I'm walking home from the cemetery after visiting my mother and grandmother's graves. I'm tired and sweaty because I was caught for trespassing because I fell asleep past closing time again, and just made a run for it.
The air was cool, and the streets were relevantly empty. I walk up to the old house I used to live in, which I still do live in. It's hard to explain when you're dead.
It was years ago.
It was my grandmother's death anniversary and me and my mom were heading home. I was only 15.
At the crossing, when the cars stopped we walked on then suddenly it all went black. I hadn't realized we'd been hit by a drunk driver that swerved from the intersecting street. It just happened too fast.
We were brought to the ER and both got put into ICU. My mother had worse injuries, she took most of the hit trying to protect me. We both ended up in a comatose.
One day, I suddenly woke up and no one noticed. I walk around the hospital looking for my family since only the nurse was tending to us when I woke up. I couldn't find them, so I continued to wander.
I encountered families crying over loved ones. It was horrifying to see a door in the middle of open space and see the souls walk through. I didn't initially realize I was outside my physical body.
I ran back to our room and looked over my mom, I was bent on finding her soul too. Hoping to also see her wandering around like me. I also found out that I can't get back in my body.
A few nights later, even when I know no one can see me, a man approaches and talks to me. His name was Damian, and he was with a girl named Angelica. They made me an unbelievable (to an alive person) offer.
"You wonder why you can't find your mother? She's still in her body, holding on for life. Trying to get back." Angelica glares at him. "While you, are having thoughts of just leaving the world." So that's why I couldn't get back to my body.
"Seeing your situation, we can make you a deal."
"You give your remaining life force to your mother so she can fully recover. You'll remain dead." I was having thoughts on it. My mother was still in her body, she still wants to live. I agree and we all hold hands.
The rest of the life in me is transferred in my mother and I'm completely dead now.
That's when I realized you shouldn't make deals with Life and Death.
Mother died a year later because of suicide, because of me.
Now we're all dead.
And I'm cursed to relive what happened on the 15th day after my mother died, once a year, for all eternity, while I do my job watching tagged souls for Life and Death (Angelica and Damian)
Word count :500
Hi. My first time to enter something, and my first published work.
I got this from a book I'm writing that I want to post someday. Its about a girl that gets cursed but it's different from how this #FlashFiction went.
