Chapter 6

Heavy. My eyelids felt so heavy as I tried to open them, and that smell, I cannot stand such a foul and putrid smell. It smelt of death and destruction and it was one of the worst smells I have ever encountered in my existence thus far. I couldn’t hear anything for a few seconds, and then bit by bit sound slowly crept back in. Screams from all over, what is wrong with th-  OH that’s right! The plane crashed. My thoughts immediately focused on Candice, and my eyes flew open frantically looking around the wreckage. This just shouldn’t happen to people and yet ever since I found out my time here on Earth is almost up, strange things have been taking place. “CANDICE!”, I yelled her name hoping she would hear me and let me know where she was, if she was ok. I can’t think like that, of course she is ok, she just has to be. “Jebidiah?” a weak feebly sounding voice appeared to my far right and I raced over to find Candice underneath some rubble.

It ached me to find her this way, but at least she was still alive and conscious. I reached over and helped her up, she was so fragile and seemed to not be able to keep herself up right on her own. “W-what happened?” she stammered, to which I replied, “Some freak accident, the plane just fell out of the sky as though it lost all of its power and ability to fly, it seems as though we weren’t super high up though because most people are still alive.” Saying it out loud made the situation even more real than I would have liked. We stumbled in silence for a while trying to find an area that wasn’t covered in the aftermath of the crash. Even though she was quiet, I could tell Candice was seriously rocked by what I had told her. Her whole demeanour changed from groggy and out of focus to utterly scared and stiff from shock.

“Help is on the way”, I tried to soothe her worries away, but it didn’t help, I suppose I can understand what she may be going through, I mean this kind of life was new to her. Although, when we first met, she really seemed like she could handle a lot. After what seemed like forever, we heard the tell-tale sound of a rescue mission, many ambulances even a few helicopters. I felt such an immense amount of relief flooding my body and I could sense some from Candice as well, we were ok.

Most of what happened next was a blur, I think my adrenaline diminished the second I knew it was alright to let go and let others take over. I woke up in a hospital bed cleaned up, all my wounds were dressed, and I was feeling slightly out of it. I looked over to my left and found Candice in a bed a couple feet away from me, I guess they could see we were together by the way we were holding on to each other back at the crash site. She was still asleep, at least she seemed more at peace that way. A nurse came in with a phone and handed it to me telling me that it’s for me, strange, I took it and that loud screeching voice screamed in my ear again. This time after dropping the phone in fright, I also yelled out in pain and frustration because I didn’t know why I kept getting these random mysterious calls. How did they even find me at this specific hospital? What do they want from me? The nurse was clearly rattled by the situation because she had this concerned look on her face and tried to make it better but there was only so much that she could do.

Candice was wide awake now, no doubt it was my doing. She didn’t seem upset that I woke her though, she just had this pained expression on her face either because she has been around me for this before or because she was in actual pain, I couldn’t tell. After the nurse had left, I turned to Candice and asked her what’s wrong, but she didn’t answer. After a few minutes she finally said, “I don’t think these calls you are getting are random prank calls”, ok I mean obviously but what was she getting at, she continued to say, “I heard about something similar before, I didn’t think that this was the same thing until now. I know of someone that can help us figure out how to decipher these messages without causing you pain.” Wait, decipher? That means that these calls have messages, WHAT?

“You mean to tell me that I have been getting calls from someone trying to tell me something and that there is a way I can understand what the message is, and you are only telling me about this now? Surely this doesn’t happen to everyone?”, I was a little angry and frustrated that she wasn’t immediately forthcoming about this, she should have known back when it happened the first time with her, that wasn’t a normal prank call. “I didn’t know, Jebidiah. This particular occurrence is extremely rare, so I can’t be going around thinking it’s the reason when it could very well have been something else. Now we know and getting angry won’t solve anything, all we can do going forward is find the person and get help.” She had a point; I was being juvenile, and I didn’t want to make things worse. Something stood out to me though, “You said this occurrence is rare, is there something I should know about it?”

“Only that when people try and give you a message this way, it comes from great power, and it can be quite dangerous to those that are underserving. These people are known to grant special abilities according to the situation the deserving is in.” she stated matter-of-factly. I was super confused, “I don’t follow 100%”, she seemed slightly frustrated and impatient now. “Jebidiah, these people can save your life if you are one of the deserving few.” I was – well I don’t know what I was, it didn’t matter now, I looked at her and only had one thing left to say to all of that, “Well then what are we waiting for?”. She smiled, we grabbed whatever we could and snuck out to start yet another adventure.