1 Prologue

Where am I? It's all dark and cold. There's nothing. What happened? Why am I here? I just don't know what to do. Think, Magnolia Think! You've got this! Now, just how am I going to walk around in the dark?

I decided that trying to feel around might help. I felt around for what felt like ages! As soon as I was going to give up, I felt a wall. I walk against the wall, then I see something. It's A light! I start to walk faster with my heart pumping. My walking soon turned into running.

"Hello?!", I scream with all I had left in me.

Nothing. I soon hit a door. It looked heavy and sturdy. I put my hand on the knob. As soon as my hand touched the knob, everything came flooding back. I began to cry from pain. I put my hand on my stomach. I then realized I had a long pole protruding from my stomach! Why am I like this? Why!

"Seems like you don't remember yet.", a kid's voice said.

I looked around to see where the voice came from, but I saw nothing. Am I going delusional from all this? Am I going to die here? Wait! Didn't I already die? My head is banging! This is just too much!

"Looks like you found out.", a voice right next to me said.

"WHO ARE YOU!" I try to look to my side, but I realized I couldn't move my body. With all that blood

coming out, I think I might die again.

"It looks like you could use some help", he said with a slight chuckle.

"AGHHHHH" This hurts so much! Why am I feeling like hell! I thought he said something about

helping! Stop! JUST STOP! I just can't take it anymore. Why am I feeling so weak?!

"You can stop crying already", the young voice said with boredom. "Feel your stomach and look at your clothing now."

What did that damn kid do to me?! I looked down at my clothing and saw that all the blood was gone. Wait… If the blood is gone then does that mean...? I quickly put my hand on my stomach. I felt nothing protruding out. Even if everything is gone it still hurts like it was hurting before. I'm still not able to move my own body!

"Will you stop complaining! There is so much damn yapping!" The kid moved closer to where his shadow was on me. "In 20 minutes tops, you'll be back to normal. For now, just close your eyes and everything will come back to you."

I don't know if I should trust this kid. I close my eyes reluctantly and see something.

"Hey Maggie, can you do something for me?", a girl that looked familiar asked. The memories then came rushing back. I was a woman in her 20's that was studying anything that had to do with water. It was the closest I could get to swimming. I just didn't want to disappoint my mom. My mom was a very strict lady. It felt like she had a tight leash on me. She wanted me to be a perfect child in her eyes. She hated the idea of me becoming an athlete who'll become the next bum of the world. She thinks a respectable person is someone who has a degree in any sort of science or even a Doctor. But the thing is that I love swimming! It was my passion, my life, and my everything! I would go to swim meets after school, until I reached high school. My mom ended up finding out about it all and threatened me. When it was time for me to become a college student, my mom was right behind me observing my every move. I couldn't retaliate back, after all she was correct. My mother was the one who gave me a lot of things, and if she wanted, she could've just put me on the streets. It's only now I realized that was not parenting. God why am I so dumb! Then one day one of my "friends" asked me for a favor. She told me to go out and buy her the newest and hottest item a book, that was not real! I was dumb and went out at 10:46 in the night. I went to the nearest bookstore, in hopes of finding this book. To my surprise there was no such thing. That is when I noticed a little boy that was going to get run-over! I moved as quickly as I could, and it went down from there.

"well that was interesting! Was it not?" the boy popped up in front of my face. He looked like the same one from my past life.

"You're the boy" I just said in disbelief.

"Well yes and no" he looked puzzled "I am the boy but, when I died, I realized what I was".

"what do you mean by realized?"

"Well as you see right now, I'm taking on the form of this kid" he then looked at the wall "I'm actually a grim reaper who was drunk on the job".

Then was it my time to die? I don't understand. It seems like I'll just go on without doing anything.

"Can't you talk with your mouth? This is so annoying" he looked irritated "listen to me because I'm only going to say this once. This was a mistake, and you're actually supposed to be alive still".

"So, am I going to be sent back?" I really don't want to be.

"Once you die in one world you can't go back" he looked at the wall again "but you can be reincarnated into another". The wall started to crack open. "well if you look at that! Look it's your time to go".

"Will I see you again?" I asked wondering what will happen once I go through.

"You will never see me again. Look I need to fill the paperwork out from this mess and, guide more people to this place! So just hurry up and jump into the damn crack!"

I close my eyes and jump in. I wonder what my next life will have in store for me.