Silent Cries ☾N.H.S

09| the afterlife

❝ remember when you used to get talks
in school about drugs and alcohol and
other dangerous things
that you were supposed
to stay away from?

well they never told us about
midnights spent with a boy
who makes your pulse race
or the lazy smile that
warms his face
when you
kiss

they said they were protecting us
from harmful substances
but they forgot to
warn me
about
you ❞

A/N: walter's a walnut! thanks for comments guys, i love them all. bear with me, this chapter has quite a lot of things going on & thanks for 9k wowiwow

☾ 09 ☽

When I opened my eyes I was no longer knee deep in mud, instead I was in a white room. There was no walls, and no sense of direction. Just white everywhere I looked.

I whispered, "Where am I?"

I looked down and took in the white dress I had on. It was gorgeous, I touched the neckline made out of daisies.

"You're in the afterlife."

I looked up, and came face to face with a smiling Niall.

My heart skipped a beat. "I'm dead?"

He shook his head slowly. "Nah, you'll wake up. You just fainted when you saw Walter. Also, your body temperature was too low, and you were so sick you were hallucinating."

I held my head in my hands, my long dark hair falling into my eyes. "Explain it to me," I said.

He squinted his eyebrows at me. "Explain what?"

"Everything," I whispered.

He grimaced and raked his hand through his lilac hair, his piercing where still there, and his tattoos looked like blood on his skin.

"Well, I guess I'll start with why I am here." He looked to me, and I nodded. "This is where I go whenever I don't have enough energy, it's where I go to transport from where my body currently is to where you are. This place heals you. It's dangerous though, because you can get stuck here forever." He coughed nervously.

"Why am I here?" I asked.

"You're here because I took you here-" He paused when he saw my shocked face, "-you're not going to die. I just took you here because you had fainted, and Walter was about to take you away. I carried you to your room, and took you here-"

I interrupted him, "Walter was about to take me where?"

Niall shuffled awkwardly. "Everyone has a different afterlife, his is not so great. You were really sick from running in the rain, and since you were weak he thought he could take your soul away to his afterlife and keep you there. I came just in time though, and knocked him out." He made a punching motion with his arm.

He continued on talking, "I can wish for anything here," as he spoke a little goat appeared at his feet.

I laughed, "Have you ever wished for me?"

His face turned beet red. "N-no."

I wrapped my arms around his torso, and cuddled into his neck. "How do you know you didn't just wish me up right now?"

He blushed, "Because I couldn't touch the last one."

"So, you did wish for me, and more than once?" I smiled widely.