Chapter 1: Death
Hazel's POV:
"Is this what dying feels like?" I thought. I was suspended between two worlds: Earth and Heaven. Once I reached the Gates of Heaven, everything came rushing back to me. When my oxygen tank failed, the last couple of minutes of seeing my parents crying beside my bed and me thinking well I will get to see Augustus again. For a moment I felt dizzy. "Oh Augustus" I whispered.
Augustus's POV:
"Hey Laura", I said. "Hey Gus", she exclaimed "How are you?" Laura had died because of a fatal accident on a bridge many years ago. She was a great help to me when I came to this place.
"Next", the gatekeeper called. I felt nervous. "What if I will be sent to Hell?" I thought. "Augustus Waters, cause of death cancer, love Hazel Grace" recited the gatekeeper. "Well I don't see anything wrong in your records…" I was given a green card and shown my room in the Building of Dreams. The room was amazing it had everything in it like my old room back on Earth. I even had room service!
Laura was talking and I was jerked back into the present. "….and so I told her to meet us here" she said, totally oblivious to the fact that I had zoned out. "Right who were you talking about?" I asked. "Well the new girl of course, Hazel Grace" said Laura surprised.
Hazel's POV:
The gatekeeper gave me a green card and showed me my room in the Paradise Apartments. I had everything in my room like the one back at home. I heard a knock on the door and when I opened it I saw a woman around the age of 20. "Hi!" she exclaimed. "Hi" I said a bit uncertainly. "I hear you are the newbie. My name is Laura. I died because of an accident on a bridge many years ago." She said as fast a hummingbird. "Ok… My name is Hazel Grace and I died because of cancer", I replied. "Oh you are like my friend Augustus!" She said happily "We could be best friends!" Ok so there are crazy people here as well. And then it hit me. "Wait you mean Augustus Waters?" I asked, my heart beating faster. "Yeah," Laura said happily writing down where I should meet her. But none of that mattered, the only thing that did was that she knew Augustus which meant that I could see him again!
