I stood before the sandy shoreline of the beach, just watching the waves crash and smash together.

I had put on a warm jumper and only stared out to the horizon, not knowing where the line in the distance would end.

Probably to a world just out of reach.

The rains poured down around me, some drops being flung about in the gusting wind.

I placed my cold hands in my pockets, shivering only slightly, feeling someone approaching from behind.

I didn't care to see who it was and only felt an old man come to my side.

"Are you sure this is the path you want to take?"

I remained quiet when he said that. Hegbert stared at me weakly, and I swear, looks could kill.

He then turned his old eyes to the sight which I was staring at, and I remained silent.

"You will not be living a life of comfortableness."

"I don't care," I muttered under my breath and dug my hands deeper into my pockets.

"Are you doing this for you, Landon?" Hegbert asked me, for once being honest with the state I had put myself in, "Or are you doing it for Jamie...?"

I bit my lip, still watching the clashing tides, and swallowed nervously.

"Landon-"

"I don't know..." I spoke back barely, and Hegbert groaned as if disappointed in me.

"Well, I think you should."

I held still in my position and watched as Hegbert began to turn around to head back to his house.

"Sir," I peeped out, turning to see him leave, he didn't turn to see me, "You really think I should?"

"I don't care if you don't, don't care if you do."

I growled a little and watched him go away down the sandy footpath that was drenched and muddy from the constant rain we had had this winter.

I watched and watched, as Hegbert disappeared in the distance, and I turned my tired eyes back to the black sea.

When I swore I saw someone in the distance, standing there on the water, I opened my mouth, gasping almost.

I looked as the girl opened up gigantic white wings, and I yelled, running towards the ocean.

"JAMIE! JAMIE! COME BACK!

As I crashed into the waves, I burst my head through the water, nearly drowning in the high tides.

I paddled there against the torrential ocean, and when I was able to see ahead of me, I discovered she was gone.

I floated just above the waves, panting and almost swallowing the disgusting sea water by accident. I wavered there in the dark of the deep water and tossed and turned my head, looking everywhere for that girl.

I eventually gave up my search and swam back to the shore. As I stepped out of the tide, I saw there were footprints leading out from the sea just before me, newly stepped in. I crooked my left eyebrow up, grunting a bit confused, and stood up straight, shivering from the cold.

I watched the footsteps, seeing them go the direction of the sand path that led back to the car park.

I stumbled forward, and followed the path of the steps, till I realized they disappeared on the cement of the road.

I turned around, looking back from where I had come, and saw the waves reach up to the beach, filling in the indents in the sand from that mine and the girl's footprints had caused.

I sighed, touching the bridge of my nose in frustration.

"Looking for someone?"

I turned to my side, seeing a dark man had approached me and was looking out to the sea in the distance as well.

"...no," I said, barely able to get the word out of my frozen mouth, "I don't know..."

"Keep searching," the older man told me, as if this was a command, "Because you never know what you'll find."

The old dark man began to stroll away down the sandy shore, and I looked at him go.

"What about you?" I shouted, a little angry and upset. I watched him with my eyes, feeling like they were piercing into his soul.

"Just following the sun..." He responded, and soon disappeared from my sight. I watched him go, and never realized that he never left any footprints in the muddy sand.

As I turned to leave, I never realized until many years later, that that was an abnormality.

I was too wrapped up in my choices and options that I wasn't paying attention to the world around me, and how the supernatural was becoming all the more common. More... natural.

When I came back to Hegbert's house, I saw the key was in the door, and this surprised me.

I quickly entered into his house, and yelled out, "Hegbert! Mr Sullivan, sir!"

I could hear gasping, and I hurried through the house, till I saw Jamie's old father, leant up against the wall in the hallway, holding his chest.

I nearly broke down in panicked tears, but ran to the phone and picked it up at the dial, screaming into it as I ran 911.

"Help! Hegbert is having a heart attack!"

"Okay, stay calm. Where are you?"

I gave the woman on the other side of the phone the directions to the minister's house, and the ambulance could be heard within the next thirty minutes, firing off its loud siren, to push cars to the sides of the road as it roared down the street.

I held Hegbert's hand, tears rolling down my cheeks, and I saw the paramedics bang open the door, quickly putting him on the trolley and shoving him into the back of the ambulance.

I followed in quick pursuit, getting the keys to Mr Sullivan's car and pulling out just behind the van.

The rain lashed down on the car, slipping down the front window and I turned the wipers on, the rain swishing back and forth before them.

When I reached the hospital, I saw Hegbert being pulled out of the van and rushed into the building.

I wanted to follow him to make sure he was alright, but the nurses and doctors told me to wait in the hall with other people who had come there with family members in need of treatment.

I crashed down in heavy pants, against the chair, and only breathed in deeply after a few minutes, to stop the hyperventilating I had been doing.

I grabbed my head, nearly pulling out my hair in stress, and whispered in tears and gasps.

"This is all my fault, ALL my FAULT!"

I cried there, and got up after a few minutes, going outside the building and leaning against the wall in pain. I shut my eyes.

And heard a girl's voice say.

"Landon... he needs you."

I clenched my eyes tighter, and whispered, "No... I'll only make it worse."

"Please, for me..."

I recognized that kind response and opened my eyes for a second. I looked before me and gasped when I saw.

Jamie... with giant angel wings coming out of her back in a white flowing robe.

"J-J-Jamie.." I stuttered, scared. She looked at me with a soft smile, as I said to her, in disbelief.

"You're beautiful..."

I blinked my eyes softly after I spoke that truth, and only heard her voice whisper in my ear.

"Follow the sun... follow... your heart."

I blinked my eyes wide awake and stiffened when I saw I was alone in the stormy weather outside.

I wiped the tears from my eyes and muttered only to myself.

"I'll try..."

I whispered in pain.

"...I'll... try."