Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions (Wicked Lovely 5.50)

sweeps her hair into her mouth

as she speaks and eats.

She tucks it behind her ear.

“Officially an accident.”

“Officially?”

“I think he killed himself.

Otherwise he probably would’ve haunted me.”

Right.

To become a ghost,

your death has to be a surprise.

(Boo.)

People who thought it’d be easier

to be a ghost

than to be alive

found that out the hard way.

“How old was he?” Mickey asks Krista.

“Eighteen.

Like you.”

Another bite,

another struggle

against the blowing hair.

“You’re thinking of doing it, aren’t you?”

If I had breath,

I would hold it now,

waiting for Mickey’s answer.

“I don’t think of dying,” he says,

“so much as I think of not living.”

It starts to rain,

suddenly,

strenuously,