Water of Life

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

As I fell to the ground I felt the little old ladies hands come around my waist.  I kept thinking she moved really fast for someone so old.  She caught me and laid me on the ground. I could hear my mom telling dad to call 911. But I found my voice and said no. I said it was time. I was ready. 

I kept thinking what better place for it to end than the most magical place in the world. So my dad told the paramedics that were coming the situation. That I was terminal and I had decided this would be it. It felt so surreal.  I could feel my body shutting down.  I could still breathe but even that was getting hard to do.  

Time felt like it was standing still and my eyes flickered over to the old woman. Who's eyes never left my face.  She smiled at me like she knew everything was going to be ok.  I wondered if she had been a nurse or a doctor.  Maybe thats why she knew everything was going to work out. Like maybe she knew how to fix me or something.   But as her hands left my waist and went to her neck.  I noticed that pendant again.  And it hit me it was the one from my dream.  The stone was that was the cool mesmerizing blue of the lake. As I felt her hand lift my head.  She dropped the pendant around me and laid my head back down.  Now on something soft.  Im guessing someone had given up their toy from the park.  

I gazes back into the old woman's eyes and noticed she was trying to tell me something.  But my ears weren't working the way they should.  So when her body seized up and her eyes rolled into the back of her head.  I tried to sit up to catch her but, my mom was there to hold me down.  Some other lady about the age of my mom came rushing up to catch the other one.  I would find out later that the old woman had died.  She was 114 to the day.  

As paramedics arrived to deal with me.  They ended up dealing with the old woman who gave me the pendant.  My mom had been kneeling at my side and had my left hand in her. She kept saying that she loved me so much and telling me that everything was going to be fine.  Squeezing my hand to reassure me.  My dad and sister were sitting around me holding my right hand and weaving fingers through my hair. Telling me that everything was going to be fine. That they were going to be fine. They loved me and they would think about me always. 

It seemed that it was taking my body forever to decide if this was going to be it.  We were all just sitting around on the cement waiting. But then I go to take a deep breath and it shutters out of me.  My mother bursts into tears gripping my hand so hard I'm sure she is going to break it.  She starts saying no that she's not ready. She's not ready for me to go. Im not allowed she forbids it.  That I'm her little girl and I have to stay for her.  I can see the tears falling down her face hitting my cheek on their way to the ground.  I try to grasp her hand harder but have no strength left to do so.  I call for my sister and tell her to take care of them.  That they will need her more than ever.  

Then the whole world started spinning. By this time everyone is crying. My dad a lot quieter than my mom and sister.  But I can still see his tears though my own.  The last thought I had before everything went dark was that I swore I could hear people singing. I could make out the words of "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes'. It sounded like everyone around us had stopped and started singing. But, you could tell that many of them were crying or didn't know the words. But as the song grew in volume and the world kept on spinning. I knew this was going to be it.  That this was finally the end.