I'M DEAD!! (1)

I saw the gun turned to me unexpectedly by Ben right next to me and before I could react it went off. Filling the lonely dark alleyway with a piercing sound . I'm hit! In the abdomen. It hit me like a freaking hurricane such that I was thrown off balance .

First I was in shock and then seconds later the pain excruciatingly engulfed my whole body. My vision gets blurred by unshed tears. My ears ringing from the shock still. I tried to stay standing but I just couldn't and that is how I fell to my knees first.

Then as if in slow motion to the ground and then I couldn't feel anything.

So I get up and I feel weightless. I realize I have left my motionless body on the ground. So in the shock I look at my standing self and I am naked and seem transparent. What the fuck?

I scream at the top of my lungs. What the hell? Did I just die? Is this how ghosts look like? Holy shit! Am I a ghost? I scream again louder this time. Looking back at the people I was with, I see them smiling and shaking hands with each other oblivious of my cries.

"That scoundrel, he thought he could play us both. " Matt sneers looking at my body.

My body! I crouch down and try to shake me awake. I try to get back inside my body.

"I knew something was up with him the moment everything started going south. " Ben says scratching his head with the pistol he used to shoot me. Hope it burns him a little.

"I'm still right here. Wait till I figure out how to get back inside my body. " I tell them with determination.

But of course they can't hear me. Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! I need to hurry before it's too late. So I try to lay on top of my body in an attempt to get back in.

"Isn't this the way I got out? " I cry out in frustration.

"I'm afraid there is never going back. " An emotionless voice says suddenly.

A woman's voice. I quickly look up and see a pale petite young woman looking down at me. She is wrapped in burgundy robes. What!! She has a strange vibe radiating off of her in waves. I just can't quite place a finger on what is different with her and honestly I don't care. There is no time for acquaintance.

"Good, you can hear me. I need to go back to my body. There are things I need to do. People I need to warn. Help me. " I order not bothering to ask who she is and why she can hear me when others can't.

"Mystia or do you prefer Moja, you can't go back. There is no longer going back to your earthly form. " The woman says quietly too robotic like as if she says the lines too often.

"Who are you and how do you know my name? And do you mean there was a way to go back? We should try it, who knows, it could work one more time. I have to get back in my body... earthly form. " I sound desperate now. So desperate!

Because I actually am. I can't be dead. People get shot all the time. I have shot people all the time. No one dies that quick from a bullet in their stomach.

"No. It won't work now hurry, we need to know where to take you. " The woman dismisses me turning around to walk.

I find myself compelled to follow her. Now the police, paramedics and some civilians are surrounding the area. I walk towards the woman while looking back at my body laying there cold in my own blood.

I watch as they zip the black body bag .

"Woman, who the hell are you? " I snap getting really pissed she refused to help me.

She stops abruptly and I almost run into her but, I quickly duck and manoeuvre myself in front of her as she chose that very second to flap her crisp white wings.

Wings! I jump in shock. I bite down on my tongue to keep from screaming my head out.

"I'm Azreel, more specifically, the angel of death. " She says emotionlessly like it is a very normal thing to say, "Hurry, I have another call already. "

Another call? Another death?