James.

I.

James was dead.

He was twelve. He was just a little boy unaware of how youthful he actually was. He never needed to think about his life and his actions, about his deeds. It seemed so needless, and he seriously didn't want to spend any of his time thinking if his life was lived properly, just as it deserved.

This isn't what little boys do. He liked to play with his friends, he liked to swear whenever his parents weren't around, he liked to make himself look just as dandy as possible.

He didn't need to think about his life. Why should he? There were at least another fifty years ahead of him. He can think of it later.

Unless he can't.

His mom was taking him home from school. It was another simple, stupid day and it was his mother's time to pick him up. She was very observant while driving. She just was like this. James was on his phone, when suddenly he looked up and the last thing he saw was a car overtaking the one before. The driver presumably neglected the fact that there were cars on the other side of the road.

James was young, but not stupid. He screamed, eyes wide from terror, his mom turning to face him in hasty seconds.

He saw nothing. It was black, nothing but black and after a while which felt like ages, a little hint of light as well. Whenever he was he didn't like the smell of it. His nose could discern so many scents at once, and it melted together into a huge stinky smell. He didn't mind, though. He didn't care. It was peaceful. He could stay there forever.

But he didn't.

His eyes were shot open. He adjusted to environs very quickly, and he immediately recognised a few things - their car, his mom and his body.

There was a weird, barrier-like looking thing behind the ambulance. It was shiny, and it was irradiating love. Love, peace, serenity, deity and love again. His heart could've been filled with an endless amount of love and all it took was to step through it, to yield.

He reached to it. His fingers sank into the light, diving in it. He continued to walk in, as his eyes followed every inch of the barrier. The sun rays made the light shine with many colours and it felt unbelievable. James could swore he had never seen so many colours in his life.

His body slowly dived in, and he waited patiently, but nothing happened.

It seemed like an unbelievably long time. Rescuers took his body to the hospital, and his mom as well. He couldn't go. He wasn't able to. The light didn't take him. It didn't accept him.

And so he stayed.