Novel & Cerita Life After Life

My real life had only just begun. (The End)

] [May all your plans work out perfectly. [Live long and stay healthy!] [May everything work out perfectly for you!] … They were the notes William and I had left behind, one by one, in different corners of the city. And then, internet sleuths uncovered another account. The username was 'GimmeThatResurrectionScroll'. It contained only one post—a short video with text and audio. [You made it. If we never meet again in this life, then I hope today is kind to you. Tomorrow too. And every day after—always.]

I thought he had been asleep for a while. I nodded, as if he could see that. “Yeah, and you know what? Earlier when she hugged me, she whispered something to me.” "What?" Auden opened his eyes and looked at me. I told him what Manang told me. “It’s just nothing, okay. Don’t think too much about that. Blessing and death are both part of life," he said as if he is educating me. I also don't want to believe but what Manang Tere said bothers me. I nodded at him in agreement with what he said. I took a deep breath and then adjusted my seat.

The day after forty-five is a Wednesday. She runs at six-fifteen. Same circuit, same park, same plane trees in October, going gold at their own pace. The birthday is behind her. Life continues. This is the thing she most wanted to know about forty-five: not the arrival — she has been thinking about the arrival for twenty-four years — but what comes after it. In the first life, there was no after. Forty-five was the end. In the second life, forty-five is a landmark in the middle of something still happening, and the day after it is the first day of the rest of the second life with the full view from the landmark available.

I am Ayla Navarez, originally. But after an accident, my life completely changed. From opening my eyes in an unfamiliar place and meeting unfamiliar faces I never knew and seen before, everything started there. That time, I realized I am no longer Ayla Navarez, but it took me three days straight to accept it. It seems that, me in my previous life, Ayla Navarez, was already dead and now I am living my second life as Rumi Penelope Lee, the life of a total opposite to my previous life.