Haven ;

Ch~2 ; Porgatory

A bright light woke me from what felt like the deepest sleep in my life. As I opened my eyes the light blinded me and I looked up to see a figure, a woman her face thin and youthful and big blue eyes and long white hair staring down at me.

"Jesse, Welcome to the world of angels." She said with a warm smile on her face.

"Wait did you just say world of angels?" I said sitting up my voice hoarse like it was hard to speak. I felt no pain, but I felt like I had been sleeping for decades.

"You're dead Jesse, you do know that don't you?" Her eyes turned to me and she almost laughed at the thought of me not knowing I was dead. Her stare was warm but she didn't look normal like at all.

Then it hit me. I died in that pond. I won't see my mom or sister again or Evie. A pit of sadness formed in my stomach as I was sitting on this white floor in some whole other world. I felt the tears in my eyes well up and a rush of every feeling I was feeling come over me so I put my knees up to my chest and cried tears streaming down my face. I'm not anything anymore, but a rotting corpse in that pond or buried in some unmarked grave. My family will know I didn't come home and I'll be missing for months and years and decades and no one will ever know what happened or who killed me. Evie will lose her closest friend and honestly I was her only friend, and when she hears I've gone missing..

"If it makes you feel any better I know what you're feeling child, you're transitioning into the afterlife and it is very difficult to process." The quiet pale woman spoke with ease her voice sort of soothing the ache in the pit of my stomach but still not making it any more bearable.

"I thought I was supposed to go to Heaven with God and be with my dead relatives." I blurted out sniffling trying to change the subject and get my mind off all the memories of my life and the whole world I just left behind that were rushing through my train of thought making the pit in my stomach ache even more. I wiped the tears that were still coming out of my eyes with my sleeve and as I did that I noticed I was magically wearing an all white outfit. It was basically a plain long sleeve shirt and white flowy pants made out of the same soft sorta transparent fabric. Is this what Jesus wore?

"God exists, I know what you've been told but it isn't what's the reality of his creations." She explained reaching her pale small hand down by me to help me up. 

I looked up at her and obviously was hesitant, but a part of me decided to trust her so I grabbed her surprisingly warm hand and she helped me effortlessly to my feet. 

"Where are my clothes that I um passed in?" I winced as I said "passed" and looked over at her.

"Afterlife is where you're reborn, all the things in the past stay there even the clothes you had on your back." She talked so formally and sounded like she knew everything there was to know about this place.

"Reborn? reborn as what?" I said my eyebrows furrowed, confused on what she meant by that statement.

"All people who die, get reborn as people if business is unfinished or as a guardian angel who will protect ones that are chosen." She answered back her hands both behind her back so professionally.

"And what I am gonna be reborn as?" I pointed to myself looking at her hoping it was to be a second chance at life for me. Maybe this time I won't end up dead in a pond.

"God decides." She said staring at me with seriousness in her cold icy eyes.

"When does he decide? Please tell me there's not a waiting list." 

"He knew when you were gonna pass as soon as you were born. He's made his choice and he's waiting for you now." She waved her arm and her white sleeve of her dress along with it and a white light beamed as a door appeared. Did she just do fucking magic?