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Chapter 15-
The pain subsided and all I could feel was pure bliss. The world was hazy and I could see people standing around me. Wait, Me? I looked down at myself wondering how I could be doing this. Then it clicked. I'm dead. For some odd reason, I was not scared or upset. I was more intrigued than anything. I walked around everyone so I could get a closer look at myself. The experience was disturbing to say the least. My neck had been ripped open and blood pooled around me. I looked over my shoulder to see the strigoi dead, a stake still sticking out of his heart. "She's still alive, but barely," Dimitri yelled lifting me up. I walked over and looked at my face. It was pale and void of life. Everyone took off running back towards campus, but for some reason I felt like sticking around. I walked back to the Strigoi that had attacked me and looked down at him. "Not so tuff now are ya?" I said with a smirk. "You may have gotten the best of me, but look what happened to you. I guess we won huh?" I walked a little further away and lay on my back watching the stars. "Wonder how long I get to hang out like this. It's kind of peaceful," I said to no one. Then a thought hit me. My parents, what would they do? I was their only child. I couldn't leave them. It would kill them. Flashes of my life started pouring through my head. My wonderful family whom I loved more than my own life, Tasha who had taught me how to love myself, and my family here at the school who in the last few days I had not treated so well. I began to regret how I acted and wanted so much to get back to them to tell them I was sorry. To tell Eddie, I didn't mean what I said and that he was right. I needed to tell Adrian that I was sorry for my reaction to him cuddling with me. I know he only wanted to make sure I was okay. He was such a good friend. I needed to tell everyone thank you and tell them I loved them so much. I needed to get back to them. I just didn't know how. I got up and started to run in the direction the rest of them took off. I needed to get back.
The sun was beginning to rise in the east and I could see the shadow of the school ahead of me. I picked up my pace. I had to get there. Just as the school seemed to be within reach I stopped. "Sam, I'm so sorry," Rose cried walking towards me. I tried to talk but nothing would come out. "Don't try, you can't talk. I'm pretty good at figuring out what you want to say though." I tilted my head to the side and smiled. "I'm sorry Rose," I mouthed. "I didn't mean for this." She shook her head. "It wasn't your fault." I looked down. "Tell Eddie I am sorry." She nodded tears rolling down her cheeks now. I walked a little closer now wanting to hug her and tell her I was going to be okay. I reached out and as I wrapped my arms around her I felt warm and cold and warm again and was sucked away.
I had no idea what was happening but I was once again in the darkness. I could hear voices around me and crying somewhere near my feet. "Well, this is odd," I said. The talking stopped. "I was just talking to Rose and now I'm back in the dark. What the hell?" I heard a gasp and hands touching me. "Get the doctor," someone yelled and then I heard a door slam open. "God, what is up? If I'm dead why am I feeling so much pain all of the sudden. This must be hell. Of course if this was hell, why would there be a doctor and shouldn't I be burning." I was completely confused. "Sam, can you hear me?" I nodded. "If this is heaven it sucks. Can't a girl be left alone for five minutes to sleep? I just died. Now unless it's a direct order from God himself, I am not waking up so go away." I heard someone snort and some laughter. "Really? It's not funny. I just watched myself die. I saw my neck and eww. Then I was talking to Rose and didn't even get to finish what I was saying because someone up here was so impatient for me to arrive. Now the least you can do is let me be for a while." I rolled over and pulled the blanket up around me when searing pain swept through my body. I let out a scream and bolted up right in bed. I opened my eyes for the first time and looked around. All my friends were standing next to me. Most were smiling and crying. The guardians in the room smiled and had a look of relief in their eyes. Adrian however, was next to the bed in a chair asleep. That kind of confused me, but I didn't think much about it.
A moment later the door swung open and Rose ran in followed by Dr. Olendski. "Sam!" Rose screamed. "I didn't know what happened. I was talking to you and you were saying goodbye and then you just vanished. I…" Rose stopped and looked at Adrian passed out in the chair. Her eyes went wide as she looked back at me. "Adrian saved you. But how?" she asked looking over at Lissa. "He isn't a healer." Lissa shrugged and walked over to me. "It doesn't matter, Sam is alive and that's all that counts." Rose and Lissa through their arms around me and I gasped as the pain washed over me again. Pulling back I looked at the two of them and around the room to everyone who was standing there. "What's going on?" I asked my voice barely above a whisper. Rose and Lissa looked at each other and then back to the guardians. They all looked a little nervous and averted their eyes when I looked over to them. This could not be good. "Well," Lissa said. "Your shadow kissed," Rose finished like it was no big deal.
I was incredibly confused. The words sounded familiar but I just couldn't place them right now. I was so tired and my body ached. Dr. Olendski finally stepped forward. "Sam, do you know what happened?" I looked up at her trying to remember everything. They all waited in silence as I put all the pieces of what happened together. Then I gasped remember seeing myself lying on the ground blood everywhere. "I died," I said tears forming in my eyes. "But how? I can't be here if I died. People don't come back." I shook my head trying to get the images out of my head. There was so much blood.
Lissa looked into my eyes and sighed. "Some people do, Sam." I didn't understand any of this. I wanted to not think about this. "Where is Eddie?" I asked trying to change the subject. Rose jumped up. "Oh God, Eddie. He was so upset when we were told you were gone." She jumped off the bed and ran out of the door. "Okay," was all I could say.
I leaned my head back on my pillow completely drained. Who would have known that dying and coming back would take so much out of a person. Well, I'll have to remember that for when I write my book about my out of body experience. I mean isn't that what people do when they die and come back. The next think I knew I was surrounded in darkness and the quiet felt amazing.