I'm now wondering if the Office Space Reference was caught. O.o
Sometimes she doesn't think about it. Sometimes she manages to forget for minutes at a time that she'd dead and Danny killed her. Sometimes the frivolity of the world around her distracts her. The odd family occupying her home requires quite a lot of attention and Aiden and Josh sometimes make her feel like an old grandmother presiding over a young new couple. And wouldn't Josh just love that comparison. He's sputter and deny being the little wife ruling the home with an iron spatula, while Aiden…Aiden wouldn't argue, just smile and wait for the perfect time to poke fun at Josh's frazzled dignity. And Sally watched them and worried and envied them the life still left ahead of them while hers had ended. Oh to be young and still living…kinda.
But without fail her mind would be drawn back to the truth of her existence like an unruly yappy little dog at the end of one of those extendable leashes. Tethered Exuberance. And when she closed her eyes, sometimes she didn't see the backs of her eyelids, she saw nothingness and light and could feel the air and the aging weight of the brick and mortar surrounding and housing her and she could feel the dead spaces in everything, the dead dust mites on the furniture, the dead fly floating in the glass of water Josh had reluctantly in the sink as Aiden herded him out of the house to go to their lives and the dead moth in the sill and sometimes…when they were near…she felt their cells dying like the air-pockets on a sheet of bubblewrap left in the hands of a 4 year old.
Josh's died, and joined her peaceably in the world of after and she felt an odd kinship to those bits of him that were more and more like her, miniscule bit by miniscule bit and she wondered if dead skin cells had their own little doors. Mysterious little pores for them to escape through to whatever heaven or hell there was for skin cells? The great Moisturizer in the Sky? The Pumice stone down below?
Aiden's were alien and strange and made her dizzy because when they died they didn't seem to care. When a skin cell on Aiden died(and how exactly did he have any left still dying?), it just shrugged and kept going like an employee that no one remembered to fire. His dead parts were odd little men in cubicles obsessing over staplers.
Maybe one day he'd spontaneously combust and while Josh panicked and shrieked like a girl, Aiden would shrug and tell her to mail his ashes to a beach in Mexico.
Sometimes instead of thinking about how dead she is, she thinks she watches too much Comedy Central.