Dreaming Of Eden

Dreaming... When I was little, all I did was dream... But then I had to grow up...

The sky danced with blues, purples and pinks. The earth below glowed with millions of candles levitating off the ground. I danced around the light avoiding the flames. The ground was moist and the blades of grass stuck to my feet as I glided across the landscape.

I came across a pond, the water pure as oxygen. When I looked into the reflection of the water I saw me but I was younger, seven to be exact. After a few seconds of looking in the glass like surface, I heard a light breath behind me. When I turned, I saw a face that I had long been missing.

I ran into my mother's arms. "Mom, I missed you."

"I know, my baby, I know." She embraced me in her arms for only a moment. "I have to go now baby."

"Let me come with you please" I yelled. "Please don't leave me again."

"You can't, it's not your time."

"Mommy I don't understand!"

"It will make sense soon." she kissed my forehead. "I have to leave now."

"Please don't" but before I could cry out she was gone.

I ran, and ran, and ran. I fallowed the never ending trail of candles,

But I found nothing. "Mommy! Mommy!"

"What?"

I looked up to find her sitting in the front seat of the car. I was in the left back seat and my brother sat next to me.

"Nothing I just had a bad dream." I replied, still in a daze.

"It's alright," She reached back and rubbed my arm.

"Don't ever leave me, okay?" I said.

"Baby girl I would never, but remember I won't be here forever," she said turning back and facing me. "But you always remember, both of you, that I'll always love you guys and you are meant to do great things."

As I was distracting my mom from the road ahead, the driver of an 800,000 pound truck was getting distracted by a text. This head on collision was what killed my mother, scared my brother, and ended my childhood.

From that moment on my brother and I lived with my uncle. We would have been better off by ourselves. All he did was drink and yell. I was left to raise my five year old brother myself.

The wreck left Jeremy with a ten inch scar from the left of his neck down to his chest, when he was impaled wish a piece of scrap metal. The doctors said he was lucky to live. Jeremy shut himself out from the rest of the world, deciding that there was no one in the world, other than his big sister, that would understand him.

Jeremy is so smart, he is a writer like our mother. In high school, all he did was sit on the porch and write... Love Stories, adventures, science fiction, poems, there is no limit to his genius. He didn't see it in himself but I always knew he was going to change the world, one day.

It was on our way to his graduation... I see that car coming from my blind side.

I awoke in the hospital. There was a male nurse standing over my bed changing my IV.

"Hi" he said. I wish I could explain to you the beauty I saw in this man's face... But I can't remember what he looked like.

"Where is Jeremy?"

"He is in the next room" the nurse replied. "Save your strength you'll need it."

"Can I see him?"