Visions by hima (read novel full txt) 📕

gasp trying to decipher meaning of this.
"Let's get you into my car. I'll take you to the hospital."
"Not yours." I screamed.
"Okay, okay.." he said panicked.
He scooped me up and sat me in the seat while he hurried to the wheel. As the car moved my energy was fully drained out and let the darkness loom around me.
"Is she okay?" I heard someone whisper.
I fluttered my eyelids before opening them.
"God! you scared the hell out of me." Richards said leaning onto my bed.
"I'm sorry."
He smiled and squeezed my hands gently.
"Annie is on the way." he said.
"Thanks,"
"How are you feeling now?" he said sitting beside my bed.
"Good."
"I'm gonna kill myself if I ever saw you that way again."
I nodded smiling.
"Ida.." Annie rushed into the room.
"She is good. Don't worry yourself." Richards said gently.
"Oh! Richards. I'm really worried about her." she said sobbing into his arms.
How did I miss this? They love each other and when did this happen? I am happy for Annie; Richards a good guy and well settled. They deserve each other.
Annie pulled out of his arms as soon as she gained control.
"I'm fine." I assured her.


"Annie.." I said determined to ask her about Richards.
"Yeah!"
"Can we talk?"
She set the plates down and sat beside me.
"Do you want to say something? "I asked tentatively.
She frowned.
"Richard.." I murmured.
She let out a huge sigh.
"I thought you know this especially he is the one that kind of there for me when parents died and you were.." she cut off the sentence in middle knowing those days would bring bad memories and with it pain to me.
May be I was blind to the whole world around me for the past year.
"You don't like him?" Annie asked tentatively.
"You two are meant to be." I said.
She hugged me crying happy tears.

There is no word from Ed…I’m beginning to get worried about him, what happened to him? Why did he leave the apartment? Was he seeing someone else? Annie brought me yesterdays newspaper and Richard walked in with her.

“Don’t worry about it honey at least you are safe…” Annie tried to comfort him. “What happened?” I asked. “Since Richard had to take you to hospital in your car, he asked a friends of his to bring the car but he died in an accident…” she said.

“Is it a red swift?” I asked. He nodded. I was lost in thoughts, last time when I had the vision about the bikers the same thing happened and now the same…She found the column and read through it, the accident was reported exactly as I had in the vision, I looked at the photograph of it, something caught my eyes… I logged unto the system and into the newspaper sight and browsed through the pictures, I enlarged them and there to my utter astoishment Ed was standing behind the back drop of the scene with the dead guy. I browsed for the bikers accident and as I had suspected Ed was standing with the dead bikers,how could that be…?

Something in my mind triggered and I browsed through the latest accident pictures and each picture I found Ed with dead persons. My head swarmed with doubts, confusion and fear. I accidentally stumbled upon the pictures of our accident, I thought reluctantly if I should further go on but decided to see where it will take. My mom and dad were standing with him looking at me bleeding in the car.

This was all weird. What’s all this? “Ida…Ed is here to see you…” Annie said walking in. He walked in, I tensed seeing him. Ed walked in and I could see the gloom that hung over him as a veil. “Annie, I need a moment with him..” I said.
Annie left closing the door behind… “I heard that you went to my flat…”he said. I nodded. “I moved somewhere else a year ago…”He said. “Where…?”I asked. “Just a kilometer away…”he said.

He sat with me awkwardly for a few moments and stood up to leave. “Ed…What’s your job..?” She noticed him flinch at her very question. “Collecting things…” he said tentatively.

“Like dead souls…”she asked. He stared at her wide mouthed. “Tell me the truth, Ed…”she said stading closer to him.

“I work for the death angels.. I collect dead souls for them…” Though Ida knew the answer somehow she wanted to hear it from him. She slumped on to her bed, her heart wanted to deny it. “Ida…this wasn’t a choice I made…Our family had bee doing it for years…”he said.

“Was this the reason that you are away from me?” she mumbled. “When I took away your parents soul, I could no longer see you without guilt eating away me so I was being away from you though I watched over you all the time…”he said.

“Do you have anything to do with the visions I’m having…?”she asked. “No…It was something you get for loving me…” he said. “ Death angels wanted to see if you could still love me even after knowing what I’m…”he said.

I shook my head in disbelief…”I thought I was given this power to help those people…” I mumbled. “That is something that you can never do…Death is inevitable…” he said.

“I had tried saving your parents but they died in one or other way…”he said. Ida couldn’t fathom these things but one thing she was sure, she loved Ed and does these things change her feelings towards him.

“I know… I shouldn’t have come here, none would want death so close in their life…”he said standing up ad walking away from me. I saw two tiny tear drops on his cheeks. “I’m sorry Ida for ever coming into you life… I would never show my face again…”he said. His contorted with pain as he said those words…

I knew how much he used to love me… we were together since I can remember, he walked away from my room. Could I live on with what he is? Could I still love him?Why does it hurt to know that he is feeling sad?

I ran after him…”Ed…” I ran into his arms. “I don’t mind who you are as log as you love me…” I whispered. His face lit up, he picked me up and kissed me on the cheeks, I knew I was one happiness in his gloomy life.


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Publication Date: 11-30-2010

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Dedication:
dedicated to friends and family. cover art, is from some amazing artist which I found online, thanks to him.