The Apocalypse:The past meets the future

Findings

While Dad was carrying me to the car,all I felt was numbness. I could not even begin to fathom what the next few days would be like. When will it start? How will it happen? Who will survive and who will not? These and many more questions were running through my mind. But the most important one that I had always tried to deviate from is "will I even help them get through this?" I was so angry at my mother for doing this to me and somehow I felt that if I actually helped this age through this crisis,that I may be supporting the decision she took and I was not in support of such crazy decision in anyway. I tried to keep calm and not think about the pain she put me through for so long. But knowing now that this is an inevitable situation that I have found myself in because of her,I could not help but freak out.

As I continued to think about it,the feeling of numbness soon paved way for the drowning feeling of anger to wash over me. I was so angry at everyone and everything. Why did Amanda's mom have to put the necklace round her daughter's neck? Why did I have to slip into a coma for two days? Why did Jeffrey have to talk Amanda's mom into doing this?

That's when it finally hit me. Jeffrey did this! But how did he know about the necklace and how did he know what the necklace would do? But the better question is,why would he do this?

In the dream he did say that he is the vilian of the story. But I could not place my finger on why he would want to destroy the whole world. What was he so bitter about. I knew I wouldn't find the answers to my questions through talking to myself. I knew I had to talk to Jeffrey,get to know what's going on in his head

By the time I was done engaging in a therapy session with myself, dad had pulled up on a parking lot of the hospital. I was picked up and placed on a stretcher. A nurse wheeled me back to my room were the doctor was waiting patiently for me. As soon as I got in,mom ran to me and hugged me,doctor Llyod spoke up "Mrs. Jail,you will have to stop that now. See she needs all the space and air that she can get. I will only take a minute. Nurse,if you could lift her and place her on the bed."

I felt myself being lifted from the stretcher and placed on the bed. The doctor took my vitals,turned to the Jails and said "She is fine. Everything is running smoothly but she does need to eat and drink a lot of water as soon as possible. She also need a lot of rest. Let no one ask her anything, nothing should be done to upset her in anyway. Is that okay?

Mom spoke next, "yes,it's okay. Now we will try our very best to ensure that this girl gets enough rest. Thank you so much Doctor"

"Just doing my job Mrs. Jail. Now someone should get her some food for her to eat before she sleeps"

"Yeah,I'll go get it" and dad left with Dr. Llyod. I was left with Mom in the room,I knew she would not engage in any conversation apart from sweet talks and I was not in the mood for any of that so I just closed my eyes.

We waited patiently for dad to come back and I must have dozed off in the process because mom had to wake me up to eat. Dad had gotten Mac and cheese and I dug into the food hungrily. I didnt even realize that I was so hungry till I started eating. The food was just so yummy and in few minutes,I had finished my plate and I was still hungry. I finished drinking the bottle water and told Dad that I was still slightly hungry.

"Well,I'm sorry sweetie. But the doctor said that you can't eat too much too fast. So you sleep now and once you wake up,I will have another delicious plate of Mac and cheese waiting for you."

"Okay,but can you make it lasagna this time? Am kinda craving it"

"Alright,no problem"

Maybe it was all the running or the realization that the world would soon end or maybe it was the drip that was slowly entering into my body system through my veins,but I was so dizzy that I did not even realize when I said "Thanks dad"

A gasp was heard was the last thing I heard before I drifted off to sleep.

         Amanda's POV

I could not believe Rebecca. I mean what does she want from me,I try doing something that will make her happy and in return she hurts my mother and me. But if I am being honest, Rebecca has been acting very weird of late. The Rebecca I knew before is not the same one that came back from the dead.

Yes,I did steal her necklace but only because I was going through her stuff to try and see if I could find anything out of the ordinary. And the only thing I found was the necklace. I know I made her promise me not to wear it,but it's not as if the is a great value and history attached to hers. Hers is just some junk a drunken guy gave her. Or at least that is what she would have me believe.

It doesn't make any sense now but people normally tell the truth when they are really angry and Rebecca was very angry that night and I can swear she said the necklace belonged to her mother. But how could that? To the best of my knowledge,Mr. Jail does not have an ancestral necklace and even if she did,she would not have passed it down to her daughter like that. I am not even sure that Rebecca will have collected it seeing as she made a big scene about me collecting mine.

But what exactly is up with Rebecca? I knew exactly what to do. Make some researches. I looked at Rebecca one more time as she laid peacefully in her sleep. She has been through a lot for someone so young and something deep inside of me was telling me that she is going through a lot right now. But did I really want to know what was wrong with her? Will I be able to stand the truth?

Rebecca and I have been good friends since we were just kids and I don't want to ruin that by doing this. Part of me clearly did not want to do this but my inquisitive side wanted so badly to know why her character was changing. Rebecca has stopped behaving like Rebecca and has started behaving like...well me. Rebecca of old was mellow,a push over,quite,and very shy. But Rebecca of now is feisty,smart and very bold. It's almost as if they are two people who has been living in that body.

If she was just doing this because she wanted to stand up for herself like she has always told me,then I am really happy for her but again,I feel like that is a big lie. Even if the truth will kill me,I will still have to find out what it is. So,I kissed my best friend on the forehead and I headed out to go research on death and life.

I walked to the library because it was just a few blocks away. One of the things Rebecca has taught me is to always have my library card with me and when I reached into my bag,it was there so I easily took it out and used it to get inside the library. I went straight to the section of bardo and I saw some pretty good books there. The was one that was titled "the secrets of bardo". It sounded like it would have everything I wanted so I took it,found myself a seat and started reading.

As I flipped through the pages, I became scared. The books said that bardo is an intermediate stage between death and rebirth. Something about the word "rebirth" did not sit with me quite well. Rebecca body is so not holding another person. I countined reading through the book and the more I read,the more freaked out I got. According to the book, different changes in character can be noticable when a person has gone through rebirth. The book went on to talk about the different types of bardo in the existence. I was just scanning through the book but I knew that I won't get anything more useful from it.

So I went to return it and got another book on Afterlife. I wanted to know what happens when we die. Where does our soul go to? This particular book was quite self explanatory and it was more detailed than the first. I started flipping through the pages. It said that when we die our soul goes to a play where the Greeks describe as the Afterlife. According to the book,it is a place that you won't stay in for long. Your soul just goes there to stay for a while.

Researching more about Afterlife,I found out that in very rare cases some people do pass from the Afterlife to another life. Normally this happens to people who have uncompleted jobs on planet Earth,they will be sent back as another person to go complete the job and then they will die and get back to spend their eternity at the place they were supposed to.

It was not possible. Rebecca did not have another person in her. I continued reading as it went on to say that this normally happens when the person whose body is supposed to be taken dies at the same time the person who did not complete their task on Earth does. Their souls would normally meet at the Afterlife and they will then switch places.

I closed the book as fast as I could. If this is true then it means that Rebecca is dead here and someone else has occupied her body and she is also occupying somebody else's body somewhere. But no,that can't be true. Rebecca is back from the dead and I am just doing this because I am a little bit upset about the fact that she almost broke the necklace. Right?