Okay so here's the next chapter, I hope you all like it, I enjoyed writing it. I'd love to know what you all think of it, Kayxxx x
"Ethan" A familiar voice quietly whispered from the distance. "Ethan?" The voice repeated. Ethan slowly opened up his eyes to find the voice. Suddenly he felt a hand intertwine with his, he looked down and to his surprise he saw the hand. It was pale white, almost glowing. He knew this hand, it was a hand he'd held many times during his lifetime. He looked up to find his mother smiling beautifully down at him "oh my boy" she whispered as she stroked his hand. "Mother?" Ethan smiled. He sat up in his bed. "I've missed you" he admitted as tears began to fill up in his eyes. "I don't want no tears now" she spoke softly, Ethan held back his cry. "I've been here the whole time, Ethan, I never left" she smiled. He pulled his mother in for a hug, he was surprised by how real she felt. He could smell her, she smelt just how he'd remembered, they held each other tightly. "I can't wait to tell Cal about this dream, he won't believe it" he laughed amazed. "If you wake up now you can tell him" his mother smiled as she looked into his eyes. "But that means this dream will end, that you'll go" he came to realisation "I don't want to loose you again, not yet" she stroked his blonde hair as she kissed his forehead. "Don't you worry, you'll never loose me again my boy, I promise" she whispered. Ethan kept his face buried into his mother so she couldn't see that he was crying. He didn't know why he was crying, he wasn't sad, he wasn't in any pain, he was just crying. His mother pulled away to find her son had tears rolling down his face, she gently wiped them away off his cheeks that had no bruising, no cuts, no wounds. "Shh" she smiled as she wiped his tears. "If you could go anywhere in the world right at this moment, where would you go?" She spoke lifting his chin with her finger. "The beach" Ethan smiled as he reminisced the time he'd spent with his mother and brother on the beach when he was a child.
He looked up to find himself standing on that very beach, his mother stood beside him. There was a gentle breeze that blew, as the waves gently hugged the shore. The sun was setting, everything was peaceful, everything was perfect. He looked around him, everything was just how he'd remembered it being all those years ago. He hugged his mother and they stood side by side watching the sun set, both with smiles on their faces. This was the happiest Ethan had felt in years. As the beach turned into darkness he looked back at the place they'd sat and made sand castles when he was younger to see they were still there, standing strong.
There was a boy sitting down next to them with his head buried into his knees. Ethan slowly made his way over to the young boy and sat down beside him to find the boy was crying. "Are you okay?" Ethan asked concerned, the boy didn't flinch. "Excuse me, are you okay?" Ethan asked once again. The boy looked up and frantically looked around him as if he were looking for someone, as if he were lost. As the boy looked up Ethan fell backward with shock. This boy wasn't just any boy, this was Cal, but it was a younger Cal, the Cal that was there the day they went to the beach. "Cal?!" Ethan called as he looked at his brother stunned to see how young he looked. He couldn't really recall his brother being so young as he was even younger so to see him was a huge eye-opener. "Caleb everything is going to be okay, I've got you" Ethan reassured as he wrapped his arms around his brother. Cal continued to weep, "please come back Ethan, please" he sobbed as he buried his head back into his knees. "Come back? Cal I'm right here" Ethan spoke looking at him confused. "He can't see you, or hear you" their mother explained as she sat down in front of the brothers.
Ethan then began to recall a dream Cal had spoken about a couple of months back. It was a dream that Cal had had when he thought Ethan wasn't going to make it after his car accident. He sat alone on the beach in the dark waiting for someone to come and tell him everything is going to be okay and pick him back up again, but no one came because that was Ethan's job and Ethan was gone. He looked at his brother unaware of how he could help. He still kept his arms wrapped tightly around his brother even though he couldn't see him or feel him, in desperate attempt to comfort him. "Mum tell me what I can do to make him better, please! Look at him!" Ethan cried desperately to his mother. "Did Cal ever tell you the end of his dream?" His mother asked. "No?" Ethan replied confused as to why that mattered. "Just wait" she smiled. Ethan looked back down at Cal, still holding him tight.
Suddenly someone kneeled down I front of them, a young girl the same age as Cal. Cal looked up at her and they hugged. Ethan sat observing unknowing as to what was happening. "He's gone" Cal cried as he hugged the girl "he's not, he'll always be with you, I bet he's watching us right now" Cal pulled away from the girl, his tears had now stopped pouring. He suddenly wasn't so young, he was the Cal Ethan knew today "do you think?" Cal spoke as he looked at the girl. "I know so." she smiled. The girl too was no longer young, she was a girl that Ethan knew all so well "Amber?" He looked at her stunned. She looked at him and smiled before helping Cal to his feet, "everything is going to be okay Cal" she spoke softly. They turned and slowly disappeared into the distance, Amber kept her arm around Cal, leading the way. Ethan slowly rose and watched them walk away. "He's going to be okay isn't he mum?" Ethan whimpered to his mother who stood beside him watching the pair walk, "yes son, he's going to be just fine" she smiled and took hold of his hand.