Who Cares?

Lucy: White Gown

I woke up in a strange place, but not a place that scared me, it had a safe warm feeling to it. My body ached but I couldn't feel any real pain as if something had happened to me but wouldn't show. I also felt a little strange, I noticed I had no idea where I was. I stood up and looked around me, it was a long blank looking area with mist hovering by my feet. I think I could see trees but I couldn't really tell there was a thin layer of fog that looked thick but felt like nothing. I walked where I pleased bare foot, it felt like I was floating, my feet sinking into the earth then jumping right back up for another step. It was a wonderful feeling that I noticed I was now running, smiling even. Till I reached a gate, gigantic when I looked up I couldn't even see the end of it. Couldn't even tell if was from the fog or if it was just that tall.

"Hello there beautiful," said a guy sitting by the gate. "How may I help you?" He seemed very polite in his tone but didn't really seem like he meant that question like as if he knew my response. "Umm, yes I'm a bit lost and I don't seem to know where I am exactly." He smiled a huge grin.
"Oh of course! You're in heaven! Right on time actually" He was now checking a book sitting on a stand next to him marking it with a pen. " I was starting to worry that you might not have come but you're here now and do tell me.."
I usually wasn't and I didn't really mean to, " WHAT?! You mean like heaven, heaven? The place like when people die and are now angels and walk on clouds!?!" I rudely interrupted, while pointing at the ground. I had actually just noticed I was wearing a beautiful white gown which is probably why he said hello to me like that. I could hear him walk over towards me but I still stared at the ground. Unexpectedly he had grabbed my face and I didn't even know tears were falling along my cheek and down into mist.
" My names Peter what's yours?" He asked still holding my face gently and enough to calm me down just by his touch.
"Lucy" I responded brightly with a quite little sniffle. "Good" he said letting go and heading back to his stand.
"Good? How is my name being Lucy good?" I walked over toward his stand but I could feel a barrier where I was not able to get close enough to see the actual inside of the book itself. "Good because you were next to come and remembered your name!" He said that while smiling even bigger now.

" Remembered? Of course I remembered, how could I forget my own name I mean just because I'm.." I paused, recapping of what I was about to say 'Dead' was it. 'Dead' was what I was, now that I was here. I guess it made since of why I woke up in a strange place and the mist and the gates but why?
"Dead?" He finished my sentence.
" It's okay, it was your time and now your here and everything is wonderful now just one very important question and we can move on, okay sound good?
No, it didn't sound good. I don't want to be dead I want to be alive and back on earth, why me? How was it my time? I'm only 17 I don't even remember getting to live my life. More and more tears rolled down my face but I was always a girl who followed the rules and never broke them or went against them or around them either. So I whipped them away and stood up straight and said " Okay, I'm ready."
"Alright it's an easy question, after you answer this you may go in and begin a whole new journey!" I nodded my head still unsure but I was willing to pretend everything was really okay.
"How did you die?"
Now I was worried about a totally different thing and wondered what if I didn't remember at all?