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“Glad you died?” I exclaimed

Kipp stared at ht lad I died”

I shook my head “You can’t possibly mean that”

“Why shouldn’t I?”

There were so ive him, it became i theest “Because I’m not that special, trust me”

His expression re to differ”

I snorted, a little unco way too kind You’ve seen only bits and pieces of who I aood stuff”

“I doubt there’s anything about you I wouldn’t like”

I laughed “Experienceabout”

He traced along er and the cold air refreshedto experience you”

How true were his words? I wished we hadfor so it wasn’t real life “Yeah, it sucks”

“Sucks” Kipp chuckled and touched er to leave an icy spot “That’s one way to put it”

I’d seen ghosts filter through their guilt when they realized they were dead Of course, now things werehis pain wasn’t in any way enjoyable But I also understood if I continued to hold on to him like this, when he crossed over it’d be hosts to go As much as I didn’t want to do it, the time to settle him had come, no matter that my heart told me to do otherwise

“Your time is up, Kipp,” I said, a bit more firmly and coldly than I felt inside “You can’t dwell on what-ifs and what could have been It’s over There’s no going back so you can do things differently”

His eyes flashed with a toa piss-poor job of it”