Black Eyes-Chapter 3

One week Later
I don’t feel like myself anymore. I eat and sleep and go to school, but I don’t talk to anyone, or do homework, or pay attention in class. I don’t smile. I forgot what the word happiness meant.
Then came the funeral. I couldn’t cry. I didn’t have feelings. I stood there doing nothing, except swimming through my own thoughts. But it wasn’t over, someday I’ll see her again, I just know so.
And just that night my wish came true.
Once again I had the same nightmare. A gum eating me while I see Alex being squashed over by a truck. But just then, everything changes. It was totally dark for some time until a blinding light came out of nowhere. And just before me, was Alex. She looked however different. Less happy, less beautiful, less colourful. Her hair, from being blond turned into gray. Her skin and clothes were in the tones of black and white. And what once had been beautiful green eyes that glittered with the sun, were now dead black, just like the night.
But her voice stayed the same melodically song I loved to hear. It was the first time in a week I heard her. ‘Hello Jade, my friend’ she smiled.