by Willow Rose
Rahmiel sighed and then she pointed at one of the homeless people. It was a young man sitting on the ground.
“It’s okay. You can go closer,” she said and pointed again.
I approached him as my heart beat faster. Could it really be? Was it him? I looked closer and recognized Jason. He was dirty, his clothes ripped. He stared straight into thin air, like he was paralyzed.
“What’s wrong with him?” I asked.
“Well, his mother was sentenced two years in jail for killing her husband, so Jason had no one to take care of him. The bank took the house to pay for all the hospital bills for Jason’s recovery. He was left with nothing. Now he lives on the street.”
I stood directly in front of him and looked into his eyes. I made myself visible to him and waited for him to recognize me, but he didn’t even see me. He stared right through me.
“Jason?” I said gently.
No answer.
“What’s wrong with his eyes?”
Rahmiel sighed again.
“He is high. He started doing drugs a couple of months ago when someone gave him some cocaine. Now all he does all day is look for the next fix. He begs for money during the day and spends it on drugs at the night.”
I felt like I had been punched in my stomach. A tear slipped from my eye. Was this all my fault?
“But why?”
Rahmiel shook her head. “I don’t know, sweetheart.”
I knelt in front of him.
“Jason, please hear me. Please let me help you out of this.”
He still didn’t answer or even look at me.
“Why won’t he listen?” I asked.
I felt Rahmiel’s hand on my shoulder. “He can’t see you anymore. When they took his mother and put her in jail his heart became hard as stone. He is so filled with hatred and anger that he is no longer able to see or hear you.”
“But … that is so cruel!”
Rahmiel wrapped both of her long arms around me and made me feel like a little girl again. “I know, sweetheart. I know.”
“Will he ever be able to see me again?”
“Oh, he might, if he manages to get out of the drugs and anger. If his heart opens up and is filled with love again, he will be able to see,” Salathiel said.
“Can’t we help him? Can I help him?”
“He needs to ask for our help. We can’t do anything if he doesn’t ask God for help. So for now he is on his own.”
“May I visit him again?”
“Yes. We have decided that you will be allowed to visit him as often as you wish,” Rahmiel said.
I looked at her with determined eyes. I felt all this had happened to Jason because of me, because I had meddled in his life. He was supposed to have died; now his destiny was changed. The way it was now, he would have been better off dead. But I was not going to leave him sitting there. I was determined to help him get back to life.
“Then I will come every day. One day he will see me and then he will ask for my help,” I said. I turned and looked at Jason. His brown eyes seemed lifeless but somewhere underneath was the boy I loved. He was still alive.
He had to be. He just had to be.
THE END
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About the Author:
Willow Rose writes Y/A, Paranormal Romance, suspense/horror and fantasy. Originally from Denmark she now lives on Florida’s Space Coast with her husband and two daughters. She is a huge fan of Anne Rice and Isabel Allende. When she is not writing or reading she enjoys watching the dolphins play in the waves of the Atlantic Ocean.
Books in English by the author:
- One, Two ... He is coming for you (Rebekka Frank #1) http://www.amazon.com/One, two ...
- The eye of the Crystal ball http://www.amazon.com/The Eye of the Crystal Ball
- Beyond - Afterlife #1 http://www.amazon.com/Beyond
- Serenity - Afterlife #2 http://www.amazon.com/Serenity
- Endurance - Afterlife #3 http://www.amazon.com/Endurance
- Savage - Daughters of the Jaguar #1 http://www.amazon.com/Savage
- Broken - Daughters of the Jaguar #2 http://www.amazon.com/Broken
Currently Willow Rose is working on the suspense/horror novel: Three, Four ... better lock your door. It's the sequel in the series "Rebekka Frank". It is expected to be published fall 2012.