I turned my phone off immediately and headed straight home. I was in no mood to handle this emotional rollercoaster so I decided to sleep it all away hoping that a nightmare would drag them all away as I slept. Few hours later, I woke up with a headache and half an empty bottle of whiskey. I realized that Janice might not spend the night in our apartment because it was still 10pm and she wasn't back from whereever she had disappeared to. Perhaps her shameless act had made her unable to face me.
I shrugged, and decided to make myself some warm milk instead. Then I headed to the balcony and sat down, enjoying the occasional breeze while I sipped my milk like a lost kitten. My mind was lost in thought as I reminisced about everything. Asher and I. Asher and Janice. Janice and I. Everything had blurred into one very big blob that was eating away at my mind and my heart. Unwanted tears stung my eyes and began to fall of their own accord.
It was at this point in time that I heard a couple of hushed whispers coming from somewhere near the balcony.
"let's kill that nosy Levi girl tonight like we planned. Simple, clean and easy. Make it look like an accident", a husky voice whispered.
"I just need a drink before the job, I can't kill a person whiles I'm still sober", the other voice replied.
I gasped silently, eyes suddenly widening as I tried to not give away my position on the balcony. Who were these people and why were they trying to kill Janice?. Why do I even care?. I shouldn't have cared but I did.
And that is pretty much how I ended up in my current situation - dead. Despite the backstabbing of Janice, I still came out here to save her, only to get myself brutally killed.
Minutes later, when no one showed up, the restless Grim Reaper took a glance at me. In my opinion, he was quite impatient, because it had barely been ten minutes now.
"I don't think anyone's going to come", he said with a voice laced in doubt.
I took a long exhale and nodded, finally giving in to the impatient reaper of a man standing a few feet away from me and almost telling him to take me wherever it was that he was supposed to escort me to, but then the headlights of a vehicle suddenly fell on to my lifeless body and blinded me for a second. The truck stopped and someone almost jumped out instantly.
Janice.
I ran over to her, hoping to talk to her and tell her to get out of this place before she gets herself killed too but she walked right past me, too busy walking towards my lifeless body. Or Perhaps she didn't care.
But why was she in a truck?, Where was her car?
She glanced around and assumed that she was alone when she didn't see me or the Grim Reaper. That was when she did the most strangest thing. She laughed out loud dramatically, like the classic evil laugh that movie villains usually did. And then using her black boots, she kicked my lifeless body in the face.
I frowned, a little disgusted and annoyed at her rude behaviour. Like girl?, ever heard of respecting the dead?
The Grim Reaper looked like he wasn't surprised though, like he had seen so many similar sitautions in his entire existence. Perhaps he had.
"serves you right!", she whispered cruelly.
I flinched while staring at her. She was in every way not the Janice I had known for 8 years. Or maybe she was I just had been too blind to see.
The sound of a truck door opening and closing suddenly filled the air and gained my attention. Then I received another big shock.
Someone else walked out of the truck, from the driver's seat.
Asher.
That is when the painful realisation hit me.
They set me up and then cruelly killed me! They murdered me!
But what did I do to deserve this?
All I ever did was be the best girlfriend he could ever wish for and the best friend any girl
would want.
And yet they betrayed me again!. I watched in disgust as they smiled victoriously.
The Grim Reaper held my hand, a spark of electricity running from the tips of his fingers down my arm and then to my spine, jolting me from the two people I had trusted with my life and the scene before me.
They were currently kissing in front of my corpse.
How dare they?
"Come on time to go sweetie", I heard the hushed whisper of the Grim Reaper.
But wait, did he just call me sweetie?
...
There was a sudden bright white light, his hand wrapped around mine and suddenly we were somewhere else. A completely different place, like none that I had ever seen. The roads were made of glass and the trees looked like they were carved from every kind of precious stone, and shining brightly in rainbow colours even though it was almost night time here.
Beautiful, that was the only word to decribe it. I smiled involuntarily, taking in my new environment.
"welcome to the afterlife", the Grim reaper whispered. For a grim reaper, he was a little too flirty if you ask me.
"thanks", I answered.
So I pretty much got the layout after he showed me around. There were the nurseries and the old people homes. The lost souls registry, police officers and even the teachers quarters.
"so you're like a grim reaper but also like a police officer?", I asked in confusion.
He nodded briefly, and I had to actually hold in a chuckle.
How is that even possible?
Anyway, I didn't question it.
"Now for your afterlife orientation", he said and smiled a little.
Next, he also showed me around the nurseries.
Pretty much everything was almost the same as my life before. There was even a placement system where I'd be assigned a job worthy of my capabilities.
Maybe, it wouldn't be so hard to adapt here.
Maybe I can move on afterall.
I smiled again, hoping I get to work at the nurseries. It was dark now and all the buildings suddenly looked The same. The Grim reaper gave me a stare, a stare that suddenly made me feel warm all over.
Is he going to call me that name again?, I wondered.
"sweetie, you'll need to go to the head office in the morning. For now you can spend a night at my place. It seems you will have to see the head soul manager tomorrow", he said with a wink.
I'm at a lost here,
How can this Grim Reaper be this flirty?