The Places I've Been

Chapter One: A Rude Awakening

   It is so wired....darkness then all of a sudden light, a loud noises and bright lights and, then...nothing...silence. Then I wake up in a ...hospital? Then I see the scariest thing in the world...My cold lifeless body on a table and all the doctors with worried expression. And then a tall women walks in with long brown hair and green eyes and far skin. She is crying? She keeps yelling. "MY BABY HES GONE" I guess she was my mom. But I can't remember anything. I feel like I have Deja vu. Like from a dream...or a nightmare.

I decide to leave because I have no business there and I head to a playground that looks really familiar. That when I see a little boy on a bench. He looks a little sad so I float over to him and he...sees me? "Ummm can you see me?" "Yes..." the boy said with ease. "I'm a ghost too" "how come you and I can't go to the afterlife?" "Ahh yes you must have just gone on to the first stage of the afterlife." "Yea well I have been here for a while. The only way to go into the second stage is to find out how we died and then we can go into our next life...but I can't remember." "Maybe I can help?" "Ok I guess". The word thing was he looked familiar too but he is dressed for like the 1980's witch was wired. "Wait do you know when you were born" "Nope but I have been around for a very long time about, 35 years or so". And then it hit me. I look over across the street were the school was and I see a little green bench. I proceed to go over to it when I see a plate on the other side of the bench where you sit on it. It said that a 5 year old boy named Broody. It's said that the bench use to be to separated and the boy his head stuck in-between the two and suffocated and die on the spot...I then go over to the boy and explain everything and when he goes over to it and sees it he turns to dust but right before he dose he mouths the words 'Thank you'. And from that day on I would help any other lost souls and hopefully find mine.

It was getting late and I find an oddly familiar house... more Deja vu. I enter the house by going through the walls and the room is large and has one section with a ps4, Xbox one x, and a pc and all the beast gaming equipment. It had a huge bed with a shelf at the top with a phone at the top. I pick the phone up out of curiosity and I weirdly know the password. I find my messages. I see "The man Carlos" and he kept asking if I was ok? He kept saying "Milo it's not funny answer" "MILO WERE ARE YOU YOUR MOM IS WORRIYED" The phone also has 458 missed calls from almost everyone in my contacts. I ty to text Carlos but it only comes up as "♒♏●🞐⑤⬧♋❖♏ 🔾♏⑤⮹□◆ ♍♋■ ♒♏●🞐⑤⧫❒⮹ ⧫□ ⧫♒♓■🙵⑤🔾♏" That's wired. He answers back "OMG WHAT THE HECK MILO IS THAT YOU!?!" he tries to face timing me but when I answer and try to speak it sound demonic and I hear one of his friends who sounds familiar say it's probably a prank by "you know who" and he hangs up. My phone goes off and I see it from "Unknown" it say's " I know how you died" it scare me but I don't think of it much so I decide to go somewhere else with the phone my pocket because I guess I can hold things. I decide to go to the frost and wait till morning to adventure for the mystery person.

Rays of sun hits my face as I'm lying under the trees. I'm in the middle of the woods, and even though I'm alone and have no idea what the hell is going on, it feels safe and familiar. I decide to head back into the city. I found a high school that seems familiar. I'm pretty sure it is my school because, in the room I was in yesterday there were papers on the desk with my school name on it. I head into to school but no one can see me. It kind of feels weird being in the building. I don't know why. As I'm walking in there is a strange girl looking in my direction, almost like she had seen a ghost. Wait... no she can't see me. But I look behind me but no one is there, then she approaches me. "ummm...hi?" I ask. "wait are you milo?!" she says approaching me.

"CAN YOU SEE ME?!"

"Yes."

"HOW?!"

"I don't know"

"so what do you want"

"how come you're a ghost?"

" I don't know, I think it has something to do with me finding out how I died first."
" you were on the news."

" Did they say how I died?"

"No, all they know is that you were found in an alleyway, they wouldn't say anything else."

"oh..."

"Do you remember me milo?"

"Sorry no, I cant remember anything."

"oh ok meet me in the woods after school. Bye milo!"

And just like that she went into school. I felt my phone buzz in my pocket. When I read the message my hart dropped.

Unknown: Hello, Milo

Me: What do you want now?

Unknown: Meet me at the top of the hill at xxxx-xxx

Me: And why should I trust you?

Unknown has left the chat.

(Wow just grate. Now what. I guess I'll just go.) I thought to myself. When I got there was a person wearing a black clock showing nothing else but shoes.

"Who are you?"

" I am a demon sent from hell to help you"

"Help me with what?"

" Help you find out how you died>"

" I thought you said you knew how I died."
" I do but the rules are im not allowed to tell you, only give you clues."

" Ok well what's your name?"

" My name is Leo, and I already know your name."

" so how come a demon is helping me?"
" well once you find out how you died you will be sent to hell."

"What why?!"

" Because you have sinned."

" I don't reamber doing anything bad though!!"

"Well you still sinned, sorry rules are rules."

"Ok, Leo, what's the first clue?"

"Find the ones that healed the scars."

"ughhhh riddles"

I decide to start walking into town while Leo fallows

" so do you have to fallow me the whole time?" I asked the demon

"yup" he answered cheerfully.

" so what did I do wrong that I'm being sent to hell for?"

"there is a list"

"can you tell me, leo?"

"ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I guess."

"well first off your gay, you have never been to church, you have been to juvie, and you don't believe in god, and you were a bully"

I didn't feel like answering I just decided to walk faster, I don't know why I just felt angry. Was I really that kind of person...?