Everything feels like a dream.
Just a moment ago I was on my way home from my job but now I find myself wondering through a beautiful flower garden. The intoxicating scent from the abundance of flowers around me is making me feel weak. It’s strange because this flower garden reminds me of when I was a child. My mother owned her own flower shop and we had our own apartment right above it. How could I remember such a time? It was so long ago.
“Mommy! I made you a crown out of flowers!”
“Oh my,” she smiled. “It’s beautiful. Should I put it on?”
“Okay!”
Yes, back then everything was perfect. My days were filled with laughter and joy. It was just the two of us but we had everything we needed. How could I have forgotten?
Slowly, the flowers are disappearing and the beautiful scenery that surrounded me just a moment ago is morphing into…my old bedroom?
Everything still looks the same. It’s as if I never left. The walls are a faded pink now but I remember the very day my mother and I painted it. The sounds of our giggling filled the air as the sunshine seeped into the bedroom windows. The birds were singing and for a moment, time had frozen.
I walked over to my old bed and sat down. I could see my old teddy bear sitting on the bed beside me. I called him Mr. Walter. His spotted bowtie had become worn and faded in color and his left eye button was dangling from his face. I tried to put it back in place but I gasped as my hand went through him, touching the surface of the pillow instead.
There’s a sharp pain in my chest and I can’t say anything.
“I’m sorry Mr. Walter,” I mumble to myself, lowering my head. “Looks like I can’t fix you. Otherwise you’d be able to see…” The tears came falling out uncontrollably as I sat there on the bed. “I…I should have helped you earlier. I'm so sorry!”
I don’t remember the last time I cried so much.
The room is disappearing again…
…am I really dead?
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The Chronicles of Life, Love & After
General FictionWhen June meets an unexpected death, she is whisked away into the Spirit World. Unable to accept her fate, she wonders through the afterlife and recounts the events in her life when she was alive.
