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Chapter One
Aria's body floated lightly down like a feather being set free. She was placed on the soft floor and she began to wake. Moaning, she opened her eyes but shielded them as she was blinded by the brightness of the room. "Where am I?" She moaned again, confused, uncovering her eyes and blinking them twice to get them adjusted to the bright lights that filled the room for miles.
She slowly got to her feet and started to look around. She did not see a single soul or heard a single sound. The room had seemed to go on and on as far as the eyes could see. Nothing was in the room except for the light ere look of the fog that started to float through the air around her feet. She checked to make sure that she was not hurt. All pieces and parts were all still together on her, not even a single hair was out of place. But how could that be possible? She did remember that she was hit by a car and had felt herself being ripped in two as she landed on the concrete.
"Hello?" She called out, hearing her voice echo through the room. "Hello, anybody there?" Nothing but the sounds of her own voice. She started to get scared and tears burned the corner of her light blue eyes. She was alone in a room, in a place that she did not know, did not know where she was at with no one to help her.
"Hello?" She called out once more as tears fell from her eyes. "Can anybody hear me?" It was the same as last time, not a single sound. She covered her face with her hands and cried. "I wanna go home." She dropped to her knees, a sob escaping her lips, afraid...afraid to be left in this place by herself for the rest of her nonexistence life.
"Please don't cry," A voice broke through the silence of the room.
Aria looked up, "Who...Who said that?" She asked, looking around the room, whipping the tears off her face. "Who's there?"
A bright light flashed, Aria covered her eyes as she was blinded by the bright light again, as a tall dark figure stepped out of the light. "I did," He said, as the light had disappeared and Aria looked up from her hands at the man that stood before her.
"Who...Who are you?" She choked out, looking at the tall dark haired man in a nice white suit.
He smiled at her and took a step towards her, "My name is Nathan, but you may call me Nate," He told her and with one wave of his hand, Aria was no longer kneeling in the long white room, but now she was in a room that looked to her as an office. A long white desk with a white office chair sat up against one of the four walls and two nice size white chairs sat on the other side of the desk. Papers and stacks of folders from what Aria could see were scattered across the desk. He pointed to one of the white chairs for her to sit in, but she did not move. She was still in shock from the mysterious man appearing before her very own eyes. She had never seen anything like that before and in a great way, it freaked her out.
"Please do not be afraid," Nathan said softly, "I won't hurt you. You are safe."
Aria hesitated for a few seconds before she stood to her feet and for the first time since the man had appeared, she had noticed just how tall he really was. Her eyes grew big as she stared at him.
Nathan smirked, "It's the height isn't it?" He said as Aria could only nod her head. "Don't let my height scare you, just think of me as a really tall teddy bear with really big hands and feet..." He stopped as he saw the fear in her eyes, "...I'm not helping am I?"
Aria shook her head no. "How about this?" Nathan asked as he walked to his desk and pulled out his chair and sat down, "Better?"
"Y...y...yes," She said and walked over to one of the white chairs and sat down.
"Good, cause I don't want you to be afraid of me," He told her as he smiled at her. "The last girl that was here, boy did she have a nice set of lungs on her. Took almost an hour to stop her from screaming at me. I thought my ears were going to bleed."
Aria looked at him strange and couldn't help but laugh a little. "Th...That must have been horrifying," She finally said, as the shock and fear started to wear off.
"Oh it was, I thought I was going to need earplugs," He told her, "But I didn't need them after all."
"How come?" She asked him.
"Because after she had stopped screaming, she fainted on me."
She couldn't help but laugh as she pictured the scene in her head. "Sorry, I don't mean to laugh," She told him, "But I can see that happening."
"Nah, don't worry about it," He said, "I'm just glad that you're not like her. Not sure if my ears could take it. But it's good that I made you laugh. Takes off the edge a little, makes things a little easier for me."
"Yeah," She said, as she shifted in her seat, still feeling a little scared.
"You have any questions you would like to ask before I begin?" He asked her, sensing her discomfort.
"I...I might have a few."
"Well that's good. Questions are always good to ask," He told her, "Just go easy on me. I'm still new to this. You're my 5th customer. And I just sound like I work for a grocery store." He chuckled.
Aria laughed and shook her head. She thought this man was rather weird and strange to her, but in a way, she was glad that he was. Made things a little easier...even if it was a little bit.
Nathan looked at her and laughed, "You think I'm crazy don't you?" She nodded her head. "I will take that as a compliment because now I know that I haven't lost my touch. So what's your first question?"
Aria straightened herself up in the chair and looked around the room before she turned back to Nathan. "Am I in heaven?"
"Very good question to ask and to answer it, no," He told her and before she could ask him the next one, he already knew, "You're in a waiting room. It's a waiting area for spirits who were taken from their life to early, the ones that have not been able to fulfill their life. Mostly car accidents, fires, drowning, gun shot victims, people like that, come here. Something that caused your death and it wasn't a natural cause. There are some cases up here that some of our car accidents and gun shot victims are neither alive nor dead."
Aria nodded her head, understanding, confused but understood, "So am I dead?" She asked, swallowing the lump that rose up in her throat, fighting back her tears as the thought crossed her mind.
"Yes and no," He said. She looked at him confused. "I'll explain. When you were hit by that car, your body was seriously hurt. I won't go into details but you are one of the few cases that the body isn't alive and isn't dead. It needs time to heal."
"And how long could that take? I mean for my body to heal."
"That's a very good question and I wish that I had the answers but I don't. It all depends on the extent of the damage the body has taken. It could be a few hours, a week, a month, a year or even longer."
"So I'm stuck here?" She asked as she could no longer fight her tears and one by one they began to fall down the side of her face, "I...I don't want to be stuck here for forever. Nathan, I'm only 19...I'm too young to die."
Nathan got up from his seat and walked around his desk and over to Aria. He knelt down beside her and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder, "I know you don't want to be here forever, none of us does. What happened to you wasn't suppose to. Some things just happen for a reason, though I don't understand why, but they do. But that's why I'm here. To give you a second chance at life," He told her and she turned to look at him making sure she had heard him right. He smiled and whipped a few of her fallen tears with his fingers, "A second chance until your body can heal."
"Are you serious?" She asked him, not believing her ears. "How is it possible?"
He stood to his feet and looked down at her, "If you follow me, I shall tell you."
"Okay," She said quickly standing to her feet, "Lead the way."
