It had now been two weeks since Molly had last seen Ida. She had not seen her since. To this day.

Molly was in the small church in the village. It was the funeral of her friend Ida. Her mood was clouded. It was already the second funeral in a very short time. Molly had only been in Ireland for three months and already she had to bury two of her new acquaintances.

Nevertheless, it was also somehow strange.

She had heard the news of Ida's death a week ago.

She was on her way to her lunch break when she heard from one of her colleagues that there had been a tragic accident in the city centre. A woman was hit by a car while crossing the street. The body was to be taken to the pathology department in the afternoon.

Sometimes it really sucked to do this job,' Molly thought as she saw the body for the first time.

After she and her colleague examined the body and reported all the important results to the police, it was also classified as an accident.

On that day Molly could no longer think clearly, let alone concentrate. She told her supervisor about it and asked to spend the rest of the day at home. Thank goodness he was one of the sensitive kind of people and agreed to her request.

She then spent the rest of the day on her couch. She needed some distraction, so she decided to call her friends at home. She tried John first, but he didn't pick up. Next she tried Mrs Hudson but she didn't pick up either.

What is this? Where is everyone?' she asked herself and then let her phone slip out of her hands in disappointment.

But when she was about to give it up, her phone suddenly rang. She did not recognise the number.

"Hello?"

"Hello, Molly. This is Greg. How you doing?"

"Oh, hi, Greg. Well, honestly, not so good. I found out today that a friend of mine died."

"Oh, I'm sorry. What happened?"

And then Molly told him about Ida, the accident and what strange things have been happening here lately, according to Ida. Greg thought it was strange, too, but probably just a coincidence. Probably to calm her down somehow. Afterwards they talked a little bit about work and what news from London there was. Greg also said that he would soon be on holiday and was thinking about visiting them. Molly had to smile a little when he suggested it and was grateful for his call. This way she could at least distract herself a little from what was happening today.

A little later she decided to take a leisurely walk along the edge of the bay. She wanted to visit once again the place where she had often enjoyed the sunsets with Ida, in memory of her friend.

And now, a week later, she was sitting here on one of the pews and listening to the words of the pastor in memory of Ida.

The ceremony did not last long but was nevertheless very touching. Molly was always struggling with her tears. Even though she had only known Ida for a few months, she had quickly taken her to her heart.

After the pastor had finished his sermon, he asked the guests outside for a burial at Ida's grave. Some of the guests immediately followed his instructions and went outside to the local cemetery.

They stopped in front of a pale gravestone with her name and her life data. Molly wondered why the gravestone and the grave was kept so plain. She could not find any of her relatives either. In general there were not many mourners at the funeral.

Apart from Molly, there were the O'Reilly family, Ella Nolan, Thomas Fitzgerald and a few strangers. Kilian and Patrick were standing a little away. In both of their faces there was horror and sadness. They were visibly moved by their death, Molly knew that. The female members of the Fitzgeralds did not think it was necessary to be present at the funeral.

So the funeral was over after a few minutes and the crowd gradually dissolved. Molly promised to help with the rest of the funeral arrangements from the church and to help with the grave.

So she took two of the flower arrangements at a time and stepped out.

And then suddenly, as if out of the blue, she froze and the flower arrangements in her hands fell to the ground...

Note: I'm sorry that the last chapters might have been a bit boring but I wanted to introduce Molly's new life and the characters. Believe me, the introduction will have been necessary ;)
And I heard that you can't open or read my remaining chapters (10-13). I have uploaded them again. I hope you can read it now. Please let me know if there are still problems ;)