Survival

Survival: Chapter Forty-Five

Survival

Chapter: Forty-Five

We arrive at Houston very late. Emma, just as me, didn't bring so much money so we crash in her car. We slept until the rays of the sun forced our eyes to open.

"It's time," Emma says.

"Yeah, but first," I say. "I really have to do something before I go visit Sam."

"What?" Emma exclaims.

"I want you to meet my family."

Before we arrive to the cemetery, I buy red roses, enough for my Mom, my Dad, my sister Hayley, and my brother Luke, and lastly for Sammy: white roses, because red roses remind him about his mother's death. Just to think about my loved one shatters my heart into a billion pieces but I remind myself that destiny has put two very important in my life: Sammy and Emma. Sammy was the first person destiny send me to get better but I was blind and I never really realized it. However, that second one, Emma, was the person who opened my eyes. I was blind for years; I was dead for years. I will admit, Sammy definitely helped me, but Emma picked me up from the ground I was sleeping in.

Emma and I walk together, she helps me carry some roses. The gravestone all all lined up next to each other. All with different birth dates but all with the same death date. It's been a long time since I last visited them because just seeing their names inscribed into stones brings back the feeling, but having Emma here helps me stay calm and normal.

"Mom, Dad, Hayley, Luke," I say out loud. "This is Emma Ray. My girlfriend."

"Nice to meet you," she smiles with sincere eyes.

She stands next to me to, emotionally support me.

I lay the roses one by one in each gravestone. "I know all of you are watching me from heaven, helping me, leading me, and caring for me. Thank you so, so, much!"

Instead of me crying Emma sheds a tear of sadness.

"Why are you crying?"

"Because," she starts," it's to unfair how life has been so... evil with you and you've done nothing wrong. So many people, like me, have life so good, when others suffer from diseases, hunger, abuse and poverty."

"It's a cruel world for some of us," I say. "But eventually life will get better."

She smiles and hugs me.

"Thank you for being the reason I don't live in a cruel world."

"No problem."

We remain silent while we both pray for not just my dead family but for the rest of the world.

After a while we depart from the cemetery and at the end of it, stands a big yet small water fountain. It has a statue of Jesus Christ, with his unblinking eyes staring into the many gravestones of the dead. In the fountain, hundreds of coins drown in the water.

Emma pulls out a quarter and closes her eyes. "God, I wish Sammy will be okay. Also, I would like to take this moment to dearly thank you for the magnificent glories you have given me. Thank you for giving me life, thank you for giving me health, thank you for having the best mom, the best friend, and thank you for giving me Adam Foster." She turns around and tosses the coin gently. She doesn't get to see her coin dive into the water but I do. And let me say it's magnificent how beautifully that coin dances in the air, filled with hope from Emma.

"My turn."

I pull out My Penny I've been keeping for all these weeks.

"You still have that penny," Emma says. "You were serious about keeping it for eternity."

"Not for eternity."

"Don't throw it away. You love that piece of copper. Here, I'll give you one."

"But it wouldn't hold anything valuable because its not mine.

"It's just one cent."

"People throw coins into fountains, oceans, lakes, and anything that has water, but why? They just throw a coin that means nothing to them. Probably their dreams never come true because the coin they throw has nothing special connecting them. And this penny has my life inside it. Therefore, if I make a wish it has to come true."

"Then," Emma says," wish something good."

"I wish Sammy will recover and have a great life. I wish Emma Ray will never stop loving me as I will never stop loving her. I would also like to thank you for all the good and the bad because without them I would've never realized that destiny might not be do bad."

"I should've made that wish," she says with a smile."

I toss the coin and less in a second it joins Emma's quarter and the many more coins people wished for. Wishes that may or may not have come true."

"Let's go, Adam Foster," Emma says. "Sammy awaits us.

"Right."

We leave the cemetery with our hands connected.
Next stop: visit Sammy.

"I love you," Emma says to me unexpectedly.

"I love you, too."

We kiss and began walking again.

In the mean time, I process all about life, the good just as much as bad. I realize how life is an unknown system that no one understands. Life is just life, and honestly I don't know what will happen after this, but I know life will be good. At times, there's not always going to exist an answer for every question. Something you cry tears of joy, other times you cry tears of sadness. All I know is that life is beautiful because life is the only thing we truly know. We are a part of this universe. The reason to live should never be put in doubt because by doing that we are putting ourselves in doubt, which makes life more miserable. I have come to understand life in varies of ways and I can say this: life is what you make out of. Life is a challenge. And I, Adam Foster, survived my challenge. I survived my Survival.

The End.

[ I WOULD LIKE TO SINCERELY THANK ANYONE WHO READ EVERY CHAPTER OF THIS STORY! THANK YOU, THANK YOU! PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT OVER THE ENDING. I STARTED WRITING THIS SINCE LAST NOVEMBER AND ITS BEEN A GOOD JOUNEY!]

Sincerely, Luis Montoya