"I think it would help with being neurotic about coming!  But I do love catharsis.  ...It would be so narrative if you were into touching the inside of me; it's kind of the reverse of possession in some ways.  On second thought you were pretty into touching the inside of one part of me, but that didn't have anything to do with me being a ghost, so that kind of breaks the elegant symmetry there."

"If you found me sticking my hand in your chest hot I'd probably be into it???" Jake is starting to realise just how much of his motivation comes specifically from boys finding the stuff he does hot.

"I feel happy about that.  You should save it for him, though; I don't think it would be as elegantly symmetrical with me either."

"O...kay... You're being very insistent about this me versus him thing, like, how uh seriously should I be taking that exactly, I thought it was just shorthand?"

"—I tried to say 'it's just shorthand' but couldn't so maybe it's more real than I thought.  But maybe still not very, or something."

"Allllright. Is this, uh, 'cause of the magic, or did you get multiple personality disorder, I thought that wasn't a real thing—" Google, or more like Wikipedia, to the rescue. He needs some rearranging of arms so his phone is at eye level.

"In my opinion you don't need that right now and should pay attention to me and petting me.  I'll explain."

"—yes, sir." Phone down.

"I also feel happy about this!  I think the explanation is very simple here, which is that when sober almost the entirety of my identity is wrapped around feeling guilty and horrible and not knowing how to navigate interacting socially with you.  Since none of that is currently true of me, it feels right and makes sense to me to consider us separate people.  But if the normal me resolved some of his issues and had you do the spell again I might not feel the need to draw such a distinction.  And also he wouldn't be two separate people for that because there wouldn't be such a sharp border between those states, and also there would be no magic causing him to automatically revert his changes at dawn.  That's just normal character development, not being a different person."

"I... see. I don't suppose you have better insight on how to make him feel less guilty and horrible. Other than, I guess, sexually torturing him."

"When you say it like that it makes it sound like a bad thing...  I don't know, I think I would have to have more insight into why you like us and stuck around instead of having skedaddled, which I in fact still don't have.  But maybe you shouldn't try and explain that."

"Why shouldn't I?"

"I'm not really sure... I just have kind of a feeling.  Guessing:  maybe it would make him feel embarrassed and freaked out when he remembered it, and it would be better for you to have it as a two-way conversation with someone capable of reacting to it authentically?"

"And that would beat explaining it to you while you're chill and more able to believe stuff I said rather than be anxious about it?"

"I don't think it was a very good guess...  I just don't know this, I think.  I won't mind you trying to explain if that feels like a good idea to you."

"I mean... If you think it'd be a bad idea you know yourself better than I do? Just. For the record. I think you're—he's—being silly about this whole thing."

"Okay.  ...I don't know why that made me feel a sudden surge of love for you, but it did, I love you."

"...thank you? I don't really know how to, uh, respond to that. When you say it."

"I don't mind.  But if you wanted you could gently involve more fingernails in the hair and scalp touching situation, and I expect I would really like it and not get turned on in an unwise way in response."

"Okay." He can do that.

He goes melty enough that it takes him several seconds to announce, "That feels really nice."  He kind of mumbles it, too.

Cuuuute.

...but also Jake's not a ghost and it's kinda late and he's in the habit of waking up early for class and he's had a really long day and is rapidly being made aware of all of these facts at once.

"Mmmmmm.  Do you have any intrusive questions for me?  You look sleepy and we should get them in before morning if there are any."

"Uh... Like what?"

"I don't know... I think we already covered most of the most embarrassing stuff... I in fact don't have a third secret betrayal of you on deck; it'll be good to have said that..."