Before and After

Chapter 10 "Happily Ever After"

"Welcome home my beautiful daughter." I heard a voice say.

Looking around and embracing my surroundings, I realized that I have never felt so peaceful and at ease as I am in this moment.

I looked beneath me and gazed at my mom, dad, Aiden, Ciara, and everyone else looking at...me...well my lifeless body.

After Aiden and Ciara found my body, I felt as if I had nothing to worry about anymore and that I could finally let go.

Let go of my family, my friends, and most importantly, the life that I once had.

I was so afraid that if I were to let go of my earthly life, then everyone and everything on earth would break down and be destroyed-but I was wrong. As a matter of fact, everything's perfectly fine-better than I ever would've imagined.

2 MONTHS LATER

I looked below at at my family-as I do every now and then-and smiled. I can honestly say that they're doing pretty good with out me.

After my finding and burial, my parents allowed Ciara to go back to public school instead of continuing homeschooling. I'm so proud of Ciara. Just like me, she has allowed herself to let go of my death and move on with her life.

Since Ciara has been been in school, she has been able to gain her old friends back, make new friends, and even get herself a boyfriend.

Ever so often, Ciara sits up in her bed-late at night- and talk to me. Telling me how great her life is going and how she wish I was still with her.

I know she doesn't tell me this out of sadness-she tells me out of happiness. She just wants to inform me on her life and to make sure I know that she hasn't forgotten about me.

Now Aiden, I'm extremely proud of Aiden. He not only opened hisself up to his friends and adults at school and Ciara but to mom and dad also. I knew he was a blabber mouth but he's even more of one now than he was before. And not only that, he's a brainiac! Who ever thought that Aiden was so smart....haha.

As for mom and dad? They're closer than ever. After my death, they realized that life is way too short and they started spending a whole lot more time together-just like old times.

Even though sometimes I wish that I was never kidnapped, rapped to death, and was with my family, I'm perfectly fine with the afterlife I am now living.

After all, what else is better than living an enteral life with God in heaven....right?