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Angel

I watched as Steph had a mental breakdown right in front of my eyes.

"No! NO!" She screamed as we held her back from trying to go through the double doors.

"LET ME GO!" She cried. Everytime one of her arms got out of one of our grips, someone caught it. She quickly became frustrated.

"Ma'am calm down..." The doctor tried to soothe her. "Steph, Steph chill!" Dave yelled, crying.

"I WANT JACEYON! I WANT HIM!" She cried as she continued to restrain. "GO GET HIM! BRING HIM BACK!" She was hysterical. It broke my heart pieces to see her like this. I could only imagine how she was feeling...

"Stephanie, calm down!" I gripped onto her.

"I WANT JACEYON! GET OFF OF ME!" She screamed as she began to fight. "YO STEPH CHILL!" She slapped Dave. He quickly pulled her into his embrace, squeezing her tight.

They slowly made their way down to the floor.

"GOD IM SORRY... IM SORRY! PLEASE LET HIM COME BACK... I DIDN'T MEAN IT... I DIDN'T MEAN IT!" Her voice started to become horse due to all the screaming she was doing.

I got down on the floor with them and held onto her. She grew weak and melted in our arms.

"I'm sorry... I didn't mean it..." She whispered as she cried. Tears rolled down my face.

"It's okay.. I know, I know..." I whispered to her. "I didn't mean it..." I rubbed her head as she laid on my chest.

Jd

I opened my eyes. I looked around the operating room seeing that I was the only one in there.

I got off the table and stood up. I looked down and saw that I was in a hospital gown. I touched my side feeling where I was once shot.

The wound was no longer there.

I looked down at the table seeing my bloody, lifeless body hooked up to machines. I began to cry, getting scared.

Am I dead?

"Jaceyon..." I lifted my head up. I know that voice anywhere...

"Mommy?" I turned around seeing a young, beautiful brown skinned woman standing at the door. She was wearing a long, white dress.

I walked over to her a wrapped my arms around her. She rubbed my back. "Heyyy my big handsome man... No need to be scared. I'm right here..." She kissed my forehead.

"Come on. Come with mama." She grabbed my hand. She lead me towards the door and opened it.

As soon as she did, a bright light shined through. It was so bright, that I shielded my face and closed my eyes.

We walked towards it.

I opened my eyes again. The scenery was different. We were on a beach.

The sun from the sunset made the sky orange and blue, with hues of purple in it.

I looked around, hearing the waves crash onto one another. We were the only ones there.

There was a white bench sitting in the middle of the shore. "Come on, sit." My mother pulled me to the bench. We sat down.

She looked out into the sky. I felt the cool water run under my feet as it washed up on the shore.

I looked at my hands. "Am I dead?" "Yes son. You are."

"Then where are we Mom?" I asked. She looked at me and smiled. "Well, we're in between."

"What's that?" I scrunched my face up.

"You're in between earth and heaven." She grabbed my hand. "But don't you live in heaven now?"

She smiled and nodded her head. "Yes son I do." "So then why are you here?"

"To come and get you silly. I was instructed by Jesus to come meet you and guide you here."

I just looked down.

"Everyone's up there waiting on you. Grandma, Grandpa, your son-" My head shot up.

"My son?" "Yes your son."

I didn't say anything. "Would you like to meet him?" I hesitated.

I didn't know... I'm afraid that he may be angry with me because I didn't protect him.

"He's not angry with you. He loves you. He wants to see you." It's like she read my mind...

I nodded my head. "Um, yes. I wanna see him."

"Alright..." She said.

Soon a young, tall, handsome man appeared walking down the beach. He was wearing a loose white shirt with white pants.

I watched as he smiled walking over to us. I stood up and embraced him with a hug.

"Wassup Dad?" He said into my shoulder as I grabbed his head. "Wassup man? Awe man, you look just like me..." I said smiling.

"I-is that a good thing?" We laughed. "Yes man that's a good thing." We both sat down on the bench.

"Son I want to let you know that I'm really sorry... I'm sorry that I didn't protect you. And that you had to die before you could live. I think about you all the time. I worry about you." I said as tears came out my eyes.

"Dad, you don't have to apologize or feel bad about anything. There was nothing that you could do. I'm not angry with you or with mom. I love you both. But dad, there's a reason that I'm here. I want to tell you that you don't have to worry about me anymore. I'm fine dad... You can let go... You can let me go." He looked into my eyes.

"Wow son.. I-I don't know what to say..." I shook my head.

"Say that you'll move on. Don't completely forget about me, but tell me you'll get over it."

"O-okay son..." I whispered. "It's fine. I'm fine. Everyone's fine. I love you."

I touched his face. "I love you too..." I kissed his cheek.

He smirked at me. "I like that girl you're with..." I furrowed my eyebrows.

"Who? Stephanie?..." He nodded his head. "I like her too! She's a little bit of a hot head, but I like it." My mom chimed in.

I smiled. "I'm surprised at you mom. You never liked any of the girls I brought home."

"Yeah well this one is different... She's smart, funny, nice, genuine, a little crazy but that's good, she got you turning your life around because Lord knows I couldn't do it, she loves you, and I know she'll take care of you. Just treat her right. And love her Jaceyon. Make her your wife. And I don't want you to let what happened to you change you. I want you to stay the same happy, goofy ole Jaceyon, okay?" She gave me the eye.

I nodded my head. "Yes ma'am..." "Wait..." I realized something.

"Why are you guys talking like that?" They looked at each other.

They hesitated. "Talking like what?"

"Like, like I'm not staying here with you guys..." My son put his head in his hands.

"Goddog Grandma! You always giving it away!"

"What shit?! Don't look at me! Jaceyon, you remember when we were talking about how this is in between?" I nodded my head. "Yeah."

"Welllll, sometimes people come to in between because they're not ready. Your mission on earth is not done. And there's something there that you can't leave behind just yet." Thunder came out of no where and boomed in the sky.

"Dang grandma don't tell him!" My son yelled.

"Awe boy shut up! Ian gone tell him!" She yelled back. "Come on! You working my nerves! We gotta get him back to his body!" They stood up.

"Wait so, I get to live?" I pointed at myself.

"Yes son. Come on. Let's go." I stood up and grabbed their hands.

The same bright light appeared over the water. We walked into the ocean and walked through it.

We were back in the operating room. I looked at the nurses as they worked. I then looked back at my mother and son.

"Well Jaceyon, this is it." My mother shrugged. I hugged and kissed them both.

"When will I get to see you guys again?" I asked as I kissed my son.

"Umm, we can't exactly tell you that. But what we can say is that it'll be a long long long long time from now." She smiled. I nodded my head.

"Okay. I love you guys."

"We love you too..." They said. They began to walk away.

"OH AND DAD DONT FORGET ABOUT WHAT WE SAID! DONT LET THIS CHANGE YOU! AND ITS OKAY TO LET GO!" He shouted and the bright light faded.

I smiled and looked back at my body. I climbed up on the table and sat down. I closed my eyes and leaned back into my body.

Dave

"Steph it's gonna be okay..." Me and Angel tried to soothe her as she cried.

"No it's not.. I'm not ready to lose him..." Her skin was pale.

"Ma'am I am so sorr-" The doctor started but was cut off. Two nurses came running up to him.

"DR.ROSS! DR.ROSS! HIS HEART STARTED BEATING AGAIN!" They yelled. He looked around confused.

"W-What?" He asked. "JONES! HE'S ALIVE! HIS HEART STARTED BEATING AGAIN! COME ON WE CANT LOSE HIM AGAIN!" They ran away and he ran right behind them.

I closed my eyes, sending a prayer up to God.

"Ohhh! Thank you God!" Stephanie said as she looked up at the ceiling and sobbed.

Since y'all asses was acting like y'all couldn't stop crying 🙄  Folks was coming out the woodworks on that one  😂

I guess I'll be updating all day since I'm not doing anything for today 🙁

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