Just A Dream
It was two weeks after the day she turned eighteen
All dressed in white
Goin to the church that night
She had his box of letters in the passenger seat
Sixpence in her shoe
Something borrowed something blue
It was two weeks to the day after Emily turned eighteen and she was driving to the local chapel to get married to Jayden Alexander Shiba. She had his letters from the past year he had spent in Afganistan and six copper pennies in her shoe. She had borrowed a diamond necklace from Serena and she had a small blue hydrainia in her boquet.
And when the church doors opened up wide
She put her veil down trying to hide the tears
Oh she just couldn't believe it
She heard the trumpets
From the military band and the flowers fell out of her hands
Emily arrived just in time for the wedding. This would be the first time she would have seen Jayden in a year. He proposed soon after they defeated Master Xandried and one week later, he was off with the army.
The church doors opened and Emily had to pull her veil over her eyes. She couldn't believe that she was finally marrying the man of her dreams that appered for the first time in front of her on a white horse like prince charming. Her prince charming.
Emily heard the military trumpets, but Emily didn't request the military band for the wedding. She walked in and found everyone dressed in black and a coffin at the front of the room and a large picture of Jayden and his dress uniform at the side of it. Then her flowers fell out of her hands and her world went black.
Baby why'd you leave me
Why'd you have to go
I was countin on forever
Now I'll never know
I can't even breathe
It's like I'm lookin from a distance
Standing in the backround
Everybody's saying
He's not coming home now
This can't be happening to me
This is just a dream
Emily finally came to after a few minutes. Serena and Mia had took Emily to the back room and changed her out of her wedding dress and changed her into a short black dress with a cap sleeve and a black hat with a bird changed veil on it.
"Why?"was all that Emily could say after she woke up.
Emily couldn't breathe. She never thought that Jayden's life would have been taken because of war. Emily just kept telling herself to wake up from this terrible dream that was a reality.
The preacher man said let us bow our heads and pray
Lord please lift his soul
And heal this hurt
Then the congregation all stood up sang
The saddest song that she ever heard
Emily, Serena, and Mia all walked back into the congregation and the funeral began. The preacher led the congregation into a small prayer and the congregation stood up and sang the saddest song anyone there could have ever heard.
And then they handed her a folded up flag
And she held on to all she had left of him
Oh and what could have been
Then the guns rang one last shot
And it felt like a bullet in her heart
They then went out to the grave yard to where Jayden would be laid in the ground for his last resting place. As they reached the grave, the general there handed Emily a folded up flag and a letter he had someone write to her on his death bed. Emily held all this close to her chest and sobbed. Beside her, Lauren was the only one visably upset about Jayden's death. He was her brother after all and the only family she had since her mother and her father were dead and have been for a long while now.
They then sent the congregation far enough away for the 21 gun salute to Jayden and it felt like all twenty one bullets pierced her heart.
Baby why'd you leave me
Why'd you have to go
I was countin on forever
Now I'll never know
I can't even breathe
It's like I'm looking from a distance
Standing in the background
Everybody's saying he's not coming home now
This can't be happening to me
This is just a dream
Emily felt like she was looking from a distance and she was in the background and every one was taunting her with this one sentence.
He's never coming home. He's never coming home. He's never coming home.
This wasn't happening. It couldn't be happening. It was just a dream right? Just a horrible nightmare that couldn't even possibly be real. But it was. Or at least she thought.
Ooh Oh
Baby why'd you leave me
Why'd you have to go
I was countin on forever
Now I'll never know
Oh I'll never know
It's like I'm looking from a distance
Standing in the background
Everybody's saying
He's not coming home now
This can't be happening to me
This is just a dream
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
Emily jumped up at the sound of her alarm and she felt something stir beside her.
"Babe, why so jumpy this morning? " Jayden sat up and asked her.
"Sorry, weird dream, "Emily said, feeling to make sure her wedding ring was still on her hand.
Emily was just glad it was all just a dream.