“So…you spent the whole day locked up?” Casey handed Levi a beer and took her seat on the couch next to him. They’d just finished pigging out on all the food he’d brought and he told her about his day, all except the part where he’d seen Krissy in the park.

He nodded. “Most of it. Cheney finally sent the lawyer down and he made them let me go. Not that he needed to make them…it was all kind of set up that way.”

“I get that you called them and took care of the little girl and all of that…but how do you know the man that set this up, the tech?”

Levi sighed and sat back into the couch. He took a long swig of his beer and then instead of answering her question he said, “Do you believe in ghosts?”

Casey raised her eyebrows. He didn’t know if it was the change of subject, the question, or both. She stared at him for a few moments and then she said, “If you would have asked me that a few months ago, I would have laughed at you.”

“But now?”

She sat her beer down on the table and with a pained expression she said, “Don’t freak out…but I think…no, I know I saw Krissy.”

He wasn’t going to freak out. He was relieved. “You saw her? Where?”

“It was the morning I was supposed to take my boards…two days after she died. We hadn’t even buried her yet. I was having an anxiety attack. I didn’t think I could go take that test. It just felt so wrong to just be going through life like nothing happened when she was…gone. I went out on the balcony and I just sat there in my robe with my knees up to my chest, bawling like a baby. I might have sat there all day, but I heard something. I heard her voice. I looked up and there she was, sitting at the little bistro table where she always had her coffee in the mornings. I was scared at first. I thought I was losing my mind. ‘Krissy?’ I said. She looked right at me and smiled and then I heard her voice again. It wasn’t like she was talking…I mean, the Krissy I was looking at. It was like her voice was in my head. All she said was, ‘You got this.’ I said her name again and just like that, she was gone. Maybe I imagined it…”

“I saw her too,” Levi said. “I see her, in my dreams all the time. But today, I saw her standing there next to the social worker’s car. I think Susie saw her too.”

“The little girl?”

He nodded. “She said, ‘The pretty angel said to tell you that you’re a good man.’”

“Wow. But you know something? If anyone was going to become an angel, it would be our Krissy. She was just good all the way through. Sometimes I thought, too good. It was almost like she was an angel here on earth too.”

“Maybe she was,” Levi said, almost unable to believe his own thoughts. “Maybe she was here because we needed her…”

“I still need her,” Casey said.

Levi sat his beer down and put his arm around his friend. She laid her head against his shoulder and he said, “So do I. Maybe that’s why she hasn’t left yet.”

He felt Casey nod against him. “It would be just like her to pass up on paradise to make sure the two of us were okay.” He smiled. Casey was right, that would be just like her.

Levi and Casey didn’t talk about it any further, but it made them both feel better to know the other believed she was still with them too. They watched a movie and had a few more beers and instead of driving home, Levi decided to stay in Krissy’s room for the night. He said goodnight to Casey and then went into Krissy’s little bedroom. As he closed the door behind him, he looked around the room. Krissy used to have every space on the wall filled with an inspirational plaque or a picture that made her happy. The top of her dresser used to be covered in framed photos of them together, or her and Casey. Now, the walls were empty and so was the top of the dresser. The closet door was open and filled with boxes. Levi sat down on the bed and took off his boots. He started to lie down, but his eyes landed on a framed photo on the nightstand that hadn’t been put away yet. It was Krissy’s favorite and he’d be willing to bet that Casey hadn’t had the heart to pack it. He reached over and picked it up, and he smiled when he looked at it.

He lay back on the bed and looked at Krissy’s smiling face. She was holding a teddy bear and standing in front of a carnival midway. Levi had taken the picture. They had been hanging out for a few weeks by that time, but the carnival was their first real date. As silly as he thought it was, that had been where she wanted to go, and she’d wanted to go on a picnic in the park next to the river afterwards. She’d packed a picnic basket and they had taken off for the carnival first. Once they were there, they had ridden every ride and played every game and Krissy had smiled all night.

The two of them had done a lot of kissing and petting by that time, but Levi had been hoping after their date, she’d be ready to go all the way. He was dying to be inside of her by then. She had the sexiest body he’d ever seen and he wanted to touch, feel, and taste every inch of it. But Krissy wasn’t a club girl and Levi had respected that. He’d started out just holding her hand while they watched TV on Casey’s couch. They had quickly graduated to making out, but he was waiting for her to give him a sign that she was ready to move forward…and that night, she finally had.

After Krissy finally had her fill of the carnival and they were both starving, they took the picnic basket and walked a few miles in the moonlight to a private little park area near the river. Levi spread out the blanket that she’d brought while Krissy set up their feast. He watched her, not concentrating on the food at all, but fantasizing about getting his hands underneath that thin, white cotton blouse she was wearing, and down inside the cut-off jeans that had been driving him crazy all night. Her thighs were thick, but muscular and smooth. She had her hair pulled back in a ponytail and tied up in a white satin ribbon. Her sexy, long neck was on display and although he’d nipped at it a few times on some of the rides they had gone on, he really wanted to give it more attention. He wanted to lick all the way down it, into the front of her blouse and finally get a taste of those amazing breasts.

She turned her back to him as she unpacked the basket and his eyes fell on her round ass. He loved touching it through her jeans. He couldn’t wait to feel it in the flesh. When she turned around and noticed him staring at her, she smiled and said, “You look hungry.”

“I’m starving.”

She giggled. “I brought lots of food.”

“I’m not hungry for food.”

She giggled again. “Oh, yeah?” She put her fingers on the top button of her blouse and winked at him as she unbuttoned it.

“Yeah,” he said, taking a step closer. “That food looks good, but it’s not what’s making my mouth water.”

She undid another button. He could see the swell where her breasts came up out of her bra and formed that delicious cleavage. He licked his lips and moved in closer. Wrapping his arm around her waist, he pulled her up almost off her feet and he bent down to kiss her. As their tongues tangled, exploring each other’s mouths, Levi’s hands began exploring her body. God, she felt so good, and he was so hard. He felt like he was about to explode. They kissed for a long time and when they finally came up for air, Levi’s fingers went to the buttons on her blouse and he undid the last of them. She shrugged it off her shoulders and let it fall down her arms until it floated to the ground behind her. Levi remembered exactly how beautiful she looked, standing there in her bra and shorts. He put his hands on her lace-covered mounds, feeling how hard her nipples were, even through the fabric. He massaged and caressed them and watched the sexy, lusty look on her face as he did.

After several minutes, he reached behind her and unhooked her bra. She shrugged that off too and he actually gasped when he saw her stiff, red nipples surrounded by the mounds of firm, white flesh. He reached for them, caressing them between his fingers and making her moan softly. He did that for a few minutes and then they kissed again, this time more passionately. When he let her go, she stepped back and began to undo her shorts. Teasingly, she slid them down her smooth, sexy legs. He tweaked those big nipples as she did. When she stood up, he saw that she’d taken down her panties as well and he was looking at her entire, naked, sinfully sexy body.

He brought his mouth down to taste one of those breasts he’d been lusting after. It was as good as, or even better than he’d imagined it. He sucked and licked her nipples and then nipped softly at the flesh all around them before working his mouth up to her neck and continuing his feast there. His hand went down between her legs as he brought his head all the way up and began to bite and suck at her full lips. She was wet…soaking wet…and he growled into her mouth as he teased her lips open. Once he had his fingers in between those wet lips, he ran them up and down her slit, making her moan louder and shudder all over. The feel of her body as it vibrated against his was unbelievable. She let him touch, taste, explore, for a long time before pulling back and breathlessly saying:

“Take off your clothes, Levi.”

He took his clothes off quickly, never taking his eyes off of her body as he did. He was shaking by the time he finished stripping and when he grabbed for her this time, he took them both down to the blanket, pushing the food out of the way with his arm as he did. That was when he saw the strawberries. She’d brought chocolate-covered strawberries, probably because he’d told her that he loved them. He grinned against her mouth and reached for one, lowering her back to the ground as he did.

She lay there, flushed and breathing hard, looking up at him with trust and adoration in her eyes. He smiled down at her and gently rubbed the strawberry against her wet pussy. She gasped when she realized what he was doing. He rubbed it from one end of her to the other and then spent some time, rubbing it against her hard clit in erotic little circles. Once her pussy was coated with the chocolate and strawberry juice, he moved down so that his face was between her sexy thighs and pushed her legs open further. Lying down on his belly, he pushed his nose into her wet pussy and let his tongue come out and begin to lick the sweet moisture away. Krissy was squirming and moaning. Levi had to use one hand to press into her abdomen softly and hold her down. He licked softly at first, but when he saw how excited she got as he sucked her clit into his mouth and nipped at it, he lost control and began to devour her. She was loud, and the louder she got, the more excited he got. His body was on fire and his cock was aching by the time an orgasm slammed into her and she practically screamed out into the night with pleasure.

“Jesus, Levi,” she said, repeating it over and over as she came down off her high. Levi slid up and kissed her on the lips again, loving the way she licked and sucked at his, knowing that she was tasting herself on him…and loving it. “My turn,” she whispered after they’d kissed for a while and she had stopped shaking. She reached over and picked up the little bottle of red wine she’d brought. Winking at him, she took the corkscrew out of the basket and opened it. She took a sip out of the bottle and offered it to him. He took a sip too, nearly choking on it when he felt her warm, wine-filled mouth cover his cock. Fireworks exploded in his head and a fire raged in his core as she began to lick and suck on his shaft, working her hand underneath his sac and massaging it gently as she bobbed up and down on him. He watched her, holding her pretty blonde hair away from her face so that he could see his cock with her lips wrapped around it. It was all he could do to keep from coming, but he wasn’t about to waste his first orgasm with her. He was going to be inside of her tight, wet pussy when he came.

He pulled her off of his cock and with the hold on her hair, he pulled her up and kissed her, hard. He reached between them while they kissed and worked two of his fingers up inside of her. She whimpered as he began working them in and out. She moved her hips against his hand, taking his fingers in deeper each time, until she was on the verge of another orgasm and this time, she was the one that pulled away. She smiled up at him, sucking hard for air as she spread her legs open and straddled his abdomen. She reached back and took his cock in her hand. He almost came again, especially when she rose up and he felt her working it into her tight pussy. He was suddenly wrapped up between her silky walls and that was when he realized he hadn’t put on a condom. His eyes flew open and as if reading his mind she said:

“It’s okay. I won’t get pregnant, I promise. I’m clean too.”

He smiled. “I’ve never had sex without a condom…”

She grinned and said, “Neither have I. I guess we were saving that for each other.” Levi groaned as she began to move. She ground her hips against his, taking him in as deep as she could. He grabbed her hips and pulled her down toward his mouth as he held onto her. He sucked one of those heavenly tits into his mouth and while she bounced up and down on his throbbing cock, his mouth made love to her breasts.

Their lovemaking that night didn’t last long. Levi had to come after only a few minutes of being inside of her. But he would always remember that orgasm as the most earth-shattering of his life. And after they’d cleaned up and eaten their dinner…they’d gone back to his place and they had both come at least three more times in every room of the little apartment. It was an unforgettable night. He fell asleep thinking about it, holding the picture to his chest, and he slept dreamlessly for the first time in a while. When he woke up, he felt even more satisfied than he did after he had the dreams. He knew that no matter what happened, Krissy was always going to be with him. She was a part of him and any time he wanted to see her, or feel her, or even taste her, all he had to do was close his eyes.