The Stalker

Chapter 1: Sorrow's Effects

"I don't need anybody else! I don't know what I'm gonna do without you Gary," sobs Sarah at her husband's funeral crying out those words over his plain white casket. She was in so much pain. Her heart was tender and full of sorrow, knowing that the man she loved and got married to for three whole years is now gone to a place she will never see him again.

She still couldn't believe that the person who was there for her in her hard times, who cared for her when nobody else did and the person who she loved with all her heart was gone and would never return back to her. She would do anything to get him back even if she had to sell her soul to the devil to get him back she would do it without hesitation...that's how much she loved him. She even thought about taking her own life so that she could join him in the afterlife but she knew in her heart that she did not have the courage to take her own life as she is and would always be a coward.

After seeing her husband going six feet under, everything turned black for Sarah. She fell to the ground and hit her head real hard on the hard concrete ground.

"Pick her up fast!!"

A group of men rushed to her aid and brought her to the hospital as fast as they could. Behind those men followed Sarah's best friends Parker and Lilly.

Hours have passed by and Sarah still wasn't awake. Lilly was really worried, she walked back and forth in the waiting room sweating and panicking.

"Lilly you need to calm down, Sarah will be ok. Just come have a seat beside me everything will be fine soon, you'll see", said Parker in a reassuring tone. Hearing those words put Lilly at ease, so she took Parker up on her offer and had a seat laying her head down on her friend's shoulder, she fell asleep in no time.

Thirty minutes passed by. A young nurse came through the doors pushing Sarah in a wheelchair. Parker woke up Lilly and they both rushed over to her hugging her. Sarah wasn't really herself due to the fact that she was still broken over her husband's death.

"Can you guys take me home please?"

"Sure Sarah. We will spend the rest of the night with you to make sure your ok", stated the caring friends.

"No I'm ok. I just want to be alone right now. Please understand guys", said Sarah in a depressed tone.

After bringing home their broken friend, the girls left worried about Sarah and the condition she is in. Sarah knew she wanted them to stay, but she just couldn't bare the thought of her friends being there worrying about her while she cries. As soon as her friends left, Sarah had a mental breakdown. She didn't even make it halfway in the house before she dropped her things on the floor and started to cry out, and beg for Gary to come back to her.

She sat there until she even fell asleep at the same spot. While sleeping, she fell deep into a dream, one of which she was at the place she first laid eyes on her husband. This place was a park, but this park wasn't all that like the one she remembers. This one was empty and their wasn't any grass, instead their was a whole field of beautiful sunflowers just like the garden her husband always watered in the backyard.

As she walked in the gardened park, her memories of her husband grew stronger than ever. Her eyes filled with water getting ready to cry again as she felt a warm hand rub over her shoulder and turned her around. She was shocked out of her mind.

"Gary!! This can't be real" she leaped onto him without hesitation and burst into tears. "Is this real? How are you here?", she asked.

Gary gave her a weird look and smiled. "Sarah this isn't real. I'm here for one reason, and that's to put you on the right path. You can't go on like this. I'm gone. You need to focus on what's ahead of you. You need to move on and don't let because of me you don't have a great life."