"Gus we love you so much" Augustus mom had tears in her eyes, and so did his dad and his sister. Both of his parents were sitting on either side of him gripping his hands. Augustus had had bad nights in the hospital before but this time felt different, no matter how much medicine that they gave him the pain wouldn't go away, his body felt like it was on fire. The darkness was creeping in around the edge of the vision, and this time he knew that he going.
"I love all of you too" he said weakly, his wished that Hazel Grace was here, he had seen her earlier that day but their was so much that he wanted to tell her and now he would never get the chance. The darkness was coming faster, it was getting harder to breathe. Fear shot through him, maybe he was wrong, maybe their was nothing after maybe it was just darkness. He didn't see any bright light, and his life didn't flash before his eyes. The darkness just enveloped him, and then Augustus Waters felt nothing at all.
For the first time in months Augustus woke up and felt no pain in his body. He slowly opened up his eyes and looked around the room expecting to find himself still in the hospital but instead he was in a small unfamiliar room with brightly colored wall paper that was in sharp contrast to the sterile white walls of the hospital.
Augustus quickly sat up in bed and hit his head on the top of the bunk bed he was in.
"Oww" he said rubbing the top of his head. He was surprised by how easy it was to sit up. In the last several weeks every little moment took so much energy, he hadn't felt this well, he couldn't remember .
"Oh you're up" Agustus looked over and saw a boy, around the age of 12 hanging down from the top bunk bed, he was very pale and skinny, he also had no hair. He looked like any one of the hundreds of kids that frequented the Childrens hospital.
"My name is Luke" said the boy.
"Augustus Waters" he said, and glanced around the room, there was a small round window next to him and when he looked out it all he could see was water all around them.
"Were on a boat!"said Augustus. For the first time in his life Augustus was at a loss for words. The last thing that he remembered was being in the hospital room, his family had been their, and every things had hurt...
"Are we dead? " Augustus asked, he really hoped that the afterlife was more than just this room. But he wasn't in pain and he wasn't well, non existent, which was definitely a plus.
"Ya I think so" Luke said "I have, well, had leukemia, I was in the hospital and things were not going very well, and then well" Luke gestured to the room around him. Luke didn't sound sad when he said that he was dead he just sounded very matter of fact about it. Augustus took a moment to process the fact that he had died. He knew that his parents and sisters would be devastated, but they all believed that their was life after death, and that would give them some comfort, but Hazel Grace… Augustus didn't want to think about what she was going threw right now. He didn't know what he would do if their positions were reversed.
"I had bone cancer, I was fine for a long time but then I had a relapse." Augustus tried not to think about Hazel. Besides he knew the chances of him seeing her again soon were very high.
Augustus heard a knock on the door and got up out of bed to answer it. That's when he noticed something very obvious. He had two legs! For the first time in forever Augustus was able to stand on his own two feet. A surge of joy rushed through him, this afterlife wasn't half bad. Slowly at first, forgetting what it was like to walk on his own two feet, Gus made his way to the door. He opened the door to find a single piece of paper on the floor he picked it up and read it. "Dear Mr. Waters your presence is requested at the observation deck, now"