Faded

Chapter 5

I look into Lizzies chocolate brown eyes she looks at me and smiles her white teeth sparkled in the sunlight.

“So if we are not in heaven yet where are we?” I asked looking around for answers.

“Well is it not obvious you are not in heaven you are dead you are trying to get to heaven you are in a place between earth and heaven, to be honest there is no name for it we just call it heavens earth, have you not had your first release yet?” Lizzie said with a short laugh.

“A release?” I asked with a confused smile.

“Never mind let’s just get on with it” Lizzie said and she started walking again. I followed her but could not stop think about what she meant by release. We approached a beach with soft smooth sand that hugged around my feet and the blue ocean that crashed on the tanned sand.

“Sometimes I can watch my family back on earth here, maybe you can as well” Lizzie said smiling and pointing at the ocean. I looked at the sea but I could not see my family I tried and tried but nothing. Then the sea cleared and became quite I saw my family standing by a river my mother’s left hand holding my sisters small hand and in my mother’s other hand she was holding a small picture of me as a little baby, my father was holding some flowers, my little sister was holding a picture she drew of me and my grandparents on the clouds in the sky and my brother was holding a piece of paper with a poem on it. 

 “Blue eyes staring into mine, That was when i first saw you, Little hands that reached the in air,  A smile that lit a light in my heart, I remember your first steps and your first word,   The laughter we all shared, And your first day of school, You putting your little shoes and skipping out the door,   The little steps on the floor,  Everyday watching you grow,     And now you have left us forever, Too soon you had to go,   Maybe you were needed up there,  And we are left unaware of why you had to go, I loved you, I love you, And always will love you.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

My brother read out his poem while he was crying and my father hugged him. They all began to float everything down the river and all began to cry so did I. As I watched everything float away I felt that weird warm feeling again. It all became clear I am being released to heaven by my family.