*This sucks, seriously, it does*
I WARNED YOU






“Get him into surgery immediately!”
“Adrenaline, now!”
“We’re losing him!”
“Get Dr McManus down here now!”

In the fading ambient lights and the sounds of all the hospitals machines, I was almost at the end. I was grasping the only thing I could hold on to. Hope.
I could barely open my eyes. I just wanted to sleep, but I couldn’t.
I knew the only thing that was keeping me alive was everything that the doctors had injected, pumped and shoved in me.
Mentally, all I was thinking about was her.
The pain was excruciating, I couldn’t take it anymore. But I had to focus, and that energy that kept flowing through me was thinking about her.
Would I ever see her again? Would I ever get the chance of holding her hand again?
Everything was almost over.
After hearing a doctor yell “His heartbeat is going lower and lower, we need to shock before it’s too late!”
I closed my eyes.

Darkness. Nothing more.

Silence.

I was able to open my eyes. This time, there was no lights hanging above me, no doctors yelling, no sounds of hospital machines.
I had awoken in a landscape, an exotic one. Something I had never seen before in my life. It was beautiful. Was this really the afterlife?
I looked down to see I was wearing a suit, something I was sure I had never had on before. It was unusual, then again everything around me was unusual with what was going on.
The area was stunning, a wide open space with the perfect weather. Trees surrounded the area. And in front of me about a few metres away was a door.
It led to nowhere. Just a door. Like one of the ones in an old fashioned apartment block.
Everything around this door was alive. The trees were swaying, the grass was flowing through the wind. The sun shined down on the reflection of the door handle.
Far into the distance past the door, was the plains and a mountain that peaked into the clear sky. I wanted to look more, but I was intrigued to open the door.
As I was able to walk to it, feeling the calmness and serenity I was in. I moved forward towards the door and twisted the handle.
The handle was warm with the suns ray. However I noticed something very small, peculiar, etched into the door.
“Soon”.
It was scratched into the old wooden door panel with probably a knife or something.
I ran my fingers across it, it was etched in quite deep.
I grasped the door knob again ready to turn it. Before a flash struck me from behind.

A cloaked figure. Dressed all in black and with a hood over it’s head. It stood behind me originally where I stood when I woke up here.
“Excuse me” I shouted.
“I, I don’t know where I am, but, I am guessing I am dead. This is the afterlife right?”
The figure just stood there. Not a movement was seen. Even with the winds blowing, it was statue-esque.
“Please, just tell me” I pleaded. Knowing only an answer at this point in time wouldn’t be nearly as sufficient as to why there was a door in the middle of an exotic landscape.

I heard a woman’s voice. It was deep and croaky. It was coming from the cloaked figure.
“I could show you the way but you’ll never be there” It said.
I tilted my head to the side and ever so slowly approached the figure.
“All this time in your eyes that you show you will never forget”
“There is no turning back, there is no turning back, there is no turning back”
It’s arm raised and pointed at me.
With my mouth open, and I could feel my heart pumping rapidly, I slowly walked backwards towards the door.
It’s arm still raised, I grabbed the door knob and twisted it. It wouldn’t budge.
I tried to slam my bodyweight into it, it was shut tight. I tried again and again and looked over my shoulder to see, nothing.
It was gone. But it was eerily silent. Almost like something had walked over my grave.
Again I forced myself into trying to break the door. Nothing would work.
I quickly rushed around towards the other side. Exactly the same. Except this time no words etched in and no door knob. The other side was bound to be the way.

But how do I do this, am I stuck here. Is this purgatory? Am I trapped in this place now.

This was it. I knew I was trapped here. I am dead I know it. I could feel it. But I can’t give up. I am trying to get back to her.
Just like in the hospital, in this place I was in, I could hear her smiles and her laughter. It was the only thing I’d been waiting for.
I started to shed a small tear. Knowing that my life was over and the last moment I got to see her was the moment that bought me to my tragic end.
I leaned back onto the door and sighed.
I heard a click. Almost like a lock that just opened.
Immediately I turned around and grasped the knob, I turned it, the door cracked from it’s hinges and I slowly began to push it.
Wherever I was going, it was dark. But I had to make my way back. Hopefully this was the way.

As the door opened all the way. I walked through. It was like passing through to another world, again.
I closed my eyes, and started to wonder if I was already there.

A lounge then was lit up with bright lights.
Draped with blood red curtains and a carpet that had the most strangest diamond based pattern I had seen. It reminded me of something but I couldn’t figure it out.
Where was I now? I turned around and noticed the door had disappeared. I had only taken 2 steps and it was gone.
Something is toying around with my mind here. Why am I in this room. What significance does it hold.
Dark in the shadows of the far wall, a small light illuminated slowly above a leather bounded chair.
Someone or something was in that chair. All I could do was stand and stare.
As the light reached it’s full brightness. I was shocked, it was the figure from the previous landscape.
Sitting the chair with one it’s arm resting on the chairs arm and with what looked to be holding something in it’s right hand.

“Ok, what do you want? You want me? You want my soul? Anything? What is it?
“I just, want, to see her again” I said quietly.
The figure got up, it started to walk towards me. I stood there, taking very deep breaths momentarily.
I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to know exactly what was going on. None of this makes sense. Why would it? But there has to be a reason.
As the figure was now in front of me, it raised it’s arm and revealed it’s face by removing the hooded cloak and letting it fall to the ground.

A woman stood before me. Fitted with only a red dress. I gazed up and down and wondered who she was.
It wasn’t who I was after. But, she could tell me answers perhaps.

“Eve” she said.
I swallowed and was ready to say my name.
“I know it already” she immediately said.
“Ok Eve, just tell me, what does all this mean? Who are you? I am dead right?” I asked.
“Your eyes, they glimmer” Eve said.
As I was close to tears as everything just got more and more confusing, I let out a deep sigh.
“I know, I just, want to be back with her”.
Eve smirked and walked back towards the chair near the far wall.
She took a quick seat and signalled me to come closer.
I approached and looked into her eyes. Her eyes were the brightest blue I had ever seen. They were almost like diamonds. The light in the room made them look more amazing then they were.
She was beautiful. Almost like a goddess. Wavy long blonde hair and a smile so fitting, it was breathtaking.

“Here, you are. I know it’s confusing, but I have good news for you” Eve said as she smiled.
I nodded. I felt nervous. The question I wanted to hear. Finally being delivered to me.
“You are definitely not dead silly”. She held her hand out.
“Hold it” She asked.
I reached out and held her hand. It was warm. And comforting.
“If you were dead, you couldn’t do that could you? She questioned.
“I don’t know, I….I….just…” I started to stutter.
“No need to fear. This is all just a path. I am here to help you get back on that path”.
“Keep holding my hand”
I gripped tighter.
“This here, all of this, is your fantasy. Nothing here is real, but just a mirage to put it simple. You are in control of what happens in here. And I am here to guide you along back to the real world”.
As she explained, I didn’t quite get something. If none of this was real, and I was in control of it, why can’t I just leave?
Why can’t I leave?” I asked.
“You have some work to do, it’s nothing more than just a reassurance measure that’s all” Eve replied.
“OK Eve, so just tell me, what do I do to just…go back?” I asked.
“See here, I need to make things a little clearer for you”
She let go of my hand and got up out of the chair.
She walked past me, placing her hand on my shoulder. “Don’t worry honey, this will explain everything”.

She walked towards the curtain behind us. Eve pulled a string, pushing the curtain to one side revealing a small display that was currently off.
As Eve smiled, she stepped over to the display and switched it on.
To my amazement, there was footage of me in the hospital with doctors surrounding me. I looked far from alive from what I was seeing.
“You see, that is the real world. But  you aren’t dead. What you are looking at, is projected from your mind, all in here” She pointed towards her forehead.
“If this is all, me, why am I seeing this? Is this part of this fantasy?”
“No, what you see here, and me standing here are part of another place. But everything else is yours.