You felt like the needs of a kid would be simpler than that of a teen such as yourself. Getting him to ascend would probably be easy no doubt.

Looking around the ghosts, you immediately spot the one that fits the description that G had given you as he was the smallest one there. However now that you had given each ghost a closer inspection, you notice that most of them didn't really seem all that decayed or worn, at least not as much as others you had encountered.

As you step closer in preparation to call out to Ken, one of the ghosts says something to the other ghosts in a hushed tone.

"He can see us..."

"Of course he can, he heard what Mike said to him..." Another one says.

"What do we do?"

The ghosts remain silent as they all go back to looking at you as if waiting for you to do something. Though you notice, that some of them appear to be changing. With features of that of decay starting to appear in which you would normally see with other spirits.

Ignoring this, you head the advice of G and only focus on talking to Ken, besides it's not like spirits were able to touch you anyway. At least none that you had encountered before.

"Ken!" You call out, hoping to get his attention.

The small looking child looks at you, but he doesn't seem to move forward and hides behind one of the other ghosts.

"Ken, I'm here to help you. I won't bite I promise." You say trying to coax him out of his fear.

"What do you want with him?" The ghost in which Ken is hiding behind asks.

You didn't know exactly how much conversation you were to limit with these ghosts, but if you did something wrong G was going to be pissed, and with what he said you were going to fuck yourself over.

You keep talking to Ken

You'd best just follow the instructions of G to the word, he probably had a good idea of what he was talking about.

"Ken listen to me, I've been sent here to this exact location to specifically get you and only you. I don't know the exact process of things but they want you to ascend and get up to the heavens for your eternal peace. Don't you want something like that?" You say, lying about a few things in that statement as you really had no fucking idea.

"Hey, why won't you answer me." The girl asks again, seemingly irked that she was ignored.

Ken still seems pretty indecisive on what he wants to do. You were running out of options on what to do, this girl would probably get to his head to stay if you let this drag out for too long, you had to get ballsy.

"You know what this is a waste of time. You stay here Ken because trust me now that you've decided to come you'll be put at the bottom of the waiting list, and you'll stay at this bridge for hundreds and HUNDREDS of years. I have other ghosts that need help and can't have my time wasted, good luck boy." As finished that heavy statement, you started to turn around and walk away, not looking back or slowing down your pace.

'Come on'

Silence.

'COME ON.'

Even more silence.

You were internally panicking as you didn't know what the fuck to do if Ken didn't give in to your bait, G was going to get pissed.

"WAIT, PLEASE."

"Ken stop!"

Oh, thank fucking god."

You turn around to face Ken, who you heard running towards you. He couldn't make it all the way through as he reached the boundary for which he could travel.

"I don't want to stay here forever, please help me, I'm sorry for wasting your time, mister!" He cried with many tears and snot running down his face. You felt a little bad about that, but in the end, this would benefit both of you so you were also relieved.

"Alright kid calm down, I'll help you get out of here, just do what I say and this process will be easy." You assure him while taking out your phone to contact G.

Though you see he has already sent you a message.

G- Alright good job, you didn't fuck yourself over with unnecessary interactions and now you won't be fucked with other burdens. This next part will be easy, touch the kid's hand and twist it, he'll be bound to you and then we can work on his need in order to ascend.

Doing as what G instructed you turned to the Ken.

"Alright for this next part I need you to grab my hand while I turn it, you'll be with me until I can do the work needed to get you up there alright?"

"Yes, I understand," Ken says while wiping away some tears from his eyes.

Beginning the process you start to turn his rest as your hands clasp with one another, instantaneously he starts to let out a blue glow, and you yourself feel a tingle up in your brain.

Though other than that it doesn't seem like anything has happened. Ken is still standing there like normal. Though he tries walking forward, and much to both of your surprise, he manages to get out of the boundary.

"I can leave!" He exclaims with surprise.

He tries to walk farther with quick haste but ends up being blocked by another boundary, though this time it seems closer to you.

"I guess you're bound to me for now."

"I thought you said I would be going to heaven?" Ken says with a little disappointment in his voice.

"You will don't worry, we just need to do a process and you'll be all set to leave." You promise him.

Looking back at your phone you look to see if you were sent any more messages from G.

G- Ask the kid the top three things that he wants to do. We have to get him really happy for this to work, Even if we can't do the things on his list we can still take him to an amusement park or some shit.

That's probably what he was talking about when he said this would be easy.

"So Ken is there anything that you would like to do before you leave, anything that would make you happy. Trust me I can probably make it happen with my connections." You say to him which causes him to have a look of surprise.

"Well...like what?"

"Like anything. Something you'd like to try, something you'd like to see. I can make it happen to an extent, give the top three things that you'd like to do."

"Are you sure, it can be anything?"

"Like I said, to an extent." You remind him again.

"Well ok..."

Ken seems to take some time to think over what he would like to do. Though it doesn't seem to take long as his mouth opens quickly.

"I always wanted to go to Disneyland....and I wanted to be pilot when I became a grown-up......and I guess I wanted to play that new call of duty game that came out too."

As he said these things on his list, you were also typing them to G who himself was already getting ready to reply.

G- To tell you the fucking truth I think the pilot one is probably going to be easier, I may have a connection that can get you a plane ride, and the pilot is even a ghost-seer such as yourself. Though if you want to go to Disneyland instead you can also do that if you want. A fucking call of duty game isn't going to make him happy enough to where we need to be though.

You disneyland

You haven't been to Disneyland in quite a long time. It wasn't really even that far to get to either, just a half a day drive. It could be even shorter if G was able to hook you up. The real problem though was getting permission from your mom to go, like hell, she was going to let you go to California on a school week.

Either way, you made your choice, you told G that you are picking Disneyland.

G- Pft, probably want to enjoy yourself on this kid's expense now don't you. Alright fine, I can get you a plane ticket on Friday night to California and you can get back Sunday night, don't pack anything you don't need to and I'll transfer you some money to have fun and shit there. You better make this kid have the time of his fucking life though.

With everything said and done, you turn to Ken.

"Alright let's get home, this walk has gotten me fucking exhausted." You say as you begin to turn around from the bridge.'

"Hey wait!" You hear someone say to you.

Turning around you see the same ghost that Ken was hiding behind earlier. She was a few feet away from you, though you could tell she was at the very edge of her boundary.

"What about us, when are we getting out of here."

Now that you had Ken bound to you, you didn't really think what G had said would affect you now that you were already bound to a 'contract' or whatever it was referred too.

"The rest of you will get your turn in due time, there are others like me out there so they'll get to you all eventually. You just have to be patient and wait, that's all I can really tell you honestly." You say to her, in which your words don't really seem to help her mood.

Seeing nothing else for you to do, you start to turn around once again and begin to leave the bridge with Ken.

Getting back to the bus stop that would help you get home was a lot shorter of a way to get to compared to what you had to walk when you first got here, G was totally fucking with you.

Nevertheless, when you got home you went straight to your mom with the speech of adulthood and freedom that you would give her in order to be able to go to California. Though deep inside your mind you know that still wouldn't work so you decided the next best thing to do would be to go to plan B.

"Mom a friend invited me to go to Disneyland with him for the weekend, it would be cool if I go right?"

Your mom gave you a puzzled look when you said this as if she didn't understand what you said.

"The same friend you've been hanging out with this whole time you've been staying out late after school?"

"Yeah, that friend." You reply, with a little hesitation.

You see a little smile appear on her face.

"Is he going to drive you?"

"Yeah, we leave Friday night and we're getting back on Sunday."

"Well if it'll only be for the weekend then yea go ahead. I'd like to meet your friend when you get back though."

You tensed up a little when she said this but then just put on a smile and nodded.

"Thanks, mom." You say before quickly walking away while heading up to your room.

That was a lot easier then you were expecting it to be. Especially since you would be leaving tomorrow. Nevertheless, you started to get some clothes packed while turning on the T.V in your room for him to watch while you got everything ready.


The next school day went by in a blur. Since Ken was assigned to you as a boundary he went where you went. He kept on talking about Disneyland during class and would also ask questions on what you were learning at the given time. At first, you were a little annoyed by this, but it was something that you got quickly used to. You even caught yourself talking to him while you were with other people, which ended up getting you some weird stares and 'who are you talking' discussions.

While you were finishing up your last periods, G had wired everything you would need in order to leave tonight, the only thing you had to do was get a ride to the airport, which you would just to with an Uber.

"What ride should we go on first when we get there, I heard space mountain was really cool and dark and super scary, It's going to be so much fun."

Ken was getting far more excited then you were at this point.

You felt a little bad though, there would probably be some rides in which he would be limited, or not be able to ride on at all. You really hoped it was going to be a slow day there, or at the very least have some empty seats that wouldn't hinder Ken from riding on, you couldn't have him get upset or depressed there, you had to think ahead.

With classes over and done, you had ordered your Uber to pick the two of you up from school, with the destination being the airport. The price was twenty bucks which wasn't bad, but then again it was coming out of G's pocket. Luckily G had gotten you wristbands and fast passes already so it's not like you had to use the money for much anyway besides the hotel.

"How long is the trip going to take, is it true we're going on a plane too!?" Ken says with excitement as the two of you wait at the school parking lot curb.

Come to think of it, Ken did say he wanted to be a pilot and riding a plane was on his list. While he wouldn't be directly driving it or anything, you're pretty sure that would count in terms of his list. You knocked two birds with one stone, you're not going to lie, you felt a little proud of yourself.

The Uber ride was pretty short, you didn't realize that the airport was so close to your school, you should have noticed something like that. Ken had continued talking to you for the ride, but you had to ignore him for most of the time in fear of not getting the driver to think you were a nutcase or something and kick you out.

With it being one of the largest airports in the area, the entire plaza or center as filled with people either saying goodbye to their loved ones or racing to get to their flight on time.

You didn't have any bags to check in as all your clothes and other supplies fit nicely in your bag, so you were able to head straight to the waiting gate and wait for your flight to be called. Placing your bag on an empty seat next to you, Ken sat atop of it as he started to talk once again now that you had stopped walking.

"Thanks again for taking me on this trip, I had no idea that we would be doing this when I first talked to you on the bridge."

"Yeah don't mention it kid it's all part of the job. Tomorrow is going to be your day so make sure to do everything you want, we can stay up all night, the return flight doesn't leave till late afternoon so we'll be fine."

"Great!" He smiles, the two of you continue to make small chatter until it's time for your plane to be called. Upon boarding and taking your seat, you wait to see if anyone is to sit next to you while Ken shyly stands in the aisle. Seeing that you had your section to yourself, you motion for Ken to sit down which he quickly does. You didn't know if G had something to do with this arrangement though if he did that was pretty uncharacteristically nice of him.

You californa

The flight was around one or two hours, you couldn't really tell with how fast time seemed to go. In the corner of your eye, you saw Ken's body bouncing up and down as he looked out the window as you started to descend.

"I really wanted to fly one of these...."

He said it so quietly, that you don't know if he meant to say it at all. Though you decided to just pretend that you didn't hear it as sad feelings started to enter your head a bit.

You would make this kid's day today.

The two of you quickly got off the plane and entered the main airport which was much smaller than the one in you had first arrived at. It was probably already close to midnight and you needed to get yourself to a hotel before you crashed from exhaustion. Luckily there were already Ubers patrolling around the airport so finding a ride didn't take all that long.

You had already researched a hotel that you would be staying at so that was all covered too. You just needed to sleep this night off.....

---

"Wake up, wake up! We're going to be late!"

You felt someone pushing you from side to side as your eyes slowly opened. You saw that this was Ken, but his bright eager face startled a bit, enough to get you awake and to your senses.

"Jesus, when did I go to sleep?"

"Oh, you fell asleep as soon as you walked in the door. The room is pretty boring and the only kids show on TV is Arthur." Ken complains with slight annoyance.

"But hurry up and get up, I want us to get there before the gates open at nine and it's already seven!"

"Relax kid where like a few blocks away, let me get showered and dress and well get a bus over there..." You yawn as you start to open your backpack and dump out your clothes onto your bed.

"Ughhhhh, well hurry up. I'm sick of watching Arthur." Ken grumbles before stomping back over to the T.V and plopping himself down on the carpet.

Once you were done and ready, you took Ken with you to go downstairs while you served yourself breakfast in the cafeteria. You felt a little bad eating in front of Ken though while you waited, it seems he took notice to this and just waved his hand.

"I don't get hungry ever." He says reassuringly.

Even so, you raced to finish your food as fast as you could before leaving the Hotel itself and heading to the nearest bus stop that would get you to Disneyland. Ken always seemed to race ahead of you as he motioned for you to hurry up while he bounced side to side most likely from anticipation.

The bus probably won't get here for ano-."

"Look there's the bus!" Ken exclaims while he points down the road.

Well shit.

Getting onto the bus with your passes, Ken made you sit in the front row saying that he wanted to be the first one off the bus upon arriving.

Though it didn't really all that much since the bus ride was only about five minutes anyway. The parking lots outside of Disneyland didn't seem all that full either, even though there was a lot of people around the entrance of the park you guess this would still be considered a slow day.

"The line isn't even that long we're going to get in soon!" Ken says with eagerness.

Just as he predicted, it took no time at all to get in with how fast it was to get through the gates.

Upon entering the main section of the park, even you were overwhelmed on where you should start, Ken was already bouncing up and down while giving endless suggestions.

"Let's go on the tower of terror, my friend said that he peed his pants when he went on that one because the drop was so scary, or we can go on Space Mountain since that's the one everyone always goes on first since it's the best ride in the park!"

It looked like Ken was looking onto you for guidance on where to start in this ginormous park.

You kid Section

Ken was a kid after all so it only made sense to start with the kid rides. He would probably end up getting too scared with the adult ones and that would lead to some issues.

"Alright Ken, let's start with the kid rides first since I remember those being really fun when I was your age and came here for the first time, trust me you'll enjoy them."

Ken seemed a little disappointed at your starting choice, though he didn't argue with you over it and instead followed you while you took lead.

The two of you started to ride some of the kiddy rides that could also be ridden by adults, though those were a bit few in between, with Ken having a sad face on almost all of them.

It wasn't until then you noticed that you couldn't really do the kiddy rides if you couldn't ride with Ken, you would probably also look really creepy if you just stared at kids riding on the rides without having a little brother or sister with you, your plan was meeting lots of dead ends.

"Alright Ken never mind I'm picking another option for our rides."

Ken's sullen attitude so far changes immediately as he beams at this sudden news.

"About time!"

You adult thrill rides

You remember being totally scared of all the big roller coasters when you first came to this park when you were younger, but after riding them once they weren't all that bad to you, so maybe it would be the same for Ken. Besides you were looking for a thrill too after all of those boring ones.

"Alright Ken, where going to try out that biggest rides here now, starting with that one."
You say pointing at a towering roller-coaster with a giant drop that you could see from the entrance, which was the California Screamin.

The joy that Ken had earlier seemed to vanish, as he took one look at the ride and looked back at you with honest fear in his eyes.

"Why that one?"

"I thought you wanted to ride the scary rides since the other ones were too boring for you?"

"I never said that I'm good with riding the less scary ones." He states.
"Oh, Well we might as do at least a few of them since we're here. Or if you're not up to it we can just go back to riding all the kiddy rides again if that's more your style.

"NO! That's not it, I just thought we could work our way up is all, that's way to much for me to jump too from the kiddy rides."

"Trust me kid, I thought it was scary too at first but it's honestly pretty fun, now I'm not taking no for an answer so come on." You say as you begin walking towards monster that dominates the park.

"Wait, Wait!"

You don't listen to Ken though, as you hear his fast footsteps behind you catching up to your pace.

Surprisingly the line for this ride wasn't all that long, you remember it taking ages to get on this, but you were the second ones to get on after the first group was finished.

With it being empty, you were able to grab an empty seat next to you for Ken since you went for the middle. He was careful with the bars to not nick him as they dropped over his body, but with that out of the way, the two of you were ready to ride.

Looking over at Ken he looked as if he was right about to shit himself at any moment, seemingly shaking.

You slightly punch his shoulder as he looks over at you.

"Hey, I wouldn't make you go on this if I didn't think you would have fun alright?"

"Yeah....I trust you..."

Ken takes a few deep breathes as the ride starts to lurch forward with all the preparations ready and set.

You took the liberty of getting the seats in the far back to mitigate Ken's fear from the look of the drops, which seemed to be working as he only bothered to look down at his feet.

Upon the first major drop, you could start to hear the laughter of everybody else in front of you as you yourself started to laugh to try to cheer Ken up.

He laughed, but it seemed to be a much more forced and nervous one.

When it got to the very top and you look down even you were starting to get second thoughts since you hadn't ridden one of these things in years, but before you knew it your cart lurched forward as kinetic energy took over with your stomach immediately dropping with the cart.

Screams and laughter took over your ears as hands started to go up in glee as you did the same.

You tried to look over at Ken but the coaster kept on shaking you around that you decided to just keep looking forward to avoid a neck injury.

The ride didn't last as long as you were expecting it to, but that was probably on the account that you were having a blast on it, and once you had gotten off you already wanted to go on again.

Spotting Ken, you looked at his facial expression to see what he thought of the ride.

Emotionless at first, in some type of daze, though as soon as he made eye contact a grin from ear to ear went to his face.

"That was frickin awesome, I want to go on it again!" He yelled whilst jumping up and down.

"Maybe later, we still got another ride I want to try that's an even bigger drop."

"You don't mean...?"

"Yep!" you simply reply.

"Let's go!" This time it's Ken who takes the lead as you chase after him in order for the boundary to not yank him back. You knew he knew what you were referring to as he was heading directly towards the tower.

The tower of terror.

The line for this ride was about the same, though it seemed that it went by faster though you had no clue as to why.

This would be the first time riding this ride as even you were too scared to go on this thing when you were little no matter how much your friends had begged you too.


You were glad at his assessment as the two of you got in line. The group that you were tied to was a rather large family, though because of this they themselves including you were the only ones to ride at that given time. You were kind of lucky since you were riding these rides by yourself, you were an outlier in these large crowds that rode rides together, so there was always an empty seat somewhere since everyone else wanted to ride with their families and friends.

As the room darkened and the narrator began his speech, you saw Ken swaying his body back and forth a little as he looked all around the room with a smile on his face.

You on the other hand, had no smile on your face as you were a little bit scared on what was to come, you didn't really enjoy the drops at roller coasters, and this one was probably going to be ten times that.

"Hey look, we can see the entire pa-." Ken was cut off as the elevator you all were sitting in drastically fell floors below you as everybody started screaming, including you. Ken, on the other hand, was laughing his ass off as the elevator kept on going up and down with drastic height differences. You hadn't eaten anything beforehand but a sick feeling was starting to form in your stomach as you just wanted the ride to fucking end.

You actually ended up closing your eyes, in which Ken seemed to notice.

"Don't tell me you're scared!" He continued to laugh with the drops.

"No, I just feel sick..." You weakly reply.

When the ride finally comes to a stop, the grouped family and Ken get off laughing while you struggle behind trying not to vomit.

"Yeah kid, I think I need a break from rides for a little bit." You say while sitting on a bench.

"Aw really, did you feel that sick from it?" He asked with a mix of disappointment and worry.

"Just give me a couple of minutes kid..." You say while taking a few deep breathes to get your stomach back in functioning order.

"Man you were right though, I really did enjoy those scary rides, I think I want to ride all of them now if those two were the worst ones out of all of them. Let's get those done first before anything else today please?" Ken pleads.

"As long as you give me a few breaks in between Kid then you can get on anything you want today."

Ken smiled at this.

"O.K I understand, I'm going to go check out the nearest line to see how long the wait is O.K? I promise it won't be too much of a scary.

You groan while getting up to your feet.

"I have to come with you remember. Anyway, I'm ready to get anyway so let's do this."

"Hooray!"

You later that day

You didn't realize that you had been on so many rides until you felt the soreness of your body kick in as the sun had already set awhile ago.

Ken was racing to get on as many rides as he could before the park was to close for the day, and you sluggishly raced after him as fast as your body could keep up. Though when it finally came time to leave, it seemed as if Ken was satisfied as he wasn't begging to stay longer.

On board the bus back to the hotel, Ken kept on talking about the events that had happened throughout this long day.

"Man Space Mountain was probably one of the best rides there, I'm glad we managed to make getting on it before the park closed," Ken states with satisfaction.

"Yeah it was a pretty fun day, even though we did a lot and it felt like we rode everything, it still felt really short." You remark as the bus takes you through the night back to your hotel.

Ken nods in agreement. "Still though, it's not like I'm leaving regretting anything, I did everything I wanted too...". Ken's voice seemed to drop heavily as all the enthusiasm that he had seconds before almost instantly vanished.

"Well that's good, this entire trip was for you to have a good time, I had one too. I honestly wish I could do this every weekend." You say with a little laugh, though Ken doesn't respond, and the rest of the ride is filled with an awkward smile.

Upon arriving at the hotel and getting off the bus, Ken is slow, dragging his feet while you keep looking behind you to make sure you didn't lose him every two or three minutes.

"Everything O.K man?" You asked worryingly since this was really out of place behavior compared to what happened today. Still, there was the silence, though Ken increased the speed at which he was walking this time.

He didn't even bother opening the hotel room door, he just walked straight through it. You've never seen the kid be able to do that and now you were actually starting to worry, hastily opening the door with your key-card, you push it open and look for Ken in the main room, in which he is nowhere to be seen.

"Ken!" You shout heavily, starting to look everywhere around the hotel room to see where he could be.

You finally end up finding him as you see his legs sticking out from under his own bed.

"Ken what the hell are you doing, you scared me. Get out from under there." You order with a sigh of relief.

Seeing that his hiding spot had been compromised, Ken starts to squirm his way out while sitting himself down as he finished doing so, facing away from you.

"Ken you have to tell me what's wrong, you're really starting to worry me. Did something happen on the bus?" You ask, remembering that his change of mood started there.

He weakly shakes his head as he continues to not look at you, which makes you a little frustrated.

You try to grab his shoulders in order to turn him around so that he can face you. Though your arms go straight through his body as the only thing you grasp is air.

Seeing that, that wouldn't work you walk around him and kneel down so that you can get a look at his face.

You kind of cringe a little on the inside when you see all the tears and snot that had built up all over his face, making it one big twisted mess while his red puffy eyes didn't want to make direct eye contact with you.

"Ken you got to tell what's wrong..." You ask again, although this time with a much softer voice.

Ken begins to wipe away the tears and snot from his face, but more keep flowing so it only makes them spread more.

"I tho-thought I was h-happy. But after remembering everything, that I I-I'm going to leave soon. I just g-got scared..." Ken cries with numerous hiccups in between his words.

"I don't want to leave, I had so much fun with you today and now I'm going to forget it all! I know you're going to make me leave as soon as we get home, but I'm not ready to leave...I'm scared.....I want to stay here and keep on having fun with you!" His tears were really falling now, you tried to grab his arm to console him but once again your hands went through his body. This probably had something to do with his emotions.

You didn't really know what to say to him either. He was going to ascend as soon as G gave the word for him to do so. It's not like you didn't want him to stay either, you were having lot's of fun and you wish he could experience more with how young he was when he passed. Though you saw no way around this, he was going to move on whether you liked it or not, the only thing to do now was to try to give a positive outlook on the whole situation.

Sitting down next to Ken you begin to speak.

"Listen, kid. I had a lot of fun with you today, more than I probably had in a long ass time. I don't remember the last time I even went out before this to be honest. Look I know you're scared, I would be too in your situation. What I'm trying to say though is that you should enjoy the memories that you've gotten to experience so far, the fun that you've had up to this point, there's no use in dwelling on the past or on things you can't change. I wasn't a very religious person before all of this, but if I was chosen to help you ascend up into the sky above, then that has to mean you have something to look forward too, something is waiting for you, and who knows maybe it's a lot better than this life." you say, trying to help him feel even a little bit better.

Ken sniffled a little bit more as he wiped his nose with his palm. You didn't know ghosts could cry like this, how it was even possible, but now wasn't the time to question things like this.

"Life's so unfair, I don't know why my dad had to take that bridge, if he hadn't none of this would have happened…"

You let Ken vent a little more as you just sat there in silence since there were some things that you weren't able to refute or deny. The more he vented, however, the calmer he seemed to become, along with acquiring a more lax attitude.

"Is there any way you can visit me...?" Ken asked you, which made your whole body freeze a little.

Taking a moment before responding, you chose your words carefully.

"I mean I'll probably see you again eventually when it's my turn to ascend in the future. Though I'm sure there's some way for me to try to contact you, and if there is then I promise you that'll I'll find it."

"You really promise me that?" Ken asks, with a heavy voice.

"You bet I do."

Ken keeps a bit of eye contact with you, before looking back at his knees while he hugs them.

The two of you sit there in silence until you feel a buzzing from your pocket. Getting out your phone, you see that G had sent you a few messages.

G- Alright so here's the deal, you're going to have to do the ascension there at the hotel room, I was planning on you doing it here, but I don't want to risk anything so get ready to start the preparations.

You feel your heart start to rapidly beat as you type in a reply.

"What the fuck do you mean I have to do it right now? That's way too soon!"

G- Listen to me, if you don't do it now then there might be some complications getting him up. I didn't just spend all that fucking money for you to have a happy make a wish foundation day for this kid just so that he can't fucking ascend, follow the instructions I'm about to send you and get it the fuck done.

G then sends you a list of instructions, much similar to the ones that he had given you when you first bonded with Ken.

Ken seems to see your frustration. "Is something wrong?"

You bite your tongue as the words you want to tell him won't leave your mouth.

"There's.....there's been a slight change in plans."

Another instruction in the list that G had given you said that Ken couldn't be sad while doing this ritual, which would be fucking hard to pull off seeing as what just happen.

"Ken, I'm going to help you ascend right now, it's time to do it." You say, coming off as blunt as possible.

Ken's eye furrowed in a type of fear and panic, as he quickly got up from sitting down, in which you joined him.

"Now listen, it's not anything bad it's ju-."

"Why does it have to be right now! Why can't we just wait a little longer!" Ken cries as he cuts you off.

"I'm sorry but your time has been designated for this moment. Ken, please remember what I said earlier,

You all good things come to a end

You don't know how much time had passed as you two sat in the hotel room, it had to be one in the morning already though.

Once Ken had stopped crying the second time, you just started to talk to him about his earlier life, and just tried to bring up any question about him you could come up with. At first, he only said single word answers, though as the questions continued he started to get more in depth with what he said until he was bringing up every small detail of whatever he was reminiscing about.

"When they first took my body after the car crash, I couldn't stop freaking out. I tried to get the attention of the rescuers, but nobody saw me, and I cried for so long on top of that bridge. It came to the point in where I couldn't stand to be up there, so I decided to go under the bridge where I thought it would be quiet. Turns out a lot of people died there, so I was never really lonely, but that's when I really found out that I was dead, and there was nothing I could do about it..."

"I'm sorry that I couldn't get to you sooner Ken, really I wish that there was more of my kind that could help you guys, the amount of time some people have to wait to be helped is ridiculous."

"Please make sure everyone at that bridge get's out of there like me, one of the men there said that he had been there for over a year, I was probably the one with the least amount of time spent there, I don't even know why you picked me first."

You didn't have the heart to tell this kid the only reason G picked him is that he thought making him happy would be easy. If that was how these people filtered out which ghosts were worth saving, then who knows how long some of the spirits would have to wait before being saved.

This whole system was shit, but that wasn't something to be worrying about right now, you would talk about it with G when the time was right.

"I promise I'll get everyone out of that bridge kid."

He nods, and stays silent for a moment as if trying to find something else to say.

"I think I'm ready."

"Are you sure? If you need a little more time, I'm not even tired." You say, although lying a little bit.

Ken shakes his head though. "If I think about it anymore it's only going to get worse in my head, this is as ready as I'll be I think."

With that Ken stands up, and you do as well.

The two of you look at each other for a bit, and a bitter small smile appears on Ken's face as he outstretches his hand.

"Thank you for the fun day today, and for getting me on a plane, you really did a lot for what time you had with me."

"Well thanks for being such a good kid about everything, hanging out with you was like hanging out with someone my own age, you're a really smart kid. Wherever you're going to end up, I know you'll come out on top."

Ken laughs a little, and so do you. At this point, your eyes start to sting, but you keep your head held high as you outstretch your hand in which both of you have your palms clasped with one another, just like at the start.

"Don't forget my face when I find you again." You say, knowing in your heart it was about to happen.

"Never." His kiddish eyes glowed, and they glowed. Until all was white.

It had happened.

Your hand felt nothing, and nothing was there.

Ken was gone.

You ascension

G- Hah, with how I've changed my order of things, I was able to shave off a few days since my contact quota. If things go right we should be able to finish this quota within the next week, good job kid, you're going to turn out to be an efficient member of this group if you keep this performance up, now get some rest and make sure to catch the plane tomorrow.

G had left you alone after the congratulations, but you weren't feeling very happy. in fact, you were feeling like shit. If you had to go through this every single time you were to help ascend a spirit, then you didn't want to do this at all. Though you doubt that you had a say in this matter anyway, the only thing you could do on your own part was to make sure that these spirits didn't suffer, and are at least happy before they ascend.

Though if every single one of your guides was to be like G in the future, then this was going to be one hell of a ride.

You had asked G after the congratulations if there was any way to contact spirits and the response you got was that only certain classes of your kind were able to perform such acts, and G didn't know or come in contact with anyone who had such powers, apparently, they were a very rare bunch.

Still, if there was a chance you were able to contact Ken in the future, then you had to find a way to do so, at least to see how he was doing.

You didn't think G would be giving you any breaks if he finds a new spirit to help soon enough, tired as you were from only a few days of work, you couldn't stop until you finished your quota, and helped these spirits ascend. To hell with the quota actually, you had to find a way to do this permanently.

You were going to help these spirits.

Someone has to take a bigger initiative.

That person was you.

and so starts the adventures to come.