I walk through a tunnel of light. I hear my Moms voice begging me to turn around. My mind tells my body to stop, but I am no longer in control of my body. My head is filled with thoughts. Thoughts I can't control. It's everything from my 5th birthday to the day I got diagnosed cancer. "Goodbye Hazel, you will always be my daughter." It's in that very second I realize… I'm dead. (My own) Death never actually scared me, but for some reason it only scared me if someone else was close to death. There's not a lot to do about it… I guess I'm just gonna be another star in the universe.
I pull the door handles, but realize I have to push. Not even as dead I'm able to open a door. The two doors go to two opposite directions. Everything is rosegold and "oh so pretty". A kid reaches me a letter with a heart on it. Inside the envelope there's a note:
Hi Hazel,
Welcome to heaven.
There's someone who wants to meet you and I'm sure you wanna meet him.
I never cared about religious stuff and I didn't believe in heaven. There's only one person would like meet and I hope he's here. How could Augustus not be here? He's the purest and kindest person I've ever met.
"Hi, I'm Augustus Waters" he says. He is smiling in that goofy way he always have. We automatically hug.
"I've missed you" he says.
"Like I haven't missed you…" I answer.
"I've missed your beautiful green eyes and your… wait, where's your oxygen tank?" I haven't realized yet that my oxygen tank is gone.
"I guess it's gone… speaking about gone is that your real leg? That is exactly how I imagined it. Btw I found your continuation of an imperial affliction. It was beautiful."
Augustus shows me around. It doesn't look like the stereotype heaven everyone is imagining. None of the people wears white dresses and have wings. There's no music or clouds. It looks normal. I swear I could be walking on earth right now. He shows me his house and all I can think of is that he has been waiting here forever.
"So where am I going to stay?" I ask.
"With me until your house is finish" he answers.
"My house? Don't they need a lot of space for everyone who dies?"
"Most people choose to die again when they come here."
"They haven't asked me yet."
"They didn't have to. Your soul told them when it weren't in your body."
"Gus, you're filling me with crap."
"It's true! I didn't believe in this shit either."
"Then why didn't you choose to die again?"
"I guess I was waiting for you." He says trying to sound romantic. "May I kiss you, Hazel Grace?" I don't answer instead I just kiss him. It truly feels like I'm in heaven. He removes his lips and look at me. We sit in silence until he says, "Okay." Both of smiles and our lips touch each other again. "Okay" I answer him.