Destined For You

~Prologue~

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Large, golden gates; gates that are unlike anything I have ever seen before, made from pieces of metal that are carefully intertwined with the other and very much resembling a flourished, knot of vines; only seemingly more beautiful and magnificent. These gates emanate a calm and peaceful disposition that spreads and covers me. This isn't bothering me, not in the slightest. How strange...

I don't fully understand what is happening to me right now, nor will I probably ever understand. What I do know, is that this place is unearthly; a heaven or some kind of safe haven.

The gates open slowly, silently. Inviting me inside; inviting me into a new and eternal life, I realise; Realisation suddenly forming in my mind as if a light switch had finally turned itself on inside my Brain. A life that I honestly never thought I'd be ready for. I take a few cautious steps closer to the gates, noticing and feeling intrigued at how my feet seem to hover gently off the ground. I should be afraid of what I know is to come, I know I should; I shouldn't feel so comfortable with the position I'm in. But I'm not afraid; I welcome my new life as if it were a close friend.

I walk even closer to the gates. It's time, time to completely hand myself over. I'm ready.

I take a few more steps forwards until I am directly outside the gates, feeling completely ready to pass through the gates when I hear a voice, a heavenly voice that is filled with so much love that it reaches the inside of my heart and sets it alight with a burning flame. The voice is torn and filled with sorrow, so broken. The voice is saying a name, my name, I remember.

"Lu? Luella no. You can't leave me... I won't let you. I love you... Does that not mean anything?"

All of a sudden, memories I never even knew I had blossom in my mind without being granted my permission.

Strangely familiar images of a lanky boy with chocolate brown hair, lips that look soft, pink and are pulled into an oddly familiar smirk. His eyes a heart melting, chestnut brown colour that glisten with mischievousness. I remember the way those eyes used to look at me with love, adoration and wonder; his nose perfectly straight. The images that rush through my mind like a train speeding along a railway track are of the same boy, just in different points in time. Different points in his life.

That voice and that face mean the world to me, I would do anything for this boy, I suddenly realise once the images come to a halt. To let him down or to leave his side would result in me losing myself; I need to get back to him, I will get back to him.

I look around quickly, my mind abruptly coming back to awareness. I'm still here; I still need to make my decision, I still have a chance. I turn away from heaven's gate, feeling determined to get back to my old life, to re-unite with the boy who means everything to me.

Once I turn completely away I see that there is nothing, literally nothing; just bright, white light that stings my eyes and a thick, misty, impossible fog. If there isn't a way back, then how did I even get here?

Suddenly a deathly rumble erupts from below me. Making me stumble and almost fall off my feet. I look up to see that what used to be a white sky is now a black sky.

What once surrounded me is now black and... well, fearsome. All of a sudden I hear a loud crack. I whirl around to see a massive opening forming in the ground. The opening starts getting longer and wider within seconds. Growing... Just growing... My next thought is to run to save whatever life this could be as the opening travels towards me.

I run as fast as I can, as if my life depended on it, because it does. But the ever growing opening continues to move faster, too fast for me... The next thing I am aware of is that I am falling. Down... down...down. Faster and faster through the opening in the ground. I scream with fright as if expecting someone to come save me.

What a stupid, impossible thought.

What's happening? Where am I going? I haven't done anything wrong... I'm so confused. These questions and statements flash randomly through my mind without control.

I look down at myself to see that the long, white gown I was wearing moments ago is now black. I look around me and all I see is fire, fire everywhere. Some of the flames scorch and burn parts of my dress. I scream again as I feel the unbearable heat scald my bare arms. The only sound filling my ears is the terrifying sound of pained and tortured screams. These screams not even belonging to myself.

Horrific smells pervade my nose; The grotesque smell of rotting and burning... Rotting and burning of what? Something completely unidentifiable.

I suddenly hear a booming, echoing, demonic laugh and very few cold, heartless and deadly words.

"You made your choice!" Are the words I hear said by the one that bore that fearful laugh.

The words may have been few but they certainly engraved themselves into my mind, giving me the feeling that all hope and confidence I once had with the thought of beginning my new life now gone, replaced with the feeling that comes with being sent somewhere undoubtedly forsaken.

I keep on falling into the deathly unknown, not expecting there to be a landing or something that'll reassure my wild thoughts. I feel that I am already dead in this endless tunnel of fire and death.

I squeeze my eyes shut the best I can and think of the boy, the one I loved and know now that I still do with all my heart and all my being.