Chapter 34

Genesis  I felt Ethan next to me. I wanted to ask him what was happening next, why my body was suddenly cold — why everything felt numb — but I couldn't open my eyes.  I was trapped in darkness.  "So," a low whispery voice spoke into the darkness, "will you stay or will you go?"  "What?" I spoke into the darkness, unable to see anything around me. White smoke suddenly appeared in front of me, and then a hand reached out through the smoke.  "Will you come with me? Allow me to ease all your pain? Or will you stay?"  The hand looked so welcoming.  The closer it came to my body the more I wanted to take it.  But I could still feel Ethan, and leaving him… felt so wrong. My body shuddered at the thought.  "Choose," the voice commanded.  I didn't want to choose. I just wanted to go back to my normal existence, where I went to Starbucks in the mornings and did homework in the afternoons.  Those days were long gone.  "Choose," it sa