Family Remains

Prologue

Death is my best friend. We sit now, talking as if we haven't seen each other in months. Just two friends talking without distraction.

All around me was darkness. All around me was silence.

The darkness is swallowing me whole. The silence is deafening. I was everywhere yet nowhere all at once.

It might have been dark all around me but I could see Death easily, as if there was a spotlight on us. When I look up though, all I see is more darkness.

The darkness was starting to make me feel uneasy. A tightening feeling was filling my chest. It felt as though invisible walls were closing in on us, but Death made no action of feeling it like I do.

I stand and try to run, but I'm running to nothing. There's nothing to run to, just blackness everywhere. I wanted to get out, needed to leave.

Then as if a giant hand picked me up around the waist, I was flying high in the air. Death was way below grinning at me like the Cheshire Cat.

I screamed out for help, suddenly not wanting to leave my dear old friend. Death did nothing but laugh, for Death does not help one, he just stands by to let things happen.

I scream and scream until I can scream no more. I'm lifted higher and higher to a destination I cannot see.

Death stands below, waiting by to great me as an old friend once again one day.