SUMMER'S RAIN

CHAPTER 66

CHAPTER 66

I didn’t know what hurt worse my face or the back of my head. I couldn’t open my eyes, for some reason. I could hear Case, Dominick, Rachel, and Adam, but I can’t open my eyes nor can I make out what they are saying. I felt so tired and really needed to sleep. My mind is shutting down, but before it dose I catch a glimpse of Dominick but I’m not sure about what I am seeing exactly because I know for a fact we are in the cave but what I am seeing is Dominick standing in the middle of a field. I see tree people surrounding him, he is trying to fight them all off but there is too many for him to take on by himself.  

Watching In horror, I see four or five tree people take Dominick to the ground while another one rams a stake through his chest. I scream watching as the tree people push the stake deeper into his body. Dominick goes limp. I scream for him to get up bellowing to him he has to fight. I felt my heart breaking. No matter, how much I scream Dominick, just laid there dying. I am still screaming when Dominick starts fading from my vision.

Everything went black. I must be dying; if so I welcome it. Watching Dominick die just now opened my eyes about my feelings towards him. About how much I care about him how much I love him. That’s the reason I had been able to sleep with him so easy yet had never been able to bring myself to sleep with Case. Now it’s too late he’s gone, and I’ll never be able to tell him how much he means to me how much I love him. That I was sorry I had wasted all these months we could have been together.

Is this what HELL is like? A black nothingness a giant hole swallowing you up to never to be seen nor heard from again I scream out, demanding to know if anyone is there. All I hear back is the echo of my own voice. I thought about looking around to see if I can find Dominick but then realize that he wouldn’t have come here. Hell is left to those that didn’t deserve better. Like me, for the way I treated Dominick and Case. Of course, Dominick wouldn’t be here he’s kind, generous, forgiving, loving, and always helping others. He’s everything I’m not and never will be. Lying down in the black nothingness, I close my eyes and cry for all the mistakes I had made and the people I had hurt along the way.

As time went on, I lost all track of time I’m not sure if I have been here an hour, days, or even months for all I knew. I walked, and walked trying to see if I could see anything but no matter how far I went; nothing changed. I am wondering if the tree people had killed Case, Adam and Rachel when I hear a faint noise. Straining my ears, I listen to see if I can hear it again. When I am about to give up, I hear my name being called out.

“I’m here!” I howl. Jumping to my feet I took off running trying to locate where the voice is coming from without any luck. Stopping I listen to see if I can still hear it, again I make out the faint sound of my name being spoken. Its Case he’s here I have to find him. I start calling his name “Case where are you? I can’t find you! Can you find me?” He never replies. Could I have been imagining his voice? I stopped screaming and listen. Finally giving up when I didn’t hear him again.

Sitting in the dark rocking my body back and forth I see a small light appear. It starts growing the light becoming brighter and brighter. Holding my hands over my eyes, I try to block out the blinding light. Could this be the light you always hear people talking about that has near-death experiences? Maybe I wasn’t in Hell after all. This could be the holding place or something you go to before the light comes to take you.

Letting my hands drop from my face I watch the light come toward me. It stops blinding me and becomes beautiful the closer it gets. When the light is finally in front of me, it transforms into an Angel, but not any Angel, it is Michael. I have not seen him since my purification. He was the Angel, who had given me his blood.

“Hello Lana” Michael says in his soothing tone.

“Michael I can’t believe you’re here. I thought I was in HELL! However, you wouldn’t be here if I were. Are you taking me to heaven?”