Real Is Unreal

Chapter 10

I stared at the silver chain in my hand, and fell back releasing my breath I didn't know I was holding. My head throbbed and the whole world spun around me. My hands were shaking, my eyes weren't blinking. Thousands of questions raced through my brain. Is this chain mine? Did my mother buy a new one? Was I dreaming? Did I actually have a silver chain in my hand or was I hallucinating?

Slowly, still clutching the chain in my fist, I turned around and faced the TV which was still playing the tapes. My last birthday which was recorded, was last year. It was the next day when I was at Maria's, covered in candy floss and remembered nothing of...what did this mean? I looked back at the chain I was holding, my hand unconsciously going towards my throat to touch the silver chain and what came next shocked me to my very core. My chain wasn't resting at my throat! My silver chain wasn't there! Frantically, I stood up and checked my hair and clothes, but it wasn't there! It couldn't be, it just couldn't be...It was there a few moments ago, I touched it!! What was happening?

I searched the whole house, turned the bedsheets, blankets and carpet but couldn't find my silver chain. I broke out in a cold sweat. My body was shaking uncontrollably. What did this mean? I looked at the silver chain in my hand, it was the same, it was mine...but I was wearing it! How on Earth did it come in my mother's hand? And then my mother shifted and I went to stand by her.
"Why baby, why did you leave?"
My mother was talking in her sleep. I stepped closer.
"Why God? I believed in you, I prayed to and you- you took away my daughter from me! My little baby girl! I never doubted you, never missed the Sunday Mass...what did we do to deserve this? Cindy was just a child! She had her whole life ahead of her! You could've taken one of us, why her?"
My mother was crying, and so was I.

My fist tightened around the chain, as if I was holding on to it. My mother continued,
"She had just turned 16 a day before, and she was so happy and unaware of what awaited her, unaware that this would be it for...16 years, that's all of her life!" Her voice had raised a little now.
"She was still innocent. And-and she was covered in candy floss, candy floss that wasn't pink afterwards!" She almost spit that last sentence. What was she talking about? My knuckles had turned white by now.
"It was red...it was blood. She wasn't a child covered in candy floss anymore, she was a corpse, a dead body covered in blood!" Her voice had gone back to a whisper. I stared at her incredulously. Blood? Corpse? Wh-what's all this about? What the heck is happening? My mother couldn't hear my inner rambling, so she continued,
"We were in that accident too! We were in the front seats of the car and yet she died! She died because of someone else's mistake! She died because of you! And we didn't even see her the last time, we didn't even get a chance to say goodbye...I could not say goodbye to my little girl, my daughter...I lost her, I lost her!" And she was sobbing now, Dad's hands reflexively tightened around her. Tears were streaking down my face. I was hyperventilating. I gripped the table hard to stop myself from falling. My knees buckled. I couldn't breathe. And then it all came back.....

The memories of that day, the day that I couldn't remember was playing in front of my eyes.
Me and Maria playing, me covered in candy floss, my parents coming to pick me up, the trip back home and then BAM! A truck collided with our car on a intersection. And then blackness, the sound of my heartbeat, our screams going out....
And with a bolt I realized that I died that day. I died that day. My legs couldn't hold me up any longer. I slid to the ground, the foot of the table supporting my back. I looked then at my chain and started shaking when I saw blood on my body and clothes. I was bleeding! There were gashes on my arms and my right leg was crushed! Pain spread through my body like lightening bolts and my body jerked. All this time, I didn't know I was dead. Till today I hadn't realized that I was no more a part of this world! And as the realisation hit, I was consumed by a blinding white light. Everything else was gone, except the couch with my parents on it.

"Mom, Dad" I whispered. They didn't hear me, they couldn't hear me. My mom was still sobbing in my Dad's arms. I looked around, white everywhere. I looked down at the silver chain in my hand. Was I a spirit, a ghost? Am I really dead? But how could it be? And then all the odd things happening hit me like a storm...my inability to open locks, Maria's small sad smiles at me, People finding me invisible and bumping into me, Mr. Rogers saying our class is a odd number, Maria's cat glaring daggers at me......
"Wh-what do I do now?"
"You...let go, accept your death." I heard a voice. I looked around but no one was there. I was hearing voices now. Voices that kept repeating for me to accept my fate, accept what happened and urged me to let go.
Let go, accept it. I-I was dead. I had died. I was no longer a part of the mortal world. All this time what I deemed real, was all a lie, was unreal. All my truths dissipated into nothingness. I raised my shaking hand that was holding the chain and whispered, "I am dead."
My hand started to disperse, rip into shreds, piece by piece. I saw myself disintegrate. My skin and bones turned to ash and mixed with the air. I saw my parents fade away. The chain slipped from my hand. Tears were still streaking down my face. I closed my eyes. And blinding white light finally consumed me. I was going to my rightful place. Hoping somewhere good. I was leaving the mortal world and then there was nothing.

The house of the Righgun's was deadly quiet. Adam and Lara Righgun were sprawled on the couch. There were dark circles underneath their eyes and their shirt sleeves were wet from their tears. Tear streaks marked their now-wrinkled faces. A single silver chain lay on the floor near their feet. 

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