A Trip to Heaven

Chapter 13

"Hello my sweet daughter." He called holding his arms out.

My mouth dropped and my blue eyes widened. There he was, plain as day standing right in front of me. I walked towards him and let his soft arms wrap around me, just as he did the last time I'd seen him when we sent him off to fight for our country, three months ago. He rubbed his hands on my back going up and down, up and down. I slowly took my arms and warped them around him. But how is he here? and why?

When out arms unlocked I looked into my Dads hazel eyes asking, "How are you here?" I was in complete shock.

He took a deep breath not knowing how to answer my question looking down at the white ground that we stood on. "Dad?" I asked again.

Finally he looked deep into my eyes trying to seek for an explanation, then let the words flow out, "When I was setting up camp for the night in Afghanistan, I was with a good friend of mine id met through training, his name was Roby.." he paused then continued, "We ha no idea we were set in a trap. Earlier that day Roby had been shot in the leg and I was trying to protect him. Out of nowhere enemies popes up from the bushes I fought back, but with one man against twenty, the odds were never in my favor.." I could feel my eyes let tears stream down my face but he continued, "I was shot six times, twice in my leg, three times in my chest, and once in the head. Once I was dead they took defenseless Roby as prisoner and left my body to rot.. A message about my passing is being sent home as of now and should be arriving in the next few days, letters from Afghanistan take around 2 weeks to reach California.."

I couldn't believe it. Not only had Jack passed away but my dad TOO? How much was God going to put me thought? Wasn't it enough? Just when you think nothing else could go wrong seems like everything comes crashing down. Those two men standing in front of me meant the world to me. I looked forward every day to be with Jack, to feel his soft lips fall upon my face. I counted down the days till I would see my dad again, to feel him hug me and tell me how much I've grown since last time I'd see him. My Dad hasn't been with me much of my childhood, he was a dedicated man to the US Army and I appreciated the moments I spent with him. But he wasn't coming home anymore. And neither was Jack. My Mom for the rest of her life with sleep in her bed alone and cold. She will have to face her life alone. The worst part is, she has no idea. At this moment she's most likely writing to him, telling him she found their little girl hung beside her bed. But that letter would never be opened by my Daddy, because he was here standing next to me in a world of unknown.

I hugged him once again embracing it whole heartedly. No matter how much he missed out on my childhood, it didn't matter. He was my Dad. I was so selfish being upset at him on Earth not realizing he was serving his time in the army to protect the fellow Americans. He was a hero.

I then walked over to Jack bear hugging him as well. He then bent down his head giving me a comforting kiss on the forehead. This was so much to take in, so much to process in a short amount of time. But as my mind began thinking, only one question came out, "What's happening to Roby right now?"

"He gets beaten and brutally abused everyday Ashely. But I read his life legacy up in heaven, he's going to make it out alive and have some inspiring stories to share across America." My Dad answered.

"What's a life legacy?" I asked both if them still hugging Jack.

"It's a book up in heaven sweets. Everyone has a life legacy, it has everything that's supposed to happen in someone's life." Jack responded.

"But Roby's wasn't the only life legacy we read," my dad jumped in,"we read yours and you need to go back to earth.

Jack looked down at me in his arms, "They have 7 minutes to revive you, which means we have a day in heaven time to convince you to go back to your physical body."

I turned back to my Dad and kept looking back and forth between the both if them and then I started to think, "They want me to leave this place? They wanted me to leave them here? No way I was going back. There's no reason for me to keep going."

"Why should I go back?" I asked breaking away from Jack and standing between then, "There's no point in going on, that's why I'm here. With you guys gone life is too empty to live another day."

Jack crossed his arms looking at me confused, "Who said we were gone? we've been with you the whole time. Sweets, remember at my funeral when you were running and you tripped on that loose piece of gravel causing you to fall? Ya, that was me telling you to stop. We both have been with you every second of the day Ash, 24/7," he started to cry, "I'm so sorry I had to leave you in the physical world but I'd never really ever leave your side. Were in this together, remember?"

Goodness Jack, he was going to make me cry. I walked over to his glowing body then kissed him passionately on my tippy toes. "l love you" I smiled while he wiped a tear off my face.

"I love you too." He answered making my cheeks flush.

"Alright love birds," my Dad interrupted, "the clocks ticking and we need Ashely in her body ASAP. He turned around waving his had among a purple swirling portal appear. "This is a spiritual time machine, first Ashely we would like you to see how the world is without you." My dad stopped then paused to turn back to Jack and I, "Now c'mon guys step up in front of here with me." The portal was very stereotypical but it was real. Jack grabbed my hand and we walked up to the purple spinning portal. I had no idea where we were going or what we were doing until my dad yelled, "2014 November 8th without Ashely Coil." that was exactly a year from today. in a matter of seconds we jumped thought the spiritual portal and we're no longer standing in the mysterious bright white light..

*Next chapter will be up soon!*