They said that when you die, your life flashes before your eyes. But that didn’t happen to me. I didn’t see my brother or my mother, I didn’t see what made my life mine and unique. All I saw was darkness. The Void, I called it. In the void there was nothing. Everything was nothing, nothing was everything. I walked around on it’s invisible solid floor, my eyes adjusting the darkness. I looked down at the only thing I could see that was dark. My body. I didn’t hurt anywhere, my wounds from the accident had vanished. When I was killed, i didn’t feel anything. Well, anything other than a short burst of pain, then I felt like I was on air. I raked my tan fingers through my brown hair, looking around shouting for anyone to hear me until my voice went
hoarse. It never did. That’s when i finally came to terms that I wasn’t alive anymore. Just the newest resident to the black Void of the thing called death.

I continued walking, shouting louder and louder, running when I believed there was someone following me. It didn’t help that I couldn’t see anything. That I couldn’t see ghosts that followed me to nowhere. I was calm for some bizarre reason. You just get killed and you’re calm? It was a weird feeling, like nothing mattered in the world anymore. I wasn’t stressed, I wasn’t worried. I was just me, just a freakingly calm me. As I continued to walk in no direction, I was sure I heard a soft sound of patter. Footsteps. Someone was following me in the Void. I jerked my head around, suddenly panicking for my dead life. I stopped once to footsteps had faded away. It was all in my head. I was imagining of scenarios worse than what was really happening. I put my hand lightly on my chest, expecting a fast beating heart, but what I found confirmed my expectations. There was nothing beating below the skin, no blood running through my veins. I bet if there was light, I would be ghastly like a ghost. Well, I am a ghost now I think. Since I was extremely confused and overwhelmed, I fell to the empty floor, curling my legs against my chest, breathing my airless oxygen, waiting for something to happen but nothing did.


I am the girl who was scared of the dark.