➷⁺&.& AA
“Can't I stay here?” That was the question I always asked the spirit who was sent to take me to the world of afterlife.
I always refused to go with him. In return, he always asked me why would I stay here in the living realm when I am already dead. Same questions and same answers until I overstayed here. I always reason out that if ever I'll leave, no one would take care of my Tobby. He's still a baby, who would take care of him?
“There are lots of orphanage. There are lots of people who wanted child, I'm sure they will take care of Tobby.”
I shook ny head as a sign that I disagree.
“What if he'll get a parents who won't love him for real? What if they will hurt him or why if he'll never get into an orphanage? He'll be on cold streets with street children who don't also have parents?”
“That won't happen.”
“Yes, it will! I want to stay here, beside my tobby. I want to guide him.”
He always end up going alone. But after a month, he'll come back to take me again and it became years and I'm still here after twenty and four years. My son is now a pilot with a wife and child.
“I think it's time. You don't have any reason. You can't reason out that you'll be watching your grandchild grow. You can't stay here anymore. I told you before that you'll be a dark spirit if you will stay here. You'll harmyour child, his family and the other living.”
I smiled sadly.
“Why do I have to leave? I never wanted to die but He took my life. Now that I am dead, I wanted to be with my child as he gets older and be leaving the world too but I can't. Why do I have to choose when I never had given the chance to to choose between to die or to live? ”
“Even I am a ghost, I want to be his mother. Even he can't see me, I still want to take care of him. Even he can't hear me, I want to tell him I love him. Can't I do that? Why can't I? Why can't He let me?”
He sighed and said, looking straight on to my eyes. “Why do you care about him who's alive but forgets about you? You always think about him but never did the same thing. You always stay beside him but he never visits your ashes. You know him, but he never knew that you are his mother. So, why stay when nobody cares you are here?”
“He have his mother with him, alive and getting old. He's healthy with his wife and child, he's being taken care by them. Now, come with me for you don't have any part on this world anymore. You are dead, and they are living. You can't stay and be with them.”
And that made my tears fall. I can't look on to his eyes. I look down and covers my face with my hands.
He's right. He never knew because there is someone who claimed my child as her own and never told him the truth. My child is happy with her mother who happened to be someone else.
Ꮏhe end.
[Fiction by Azerain Avreia]
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