Not everyone could tell when they were going to die but some could, by realizing one day that their soul was not the same part with their body anymore, by learning that their body was losing the battle they never knew they’d been fighting. These people didn’t have super power nor were they a fortune teller. They just knew. Kat was one of them.

She was fighting a losing battle, her battle.

Because I felt like shit when I put my foot in my mouth while I was talking with Kat in the hallway last week, I knocked on her door when Monday came, bringing flower. This was the first time I entered someone else’s room other than Mr.Chang, the old man I had to keep track of him before his one month ended.

The name on the door was Kat’s but also was not Kat’s. Before she was Kat the immortal Grim Reaper pretending to be a tourist in a big city like New York, she used to be some young girl waiting for her last day in a small hospital room located in the crowded city in China. I used to remember her old name, speaking it softly when I couldn’t sleep the night I remembered her last day on earth but not anymore. Since I couldn’t even tell her we had met before I just shook her hand when she introduced herself as Kat.

“Hey, I’m sorry for what I said last week,” I said, walking inside the room after I opened the door. Kat who was lying on her bed at that time turned her head to me, smiling softly. 

“Nah, it’s alright. I should be the one to say sorry.” Kat pointed at the empty chair next to her bed. I sat there, looking at her.

“Were you Grandfather Chang’s grandchild? I heard him talking about his son marrying a foreigner woman in Singapore.” Kat watched me like she was analyzing me and because I was a master of pretending to be someone else I wasn’t, I shrugged.

“Yep. That’s me.” 

And that was how we becoming friends in less than a month, I visited Mr.Chang and her. Sometimes we just talked about what we wanted to do, sometimes we talked about the things we regretted. She didn’t know this but I still kept doing this after she worked with me at the underworld.