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The dead tend to stay dead and the living fight their entire life to not die only to inevitably fail at the end. This is the way of life for everyone but this is constructed, a mistake at the end of everything and a mistake that I intend to correct.
Look at this, they’re standing there around my grave , we’re so close, and yet I can’t touch them and yet I can’t comfort them. I’m truly gone from this world, lost the power of change and so I sit here an observer of it all. It’s truly the most serious of games, you have one shot, and once you’re out then you're out.
But wouldn’t it be funny if that wasn’t the case? Wouldn’t it be funny if I could live again, free from all the pain and misery that I caused? Wouldn’t it be funny to give the perfectionist the means to fix everything and just fucking see what happens.
In their picnic of so much misery, I did something , for the past four years I’ve been doing something big. And it’s finally time to make it all a reality, to make the world remember that I was here. To make it all the biggest joke that no one laughs at, to make it all better.
Knock, Knock, Knock
Me: Get me out of here, it’s stuffy!
Me: I think I have like 30, 20, maybe even 10 minutes of oxygen here. It’s all a bit of a gamble really.
Now there are few things in the universe quite like hearing a dead girl beg you to dig her up , it’s close to being shocked by lightning twice and still being conscious afterward. A real mix between ungodly unfair and ungodly lucky ,it’s even better when everyone around you reacts like they heard something.
Kel: Did that grave just talk to us ?
Aubrey: WAS THAT MARI!?
Kel: What, Mari’s dead I’m concerned about you. She’s not coming back
Hero: That was definitely Mari’s voice
Hero: You don’t think that she’s still alive down there
Kel: She was cremated Hero, her body was filled with chemicals and buried in an air tight box for four years. THIS IS SOMEONE ELSE
Sunny: That’s, that’s her voice
Kel: Sunny, she’s dead, I know how much she meant to you but it’s time to move on
Me: Yes, yes I’m Mari just use your shovel and get me out of this box please.
Now Aubrey’s speed did catch me off guard, I suppose if you were told that the person who you loved above all else might be alive but only if you act quickly then you probably wouldn’t take things slow. That being said she looks plain goofy as if she was moving at 4x speed , maybe I’m not the only supernatural force here or maybe I just underestimated the power of adrenaline. It doesn’t take long for her to hit the hard metal casket, and with the force of 1000 bulls, she takes off the lid throwing it into the great beyond.
I know I was watching them earlier but actually being there alive , feels so very very different. There’s a small wind coming from the forest, flowing past my friends and subtly marking where I am. There’s a weird taste in my mouth and I smell like death, I don’t even notice my hands caressing Aubrey’s face or the tears starting to swell in my eyes. Although it doesn’t seem like I’m the only one about to cry, I’m the first one whose dams broke and I hold Aubrey so close like she could disappear at any moment.
It’s honestly kind of pathetic the way I keep crying, I’m not supposed to be the one who needs a shoulder to cry on damn it. I’m the big sister, I’m perfect, I’m the one who broke the god-damn laws of the universe to see my children for a second time. I don’t need to cry, I don’t cry especially not on my revival day I need to do something, or all we’re going to do is cry the entire day away.
Me: You know I really hate cancer, absolutely awful disease, how about I remove it?
Aubrey: What!?
As I snap my fingers I have single-handedly done what hundreds of scientists devote their entire lives to doing. Thousands of people on their deathbed wake up and can live again, to live fruitful lives ridden of the horrid disease. From now to forever no child will ever go to sleep cowering before the horrendous force of leukemia and no Grandparent will have to leave to a broken heart. I have already saved the world and I’m just getting started.
Kel: Mari, what are you doing? Your not making any sense.
Hero: Guys it’s obvious Mari is confused. She’s just come back from being dead, oh God she’s just come back from being dead
Me: Yeah about that, the God you were worshiping and praying to is no more
Hero: You’re just confused, we’ll get you someth-WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT
Aubrey: Holy shit Hero swore
Kel: Umm Aubrey you really should look at this
Aubrey: No I am not looking in your direction, if I look there it’s going to have something I don’t like AND I DON’T NEED TO SEE THINGS I DON’T LIKE.
Aubrey had a good sense as what was in the sky was not in fact a bird, an airplane, or a man that was slightly better than the rest of us. No, what was in the sky was the dead remains of our former God falling so inconveniently into the lake. If I hadn’t learned to hate that lake I might be more broken up about our dead hiding spot. At least the path will be paved now, that should make the picnics a little easier if slightly more crowded, but I mean who wants to look God in the face anyway? He’s ugly
Hero: IS THAT GOING TO THE LAKE!?
Aubrey: If I ignore it then it’s not happening , if I ignore it then it’s not happening , if I IGNORE IT THEN IT'S NOT HAPPENING
Kel: Object permanence Aubrey
Aubrey: SHUT IT KEL!!!
Hero: Mari, what is THAT!?
Me: That is God, who I killed
Hero: You’re confused , there’s no way you could kill anyone! WHAT ARE YOU SAYING!
Me: I am telling you what’s going on, you’re just choosing not to believe it. You know what else you’re not going to believe, what will shock you to your very core and change your world?
Me: I am God now.