Up There (Short Story)

Chapter 5

Which meant that we were both. .....dead. The look of realisation took over my face and then my father starting crying as he said "that's right sweetheart. We're at peace now. We're not 'down there' anymore with all the pain and destruction.

We're 'up here' with all the people that we mourned over 'down there'." he said as he hugged me. By now I was full on crying. That meant that all my dreams weren't fake. It meant they were visions of my future.

"But how come I was having visions of this place constantly and how did I get here if I didn't....you know....die?" I asked him. "Well remember when you hit your head really hard and you fainted?" he asked and I nodded in return.

"Well, you didn't faint.You......died because of the hard impact between your skull and the corner of the table" he explained. "But what happened to my body and does my mum know I'm not 'down there' anymore?" I asked him.

"That's what we are going to see now." he said as he took my hand and jumped into the river pulling me along with him. I held my breath then he spoke "It's alright you can breathe" he said as we reached the bottom of the river which was as deep as an ocean.

I opened my mouth and the most incredible thing happened. I could breathe. This was unbelievable but what I saw next was even more unbelievable. A white light appeared and we got sucked into it as I closed my eyes. I opened my eyes and we were at the cemetery which was a couple of blocks away from my house.

There I saw my mum in black clothes crying along with my 2 twin half-brothers. "My baby! My poor baby! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! This is all my fault!" she cried as a coffin was being lowered into the ground. It was...my coffin.

"We're sorry. Our dear sister, we hope you rest in peace and forgive us for everything. We are truly sorry." my brothers said as they both threw some dirt to cover the coffin. Mum went next and so did all my other relatives. Soon my coffin was covered.

After the ceremony,mum and my brothers went home and the white light sucked us in once again. Next, we appeared at my house where the television was on in the living room. It was showing my step-dad in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs holding a blackboard with his name on it and random numbers.

"That man deserves to die!" Mum yelled. "It's alright mum the fault is on all of us for not helping her" Mike said. I walked and stood in front of mum. "She can't see you but she can feel you" he said. I was crying as I looked at mum crying.

I hugged her and her eyes went wide. "Jessica? Jessica is that you? Do something." she said as she sat up.