Edelweiss

CHAPTER ONE

"Death cause?"

"Accident"

"You're lying"

"HOW AM I LYING?!" I could feel my patients running thin.

"Good question I would like to ask the same thing, but instead, I would like to ask why are you lying?".

I sigh for a thousand times today before speaking again, "Look, I was running after I finished my class which happens to end at 8 p.m. I was careless and in a rush when I got hit by a car, and when I woke up, what do I see? I see you. A weird anglic creature which means, I died right? But instead of letting me "rest in peace", you're questioning me as if..."

"As if what?" the light asked

"I don't know as if I stepped in with that car on purpose or worse! As if I am being prepared to get reincarnated!"

"You are getting reincarnated"

"What?"

Just like that, I felt as if my body suddenly dropped from the hard surface I was standing on...and I was terrified.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH- ", I got interrupted from screaming my lungs out as I started to cough after something got into my throat, until I felt my body getting crushed in what seemed like another invisible floor, LANDING harshly on my stomach.

I wanted to cry.

Even though I didn't feel the pain, I really wanted to tear up. Pushing emotions aside, I tried to stand. I didn't know where I fell from or what I fell into, I just fell. Standing straight, I started to look around, but unlike before I was surrounded by clouds, I was standing in the air surrounded by nothing but clouds.

"Pretty"

I fast moved my head toward the voice as I suddenly turned, and where once was an empty space, now stood a girl looking around until her eyes met mine. I slowly took a step back, my eyes not leaving her's, worriedly. Opening my mouth, I was ready to speak-

"Who are you?"

We both turned our heads toward another girl who was glaring at us from far walking toward us. Unconsciously, I found myself taking another step with the first girl, both unsure about the newcomer's intentions.

"Why does it matter? We are dead", responded a different voice right behind us, opposite from where we were looking. Turning once more, meeting with the depressing tone. The four of us stood facing each other but strangely...although we were so close to each other, I couldn't tell what I was looking at. Just as if I am in a dream where I see someone and am capable of identifying their features but honestly, I can't tell what's there. I am looking at them but I can't see them.

"I see everyone is here", the voice of the light creature I was talking to earlier rang a bell in my ears, no, in all of our ears.

"Good. Then good luck to everyone"

"What?-"

My body was suddenly being snatched away from the girls while I heard them scream and gasp, our bodies separating oppositely from each other. They were taken by gravity, and so am I, and I felt like I would DIE. Again.

I read about reincarnations in books, and it sounded fun and all until you realise that you actually moved on from "your life" to another life which will also be "your life", The sad part is I won't see my old family. I was from a middle-class family. I had a lovely mum and a dog PLUS my phone, but now I am born into this world, and I look poor, honestly.

I look around the old-looking brown room. The chaos that was there in my spiritual realm was no longer there. In fact, the room was so quiet that all I could hear was the woman beside me breathing. The woman sleeping beside me must be my mum, and she looked tired from the labour.