weight off my shoulders

Ezekiel was getting ready for his outing with Mika.

"Oh look at our big boy. It's like he going on his first date."

Said his mother. He responds

"It not a date mother."

His father appear all of sudden and said

"Then why are you dress to impress."

He turn to his father to say

"Stop that will you. I'm late now"

Ezekiel left house.

He pick up Mika and they head to the fair. They spend the day playing games.

When it turn night they chill on a cliff watching the sun go down. They sat on the blanket next to the car. Ezekiel turn to Mika and ask

"So what did you wanna tell me?"

Mika turn to him quickly

"It's nothing."

Ezekiel said quickly "Вранье! (Lies!) You been hiding something for a while."

Mika didn't know what to say but he knew Ezekiel would never let this go. Mika just gave in and said

"I..I.. I love you" They sat there in silence.

Ezekiel broke the silence by saying

"I. Huh I can see the dead and when I mean dead I mean ghosts."

Then he drinks his can of Coca Cola. Mika couldn't believe what he just heard. Ezekiel laid down and took a quick look at Mika and continued

"What? You told your secret so tell you mine."

Mika asked

"So you don't mind?"

You could see it but Ezekiel smiled

"It I can trust you to lift the weight off my shoulders. Did you hear about the Dead Dreamer's Pregnancy? I could swear I near had a heart attack when I heard it."

"I didn't wanna say anything because I didn't know how you would react to it."

said Mika.

Meanwhile Nora and Eli were deciding baby names. Veronica if it's a girl but still deciding the boy name.

"Hey Nora" Nora look at Eli

"what?" Eli continued

"How about Zeke?"

"If you wanna name the baby after your brother then go ahead."

said Nora. Eli kiss her head and said "This is one the reason I love you"

6 Month ago

Jeremiah and Blue Jay walk out of the Convenient store on the parking lot.

"Hey Blue you sure you would ok with this?"

"Well not at first but I will get over."

"Is that him."

"He wants take me out for dinner."

"Looks like I got to get my kid brother home so he don't miss his date, hahaha!"

They both laughed but little do they know Miss T wait for them. She hop on her motorcycle and pulled out her gun.

Blast!

Blast!

Blast!

Clink the shell went as they hit ground before they knew it Jeremiah was on the ground and Miss T was long gone. 3 crashers rush to see what happen.

"Jerry! baby! Stay with me. baby bro. Stay with me. Someone help us!!"

Jeremiah was hit and bleeding out.

"Stay with me, Jerry."

"Sis.. it.. ok.. Tell.. Zeke.. I.. sorry.."

"No.. (crying) Don't leave me."

Jeremiah succumb to the injuries, he was pronounced dead an hour later.

Now

"Ezekiel, what you are doing here?" said his mother, as Ezekiel walk in to Emma's Jewels, a jewelry store.

Last weekend

Mika and Ezekiel were walking past little shop. Emma's jewels, it was a jewelry store. On the window it displayed a cross necklace with another Silver Cross on top of it.

"Just like my father wears. I'm not religious but it's beautiful." Said Mika

Blue Jay can see them from the window. She recognize that face anywhere. Tears came down her eyes, her hands clenching the tray of diamonds. As they walked away she wiped her face. The spirit of her brother stands behind her. He watching them from a distance he smiled. Ezekiel turned around he saw Jeremiah. Jeremiah's ghostly whisper can only be heard by Ezekiel "I'm sorry for late to our date. I wish we had more time for now, just be happy and thank you for moving on without me because that's better than being unhappy. I love Ezekiel."

Jeremiah disappears tears rolled down Ezekiel's face.

"Ezekiel are you okay?"

"What? yeah, I'm fine just got something on my eye."

he says trying to hide the fact that he was crying. Mika knew he was hiding something but did not want to rush. He knows Ezekiel eventually tell him. He'll just have to wait until he's ready. When the sun went down, they both left the fair.

As they were on the motorcycle Ezekiel asked.

"You want to get something to eat, Mika?"

"sure, where do you suggest?"

Now

"I saw a necklace that Mika liked. We walk by the store and he saw it..."

"buying him presents now hmm.. how sweet of you Ezekiel."

"It nothing like that mama. We're friends."

"That what you said about Jeremiah."

"Stop."

Ezekiel was stopped by a woman coming from the counter. She was a beautiful brunette African American woman with the body of a goddess, but not to Ezekiel. He knew her to well, way to well...

Past

Her real name was Blue Jay but Mr. Torturer, She was Red X, name was for the red x she leaves for target grave, so people can find the body of her victims. Then again to her every man she kill deserves it.

"Heads-up Mr. Torturer, anyone who takes advantage of women is my kill."

She was one of the best in her group. Until...

Now

"Hey you work here right?"

She gave him a sassy look and said

"for girlfriend or boyfriend?"

He was hesitantly responds

"Boyfriend..."

She gabs the sliver cross necklace that Mika likes but she picked the finished one. With diamonds on the edge of it. It had a smaller cross on top of it.

"I saw you and the pretty little blonde looking at it. So I save it, just in case you come back to get it. that would be 64$."

Ezekiel bought it but Emma was like

"You should really try hard Zeke, you got a pretty little blonde on your shoulder and you buy a 64$ necklace. You of all people should know that the people we love are worth more than jewelry."

Ezekiel smile and say

"Jay, I'm sorry."

"Please enlighten me. This is the first time you act human since she dumped you. Of course that fucken Bi.."

Right before she was about to finish Ezekiel grab her by the neck

"You don't ever talk about her like that."

He let go of her after realizing what he was doing. Both stood in silence for a good minute

"I'm sorry for that."

Said Ezekiel as he try to keep himself together.

"See what I mean, you finally move on with someone else and your still thinking about her. Man you really need help, Zeke. She even kill my little brother because he was dating. So why are you still thinking about her. Are you trapped by the pedestal you put her on?!"

said Jay as she grab a photo of Jeremiah.

She turn around only to see he was gone. "You really are Mr. Torturer... But you're the one getting tortured... By the thing the haunts all of us, The thing that we can't see, The thing that can corrupt us or make us stronger... The Thing that can kill us or make us who we are. It is called Anger, guilt, and loneliness. It was created by heartbreak, abandonment, and most of all Fear of being alone."

She says as she slips her finger against the wall.

"I will not give you the satisfaction To take what was once my good friend, like you did my brother. this time you have some competition, this time it's a battle for the soul of a man who deserves to be free. A battle for the heart of Ezekiel. A battle for the heart of Mr. Torturer. You better fight hard science freak because the price is way too big to lose."

She switched over the sign to say closed. She leaned her head against the door window and see Looked at the picture frame of Jeremiah and Ezekiel.