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 Author: Invid Fan
Title: Spirit Falls
Summary: A teen boy gazes down into the stormy abyss, contemplating the
end.  Will the goth girl who appears behind him change his fate?
Keywords: mf, paranormal, reluctant, first

   **** Spirit Falls

   By Invid Fan (c)2014



   "Are you going to jump?"

   Ted almost did.  The unexpected voice from behind startled him, his body
taking a half step towards the edge of the rock.  He caught himself, hands
not quite flailing for a safety railing which was not there.  The roar of
the waterfall filled his ears, the rocks far below suddenly very close. 
Balance once again regained, he turned.

   She stood on the dirt path, hands clasped before her.  She was not
pretty.  To him, at least, not that he was influence much by physical
beauty.  Ted knew he himself was in no way attractive to most girls.  The
stranger had short hair obviously dyed black, with red streaks.  Her face
was heavily made up, black eyeliner and lipstick almost seeming to glow in
their gothy-ness.  A heavy sweatshirt covered whatever form her body had, a
dying Hello Kitty decorating its black fabric.  She wore bluejeans, black
boots completing the ensemble.  Ted frowned, taking in the obvious
stereotypes.

   "Are you?"

   The girl shrugged.  She walked forward, eyes staying on him.  She
stopped beside him, three feet from the edge of the stone outcrop.  Leaning
forward, she glanced down.

   "Cool."

   "Yeah." He looked over as well.  It was easily a hundred foot drop.  Ted
wondered what it would be like.  How it would feel to just step off.  Fall
towards death.  Leave this world behind.  Would he black out before
hitting? Would his eyes stay open, until his body hit the rocks below?

   "Are you a virgin?"

   His eyes whipped around to her.  The goth girl's gaze was still at the
water, as if his answer meant nothing.  Ted looked at her closer.  She was
around his age, high school.  Probably not a freshman, but he doubted a
senior.  He frowned as her face turned towards him.

   "That's...  rather personal.  Why?"

   She shrugged, eyes on his face yet somehow not meeting his.

   "You shouldn't die a virgin."

   Well, if his life so far had been such that he had been able to lose his
virginity, the whole idea of killing himself wouldn't keep cropping up. 
Ted folded his arms across his chest.

   "Is that what you're doing?  Hanging around here to fuck guys before
they jump?"

   She turned away from him, right foot taking a step forward.  Ted shot
his hand out, grabbing her arm.  He stepped back away from the abyss,
pulling her with him.

   "I'm sorry!  I didn't mean it!  I'm..." Her head swiveled toward him
again, expression unchanged.  He sighed.  "I'm not good with people.  You
know?"

   "I know."

   He let go of her arm, taking a deep breath.

   "I'm Ted."

   "Kari."

   He raised an eyebrow.  Kari let out a snort.

   "I know, right?"

   "It's a good name." He tried to smile, show he meant it.  "I mean, it's
better than Ted.  It's like they named me after a Teddy Bear."

   "You don't look furry." Her eyes seemed to be taking him in.  Ted had
the crazy desire to suck his gut in a bit, as if that mattered.  He wasn't
a fit hunk, and never pretended to be.  He wasn't fat though.  Thank God
for that.

   "It's covered by the clothing." As soon as he said it, he realized that
would have her picturing him naked.  Ted felt his face heat up.  She just
nodded.

   "I cover up as well."

   Unable to help himself, Ted dropped his eyes again to her body.  She
was, indeed, covered up.  There was no telling what her natural form was.
Embarrassed to be checking her out like that, he turned back to the falls,
hands going into the pockets of his light fall jacket.

   "You skipping school, too?"

   "Sort of." He sensed her move beside him, closer now.  He tensed as her
hand wrapped around his right arm.  "Are you going to jump?"

   "I...  I don't know."

   She was silent.  He had almost expected her to try and talk him out of
it.  That she wasn't was good.  Yet...

   "You're alone," she said.  He nodded.  Ted felt Kari's grip on him
tighten.  "So am I.  I...  I don't like being alone."

   "Me either." He forced his eyes away from the falls, from the siren's
call of its roar.  He looked down at her.  Kari was a half head shorter
than him, the brown roots of her natural hair just starting to be visible
along her natural part.  Her head suddenly swiveled, eyes rising to meet
his.  Large, brown eyes, seeming to connect right to his soul.

   "Love me." She pulled his arm as she took a step back.  His body
followed, mind numb.  "Fuck me." She moved faster away from the cliff, onto
then across the path, brown eyes staying locked with his as she moved
backwards through the trees.  She stopped in a round patch of dirt, the
sound of falling water still in Ted's ears.  Kari released his arm.  "Make
me a woman."

   He couldn't think.  Didn't know if he wanted to think.  His mind and
body were held captive as the stranger reached down to the hem of her
sweatshirt.  Eyes locked with his, she pulled it up, and off.

   Her skin was pale, almost white.  She was heavier than current standards
allowed a girl to be, but in no way unhealthy.  Her belly had a slight
bulge of fat, no worse than his.  Kari's bra-less breasts were small, yet
pillowy, sagging slightly.  Ted could not help but swallow at his first
sight of the real thing.  She bent forward, raising her legs one at a time
as she removed her boots.  Her breasts hung down, exciting him more.  As
she straightened, her fingers nimbly worked the skull belt on her jeans.

   A moment later, her jeans and panties lay in a pile at her feet.

   "Fuck me," she said again, stepping forward, sock clad feet freeing
themselves from her pants.  A thick, brown triangle of fur stood out from
the white skin below her belly button.  Ted could only stand there,
shaking, as she placed her pale hands on his chest, pushing backwards.  Not
wanting to fall, he found himself squatting then getting onto his back, the
naked girl following him.  As soon as he was down, her hands went to his
fly.  She didn't bother undoing his belt or pants.  Her hand snaked into
the now open slit, finding the gap in his boxers.

   He felt her grab his cock.

   Her fingers were both scalding hot and icy cold.  Ted tried to say
something.  His mouth was too dry to talk, mind too confused to find words.
What consciousness he still had watched her pull his hard cock out.  With
no words or change in expression, Kari moved herself until her bare body
was kneeling over his quivering dick.  Her hand positioned it against hot
wetness.  With a grunt, she lowered herself.

   Ted let out a cry of surprise.  Sensations overwhelmed him.  Nothing his
hand had ever done had prepared him for this.  It was tight, wet, warm. 
And she was moving.  Not just up and down, but he felt her squeezing him.
Tighter as she lifted off, as if trying to hold him as the rest of her body
tried to release him, loosening as she brought him back into her wet
embrace, trying to draw him in farther.

   It was heaven.

   Ted opened his eyes.  Hers were closed as her nude body slowly rose and
fell above him.  Her painted face showed, not pleasure, but...  happiness.
She was happy.  He was making someone happy.  She looked...

   "You're beautiful," he said.  Her eyes shot open.  They looked down at
him in dismayed shock.

   "Don't say that," she whispered.  He moved his right hand to her thigh.

   "But you are.  You're so beautiful, Kari..."

   He felt himself squeezed again.  Pleasure shot through him.  His eyes
closed, hand again falling to the ground.  He was shooting.  Shooting his
white stuff into her.  God...  it felt...

   "Thank you." Her voice drifted into his left ear.  He felt a soft hand
touch his cheek.  Forcing himself, Ted opened his eyes.

   She was gone.

   He sat up, grimacing in momentary pain as his still hard cock scraped
against the zipper of his jeans.  Distracted, he slipped it back inside its
home, only half noticing the strange wetness around it.  He wiped the stuff
onto his pants as he stood.

   He didn't see her anywhere.  Her clothes, too, were gone.  Had he
blacked out?  Where could she...

   The river!  He ran, following the sound of the falling water back to the
path.  He came out of the trees where they had entered, the afternoon sun
causing him to squint as he cast his gaze around.  She wasn't there.  Had
she jumped?  She had said you shouldn't die a virgin.  Had she fucked him
so she could...?

   Movement caught his attention behind him.  Whirling, he saw, not her,
but a picture stapled to a tree.  Flowers were wrapped around the thin
trunk.  It looked like one of those memorials you saw on the side of the
road, telling the sad tale of some innocent killed by a car there.

   His heart froze.  No.  No, that would be...  Ted moved towards the tree.
Looked at the picture.  The girl who looked back was a plain girl, with
short brown hair, brown eyes.

   It was her.

   He whirled again, looking at the falls.  No!  That sign hadn't been
there before!  He would have seen it!  What was going on?  Had he fucked a
ghost?

   Ted stopped.  A...  ghost.  She had been a ghost.  The ghost of a girl
who had died here.  Who had thrown herself off the cliff, just as he had
planned to.  There was life after death.  And, she had said not to die a
virgin.  He was no longer a virgin.  So...  he could die.  More, maybe he
could be with her.  He wanted that.  More than life itself, he wanted to be
with her.  There was only one way for that to happen.

   He took a step towards the cliff.

   "No!"

   She was there before him, still nude, hands pushing back against his
chest.  Those brown eyes were full of tears.

   "No!  You can't do this!  I won't let you!"

   "But I have to!" Ted grabbed her arms.  "I have to be with you!  No
matter what!"

   "No!  I'm not worth it!" Her head bowed, pushing into his chest.  "Not
worth it..."

   "You are," he whispered.  Moving his arms around her, he pulled her
quaking body against him.  "You're beautiful.  You're the first person I've
ever cared about.  I won't lose you now."

   "Don't say that," she whispered.  He shook his head.

   "You're beautiful, Kari, and I want to be with you forever.  No matter
what the cost."

   Her shaking stopped.  Kari's face rose to meet his, black eyeshadow
running down her face.

   "R-really?"

   "Really." Leaning in, Ted kissed her.

   She pressed against him, their closed lips mashing together.  Kari
suddenly pulled back.  Her eyes glowed, tears now those of joy.  She
grabbed his arms, pulling.

   "Come!  We'll be together!  Always!"

   Heart afire, Ted let himself be led to the cliff, and beyond.



   ****



   "And this," Jenny's father said, "is Spirit Falls.  Legend says, if you
listen closely, you can hear the cries of those who have died here!"

   "Oh, Bill, stop it!" Jenny's mom slapped his arm as the teen rolled her
eyes.  Her parents were SO melodramatic.  Her little brothers ran past her.
"Stay away from the edge!" her mom said.  They stopped, but not before
taking one more step towards the dangerous drop off.

   Boys.

   Moving a bit away from the rest of the family, she walked towards the
edge herself.  The falls WAS beautiful, even if she wasn't going to tell
them that.  Jenny leaned over, watching the water fall onto the rocks.  The
roar...  DID sound like something.  She closed her eyes.  Did it sound like
spirits in eternal agony?  Or...

   Her face reddened as her eyes opened, feet taking a step back.

   That had NOT been agony!

   "Come on!  Let's go!"

   She whirled.  Her parents and brothers were continuing on up the trail.
She looked back at the falling water.  Again, the sound came to her.

   Those...  those were some happy spirits.

   ****

   Edited by Packrat

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