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01. Death
It was cold and warm in the hospital room. The voices around her started to dissipate and feel far away as all the lights turned into dense darkness
Malik
What is happening? Why can’t I see? I can’t move…Moooom! Moooom, help me!
Tamara
OHHH HELP!! MY GIRL IS DYING!! DOCTOR! DOCTOR PLEASE!!!
Malik
Oh…it hurts…my chest…it burns
The doctors entered the room and put epinephrine on her chest. The tried the CPR but it didn’t work. Malik’s heart had stopped and she was gone
Tamara
Oh my girl…oh my god…*cries desperately*
Malik
The pain…is fading. I don’t feel my limbs. I feel cold and warm at the same time…oh mum…I’m so sorry. I didn’t want to go just yet. I was going to university and I was going to graduate. And I would have a great job and I would buy you guys a house. Oh Jensen I was going to work so you could study too…even if you always said I was the one with the brains…I never was. *sobs*
Then, a faint light started to brush the dark away. A feathered silhouette showed up in front of Malik with a big bright smirk
Luch
Ohhh. Look what we’ve got here…
Luch
Me…Irrelevant, dear. Irrelevant as the colour of your hair…why? Because you don’t have any left hahahahahaha
Malik
You’re not funny…Chemo is not a joke
Luch
Well…you died anyways. And if it helps to spare the shame you won’t need your hair wherever you’re going now
Malik
Go where? I can’t go. I have to go back, I can’t die yet.
Luch
Hahahahaha so hilarious. I bet you have a better sense of humour now everything has changed. I always say it to Millicent…these mortals are so funny…
Malik
Of course not!! Without me my family won’t stand a chance. My brother will end up doing illegal shit like our dad and mom will end up homeless and without any of her children
Luch
Hmm…and what were you going to do to stop that? How do you even know that will happen?
Malik
I just know…My brother washes cars now to help my mom to pay for the rent. But we still owe a lot of money. I was going to get a real job. One that pays enough to have a decent life. If I die, my brother will try to find help in my father’s former friends. Those guys are shit and they will eventually kill him. Mum will end up alone and old and sick. Probably on the streets or dead too.
Luch
I see…those are probable causes
Luch
Well, you can’t. Your expiration date has arrived and you my dear, are no longer able to get back to your body. That body over there is broken. Nothing can heal it. Its time has comes and will be buried where it will become one with the nature. Your soul on the other hand…well, I can tell you later about that. Now we must go.
Malik
I tell you! I won’t go anywhere. I will go back and I don’t care what I have to do to get what I want!! My life is not over!! I’m only 17.
Luch
Hmmm…a lot of people die younger. It’s no one’s fault. It’s just life. But if you’re so determined to live then maybe I have an idea…
Malik
Really? Do you know how to make me go back?
Luch
Well…you’re not giving me much of a choice. If I don’t take you with me you will remain here and will become a tormented soul, which will later become one of those troublemaker spirits. And since I can only take you with me with your consent…I have an idea
Malik
Oh thank you!!! You are an amazing creature
Luch
Not creature…I’m a human like you. Only I am an immortal human. An Angel. My name is Luch.
Malik
Nice to meet you…dear angel
Luch
Bla bla. You’re a smart girl. And a fighter, but life isn’t as easy and pink as you think. This whole plan may also be a way to teach you a couple of things.
Luch
Yeah…well, thing is that this someone over there…
Luch lifted the dark veil and showed Malik a body covered with a white sheet. It was in the hospital and its monitor had just started to beep, meaning the vital signs had dropped.
Luch
That someone just tried to die and after a couple of days in coma finally gave in to the wings of Ruch, my brother. His soul was taken away a second ago without return ticket, but since his body was connected to the machines it still works. But it needs a soul. That soul could be you…
Malik
Is that your plan? To toss me into someone else’s body? And life?
Luch
You want to live? That’s what I got. A body that’s quite young and you can always help your family as someone else…it doesn’t matter where the help comes from right?
Luch
Think fast! We have little time. I can only do this with your consent.
Malik
I won’t be able to hug mum again…I won’t be myself again…
Luch
You will always be you, the body is just a shell.
Malik
You’re right. I can’t do anything from here. I only have a chance if I’m alive. No matter the price, I’ll pay for it. Do it, Luch. Get me within that human thing.
Luch grabbed Malik by her chest…or whatever it felt as the chest for the girl, because souls are shapeless things, and tossed her inside the just dead body. The doctors had looked at it with hurt. Set the time of death. Called for the family or friends to report the deceased. However, when they were about to turn the machines off, the heart started to send a signal to the screen. The numbers suddenly were set at their rightful place. That someone had come to life, and Malik…well, she lived within…
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