Lost in War C2 (standard:drama, 1143 words)
Author: Jordan Stanton	Added: Apr 07 2009	Views/Reads: 3069/3	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The Second Chapter to Lost in War

Chapter two: At heavens gate 

I awoke to the dead silence of my bedroom looking up at the ceiling fan
slowly spinning in the dark. Sitting up I stretch out my arms and let 
out a long drawn out yawn and could feel the warm rush of blood through 
my body. I stood and walked to the bedroom door, my clothes were still 
on from when I fell asleep earlier today. I could hear the laughter of 
my daughter in the next room followed by her little foot steps in the 
hallway as she ran. I opened the door slowly greeted by my wives 
beautiful smile that could melt my heart. He long dark hair lay gently 
and straight down past her shoulders, her shinning brown eyes looking 
into my green eyes.  “honey, I made you some food” She looked over to 
the table behind her and then back at me with her hair swooshing 
through the air giving me the cutest smile ever. “I hope you like it”. 
She turned around and walked back into the kitchen. Kara, my daughter, 
came rushing right by my legs laughing while holding her doll tight in 
her hands. Its hard to believe that I have all this, my life couldn't 
possibly get any better. I approached the table to where my food sat 
awaiting for me. The room then darkened and my wife and daughter 
disappeared into the darkness. Dust floats through the air and broken 
class and wood lay across the floor. Everything in the house was 
destroyed, I felt a tear roll down my right cheek. I miss my family, so 
much, everything was stripped away from me. A picture was on the table 
covered in dust, I raised the picture in front of my face. The picture 
was of my wife, Kara and I in a bright summers day at the park. I could 
feel the warmth of that day coursing through my body and almost as if I 
could feel her breathing down my neck. I closed my eyes trying to 
imagine they were with me right at this moment, more tears were then 
falling from my eyes. I clutched the picture close to my heart and then 
stuck it in my pocket as I started for the kitchen entry way. I peered 
down the hallway to where my daughters room is, I could see that the 
door was open. I slowly walked towards the door cautiously. Reaching my 
hand out to touch the door handle I opened the door and a blast of 
light surrounded my vision. Kara was watching her favorite show on the 
television, hearing her laughter brought so much joy into my soul. I 
walked up behind her and I crouched down beside her. “hi daddy, I miss 
you, when are you going to come see me?” just then I snapped back to 
reality and her doll lay on the floor in front of the television. My 
heart broke, “just hold on baby girl” I whispered to myself while I 
picked up her doll. Standing up was a lot harder that time, it felt 
like I had a thousand pounds on my shoulders. I looked around the dark 
broken up room and I saw nothing but heart ache. I walked to the door I 
entered in and looked back down the hallway to the bathroom. Slowly the 
door opened and my wife was dancing out filling my life with light 
again. She was singing loudly and twirling looking into my eyes she 
walked to me singing as if she was singing her heart out to me. Putting 
her arms out wanting a hug I leaned in with a hug and kiss and ended up 
stumbling forward realizing there was nothing but darkness and dust. I 
cant take this any longer, I thought to myself, walking to where my 
bedroom was. I walked over to the night stand next to the bed and 
opened up the top drawer with a pistol appearing with a clip next to 
it. Slowly lifting the pistol in my right hand and the clip in my left 
I loaded the gun and cocked it. I raised the gun looking at it as if I 
was looking at it for the first time. It was cold to the touch, goose 
bumps ran up the spine of my back. Memories of my wife, my daughter 
Kara, my life, my job, my friends, my family and all the memories that 
brought joy to my life started to race through my head. Tears started 
flowing out of my eyes now as memories leaked from my head into the 
room around me. I could hear the laughter of my daughter, the singing 
of my wife, the voice of my best friend john, my mom and father in the 
other room. Images came and went, noises here and gone. Staring at the 
pistol in my right hand made me think of what my daughter had said to 
me. It breaks my heart every time I hear that in my head. I shut my 
eyes and I could see my wife holding Kara in her arms standing in front 
of two huge golden gates on a cloud smiling and waving yelling my name 
“Jordan! Jordan! Over here! We love you!” a smile ran across my face 
and a sense of belonging fell upon my soul. I looked again at the 
pistol in my hand and a tear ran down my face, I lifted the pistol to 
the inside of my mouth and fingered the trigger, Heat coursed through 
my veins.  I could feel the blood rushing through my body. I shut my 
eyes, the world drowning out around me, I could hear no more, I could 
see no more. A loud gunshot pierced the silent world and echoed forever 
into the dark world. 

I fell to my knees sweat running down my face, breathing heavy I dropped
the gun to the floor in front of me. I curled my body down and grabbed 
the back of my head and curled into a ball “I cant do this...” I 
repeated those words to myself over and over again. Just then a thought 
ran through my mind. “I have to do this, for my wife, for Kara, for 
everybody” I slowly rose to my feet grabbing the pistol with my right 
hand and I holstered it into my pocket. A determined look shot across 
my face. I turned and faced the main house door. I started to walk to 
the door  at a steady and fast pace. I paused in front of it and said 
to myself out loud “just hold on baby, daddy's coming” I opened the 
door and a blast of light came bursting through the door revealing the 
destroyed city beyond. I stepped out and vanished into the light.


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