Juno was 16 y/o, everydays felt like - okay. She woke up early like she always does. Ties her hair. Packed her bag and went to school. She didn't talk much - introversion ? yes. Her days weren't intrepid — it was silent, and full of usual things that Doesn't seems like intoxicating.
Her mother worked hours for both of their welfare, yeah they weren't financially stable. Her father wasn't out there because he left both of them behind and cheated her mother.
Normally, Juno doesn't converses with others. She kept her thoughts inside and never discloses them to any other person.
At school, she's decent. Neither excellent, nor bad. Principle and Teachers liked her only because of her non-troublesome nature , not like the others. She doesn't have close freinds but kessy. Nobody is interested in her. No one treated her the way she wanted to be seen.
She's bestie kessy. She's crazy, a complete extrovert, and of course talkative, always trying her best to entertain juno. Sometimes she laughs. Sometimes she doesn't. Juno thanked her.
"Atleast someone stays with me , so I'm not alone"
Things were normal that day. She went to school. Sat through classes. Finished her notes as teacher dictates.
In the art class
A poor boy with his dog in the forest . They finds a crystal in the forest, what does that supposed to mean ?. She didn't know what & why she drew it - it was just like a visual representation of some of her random fantasies popped in her mind.
During lunch, she felt a sudden pressure behind her forehaed. Not actually painfull. As if she was off , wasnt being able to think at all for some seconds. Like her body was trying to indicate her about something- could this be a sign of something ? Never mind. And then the effect gone, She ignored it. Uff , A really ignorant girl.
After school, she walks back to home. The streets were full of vehicles and people were busy like regular days.
Everybody just moved around her like she was out of place ,
A guy bumps into her, he just apologized her and moves on - "they arent selfish , just a little bit too busy i guess ?," she was indeed an ignorant girl but also forgives people because of her unconcerned psychology.
Juno believes that -> Being a subtle person felt safer than being highlighted.
Afterall its true and ambiguous
Then it happened.
"Wait , why am i..."
her head feels a little bit too heavy , she cant focus, vision got blurred. legs gave up already.she fell in the streets abruptly..... is she okay ?.
She didn't feel any pain. But her face from the right side was like... melting. She was confused but cant say anything since she cant move. Like her body had shut down. She heard voices of people -
"What happened ? Wake up , hey girl ?".
"someone call the ambulance, cmon quick, call the ambulance".
Someone called for help. But Juno's body slowly started to give up in the ambulance.
In the hospital
She didn't wake up , wait
She didn't wake up at all. Everyone tried their best but...
She's died.
The doctors later informed her mother - it was a stroke. Her body gave out before anyone could reach to her.
Her mother arrived too late - "sorry mam" the Doctors and nurses saying that hopelessly.
Crying will not gonna help afterall. Juno was already gone.
And yet—
(But , is she dead ? Not really , a soul shouldn't die of course, the death and life paradox revolves around material world and living organisms)
She opened her eyes.
Not in the world she left behind.
In a... room ? Or is it space ? But why's there only whiteness i can see , or maybe its a colourless-colour but its shouldn't suppose to exist, She was confused, i dont know how to describe it.
Nothing was moving , everything was calm but not her mind, complete silence but still is unpleasant to some point, since there's no more voices, screams, tears, or any other person left , atleast not yet.
It was a soft room with no walls at all, how is that possible ? light didn't came from anywhere as if there's a by default glow with no source or outset.
A voice she didn't recognizes, the voice seems to be some Amateur, too happy about something , and laughing for no reason, but somehow trusted and gentle.
"You're not supposed to be here poor girl." the voice said.
Juno tried to talk with that entity, but her mouth, she couldn't move it, wait ? , she doesn't even had a body to begin with.
She feels calm and confused simultaneously, she knew it's something she cannot ignore.
"You are between life & death" the voice continued. "Neither alive. Nor died. Just… at the exact midpoint." laughs again pleasantly.
She perceives immediate flashebacks after that sentence - her mother crying, kessy was full of tears, along with her own face and demised body, pale and still, not moving.
The voice wishpered
"Imagine watching your own body 'still', isn't that awkward ? Is it sad , or joyful ?"
She felt emotional, guilty. Angry. Afraid, confused. All at once.
The voice said - "no , no , no , you can't react alright ? , since you dont have a body why dont you try something else, you know why I'm saying that ? Cause, Even if you are not alive , you still holding emotional standpoints which your feelings, memories shapping your spiritual appeal"
The voice informed her
Juno , tries to say something desperately, but still can't speak, and the voice understands what she trying to tell
"Calm down, First of all , Try to suppress them all, I mean , your emotions dont let them overcome you , there are total 27 standard emotions in human, try to attain a state , where these things won't matter for you any longer , try to forgive yourself , and forget your past lives just like you usually do , okay ? See ya"
the voice is fades away
And once again, a silence
Juno didn't understand. But she felt some changes inside inside her occurring, they weren't physical, they are like memories, mental images of her life, grabbing her spirit, sticked with her and trying to hold her in a constant state. Such a burden.
"don't let them overcome you" she remembers the words of that voice.
"try to attain the state , where these things won't matter for you any longer."
Then everything faded.
And Juno stood alone.
It's not the material world.
Not the heaven either.
Not hell, But not less worser than hell to be honest.
Just somewhere else.
She waits for the voice to reappear which is just a possiblity.
To be continued...