Iopen my eyes and find myself in a room, my room. I sit on the edge of the bed and look around at the photos hanging on the wall.
I never put pictures of her here. There’s a photo that catches my attention.
A man was sleeping in an armchair, with a baby girl on his chest.
Alice! Danny!
I immediately run into the Alice nursery. Nothing! It’s a simple guest bedroom.
* The beach * I hear like a whisper. I turn around suddenly but see no one.
Of course, the beach where we met.
Thank you, Alice, for your help.
I run to get the car and go to Malibu.
No one is around. It looks like a ghost town.
Am I dead?
Am I in the afterlife?
Once on the beach, I wait for a time that seems infinite.
You promised me that if we couldn’t be together in real life, then the afterlife would be ours. So where are you? Why don’t you come?
There’s only one logical explanation. I’m dead. While you’re raising my daughter.
I’m struck by a sense of emptiness. I cry and scream with all my might.
“Hailey!” I hear.
My mind begins to imagine his voice.
“Hailey!” I hear him scream again.
I turn around and see him. Danny runs up to me. He takes me in his arms and hugs me.
“I knew you were coming sooner or later!” I whisper in his ear.
“Baby, we have to go back to Alice!”
“It’s as if she doesn’t exist in this dimension. How do we go back?”
“The key is the light.”
“What does that mean?”
“We have to find out and quickly.”
I have a flash, a memory of when he took me to his mother the first time.
“Danny, do you trust me?”
“Sure.”
“Let’s go to the cemetery.”
