Daughter Nature

Chapter 5-My Grief

"Summoning a tornado really wears you out. I don't know how my mom does it all day," I murmured tiredly, resting on my bed in my room. Trina was with me; she came to visit after my training.

"Well, the difference is your mom is an all-powerful being with complete and total control of the earth, and you're just..."

I sat up in bed at this response. "Be careful what you say here," I playfully warned.

"Oh trust me," Trina replied, "you can summon a tornado. I'm not going to anger you."

I laughed.

Isn't it funny how we never see bad things coming? Like, you never think something life-changing is going to happen to you, and then boom--it does.

That was how I felt when I received the news.

It started when Miss Crystal barged into my room, a worried look etched into her face. She didn't even notice that Trina was in the room when she said, "Sky, come. Something very bad has happened..." I don't think Miss Crystal could bear to say anything else, and that told me that something was REALLY bad.

I jumped out of bed and left the room with Miss Crystal, throwing Trina a knowing glance that said 'i'm sorry to go but I need to see what is wrong'.

Miss Crystal filled me in on the details as we walked to... the hospital?

What had happened?!?!

Here's what Miss Crystal told me, and I didn't like a word of it:

"Your mom was just about to relieve me of my duties when she burst into the worst coughing fit out of them all. Sky, this was BAD. Your mom was in serious danger of... Well, never mind that. I was just about to leave the room for medical attention when I heard the wine glass that I had given her earlier shatter on the ground. That's when I knew..."

Miss Crystal didn't continue.

Every word she spoke, every bit of information she gave me about what happened seemed to make me walk a little faster, focus a little harder, until I was running. Miss Crystal couldn't keep up, and I arrived at the hospital alone.

I didn't bother to ask any of the nurses where my mother was. I just ran in the maze that they called a hospital, opening doors, closing others, not stopping until I found her. Every beat of my heart was focused on the sole word: Mom, Mom, Mom.

And then... I found her.

Lying on a cot, her pale hair undone and fanning out beneath her. Her skin was the color of snow, and her eyes were closed. An oxygen mask covered the rest of her face from my view.

The image was a punch in the gut. A hard, solid punch.

My strong, defiant, powerful mom... bedridden. Sick, old...

Dying.

I was thankful for the tears that blurred my vision, because I did not want to see the sight of my mom like this anymore. I covered my mouth in horror and let out a sob. I blinked, and blinked again, hoping the image was not the reality.

No. It was the reality.

This thought came with another punch in the gut.

I let out a strangled wail, and... I fell, and...

Darkness. A darkness full of tortured screams and my mom leaving. Leaving me.

Don't go, I would say, but she kept getting farther and farther away from me, until she was only a light in the distance.

Gone.

~Author's Note~

DON'T WORRY READERS MOTHER NATURE IS ONLY IN A COMA!!!

Glad I got that off my chest.

Anyway...

So, I posted a picture of what Mother Nature kinda looks like. Of course, she isn't in that POSITION, but that is what her face kind of looks like.

Really hope you are enjoying the book! There's more coming, so be ready.

By the way, readers, THANK YOU so much for reading this book when you could be reading something a bazillion times better. You are all appreciated, readers!!!

Okay, that's about it. Bye!