Jamie P.O.V

Adam and I's relationship continues to move along. It seems as though time moves at the correct pace when I'm with him. It's not fast or slow. It's normal.

'I almost feel like I'm alive when I'm with Adam. I know that I am not, but Adam just makes me feel like I'm living again. I would never want this feeling to leave. I love Adam.'

I try to think about what it would be like if I didn't have Adam in my life at this point. I was so depressed before I met him. I would jump off high buildings just to try and relieve some of my suffering. It let out a bit of stress, but it didn't help very much.

If I hadn't met Adam I probably would have continued to jump from high buildings. I was just so lonely and craved someone for so long. Even when I was with Lizzy I craved someone. She helped distract me by spending time with me, but after she left is when everything began to sink in. The loneliness of almost seventy years came crashing down on me.

I told myself that I would be okay. I tried to convince myself that I didn't need anyone. No one could see me back then, so why would I have even bothered? But then Adam came along and everything changed. I couldn't be happier with him in my life.  

I hold him close while he rests. He really does work hard to support Maria and himself. Now I am here to support him. I do not require the normal needs of a living person. I simply just exist now.

I see a bright light shine in the hallway. I can see it through the crack in the door. Curiosity gets the best of me and I move out of Adam's grasp as gently as possible. He grabs a pillow in place of me while I go to investigate.

The light only gets brighter as I walk down the hall. I'm not certain as to what it is. I walk down the hall until I reach a door. All the light has been spilling out of it.

I open the mysterious door slowly and find myself in a white room. I know that this must be something spiritual because there is no way that this could be taking place in the real world.

There is nothing in the room. It appears to be just a vast area of empty space. I am confused as to what the point of this is, but I do not see any way of finding out.

I turn around to leave the room that has wasted my time only to see that the door, the only way of exiting, is gone. I find it strange and quickly look around. There is no color for what seems like miles. This is not good.

I nearly start panicking until I feel a hand on my shoulder. I turn around to see that the hand belonged to Elizabeth. I sigh in relief and hug her tight. We haven't seen each other in thirty-three years. Although I always knew she would be watching me from Heaven.

I decide to see if she knows where we are. "Elizabeth, where are we?"

"We are currently in Purgatory. This is where souls wait to be sent to Heaven or Hell. I needed to talk to you, away from Earth," she explains.

Now that I know where we are it seems to make a lot more sense. Purgatory is just a wide open space of nothingness. I suppose that's why it's more of a waiting room.

"What do you need to tell me?"

"The only reason you have not moved on is that you needed to find love. That is why you remained on Earth. You never got to experience romantic love while you were alive so your soul remained to continue the search. Now you have found love. Now your soul is free to move on to Heaven," she tells me, earning a rather shocked reaction from myself.

I take a minute to process the information I have just been told. It makes me angry to be told that I can just "move on." My soul could have moved on and I could have fallen in love with someone who was already dead. I am glad that I didn't because then I wouldn't have Adam and Maria, but it still enrages me to think that it could have been that simple.

"After all this time, now I can move on? After one-hundred years of crippling loneliness and depression. Now all of the sudden I can just leave everything I've waited so long for behind? What the hell was the point of finding someone to love if I was just going to leave them so my soul could move on?! Why would I waste my time and drain myself emotionally just to move on once I'm finally happy?! I've waited far too long to give up on everything I have now! I don't want to move on! I'm not going to move on! I'm staying right here where I belong and nothing you can say is going to stop me!" I yell, letting out years upon years of anger.

Lizzy looks down and sighs. I realize that I have yelled at her and said some rather harsh things. I go to apologize, but the room fades away along with her just as quickly as it appeared, leaving me at the edge of the hallway.

I sigh and head back to Adam's bedroom. I would almost classify what just happened as a dream if I still had them. That is how I know that it truly happened.

Adam tosses the pillow aside in his slumber and cuddles me instead. I smile and cuddle back. I can tell that he is slowly beginning to wake up, but I don't mind.

'I wouldn't give him up for the world. Adam is all I need to make me happy. I don't care if my soul isn't at rest. It doesn't need to be. Adam makes me happy.'

"I love you, Adam."

"I love you too, Jamie."

'A century of loneliness has finally come to an end and I couldn't be happier.'

♥The End♥