Pelswick groaned as he sat up, and to his shock he noticed that he was on a cloud!

"I'm…I'm dead." Pelswick started sobbing.

"No you're not." A familiar voice disagreed.

Startled, Pelswick turned around to find Mr. Jimmy standing there.

"I…I'm not?" Pelswick said, confused.

"You're having an out of body experience, it's common." Mr. Jimmy explained, smiling. "I'm proud of you Pelswick that was a really selfless thing you did for Julie back there."

"Well I couldn't let her die…Julie! Is she all right?" Pelswick asked, worried.

"See for yourself." Mr. Jimmy smiled as he pointed at the edge of the cloud.

Pelswick looked and saw his unconscious body in a hospital bed with his friends and family surrounding him. He also saw how worried Julie looked…and something else.

"Gee, she looks really sad…" Pelswick said, starting to get a little sad himself. "How long have I been out?"

"A couple of weeks." Mr. Jimmy said. "I've been keeping track, waiting for at least your spirit to wake up."

"Is there any way for me to get back to my body?" Pelswick asked.

"Yes…but only if you really want to."

"Why would you say that?" Pelswick frowned. "I wouldn't have it any other way."

"Well the thing is even though a person may be tied down by physical laws and disabilities…their spirits never are." Mr. Jimmy explained.

"What does that mean?"

"Do you see your wheelchair with you?"

Pelswick looked around and sure enough couldn't even find a cane much less his wheelchair!

"Wait…does that mean…I can…?" Pelswick gaped.

"Yes, even though your body may never walk…your spirit will always be able too." Mr. Jimmy smiled. "Enjoy being able to move on your own, I have to go for now."

And at that, he disappeared.

Pelswick spent the next week walking around – after getting used to it – and doing other movements that he couldn't do before like somersaults. The strange part was, he kept feeling pressure on his left arm; it wasn't unpleasant or anything, actually he liked it, but he couldn't figure out where it was coming from. During this, his body remained in a coma, with his friends and family growing more and more worried. Especially since, according to the monitor, his heartbeats were getting slower. At the end of the week Mr. Jimmy came back.

"I can't believe it," Pelswick smiled. "Even though I never minded being permanently seated and at times even enjoyed it I've always dreamed of being able to walk."

"And now you can, but only if you go there." Mr. Jimmy said, pointing at a golden fence with a gate.

"That's the gate to heaven isn't it?" Pelswick stared.

"Yes, there you'll always be able to walk, but if you go there," Mr. Jimmy pointed at the scene of Pelswick in the hospital. "You'll go back to being permanently seated…for the rest of your life."

"Go back…?" Pelswick repeated. "You mean I can be alive again?"

"Yes, but you don't have much time, look."

Pelswick did and really saw his heartbeat monitor for the first time.

"I'm dying." Pelswick gasped; tears then came to his eyes as he saw how miserable his friends and family looked:

Quentin looked defeated as he glanced between the monitor and Pelswick's face. Kate was helping Bobby look at Pelswick over the railing of the hospital bed, and they both looked as if they were going to cry any second. Ace and Goon both looked sad and pale, and then Goon started crying on Ace's shoulder. And then Julie…here's where Pelswick grew even sadder. Julie actually looked almost heartbroken, squeezing Pelswick's arm as if it would bring him back. His arm…. Pelswick remembered that he had been feeling a pressure on his arm for the last week and noticed that the arm that Julie had her hands on was the exact same one!

"I can feel her touching me…Mr. Jimmy, what does this mean?" Pelswick asked, not looking away.

"Your love for Julie is pure." Mr. Jimmy said.

"Huh?" Pelswick of course didn't get it.

"Most dating couples only feel emotions for each other through their hormones, sometimes also through their hearts but not often. But your love for Julie you feel with your soul, which is why you can feel her touching you. Beforehand I'll admit that you felt love for Julie through your hormones as well as your heart, hence your nervous reactions, but as the years passed your heart took over until the love reached your soul, which is why you don't get those reactions anymore."

"Oh…wait a minute did you just explain something further to me?" Pelswick stared, so startled that this time he turned around. "You've never done that before."

"You don't have much time left."

Pelswick looked again and saw that his heartbeat had gotten even slower! Also, Julie had started crying.

"Your choice, either stay here and walk or go back and never walk again." Mr. Jimmy shrugged; he didn't look as if he cared because he knew Pelswick wasn't stupid.

"You're not fooling me, there's when I'll die of old age…and that's when I'll walk!" Pelswick frowned, standing up defiantly. "But until then I'm going back to my family and friends! And Julie…what you said before…'my love is pure'…does that mean Julie is my true love?"

Mr. Jimmy just smiled.

"You'll find out for yourself." He winked.

Pelswick smiled back.

"Hang on guys I'm coming back!" Pelswick said as he dove off the cloud and towards his body.

The next thing Pelswick knew, his eyes were closed and he was actually feeling pain, which he hadn't felt for three weeks. Then he heard a voice:

"Son?" Quentin's voice said hopefully. "Son your heartbeat's picked up, are you awake?"

Pelswick groaned as he struggled to open his eyes. That's when he realized that he was back in his body in the hospital bed. When he saw everyone around him he smiled and they smiled back.

"Pelswick!" Bobby said happily as he climbed onto the bed to hug him.

"Hey lil' dude." Pelswick smiled, returning the hug.

"Buddy we thought you were dying, you scared us." Ace said, playfully punching Pelswick's arm.

"I was, I almost did die…but I decided to come back." Pelswick smiled.

"What are you talking about?" Kate asked.

"I was having an out of body experience this last week, I would've come back sooner but I got caught up in a miracle."

"What miracle son?" Quentin asked.

"I…I found out…that my spirit doesn't need a wheelchair." Pelswick explained. "Up there…near heaven…I could walk."

Everyone else stared and started to look emotional at that.

"Yeah, I know, but seeing how sad you guys were without me made me decide to come back." Pelswick smiled. "That and the fact that it wouldn't have been heaven without you all there too anyway."

Quentin's cellphone rang.

"Hello?" He said as he answered it. "Oh yes, yes he's fine, just woke up. Huh? Oh yes, first thing tomorrow, bye." Quentin hung up. "That was just my boss checking on Pelswick and seeing when I'll be coming back to work."

"You mean you haven't been to work in…how long have I been out?" Pelswick caught himself, realizing that he couldn't 'know' without explaining about Mr. Jimmy.

"Three weeks, well I couldn't work with you in a coma." Quentin smiled. "Don't worry my boss gave me sick pay, half of my wages, so that I could pay for the hospital bill and other things."

"Were you guys out of school that long too?" Pelswick asked his friends and siblings.

"Well we couldn't get as much time off, so we've only been here weekends and a few of the weekdays." Goon explained.

"Same here for me." Kate added. "We had to return to school at least two days a week in order to catch up with our lessons."

"Yeah but if it was up to us we would've been here the entire three weeks." Julie added; Pelswick almost forgot how beautiful her voice really sounded.

"It's okay, I don't mind." Pelswick smiled. "I heard up there that the spirit isn't as tied down as the body so I know that all of your spirits were here everyday."

"You got that right." Ace smiled.

"Pelswick, you got guardian angel?" Bobby asked.

"What?" Pelswick stared, startled that anyone would ask.

"After that piece of building…well…Ace and I tried to get you out of there but even with me helping and your grandma and dad helping we couldn't budge it." Goon explained. "Your grandma and dad eventually got tired but Ace and I continued trying to free you…and then suddenly it seemed as if the piece of building was lifting itself up off you!"

Pelswick looked shocked, Mr. Jimmy never said anything about that. He then became touched that Mr. Jimmy cared that much about him; I mean of course he's a guardian angel, it's his job, but usually guardian angels don't do their work like that where there would be a lot of witnesses.

"It's…it's true, I do have one." Pelswick admitted; he didn't know if it was right for him to do that but he didn't want to lie either. "I've been able to see him for years but I never told any of you because…well, for one thing I didn't know how to prove it."

"What's his name?" Gram-Gram asked.

"Mr. Jimmy…wait you guys believe me?"

"It's the coolest and less creepy explanation we can think of." Kate smirked; Pelswick smirked back.

Quentin, Gram-Gram, and Ace then left to let the doctor know that Pelswick was awake and to get food; Pelswick obviously was starving, and the others hadn't exactly been having their fill the last three weeks. You know how gross things can kill an appetite? Well being worried doesn't help either. After the meal the doctor came to give Pelswick a check-up.

"What are the results?" Julie asked.

"Pelswick's going to live, but his legs will still be damaged for a few more weeks." The doctor explained.

"That's okay, they've never really been in tip-top shape anyway." Pelswick joked.

Everyone laughed.

"I know, saw the wheelchair, cool set of wheels by the way."

"Thanks."

"The lower half of his torso isn't any better, but luckily his organs were operated on when he was rushed in three weeks ago so they should still work properly after a few more days of healing." The doctor continued explaining. "Until then he shouldn't eat a lot, just stick with fluids for now."

"Okay doctor, thank you." Quentin said.

"No problem, it's why I picked the job in the first place." The doctor smiled as he left.