Guardian Angel by: Isaura

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Today is the day before my 18th birthday. I’m so exited about it, but I’m not as happy as I use to be around birthdays.

I still remember the day before my 11th birthday. My happiness was over because of a simple phone call. It was a phone call that would change my life forever.

-Ring, ring- “Hello, Richardson residence.” I answered in a happy mood thinking it was my cousin Brian.

“Yes honey, is your mother or father home?” the man said.

“Yes wait a moment, Mom phone!” I yelled the last part for my mother to hear it. She was upstairs at her room.

This was a weird call and I had a strange feeling about it. I don’t listen to other’s people conversations but something inside of me said that I had to listen too. I ran to the kitchen to pick up another phone.

“Hello” my mother said.

“Hello, Mrs. Richardson?” this mysterious man said.

There were some sounds of people talking from where he was calling.

“Yes, who is this?” she said in a worried tone.

“I’m Dr. Littrell, calling from the St. John’s Hospital concerning to your son, Howard.”

My heart sank just as my mother’s. “Oh my God, is he alright? Why is he there? Can I speak to him?” I felt her crying.

“Mrs. Richardson I’m sorry to inform you this, but your son died 10 minutes ago. He was walking by the sidewalk close to you sister’s house, I believe, when some drunk driver went over the sidewalk and hit him. He died at the impact.”

I just couldn’t believe what I heard. My brother was dead, he was not coming back. I started crying.

I still miss him. Seven years had passed, but to me it still seems to be like yesterday when we received that phone call. Now I feel like half of me missing. He was my other part of joy in my life, my twin brother.

There are still days that I sit in my room and cry. It was my fault, I should have insisted to him more to come with us and not stay there longer. I shouldn’t had asked him to buy me candy on his way back, that way my aunt had bring him back safe.

Why it had to be him? I just keep asking myself that.

Tears started running down my cheeks. “ Hey Caroline, you are too quiet today, is something wrong?” Pollyana asked me. She is my best friend.

“No, I’m fine.” I vaguely answered. I had a lump in my throat.

She looked at me and saw the tears. “You are thinking about him right? Come on Caroly, I don’t think Howard would like to see you cry.” She said trying to cheer me up.

I just smiled at her and kept looking out the window of her car. It was a beautiful day. I imagined that it was him that made this day as beautiful as it was, just like a birthday present.

"We have arrived, at last. Lets go, we need to buy you a decent, but gorgeous dress for your birthday party tomorrow.” Polly was pulling me, making me run.

“I’m coming! What’s the hurry? We have all day to go shopping.” I asked her. That’s her only defect, she’s always in a hurry.

“Come on! Oh, and before I forget, after we finish buying your dress, I have to go to buy your present.” She told me with an expression of 'you are not coming with me this time.'

“All right, all right, I can take a hint. I won’t go with you or spy on you while you buy my present, I promise.” I said crossing my fingers at my back.

“Good, now lets go shopping.” She said as we entered the mall.

It is now 1 p.m. We’ve been here looking for a dress since this morning.

“My job with you is done, now I’m going away to buy your present. At 7 p.m. go to the entrance of the mall and I’ll be waiting there.” She started to walk away from me and then turned around. “Oh, and don’t eat too much here because I was planning to go to Medieval Times after this.” Now she left.

At first, I wanted to follow her but I changed my mind when I saw a strange shop. It was called ‘ Magic, Myths, and Dream Makers’. I decided to enter. Inside, it was like being in another world. It looked like if it was a store from the medieval times.

“Good morning, milady, do you need any help?” A young handsome guy asked me.

“No, I’m just browsing, but if I need help, I’ll look for you.” I replied to him. He gave me a strange feeling. It was a feeling that I knew him. But I couldn’t place from where. I kept walking around, looking at everything that was inside of it.

This store had many mystical things, from spell books to a café. It was 4 p.m. already and I was starting to get hungry. I decided to buy something to eat there.

“Well, do you need any help?” He asked me, almost hypnotizing me with his deep brown eyes.

“Well yes, I will like something to eat.” I said having the menu on my hands. I couldn’t understand it, it was written in some strange symbols.

“Well, what would you like to order?” He asked me, looking straight into my eyes.

“I want a juice, do you have any?” I just remembered that I promise Polly that we will eat together.

“Yes we have. In fact, I’ll give you the specialty of the house for free.” He said smiling. His smile had a mysterious force that could make you easily forget everything.

“ Um… What does it have?” I asked.

“The Guardian Angel contains strawberry juice with some strawberries in it, some whip cream and a heart shape strawberry that is only found in this store.” He answered.

It was just perfect, it had my favorite fruit and sounded tempting.

‘Do you want it?” He asked me already serving it, just like he knew what I wanted.

“Sure, I’ll try it, it sounds delicious.”

He gave it to me and I started drinking it. It indeed was delicious. After I finished, I felt dizzy and from a moment everything went black.

"Hey CJ, wake up, we have much to do.” A familiar voice was calling me.

It had been long time since someone called me CJ. In fact, the only one who called me CJ was my brother. I opened my eyes and I saw someone in front of me.

“Good, you woke up, it was about time.” He said like he was waiting for a long time.

At last I could see who was speaking to me. “Oh my god, What are you doing here?” I could not believe my eyes. It was him, my brother.

"Well CJ, I think you hit your head pretty hard, but to refresh your mind I live here too you know!”

I stood there still, trying to figure out what was happening.

“Hello, someone there, come on Caroline you are now scaring me!”

Me, scaring him? It was more by the other side. I decided to follow whatever was happening.

“Are you exited? We’re going to be 11 years old in two days!” He said and his face lit up.

“Two days? Did I turn back time? Is this real or just a dream? Well, dream or not my brother is here and I’ll be with him today.” I thought.

“Yep, I’m very exited.” I said to him.

“Lets go to aunt Jane’s house, I want to play with Brian.” He said and I started to remember what happened this day. It was the best day of my life. We had so much fun that I would never forget it and also was the last day I saw my brother alive.

We arrived at Brian’s house and played until it was dark. We stayed there for the night and the next day mom was going to pick us up. It was night already and Brian was asleep. Howard and I started talking and until this time since morning I remember of what happened to him.

While we were talking, he said that had something important to tell me. He led me to aunt’s Jane’s backyard. It was a full moon night, so it was not dark outside. We played a little more but then he stopped.

“Hey what happened?” I asked confused.

“We need to talk sis’.”

I knew there was something wrong because he called me sis’ when there was something wrong.

“Sure, shoot.” I said.

“I just want you to know that today is the best day of my life and I will never forget it. Thanks for always being there when I needed someone to talk and taking responsibilities of things I did. I…”

I interrupted him “ Why are you talking like this?” I said it starting to cry.

“I have something important to tell you, please don’t interrupt me.” He said in a sad tone.

“ I promise, continue.”

He continued. “As I was saying, I need you to tell mom that I love her and that I’m sorry for everything I did that made her mad or cry because of it. Tell Brian and Alex that I love them and that they are the best cousins that I have. And you Caroline, I need you to remember that no matter what happens I will always love you and nothing of this was your fault. I want you to live happy and to never cry for me because I will be fine.” He paused.

“This is the best day of my life, ever, please don’t leave me, I need you!” I started to cry again.

He hugged me and started to sing ‘One sweet day’.

After finishing singing, he told me still hugging me, “I’m not leaving you, I will always be there, in your heart and in your mind. Knowing that you needed someone to help you pass through this I sent Polly. She will help you and will always be there at your side. My time is up and I have to go.” He said now looking me direct to my eyes.

“Caroline, remember that I love you more than anybody, you are my other half, my twin and baby sister.”

I laughed a little. “Howie I’m only 5 minutes younger than you.”

He smiled. “I know, I just wanted to see your smile one more time. Keep always in mind that this was not your fault. My time was marked and God decided that I had to go. Here, have this.” He gave me a bracelet that said ‘Always close to you, your Guardian Angel.”

He hugged me one more time and repeated to me “I love you Caroline.”

I felt dizzy again and everything went black. I heard a faint sound, like someone was calling me. I woke up and I saw Polly in front of me.

When she saw that I was awake, smiled. “Welcome back to reality Carol, what happened to you?”

I was going to tell her but then I realized that I was not at the mall anymore, it seems like a hospital. "“Where am I?”

She told me someone found me unconscious in front of the fountain at the mall and she brought me to the hospital.

I explained to her everything that happened since the store until now but I know that she doesn’t believe me. I think it’s better this way, that she think it was a product of my imagination.

My birthday came and it was a big family reunion. Brian and Alex were always close to me and Polly never left my side. Even my brother was there. I couldn’t see him but I felt him. I know that from this day on he is my guardian angel.

After my birthday was over, I stayed outside, sitting under a tree. There was a full moon today, so it was not dark. I sat there thinking and I felt a breeze that wrapped me up, giving an atmosphere of peace and happiness. Far away from me I saw a figure waving and I heard a sweet voice inside my mind that said: “Hope you liked my birthday present, I love you CJ and I will never forget you.”

I know that my heart and I will never forget him.

The End

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