"No…" She had been so close! She almost remembered him, almost rid her life of that nagging sensation that she had forgotten something important. So cold. There was ice in her veins, spreading further and further as the blood poured from her onto the asphalt. Death was imminent and slow coming.
"Adam." He was her one wish. She just wanted to see him, just once, before she died. He was her dream, her phantom man. Nothing more than a name and a shadow. She wished she could remember him. She wished she could have had that feeling of wholeness she remembered. It was all over now. All she had was the memory of a feeling. She wanted to hold the feeling in her heart as long as she could, pretending she was with him.
How much longer now? Not long. She couldn't move and breathing was getting harder. The skies were turning pink as the sun began its ascent. She wanted to smile. Her death was born of vengeance for a crime she couldn't remember committing by a person she couldn't remember, but at least her last sight would be one of beauty. Sure, her life was flowing out of her onto the asphalt in an empty parking lot, but she had the best view of the sunrise.
This is good...I'll see him...another life. Thinking was getting harder. She tried to focus on the pink and gold sky. It would all be over soon.
The sky began to turn grey and she knew her sight was failing. Her heart beat was slow, so slow. Death was finally upon her. She should be afraid, but there was something familiar about the feeling, like the embrace of an old friend. As life faded from her, she used her last breath to call his name. She didn't know it, but she was calling for her reason for living. A final prayer to follow her into her next life.
The main character is my own creation, but the rest belong to the creators of Forever.
