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noticed, but Risks dad grabbed my hand. “Aren’t you just a precious little thing? I’ve heard some stories about you girl . You’re some kind of invalid aren’t you?” I tried jerking my arm away but he had a good grip. I started to panic and ended up dumping the glass of vodka in his lap by accident. “Oh Jesus! What the fuck is wrong with you?” My manager saw me dump his drink and rushed over to offer the bastard drinks on the house for the rest of the night. Too bad my manager hadn’t seen the near assault or his ass would have been out on the street.
                  Risks cheeks looked like they were on fire and I’m sure that I looked pretty flustered myself. Sometime during the scuffle Gray had appeared at my side, but it’s not like he could’ve done anything to help me. I was disappointed that Risk hadn’t jumped in and helped me, but I was only a girl he knew from school, and I understood that he couldn’t go against his father for that kind of relationship.
                  Risks father left me alone for the rest of the night unless he was demanding another free drink. He drank until he couldn’t stand anymore, and the mother snuck sips here and there. Risk just sat there watching the room and several times I noticed him watching me work.
                  Just before Risk was about to help drag his father out to their car he got up from his table and walked up to me at the bar. He had his hands shoved in his pockets and he looked nervous. “Can we talk sometime?” He asked with a smile.
                  I was already putty in his hands with that smile. “Ummm…sure!” I tried my best to look cute as a button.
                  He smiled bright and his green eyes twinkled. “Cool, can I have your number so I can text you tomorrow or something?”
                  “That sounds amazing!” Man I was sounding desperate. After I wrote my number on a bar napkin he shoved it into his pocket and turned away from me with a big grin after promising to text me the next day. EEEEEK! He’s so hot! Oh gross, I’m gushing.
                  As soon as I was done with my happy dance that I thought I had only been sharing with Gray, I heard a sultry chuckle behind me and I froze. “I knew you had a boyfriend! And man is he H.O.T!!! Tell me everything now, bitch!” Remi was way too excited about my personal life, but I was on cloud nine so I filled her in on everything so far.
                  “Well he’s new at school, and an outcast like me, but I’m not sure why because everyone thinks he’s hot and he isn’t weird. He has great hair and a rockin’ body and I really hope he asks me to prom! Oh! And his name is Risk….something. I don’t know his last name yet.”
                  Remi “eeked” just as hard as I had and we shared another round of the happy dance. Gray watched from a corner with a satisfied smile on his face while I had my moment. He was always so worried about how I would live my life being able to talk to ghosts and do normal things like have friends and fall in love. I always wondered if maybe a normal life just wasn’t in the cards for me. After all, talking to ghosts is pretty freaking awesome most of the time and I would never vote against having Gray around. We were stuck with each other until he crossed over or I died and crossed over, and I liked the minimal chances that either of those things would happen anytime soon.
                  After work, Gray and I decided that we would go see our Little Dirty Boy as soon as I woke up the next morning. His situation was a delicate one and it needed attention, fast, if we were going to be able to help. After giggling about my encounter with Risk, I shut my light out and went to sleep.
                  I woke to the sounds of crashing and my eyes snapped open. I saw Little Dirty Boy throwing my things in