Lady Death And The Forsaken Soul

Chapter 3: Present times

Waking up with the same routine I had for years. Yes, years have passed since the war, and my actions were apparently those that stopped the deaths related to...well...lady death.
The authorities had decided to give me a life time of money.

But let's rewind time a bit to understand what happened between the war and the present times.

Just after my encounter with death and her disappearance, I learned that there were drones around filming the scene. Since at that time I knew next to nothing, I thought nothing of it and went back in my house that had a wall missing.
After some time, journalists started to come knock on the door regularly for a reason I yet ignored. And after some time, I finally put the pieces together and understood what was going on.

After a few days, I got invited by the political leader at that time.... And he gave me lifetime money, which is pretty neat.

Going back home with all that money, I tried to think of ways to spend it from time to time. But after a month, I still had done nothing and society was starting to work to get back to the state we knew before the war.

So after some time deliberating, I decided to start off by buying an house near town but still on the country side. I became some sort of celebrity in the mean time and news stations were all over me,I was suffocating under all that pression that never ever have I experienced before.

To be honest, for almost a year, nothing happened, I got my house, I went to buy groceries from time to time, I learned how to cook and bake but except that, nothing much happened.
It was only two years after the war that the media called down and I started to work on myself to gain back a social ability.
Later, I made a friend, he was not looking at me as the man who supposedly saved humanity, but as an other human being.
We went along very well so we hung out almost everyday.
That was until he found a job, then things slowed down. But it's life, I was just lucky to escape that.
I hosted him a few times and we were still great friends, but he had a life too. His name is Marco. He was rather tall, tanned with short black hairs, he wore glasses.

My daily life is rather normal, except for the job part, but it's pretty simple and I mostly do the same thing every day...

Almost three years after the war, most peoples were thinking that the powers some had that allowed them to see death disapeared. They were right, no one saw death around, no one has seen it for years,but deaths still occured. And when I say that no one could see her....
Well, I can still encounter death.
But when she sees me, she always disapear, as if she didn't want to be around me or if me seeing her was a problem....

Anyway, after a few years, my morale went better, I got over my parents death and I had a friend to support me. I'd do everything I can to help him, he is the most important person in my eyes since my parents died. The only one that treat me as a friend....

I was emotionally stable and most dark thoughts I had were blown away by that feeling of freedom I now had.
Having that much money helped me everyday, I could buy whatever I wanted and I discovered multiple passions because of that freedom, I felt alive.

And now, it's 4years after the war, since last year, society as a whole had come together to create a new harmony that no civilization had ever obtained before. This extermination had a good side, it gave humans an opportunity to better themselves once and for all to forever avoid an other catastrophies linked to human activities, they got multiple lessons out of these events and were actually working together for the first time in history.

After waking up this morning, I did mostly nothing, but the night, I went on with Marco to explore abandoned places again. We usually spend 5hours doing so.
Right now, I we were exploring an abandoned church and we were on our way out. He went ahead as I followed closely behind and once again, I saw her, but she didn't disapear this time, she just stared. I payed no mind and resumes my walk.

After arriving back at my home, Marco decided that he wanted to sleep at his own apartment tonight so I was alone again.
Even if it was weird to be alone, it felt nice... But even if it felt nice, having someone around felt different, it was nice but not in the same way...

I decided to go to sleep early instead of avoiding sleeping again, I felt especially tired today for some reason.

As I slouched on the bed, getting rid of most of my clothes that, honestly, were heavy, I slithered inside and huddled up to my blanket.

Usually, the nights were calm, but occasionally, we could hear animals around, or howls of any sorts. After a walk, I discovered that there were wolves around. I managed to walk through them peacefully to get back to my house so I guess they are mostly passive.

My bed was really comfortable and warm, I was slowly drifting off to sleep but I had a strange sensation, I knew what that feeling was.... But why now....
I was about to get up but I felt something hugging me from behind.
It took me a second for me to realise what was happening before my eyes widened and I carefully but quickly turned around.
Beside me was a flustered lady death, as quickly as I saw her, she disapeared.
I stayed there, not moving for some time, taking in what happened...
I severely blushed, then, I passed out.

A/n: I haven't been doing anything for quite some time... I'm sorry, but things happened and kinda ruined my mental health, anyway, hope you liked the chapter even if it's a little bit clumsier than usual, I'm baaaaaack!