Thunder And Lightning

!Ruthie's P.O.V.!

The leaves swirled around me as I descended from the clouds for the first time since my death.
As I grew closer to the ground the shapes on the shore were easier to make out. I noticed that Reuben was silent, Lark crying next to him as he just stood there, his emotionless face cold. Mariana had tears streaming down her face and a crumpled rose in her hand, the thorns angrily digging into her skin. There was blood dripping down her fingers, but she ignored it. A dark angel was hovering behind her, looking on in misery. As Jenni's ashes were scattered into the small boat, Mariana sniffed, and Lark soon did the same. Reuben's face remained expressionless, not even seeming to care that the funeral he was currently attending was for his dead sixteen-year-old daughter. I began to grow angry, hovering behind him and knocking him upside the head good and hard.
With that he looked around, and I could see the tears begin to leak from his eyes as he searched for the force that had caused his emotions to show themselves. He wasn't sad. He was angry. No, more than angry. He was livid.
He was afraid too, in his eyes. In his heart, he was scared. Scared he would lose Mariana and Lark. But he wouldn't say it. I walked closer, and whispered in his ear.
Reuben. His head shot up, searching for the voice he could only hear. You have to see the color. If you continue like this, you'll rip your family apart even worse than you already have.
And then I walked away. The dark angel I had seen near Mariana had vanished, and as I rose higher into the clouds I saw Reuben smile.
It made me feel sick, that smile.
I flew faster, eager to get away from the malicious person Reuben had become. His hands shoved in his pockets, his sickly smile glowing rudely through his tears. For a moment the monsters returned, and he was evil. But then the light came back and I wished him well silently before retreating into the kingdom of the Lord, the thunderclouds closing around me and whipping my hair about.
I smiled.
I'm okay.