I can hear an anguished voice calling me, but my senses are so numb to understand what it is telling me. I try to open my eyes, but all I can see is a girl’s silhouette who is trying to reach me with all of her strength and tears in her eyes. Ah, please, don’t overdo it, it looks painful. I’ve been thinking it for a while but, why am I having this nostalgic feeling? I think I’ve meet this girl before in other place or even other time.

When I’m thinking about this, I hear another voice calling for me.

“...... up”

 “¿What? Kuh...”

I can´t move, my body feels heavy... no, is more like having something heavy above me, something is restraining my movements, I want to cry, but I can´t, the more I try, the more I feel in despair... I want to wake up so bad.

“...”

“Now, now, how many times have been until now, don’t you think is time to you to get accustomed to this?” says a dark shadow who is standing by my side, no, it is floating up by my side.

“Well, it’s hard to get accustomed to the estrange sensation of my energy being extracted from me after all” I reply the shadow when I recover my senses.

The place where I’m right now is a huge room with white tall walls, the floor is made of white marble, although there is plenty of space here, the only furniture you can see is a lone beige sofa in the middle of the room. Of course, I’m lying on that sofa. Wait, what I was thinking about before get paralyzed? It feels like it is something important... damm, my head hurts! Well, if it is important I’ll remember this later, but somehow I feel uneasiness leaving this like that.

The shadow’s name is Akagi. She is a kind of spirit that have been attached to me since I was 14. Time on time she takes some energy from me in order to maintain her existence but...

“Hey, don’t you think you are taking more energy recently?”

“Is that so? For me is like the usual, but you know, this won’t kill you after all, you don’t need to worry about it”

Well that’s certainly true, but it still feel strange.

“The sensation of your energy being sucked out it’s not pleasurable, you know Akagi. Even if we’ve meet each other for a long time, try to hold you back”

“Sorry Noah, I’ll hold back the next time”

Even if she say that, I’m sure she’ll forget it in no time, oh well, let’s leave this for now. I think I must wake up.

After Akagi ends her ‘feeding time’ she gets back to her original form. Apparently it’s just me who see the shadow form when she takes my energy, I wonder if it’s because the sleep paralysis effect.

She have the appearance of a 19 years old girl, the same as me, she have silky long red hair that reaches her waist, her hair is tied with a yellow headband with gold zig zag pattern, her height is around 160 cm, and about her skin, it is white, almost pale, but that can’t be helped right, she is spirit after all. Her face is round whit a thin chin, she has sharp emerald colored eyes, short and thin pink lips, her nose is small and thin. In general, she gives a serene and mature appearance contrasting whit her carefree and almost childish personality.

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“It’s time to wake up and get prepared, we have a schedule to accomplish, Akagi” 

“Yes!”

I slowly open my eyes and the first thing I can see is the currently-sleep Akagi floating up over my face, her sleepy face is cute, but better don’t say her this, it would be troublesome. But surely she is a strange spirit, doe’s spirits need to sleep in the first place? I mean, they don’t have a body that needs rest. Oh well, since we are in a field trip with my college class it would be a good idea to wake her up.

Akagi says that in order to get my ‘dreams energy’, how she calls the energy she takes from me, she must fall sleep and so, she can enter inside my dreams and take my energy. I think this is strange, she easily would use a ghost-like method, you know, something like haunt me and take my vital energy while clinging to my back all the day, but when I asked her about this in the first year we met she just said “I’m not a vengeful ghost and above all things, I don’t want to cause you any harm” so things have been like this since then.

“Ha~ it was quite the night, hey Akagi hurry and wake up, the group will part without us if we don’t leave soon”

“Mmmmh~ give me five, mmmmh no, ten minutes more and I’ll get ready”

What a hopeless spirit, I’m worried about her future.

Currently, we are in my hotel room, it’s a nice individual room with a single bed next to the window, it has a small living room and its own bathroom. By the way, the view is awesome since the hotel is next the beach. I give my thanks in my mind to the college, honestly I don’t know if I would afford paying a room like this by my own.

Well, it is time to take our leave.

Today we are going in a tour to an archaeological building complex of an ancient civilization. Apparently, they were an advanced civilization that made great developments in math, astronomy, medicine, architecture and arts. Some people even say that they were helped by aliens or beings from another dimension, but it sounds illogical... well, I have a spirit living with me so I’m not the one to talk I think.

The complex staff give us a tour while they explain about discovers that archaeologists have made about the civilization that built this buildings. Somehow the corridor we are passing by feels so familiar. I wonder if my parents took me here when I was younger.

When we arrived to the main building the staff told us that we can visit any of the exhibitions in the main building. That’s a relief since the usual cheerful Akagi seems bored and I’m worried about she playing pranks to visitors. When I tell Akagi that I have some free time to expend whit her she suddenly shouts “Yes! Finally we can go on a date”

“Who is going on a date?”

“Of course you and me, recently you were passing so much time with your classmates, spend some time whit me!!”

“Well, is true that I’m passing time with them, but that can’t be helped since they are my friends, and stop with making me talk with you in high voice, people will glance me as a strange bug”

Now that I recall, something like that have passed time ago, during the first year we met each other. In that time I used to talk her in high voice in every place, thanks to that my classmates and even my teachers thought that I was crazy or that I still had imaginary friends and I ended being excluded from the rest. But that’s in the past, both of us learned about it and now we talk each other freely when we are alone or whispering in public if necessary.

As we are talking, some of my friends come and ask me to go with them and watch the audiovisual show, but since Akagi seems down when she thinks that I’m going whit them, I decline and tell them that I’m interested in other exhibition. They seems to understand and take their leave. Akagi seems happy so I think is good have a little date whit her. But I’m worried about myself now... going on a date with a spirit instead of a ‘real girl’... will I be able to get married whit a normal girl in the future? I mean, having Akagi by my side is a great help, since I don’t have anybody to rely on besides her, but having her around makes hard any interpersonal interaction but not until the grade to make me an isolated person. Let’s leave this maiden like thoughts for later now it’s time to enjoy the exhibitions.