The Grim Reaper's Possession

Chapter 30

Chapter 30

Maeve's POV

I was kneeling on one knee staring at his face. His expression.

He looks so shocked but it morphed into an unreadable expression and then I saw it.

For the first time in my life I saw the Grim Reaper himself cry in front of me.
But I'm not sure what those tears are.
Was it from happiness? Sadness?
But why would he be sad? Here I am kneeling in front of him asking him to marry me.
For sure it was from happiness, but somehow I felt like that was not it. Something was wrong.

He didn't answer and that's when I'm sure that something is definitely not right. I felt a weird sensation but I ignored it. I just want to know kung bakit di sya sumasagot.

I raised my hands and although he was much taller than me I cupped both of his cheeks and he stared at me with beautiful dark eyes, his pale skin streaked with tears and I wiped them with my thumb.
“Grim, may problema ba?” Naga-alalang tanong ko.

He was just staring at me and his lips parted as if he wanted to say something, but then he shut it, shook his head.

“Mahal kita.” he managed to utter out from his shaking voice.

“Mahal din kita.” I said and took both of his hands and held them in mine.
“Say yes, Grim. Yun lang ang gusto kong marinig sayo.”

“Matatandaan mo pa ba kaya ako?” tanong nya and I smiled.

Somehow the strange feeling started to grow and that's when I noticed my hands that were holding Grim's started to look transparent.

Realization suddenly dawned on me like heavy bricks.
“G-Grim..?”

Tears started to fall down my own eyes, at yung sakanya ay mas lalong dumami.
“Grim, I don't want to go yet.. Not now.”

Ngayon na ba talaga? Bakit kailangan laging naka-timing ang mga ganto?
Kahit gustuhin ko man na manatili dito ay hindi pwede. This is reality. The bitter truth.

He shook his head and took the 'ring' from my hand, sinuot nya ito sa ring finger nya kahit na medyo maluwang.
He then smiled at me.
“Maeve, gusto kong malaman mo na mahal na mahal kita. Matandaan mo man ako o hindi, gusto kong ipaalam sayo na ikaw ang kauna-unahan at kahu-hulihang babaeng mamahalin ko. Hindi mo man ako matandaan babantayan pa rin kita. At, Oo Maeve papakasalan kita.. Ngayon mismo habang nandito ka pa.”

He smiled and lifted an imaginary veil sa harapan ko.
Through the tears in his eyes he managed to smile and then he kissed me.

He deepened the kiss, as if this was going to be the last.. And I'm afraid that maybe ito na nga ang kahuli-hulihang halik namin.

The sensation grew stronger and I felt like every second I'm starting to disappear until nothing.

It feel so comfortable and dreamy, like I'm floating in a sea of clouds, every memory of being in the garden with Grim kept replaying in my head.

With Felicity and I, seeing myself in the pond everyday and those three giggling girls, and my marriage with Grim.

I could feel myself smile at that thought.
But then all the memories of before that accident was being replayed..

Everything..

Then nothing.

It was all nothing.

“Gumigising na sya!”

“Maeve, anak ko, dyusko!”

“Tawagin nyo si Doc, bilis!”

My eyelids felt heavy na para bang ilang taon ko nang di binuksan ang mga ito.
Then I closed them again nang biglang may maliwanag na tumutok sa mata ko.
Was that a flashlight? A bulb? Ano yun?

All I could hear are muffled sounds na hindi ko maintindihan and everything I see were blurs.

I'm not sure kung ilang oras ang nakalipas but I could see more clearly but my mind was still a mess and I couldn't think properly.
I'm just laying there on the bed, hospital bed maybe? I could see my mother next to me holding my hand. I could see it but I couldn't feel it. Every inch of my body feels so numb.

Kinakausap nila ako but I couldn't understand a thing. Ano ba ang nangyari?

I closed my eyes feeling tired all of a sudden.

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It's been what a month? eversince I woke up and I could think clearly than before.
I was so confused and I didn't know kung ano ang nangyayari that time as I woke up. I was just lying there not thinking of anything and before I knew it ay makakatulog nanaman ako, but I recovered much faster and I could stay conscious for longer periods of time. As of now they are telling me the date and the year and when they saw the shock look on my face they shook their heads and told me na two years na nga ang nakakalipas. I want to ask them kung paano nangyari yun but I still couldn't speak clearly but as if sensing my question they told me I was involved in a car accident with another girl named Felicity who was also put into a coma and woke up seven months before me.
I was shocked and I felt sudden anger towards that b-tch.
Why does she kept ruining my life?! Pahamak talaga ang pesteng babae na yun.
I remembered everything now, maybe not clearly but I remember them.

When they told me everything I needed to know they left me alone. Maybe so I could register all the information na sinabi nila sakin.
I look outside the window of my hospital room. I haven't saw my parents except nung mga time na di ko pa kayang magsalita at tulala lang ako for no reason.
I felt like I'm a newborn child with memories. Na para bang di ako sanay sa katawan ko at parang hindi ako belong dito.

I wanted to ask them why are they here. I'm so happy na nandito sila and they are the first few people na gusto kong makausap. I want to hug them and hear from their own mouths that they're sorry for causing me pain. To admit that they were wrong.

Nakatulala lang ako, thinking about everything and nothing at all. I could make noises but couldn't make intelligible words. My mouth and tongue feels so foreign.
Hindi ba naman gamitin ng two years. Imagine the smell nung buksan ko ito, although I know nililinis din naman nila ito, but still..

I sighed. So many questions. What about the reapers? Sinundo ba nila ako? Naka-trap lang ba ang kaluluwa ko sa loob this whole time at natutulog kagaya ng katawan ko?
Alam ba ni Grim ang nangyari sakin?

I felt my heart skipped a beat when I thought of Grim but I shook my head.
Maybe he was thinking I deserve it after I rejected his so called love for me.

Speaking of love, asan na si Zephyr?