25 February 2013
(Authors note: hi sorry these are in parts I write them as real book length chapters. :) love R x)
Chapter one (part two of three) - The other side of the Mirror
I couldn't help the tears, I couldn't stop them. I was dead. I never thought I would have to face that, sure I knew one day I would die, but then I had faced it from a living perspective, how do you face death from a dead perspective? It was like I was on the other side of the mirror, outside looking in. I wanted my family, my old life, I wanted to wake up in the forest and realise it was all a dream that I was alive and the whole horrible, fucked up night never happened. But right now I wanted soap, shampoo and a towel, Hadn't really thought this whole shower thing threw. But there was no one to call to get me those things, I was alone. So I did the only thing I could think of doing. I sat down in the corner of the bath tub, the showers water still pouring down on me, pulled my legs to my chest and cried. I don't know how long I stayed like that, tucked up into a ball, I cried till I had no more tears left to cry and then I just sat there, numb, ignoring all thoughts till eventually the door opened and in walked Damon. I didn't bother to cover up, I had nothing to cover up with. He gave me a sad smile and pulled out a towel handing it to me as he turned off the shower. It was blue and fluffy, I wrapped it around myself imaging I could feel the soft fabric. Damon offered to help me out of the tub tying as best he could without touching me. "I got you some stuff, clean cloths, food." "Oh" I whispered as I sore the duffle bag "thanks." "Don't worry about it kid, get dressed, I'll put the food away" he walked away closing the door behind him. I looked outside and saw the dark, it was still the night I died. "How did you get the cloths?" I called out as I pulled on underwear, it was weird how perfectly they fit. "We had things prepared when we got your folder." he had done alright on the whole cloths aspect, I had skinny jeans and a simple sea blue halter neck top. "Can you explain how we got here so quickly again?" I said walking out of the bedroom. "You know the whole door thing." He had tried to explain back in the dinner but my mind had been preoccupied with the whole newly dead situation I hadn't really paid any attention. "We can create doors, these doors take us to where we want to go, like portals. Those are yours." he said pointing to a shoe box in the middle of the room. "I need you to take me somewhere." I said opening the box "these are nice, thanks." I called as I pulled out leather boots. "You can't go back to England." "Thats not where I want to go." but I will try that later. "well then where?" "Back to the camp." "Ella." "All I want is a keep sake, something to remind me of my old life. Everyone will still be asleep, no one will know. I just... Just need something." "A keep sake isn't a good idea." "please, I just want this necklace, one small thing, I thought you could take me, help me get it." "You need to let go." "I died tonight. I think I'm dealing with it pretty well." "Too well." "Please, you've taken everything from me, let me have this one thing." He studied me for a long moment. "One thing! In and out, you understand?" I couldn't help but smile, I knew exactly what I needed. "right, look at what I'm doing, you're going to need to have the place in your mind and then you draw." He closed his eyes, breathing in before he placed the chalk on the wall and drew an outline of a door. Then just as he drew a circle for the handle, the chalk seemed to shine a faint green, the light getting brighter and brighter, till the door outline became a real door. He gazed at me for a second obviously enjoying my amazed expression. Magic, what he just did was "Magic." "You haven't seen anything yet." he laughed "now come on before I change my mind." I hesitated for the briefest of sections before stepping threw. And there we were, on the outskirts of the camp just as the sun started rise lighting the night sky in a beautiful light blue. Fear ran threw me and I felt like the Princess, that I should be the safety of my castle, I glanced back just in time to see Damon step threw and the door fade away into nothing. "Which on where you staying in?" where staying in. Passed tense. "There, the one in the corn, close to the lake." "Okay, we'll wait for them to come out, then we go in, get the necklace then out, you understand?" "Yes." We wait for the sun to rise as an annoyingly chirpy mans voice rang out over the speaker system. "A good morning campers! Rise and shine, the sun has got his hat on and wants to welcome you to another day, so say hip, hip, hooray and rise and shine!" "see, now why couldn't that dude die?" I sighed as Damon snorted a laugh looking at me for a long second. "Ella you died tonight." "I know." "You don't seem upset." Hadn't he seen me crying in the bathroom? "I mean really upset." "What would be the point?" "To get out your emotions, to try and come to terms with what happened to you?" "Do you mean the death part or-" I couldn't finish my sentence, I felt my insides churn as I held myself. "One and the other, both... The way you died-" "Is the way I died. I can't go back and change it, from what you've told me I can't do anything about it. So what's the point?" "it's not fair, what happened to you." "No, it's not. I really wanted to be a doctor." I whispered looking at the ground. "Can we, I dunno, just find my body? It's not right that I'm just out there in an unmarked grave." "I'm sorry." It was the answer I expected. "We can't medal in the affairs of the living. We collect the soul and move on." "Dead living ghosts." I said ending the conversation just as people started to emerge from the cabins. I watched the door to mine, waiting my echo of a heartbeat beating frantically. I almost broke down as out walked a tall girl, she was dressed ridiculously in flannel pyjamas with cupcakes on and oversized fluffy cow slippers. Her bright red hair was pulled back in a bun and she looked happy, just how I had left her, behind her was small Chinese girl, her black hair perfectly straight, she wore shorts and one of my cut off tops, I hope she kept it, it suited her. Then out came a girl dressed in a long nighty, her blond hair falling like a waterfall as she did what looked like a moveable version of yoga. I smiled as she was pushed out the cabin my Jasmine, looking pristine and perfect as always, her brown hair curled, though the blue heels looked ridiculous in the environment. A small girl followed behind her, her hair held up in rollers, half her make up done wearing an oversized T-shirt. These where my friends, the people I spent nearly all my life with, they had been there when I was sad, they had been there when I was happy, they had made me laugh when my dog went missing, they had helped when I tired to build a tree house, they had eaten ice cream with me when I had my heart broken, they had celebrated my broth day everyday since I was five. And now, now there would be no more ice-cream. A strange sad happiness spread threw me, as of I was remembering a dead person, and in a way I was, it just so happens I was the dead person. "See the red haired one? She's wearing those awful pyjamas." "Yes?" "That's Lexi, I've known her since I was two, she's my best friend, and the other girls with her? the Chinese one is Brittany, the one wearing the heels is Jasmine, the one with her hair up in rollers is Lindsay and see the one doing the strange moves? That Coral." I watched as Jasmine stumbled across the grass, her heels sinking into the ground. "They don't know." "No, they probably think you're already at breakfast or-" "Or with him." I watched as they walked towards the food cabin but just as the entered Lexi looked behind her straight in my direction. I caught my breath staying perfectly still, knowing that she couldn't see us, we were hidden, but it was still strange, As if somehow she know I was watching. "Let's get your necklace." Said Damon as Lexi turned around and walked in to join the others.
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