Living in a world of fire and ash

by J.A.Kishu

Five arrives in the future, surrounded by death and destruction. But he won t be alone because he is lucky, God still doesn't want Klaus in the Afterlife.

14. Letter

Chapter 14: Letter

Dear younger me,

Get your act together! Yes that doesn't sound really nice of me but we and I mean you with it have pretty much fucked up our life. So let me explain a few things to you. Five might tell you that you can´t die. If not here I am telling you that you are immortal. However that doesn't mean you can walk around and kill yourself with drugs or other things. Dying costs you a lot. You will lose things like the feeling to need something, connections to people you know are important but you can´t feel it anymore. Believe me when I tell you that you don't want to lose these things. I have one of our brothers following me as a ghost, who has to remind me to eat and tell me what to do, what I used to like. Definitive not his job.

First things first. You need to stop the drugs, for you it´s still early enough to stop without the consequences. I write you a manual for our powers how you can use them, with a bit of training you will be able to sleep in a room without ghosts and send the annoying ones into the afterlife.

Five will also give you something that is very important to me. The dog tags you are holding belong to the first and only person I loved more than myself. He was a beautiful person and I love him. What is this for you, you might ask? His name was Dave, he died and he loved us more than anything else in this world. More than life itself. He told me so. And even if you will never meet him, there is a person out there that loves you. You have to remember that. Whenever you doubting yourself, your siblings and everyone around you, think of Dave. He loves you and all of your little imperfections. Keep the tags safe, it´s the only thing I have left of him.

I think that covers most of it, on the back you find the manual and I hope you won´t become me. This is your chance. Don´t wasted. You can trust your siblings; they love you even when we are all bad at showing it.

Yours (2019 version of yourself)

P. S. Five promised to let you sleep in his bed every night when you stop the drugs. When you feel scared or lonely or can´t really control your powers yet, just go to him. Ben and Diego are of course another option but Five will never send you away.

I guess I scared him.