The bell above the door rings but I don’t look up from my knees. How could he just leave like that? After everything we’ve been through? I thought he really loved me, I thought he was different. “Hey buttercup, why so gloomy?” and suddenly my heart sank. Was I going crazy? Was it really him? I slowly lift my teary, snot-coated face, only to be frozen in disbelief. Somehow, someway, he’s there, standing just across the counter. I can’t contain my emotions and the waterworks start again. Jason gasps and comes running to my side, pulling my head onto his lap as I fall sideways, stricken with grief. “Oh Jason! What have you done?! Why must you haunt me like this? Was it not enough for you to leave me so you came to rip my heart out in hallucinations?!” I manage to choke out the words as I pound my fist on his upper thigh. He grabs me by the wrists as I struggle, trying hard not to look in his beautiful brown eyes. Those eyes, those mocha-chocolate-frappe eyes. I miss them so much, and now they’re gone forever. I give in and look up into his eyes, his smile just below, ever enticing and warm. “It’s okay babe, i’m safe. It never happened, I’m real and I’m here.” He whispers too me as I gasp for air between each sob. I lay there wallowing for a few minutes more before I exhaust myself into calmness. Then it finally hits me. “Jason?! How the hell are you here?! I watched you die! I held your corpse!” I scream at the top of my lungs as I flail wildly at him but he pulls my arms around his neck, and before I can get another word out he has me embraced in the deepest kiss we’ve ever shared. After a minute or twelve, he pulls back a bit. “I told you I’d always come back, and I meant it. Always.”