Linda
-Linda-
I do have long. My life is slipping away. I created this world as a last gift to
my people.
Let me back up some.
I am twelve years old. I have been sick all my life. They don’t know how long
I’ll live. You know, I’ve never been outside. All I do is sleep and look out my
window. The nurses are nice to me. I do have kids my age come and visit me. But
I just want to go outside.
I started the world a year ago. I couldn’t go outside. So, I brought the outside
to me. It started out with a drawing. Daddy got me a sketchbook and colored
pencils for Christmas that year. It started with the ocean. I had always wanted
to go to the beach. Movies and TV made it look so much fun. Daddy says that he
wants to take me one day. I don’t think I can anymore.
From the ocean, my world grew. I drew tress, grass, the sky, flowers, clouds,
fish, animals, and people. My drawings covered my walls. Pretty soon, my world
became real. No one questioned it. I didn’t explain.
But now, my world is in trouble.
Anna Jane and I have never met. I did see her in real life once. This was one of
the rare times I could get out of bed. I was in the lobby when I first saw her.
She looked so happy and free outside. She wasn’t playing around. I saw her
talking to an old-looking teddy bear on a park bench. I still envied her. She
could go outside. She was not stuck in a bed until she died. Anna Jane was what
I could be.
Now, she has to save my world.
I know that she can do it. She has to. I believe in her. But Anna Jane doesn’t
realize what she needs to do. I can’t come out and tell her. My powers are
killing me. But they are the only way I can reach her. This quest has to be
finished before I die.
I have to try before my last surgery tomorrow. I might not survive it. But if I
don’t try, Anna Jane and her friends will be captured. I can’t let that happen.
I closed my eyes and started to reach out again.
“Hello? Can anybody hear me? Hello? Hello?”
“We’re here!”
I reached them! But I have to be quick. They are going to take me down to
surgery.