texted him that you would be choosing flying, to which he quickly responded.

G- Alright nice, was actually hoping you would pick this option, a lot less work I have to do. Alright, I should be able to hook you up this weekend at the soonest so be ready. I don't know what type of plane exactly my friend owns, but I think he should be able to let the kid fly a little, or at least touch a button or two to make it look like he's doing some helpful shit. I'll contact you with more details by tomorrow.

Looking back at Ken you give him a nod.

"Alright, it seems I'm going to get you to fly then. We'll even be able to do it by this weekend."

Ken seemed to beam at this news as you could sense his giddiness.

"Really! What type of plane is it?"

"I don't know, it'll probably be a small one though. The pilot from what I heard can also see ghosts, so you'll be able to help him fly a bit depending on how things go."

Ken's smile grew even bigger as he started to jump a little.

"Alright let's get home, this walk has gotten me fucking exhausted." You say as you begin to turn around from the bridge.'

"Hey wait!" You hear someone say to you.

Turning around you see the same ghost that Ken was hiding behind earlier. She was a few feet away from you, though you could tell she was at the very edge of her boundary.

"What about us, when are we getting out of here."

Now that you had Ken bound to you, you didn't really think what G had said would affect you now that you were already bound to a 'contract' or whatever it was referred too.

"The rest of you will get your turn in due time, there are others like me out there so they'll get to you all eventually. You just have to be patient and wait, that's all I can really tell you honestly." You say to her, in which your words don't really seem to help her mood.

Seeing nothing else for you to do, you start to turn around once again and begin to leave the bridge with Ken.

Getting back to the bus stop that would help you get home was a lot shorter of a way to get to compared to what you had to walk when you first got here, G was totally fucking with you.

Upon getting home you say Hi to your mom and tell her the reason for which you were out so late before heading to your room.

"Do ghosts sleep?" You ask Ken before getting ready to head to bed.

"No, at least I don't. I haven't seen anyone else sleep either at the bridge..." He replies with a thoughtful answer.

"Alright, then I'll turn on the T.V for you, just keep it down to a quiet volume and wake me up in the morning at five. Just don't leave this room, got it?"

Ken nods at your command.

As you begin to reach for the remote, Ken gets to it first as he hits on the ON switch, which to your surprise turns the T.V on.

"You can touch things like that?"

Ken seems confused by your obvious statement, but then he also seems surprised himself as he soon as he realizes what you meant.

Not only that, Ken was able to touch you directly at the Bridge when you did the ritual for him to be bound to you.

You start to wonder why you didn't see this sooner, though you just end up going along with it.

"Well anyways good night, and remember to wake me up."

With that being said, you sprawled your body out onto your mattress, managing to doze off in seconds.

"Hey wake up."

You feel someone shaking you side to side as your eyes slowly open from deep slumber. You look to see Ken who's still shaking you until you push away his hand and make him stop.

"What time is it." You yawn.

"Fourth-thirty, I thought you would probably want to wake up earlier and I was getting really bored so..."

Well, no wonder you were so fucking tired. Well, there was no chance you were getting back to sleep now anyway. Without another word, you grab your clothes and other essentials before heading into the bathroom.

"We're leaving in an hour." You say to Ken before closing the door.

---

Classes today went by pretty slowly. Since Ken was assigned to you as a boundary he went where you went. He kept on talking about riding in the plane during class and would also ask questions on what you were learning at the given time during each period. At first, you were a little annoyed by this, but it was something that you got quickly used to. You even caught yourself talking to him while you were with other people, which ended up getting you some weird stares and 'who are you talking' discussions.

While you were finishing up your last periods, G messaged you some of the details on what would happen for the plane ride. It would be today later in the day at a nearby small private airfield, and the pilot would try to let Ken touch some buttons and stuff to make him happy. You weren't all that excited as Ken was, but a private plane ride still was pretty cool, so you would be lying if you said you weren't slightly looking forward to it.

"You really think the pilot is going to let me fly? Man, I'm so nervous I don't want to mess anything up. You'll be there too right?"

"Yeah, of course, I mean your bound to me remember?"

"Oh yeah, you're right." Ken laughs, which makes you laugh too.

Though upon seeing some people stare at you in the hallways, your face turns a deep shade of red as you quickly start to walk away with Ken at your heels.

G said that someone was picking you that was a friend of the pilot. So and Ken waited in the parking lot as students slowly started to trickle out of campus until there was only a handful of people left.

"Is he running late?" Ken asks with a bit of worry in his voice.

"I mean the airfield must be pretty far way, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case."

These words seemed to make Ken tenser as his frown grew deeper.

"Don't worry to much about it, I guarantee you were going to fly today."

You honestly weren't that sure that you would be flying today but your words seem to get some enthusiasm back into Ken so you were glad.

Your ride did eventually get here about a half hour later, as a vehicle pulled up into the parking lot that matched the description that G had given you. To which Ken started jumping up and down with excitement.

With the driver rolling down his window you and Ken looked inside.

"Are you our ride to the airport?" you ask.

"Yeah, do the two of you want to get in the back?"

"Yeah tha-." You pause reflexively as your brain stops for a brief moment.

"Wait....Can...Can you se-."

"Get in, I'll explain it on the way." The man smiles as he points to the back.

Doing as you were told you and Ken got in while waiting for the explanation that the man was about to give you, but you asked a question first.

"I thought G said only the pilot could see ghosts, you aren't the pilot are you?" You ask hesitantly.

"No I'm not the pilot, I'm his spotter." The driver answers as he starts to pull out of the parking lot.

"Spotter?" You ask confused.

"Yeah, me and the pilot are assigned together to spot ghosts from the skies. To just get it through briefly, we fly planes over wooded areas and canyons in which hikers or other types of people may have died accidentally or just had their bodies dumped. Normally if one of them turns into a spirit they would have little to no chance to be found by any of you guys, so it's our job to go and look for whoever we can and help them ascend." The man explains.

"That's cool, but do you guys do it forever? Does anyone help you?" You ask.

"No were the only ones in our region I think. Our quotas are a little difficult to fulfill with all the dead that need saving, but with it comes some perks that I'd rather not disclose to you, you'd get very jealous." The man laughs heartily as he takes a turn that leads onto the freeway.

The three of you continue to make conversation throughout the car ride that lasts for quite a while. From the city, you end up driving for quite a while until there's nothing but desert all around you. Not to say that the car ride was boring though, it was probably one of the most interesting ones you ever been on. Discussing ghosts, the driver's line of work, whose name turned out to be Dom and the pilot Micheal, kept the whole ride entertaining.

By the time you arrived at the Airfield, it was almost five. Though while you were getting to the airport Dom had told the two of you that Micheal was getting the plane ready to fly as soon as you arrived.

Though it wasn't a plane that was out on the runway, it was a helicopter.

Dom had driven up right to where it was landed, with a man standing next to it, who you assumed was Micheal.

Upon exiting the car, Ken immediately ran over to the helicopter as he started to examine every part of it, circling it constantly.

"Sorry I couldn't get the plane out, but I don't think we all could have fit, it's very cramped in there. This is the next best thing that we can use though. I hope you're not disappointed." Micheal said towards Ken with a smile.

Ken didn't take his eyes off the helicopter though as he was touching every part of it.

"No way, I actually think this is way cooler!"

"Well, that's good to hear because you're going to help fly it in the front seat."

Ken takes his eyes away from the helicopter for the first time and looks at Micheal directly into his eyes.

"You really mean it...?"

"Well, of course, I'm not much of one to lie."

A huge grin, one that you've never seen before appears on Ken's face.

"Let's go, Let's go! I want to fly this!" Ken exclaims as he starts to look for a door handle or something to get inside.

As Dom goes over to help Ken inside, Micheal goes over to and starts to talk to you a bit.

"Is this your first ghost?" He asks with a small smile, though his voice has a hint of seriousness.

"Yeah, G is helping me fill a quota I guess."

"Lucky you, I haven't heard G ever helping a newbie such as yourself, G usually gets assigned to those already seasoned. You should count yourself lucky to get yourself such a top-rated guide to help you, you could have gotten a dipshit that abandoned you without the drop of the hat, sad that a lot of guides are like that. That class sucks though so I wouldn't blame them." Micheal says while rambling a bit.

"So then do each of you have guides then?" You ask while you prepare to board the helicopter with Ken and Dom already on board.

"No, our job lets us not have to count on guides so much since we're able to find our own spirits to help. Which honestly makes the process a whole lot easier in my opinion, then again I had a lot of shit guides when I was first starting out."

You and Dom sat in the back while Ken and Micheal sat in the front of the helicopter.

"We were actually on planning on going out today before you had called us, so luckily we're going to be able to fly for a little longer while we survey our hotspots," Dom explained as Micheal began to start the machine.

It lifted up slowly but surely as it felt really smooth to what you had imagined the opposite of it being.

"Once we're done with our hotspots you can choose anywhere you want to go around this area kid, and I'll fly us over."

"Sweet I'd love that!"

Once the helicopter had gained enough altitude, it started to soar across the sky as you looked down at the deserts below with fascination. It must have been really easy for these guys to spot people who had died around here with how empty it was beside the cacti everywhere.

A dark feeling clouded your mind as you also imagined them being the first ones to find the actual bodies as well around here, which was a depressing thought.

The farther out you went, the closer you got to a mountain range that was pretty close by to the airfield.

"A lot of people go hiking and biking along these trails, and there are only a few park rangers here that actually supervise the place, we actually help a lot of people who end up getting lost here whenever we patrol," Dom explains.

"Do you see anybody now?" Ken says.

"No, not really, though no one usually comes here on weekdays, the bikers usually come here on Sunday."

Around twenty minutes had passed while you were surveying the mountainside when Dom finally gave the sign to Micheal that it was clear, he started to turn around back to the beginning of the range.

"Alright kiddo were done with our duties for today, is there anywhere you'd like to go, this helicopter has some pretty good range on it."

You didn't really know why he had given this option since you were in the desert there wasn't really all that many places that you could go to, but you were sure Ken could think of something creative.

"I want to see the city lights at night! I heard it can be really cool from a plane and I've always wanted too, I've seen a bit before from a mountain but I want to see it from higher!" Ken states with excitement.

Dom and Micheal give each other a look while you cringe a bit. There's no way these guys would stay up flying all night just to do this for Ken.

"Thomas stays at the airport pretty late helping with refueling right? We can stop by there if that's the case, though you would have to get a ride back to your house from the airport if that's fine with you." Micheal says, directing the first part to Dom and the last part towards you.

You hesitantly nod.

"Yeah, that won't be a problem."

Fuck you need to ask G for some Uber money.

"Well, in that case, you got yourself a ride kid, it should be dark enough for the lights to pop up once we make it to the city."

Ken's eyes eyebrows widened as he started wiggling in his seat.

"Since we're also just going to be going in a single direction for a while, I think it's time for you to try out the controllers."

Taking this chance at it's fullest, Ken started to slowly grab at the throttle while he was guided by Micheal on where to push and pull.

"See if you do it like this then it's pretty easy right?"

"Yeah, it is!" Micheal beams with satisfaction.

Micheal slowly but surely starts to let go of the throttle for him to grab on his own.

"Now try to turn us left and right."

"Are you sure...?" Ken asked a bit nervously.

"Go ahead, if anything bad happens I have more than enough time to recover."

Taking the approval, Ken starts to mess with the throttle and start turning it different directions, although very gingerly and slowly. Though that seemed to be enough to make him very excited.

"Good job kid! You learned pretty fast, usually, it takes a couple of hours to learn how to use it as a beginner."

You could tell that Micheal was probably bullshitting him which made you laugh a little, but it's not like it really mattered anyway.

----

"Wow, the sky really is so pretty at night." You say as you look down at city nightlife.

Ken didn't comment on it when he first saw it, instead of taking it all in, in silence.

That was probably the only time you've ever seen him this quiet. Nobody else really talked for the rest of that flight, as Micheal took his time hovering over the bustling city below.

--

"Thank you so much for the ride, I really appreciated that you guys took the time to do this for us." You say once you've landed at the airport later that night.

"No problem kid, it's good to see another one of us in this city. We rarely come in contact with anyone else with our gift so it's always interesting." Micheal says.

"You take care of yourself kid, maybe when you get reincarnated, you can become a pilot with your new life," Dom says to Ken.

"I'm going to be reincarnated?!" Ken says with disbelief.

Dom doesn't answer but instead puts a finger to his lips with a smile, while he and Micheal wave you two goodbye as you leave for the car pickup center of the airport in which you've landed.

You didn't know if what Dom said was true, or if he was just giving Ken some hope that he would live again after all of this, as long as it made him happy though, then a little false hope was welcome.

You texted G that you had finished with the ride as you had entered your Uber with Ken.

G- Alright nice, I'm going to have you do the Ascension by tomorrow or the day after, just make sure the kid's mood doesn't fall or anything until then and we'll be fine.
> You ascension
The rest of the time until Ken's ascension was pretty fun as it was. You played some games with him on your computer and took him to a few spots around town before the deadline to help him enjoy himself a little more.

When the night finally came to where you would help him leave, it was pretty sad since you would miss the kid.

Having the instructions from G, the ritual commenced, though not before your goodbyes.

"Thank you for everything. I was really nervous at first about leaving, but after doing everything the last couple of days, I actually feel ready." Ken says to you as you stand before him.

"I'm glad, also hanging out with you was really fun too, you're a pretty cool kid."

Ken smiles as his hand raises up by your earlier command.

"Will I be seeing you again...?" He asks in a much-lowered tone.

"Probably not anytime soon. But yeah, we probably will see each other again." You reply.

"Well when that day comes, it'll be me showing you around and helping you have fun when you're new!" He says with a laugh.

That thought was a little depressing, but it had a sweet enough sentiment to make you smile.

"Until then." You say grabbing his forearm.

"Until then." He replies with a nod.

You give his forearm a twist.

Ken disappears from your eyes shortly after.

Your job was done.

While you were a bit sad about it in your now empty room, you were also glad that Ken would finally be getting his rest.

You would still need to help more spirits to fulfill your quota, and you were committed to making sure they all got to where they were going with smiles and no regrets.

This was your new life, your new duty.


"You're talking as if there are others like me and you out there..."

G- Well obviously retard, do you really think that the two of us would be able to handle all of the distressed spirits that are currently roaming? Yes, our numbers aren't legion, but they make do to keep balance in the spirits our kind help on the daily.

"How hard is it to make contact with another one of my kind?" You ask, a bit tempted to make contact with someone that also shares your powers, but only to relate."

G- Yeah fuck off, that's classified information that's only available to observers, you won't need help from other wardens on your quotas and you get it regardless.

"It wasn't about help." You mutter to yourself.
> You how hard will this task be
"Well, how hard will all of this be, helping spirits ascend and all."

G-Fuck don't tell me you're going to pussy out if this is going to seem like too much work. The first few ghosts will probably be challenging for you, but after a while, you'll start getting used to it. It's just like taking care of a dog or cat, they're all different but they usually have the same needs most of the time. Although these needs will actually be more of wants, and these wants can vary in difficulty. Also keep in mind that we can't just skip on a ghost, each of their needs will have to be fulfilled before we can move onto a new ghost.

That doesn't sound very appealing to you.


You weren't going to lie, you were scared shitless about this whole situation, you didn't want to think this person would do if you pissed them off or denied them, so you went along with it for now.

Giving a small sigh, you reply to her offer.

"Go on..."

G- :) Good choice. Now, where shall we start? Other than G, you can also refer to me as an observer. Whenever you are online doing work, I can spectate all of which you are doing and help you along the way in terms of finding distressed spirits in need of help ascending while you help cross out their requirements in order to do so, normally your kind are referred to as wardens, so that is what I will refer to you a title. Observers and Wardens share a 'professional relationship' as most of your kind would say. Both of us need to meet a certain amount of ascensions for the distressed in order for us to stay alive to put it brutally honest. After completing our quotas, we are free from future quotas until we are called into service again, which is normally five years. Any questions?
> No
Sensing your silence and lack of questions G continues on.

G- One other thing I should mention, your grace period for snitching has been over for quite some time now, but like a good boy you are, you've remained silent which was to your benefit.

"What do you mean?" You ask confused.

G- Every warden such as yourself has a grace period from when they are born in which they are able to tell people that they see ghosts and such without suffering any consequences. Once a certain age is reached, however, yours being 16, the grace period ends, and any talk of your powers with anyone else will make you suffer....repercussions. It's not something that's easy to explain, but let's just say for your health it's best to keep this relationship between me and you and your whole powers quiet and hidden like you've been doing so far. Otherwise, I can't guarantee your safety.

These words intimidated you immediately as you read them. Luckily G didn't see this with the webcam turned, otherwise you probably would have teased heavily. It's not like you were planning on telling anyone about your powers anyway, though this still messed with you immensely.

G- Anyway this explanation has tired me, I'll brief you tomorrow on any spirits that need your help, but until then just relax and pat yourself on the back for all the fun you're about to have, because believe me you have no idea how hard I'm going to ride your ass to get this quota done, I've got shit to do so the sooner we do this the better.

You finished reading her last passage, and after a few moments, you saw that everything that had been written in the notepad was being deleted rapidly until there was thinning left a minute later.

As you contemplated your situation with your hands clasping your head, you felt a buzz in your pocket. Taking out your phone, you see a new message from an unknown number, with a area code foreign from your state. It came from the United States though that much you could tell.

G- ^_^ Don't go off calling me, this is just to send you information about spirits.

You frowned heavily at this message, which leads to another one.

G- What did I tell you about making those ugly faces :)?

You had an instinct to throw your phone against your bedroom wall with the anger and frustration you were feeling, but quickly came to your senses and stopped yourself from harming your electronics.

You needed to sleep this fucking day off.


There seemed to be a difference in the dead you saw.

Some were alive and could communicate with you, while others were just corpses that you would see as if the crime or accident had just happened, sometimes the corpses would seem very decayed too, just like the one at your friend's house.

At first, it was just it was just corpses that you were able to see, which really fucked you up when you saw them every now and then at different locations whenever you left you left your house. The first times you screamed, as far you can remember or have been told by your parents, but soon it seems you just got used to it as no one else were able to see what you kept on seeing. It didn't scare you as it did the first times after encountering new corpses, but then again it wasn't a sight that you looked forward to seeing either.

You could best describe it as getting sick, or getting injured. It sucks when it happens, but you can't really do all that much about it, and the only way around it is to limit yourself in the locations that you went. That's how you ended up becoming a shut-in, locked away in your room on your computer for whenever you came home from school or had free time on the weekends.

That's to say you weren't an emo loner or someone who had terrible serious issues that needed therapy, or at least you hoped so.

The screaming parts were just seen as a phase to your parents. Like sex or bad words, seeing dead people was something that you never really felt comfortable talking about with them.

In fact, at first, you thought everyone could see it, and they were just fucking with you when they said that they had no idea what you were talking about when you pointed at the corpses. It took months before you knew that it was just your own personal disease.

A disease that you knew would probably never get cured.

Waking up from bed, in a tired daze, you looked at your phone to see that it was Friday, and you had woken up an hour early before school. This was pretty unusual, since most of the time you would stay up till one or two a.m. and would usually miss the morning bus.

That had to mean you only got like four or five hours of sleep.

"Shit."

Taking the time that you had, you got yourself showered and dressed and went downstairs to make yourself some breakfast before you would walk to your bus stop.

Your school was close enough that walking could be an option.

Although usually, you run into a few car crash victims along the sidewalk, most of the time their heavily disfigured or heavily weeping.

You don't know exactly why you didn't notice them when you were younger, though you chalked it up to the assumption that you were always playing on your Gameboy on car rides or something.

There have been a few instances in which you've spoken to the dead, although most of the time they never ended well.

It seems that they're trapped into a sort of box, each box differentiating in size to reasons unknown to you. If they're lucky they have someone to talk to if the place they died has another ghost, or they died in pairs. When there's a lone ghost, however, most of the time they look miserable or heavily distressed.

You learned never to make eye contact, as that was a sure fire way that they knew that you could see them. There was one time that one on a road you traveled on was screaming at you, and that had caused other ghosts in the area to also look over at you as he screamed that you could see him.

You don't ever go on that road now on the way home, in fact, you stay try your best to stay away from that part of the city.

Though there a bit of you that was ashamed for being afraid of ghosts. If this was something you were going to live with for the rest of your life then you had to start facing it head on, or at least that's what you wanted to think.
> You walk to school
You always wanted to actually try to walk to school again as you used too, but each time you ended up talking yourself out of it and putting it off until later. You didn't know what actually made you do it today though, maybe because you had been so bored for the past few weeks that you wanted something to spark your mood somewhat. It seems that you always forget though that you always regret your purposeful encounters with ghosts until it's too late to turn back.

Grabbing your bag from the counter after finishing the last of your breakfast, you call out to your mom that you're leaving and head out the front door.

Usually, you could probably get to school quicker depending on your pace compared to the bus with all the stops that it had to make. That would only be if you took the back alleys though, and that wasn't really the point of this walk.

Making your way onto Bradley Ave. you spot the first ghost around thirty yards ahead, facing the opposite direction from you while just huddling down on its knees amidst the oncoming traffic.

This was one of the ghosts who stuck out to you the most. As it was one of the first road ghosts that you had ever encountered. The other part of it was the fact that its face was heavily disfigured of what you remember. One of the eyes was bulging out like a stress toy, and half of its upper scalp seemed to be completely gone, giving the impression that it painted half of its head red sloppily. You assumed the reason what it was huddled was partially due to the fact that when you had seen it stand, its limbs seemed oddly bent in some angles, and when it had called out to you it hadn't moved at all, but instead crouched down into an animalistic like reflex.

It's not really like you could communicate with it all that much either with it being in the middle of an avenue and all, you would look like a madman just talking to no one or be mistaken for someone who was trying to jaywalk across.

Nevertheless with all these thoughts going into your mind, it was already too late to turn back now, otherwise, you would have been late to first period.

Walking casually, you tried not to make all that much eye contact, and instead were only going to engage if the creature noticed you or called out.

The closer you came to it, however, the more you started to regret what was about to happen, time seemed to slow a little bit as you could tell that you were now in the peripheral vision of the spirit.

What surprised you though was the silence.

It didn't call out to you.

You could have sworn that it knew you were able to see if from past interactions, and when it came to ghosts who knew they always called out.

This sparked curiosity, but also a bit of hesitation. The curiosity tempted you to immediately look over at the ghost to see what was up.

Waves of regret immediately came over your entire body and mind, as the two of you both met eye contact immediately.

Crouched down in its usual stance, its head was tilted at a total 90-degree angle as it gave you an eye to eye stare. Because of the dis-figuration and tilt of its head, you couldn't tell that much of the facial expression it was making, though you could only guess it was of confusion or wonder, though even that was hard to tell as one of its eyebrows were completely gone with red revealed flesh in its place.
> You interaction
Silence took over the air between the two of you as no words were spoken. You could tell that it was fear that you felt, but you didn't know why. It couldn't get to you, and it couldn't harm you, but you still felt a tinge of fear.

"I remember you."

With little cars currently passing by, you didn't really have all the much trouble hearing its voice clearly. It had almost no emotion in it, though it sounded almost normal, as you wouldn't think the person was dead. It didn't say anything after, seemingly waiting for you to reply.

"I remember you too." You reply with a voice crack, in which you started coughing to get your vocals straight.

"You can....see me?" You couldn't tell if that was confusion or a bit of desperation in how that was said, but you nodded back silently.

Seeing your confirmation, the ghost started to drag it's body with its arms, slowly to where you were. Seeing the task made you feel pity for the poor thing with how much trouble it seemed to have had.

It took about half a minute for it to finally reach its barrier, which seemed to be the sidewalk that was next to the road. This led the spirit to be a few feet away from you, in which you could now clearly see it's entirety. It was a girl, or so you thought. Besides the missing hair and bulging right eye, the right side of her cheek was torn off exposing dark golden teeth that were blackened by plaque or insects, while her nose was also crooked the right side.

As hideous as it all was, you couldn't help to not look away. The fact that you couldn't stress you out a bit.

"How long have you been here?" This was the first question that came to your mind, and it was the first one blurted out of your mouth without thinking.

"I think...It'll be six or seven months soon..." You could hear the immense sadness and emptiness that came with those words and pauses. The whole situation was already making you feel extremely uncomfortable, but you couldn't really walk away from this now, or at least it wouldn't be right.

You didn't really know what else to say though, questions started swarming into your mind, but which ones to ask and how to ask them made you freeze before anything could leave your mouth.

“Are you leaving soon…?” She asked you before you could come up with anything.

“Ah...yeah, I have s-school so…” The words stuttered out of your mouth as you didn’t want to say it impolitely, but then again you felt horrible as her face reacted to these words. She looked at the sky for a bit before half smiling at you.

“Thanks for talking to me, you can go now so you won’t be late.”

Even though she gave you the permission, your legs were moving. There had to be more you could do to help this poor soul. What really worried you thought was how calm she was, she didn’t scream like the other ones, but she seemed just as broken nevertheless, maybe even more so.
> You stay
You didn't move, but instead, help your ground as the ghost continued to eye you.

"What's your name?" You ask, a little more steadily then your wordings from before.

The ghost stood motionless her a second as her pupils moved from side to side, as if thinking heavily on the answer to your question.

"It was Gwen."

"Well, I'm sure it wouldn't be all that bad if you still decide to go by Gwen." You joke a little with a smile.

The humor doesn't seem to be returned though as her face shows no emotion, making you feel a bit awkward for what you just said.

"You're not going to go then...?" Gwen asks in a lower voice than before.

You shake your head. "I usually don't like going to first period anyway, It wouldn't be all that bad if I just killed time here with you for a while.

You knew your mom and dad would seriously have your ass if they found out you were ditching, but you would worry about that at a later time.

"I see.." Gwen replies as she makes direct eye contact with you once again.

"Do you have anything you would like to talk about, anything you'd like to ask me?" You had run out of things to say to her so you decided it would be best to let her do the talking while you came up with more topics in the back of your head for later.

"What grade are you in?" This was probably the first time you could directly hear emotion in her voice, which was no doubt curiosity.

"Oh, I'm a senior, this will be my last year before I graduate."

"I was a Junior...I think I know school was just starting though." Gwen replies with her own memories.

"Oh really, did you know which school you had gone too?" you asked a little too quickly since you were interested if you went to the same school or not.

"I don't know..."She says sorrowfully, breaking eye contact and looking down.

For someone who has been dead for less than a year, this girl seemed to forget things rather quickly. You had met one or two ghosts who seemed rather old, and even they seemed to have more recollection about their past than she did. You didn't want to pry too much though, as the questions seemed to be bothering her somewhat given on how they were making her act.

You decided that it would best to come up with questions on your own.
> You how did you die?
"So. how did you die...?" You asked carefully.

You weren't expecting to get an immediate or happy answer, but her reaction to what you just said startled you as her whole body started to shake vigorously. Her working eye turned white while the bulging one looked dead in place.

"Woah hey, are you o-?" You tried to reach out to her with your hands, but she swiftly pulled her body back from your grasp as she let out a shriek.

"DON'T TOUCH ME!"

Your eardrums are stunned as you take a step back and cover them until her shrieks die down.

Looking at her face, made the breakfast this morning feeling like it was about to come right back out.

Her face seemed more deformed and rotten than it had before. The bulging eye was replaced with an empty socket, her entire nose was missing leaving a grey crevice with a few maggots entrenched within. Her left hand was gone, and white bone was visible with hints of flesh still attached to certain areas. What clothes she was wearing looked extremely raggedy and torn, more than any homeless person you've ever come across.

Before her appearance didn't affect you all that much, now though you could barely look at her longer for two seconds before you wanted to vomit again.
> You rage
You backed away slowly as her body kept on transforming in that of a decayed skeleton, but as soon as she noticed this she seemed to charge directly at you.

Never has a ghost been able to touch or affect you physically, you still started to instinctively run away, but she was faster and caught up to you before you could leave her boundary.

You felt something enter inside of you, and that really freaked you the fuck out as you started to hold your head in pain.

"HNNGGG." You let out a large yelp in pain as your ears were immediately pierced by a woman shrieking, causing you to fall to your knees and start wreathing around as you couldn't escape what kept on screaming.

This took place for around a whole minute, finally though it stopped, and everything was quiet, totally quiet.

Before that, though you heard a small *pop*, and with that you lost all your senses.


You didn't move, but instead, help your ground as the ghost continued to eye you.

"What's your name?" You ask, a little more steadily then your wordings from before.

The ghost stood motionless her a second as her pupils moved from side to side, as if thinking heavily on the answer to your question.

"It was Gwen."

"Well, I'm sure it wouldn't be all that bad if you still decide to go by Gwen." You joke a little with a smile.

The humor doesn't seem to be returned though as her face shows no emotion, making you feel a bit awkward for what you just said.

"You're not going to go then...?" Gwen asks in a lower voice than before.

You shake your head. "I usually don't like going to first period anyway, It wouldn't be all that bad if I just killed time here with you for a while.

You knew your mom and dad would seriously have your ass if they found out you were ditching, but you would worry about that at a later time.

"I see.." Gwen replies as she makes direct eye contact with you once again.

"Do you have anything you would like to talk about, anything you'd like to ask me?" You had run out of things to say to her so you decided it would be best to let her do the talking while you came up with more topics in the back of your head for later.

"What grade are you in?" This was probably the first time you could directly hear emotion in her voice, which was no doubt curiosity.

"Oh, I'm a senior, this will be my last year before I graduate."

"I was a Junior...I think I know school was just starting though." Gwen replies with her own memories.

"Oh really, did you know which school you had gone too?" you asked a little too quickly since you were interested if you went to the same school or not.

"I don't know..."She says sorrowfully, breaking eye contact and looking down.

For someone who has been dead for less than a year, this girl seemed to forget things rather quickly. You had met one or two ghosts who seemed rather old, and even they seemed to have more recollection about their past than she did. You didn't want to pry too much though, as the questions seemed to be bothering her somewhat given on how they were making her act.

You decided that it would best to come up with questions on your own.
> You did you have family?
"Did you have a family?"

She seemed puzzled at that question, as she didn't immediately respond.

It took you a moment before you realized how stupid that question was, of course, she had a family when she was still alive. Fuck, that was a really stupid question.

"Yeah..." She answers a bit awkwardly, with her eyes moving in different directions again.

Let's try that again.