2 Chapter one

I felt cold. My whole body was shivering. Or was I trembling? I couldn't tell. Maybe both. Thoughts both random and relevant came to me. I couldn't focus on them because of all my flailing and the fact that I was about to die.

I was being knocked back and forth, spinning, spiraling, and flipping as I plummeted to my death. The wind was so harsh it felt like a million shards of glass were flying at me. It would be an understatement to say that it was agony. My whole body was on fire, but at the same time I was freezing. I kept my eyes closed, and tried but failed to curl my body into ball.

Quick death? Yeah, right. It was probably only a few seconds, but it felt like an eternity. At the time, I wasn't even able to think about anything except my impending death and the agony I was in. For some reason though, I think the pain I had gone through those last few months wasn't even comparable to this. That suffering had been on a completely different level.

My neck must have broken from the force of the wind or something, because I died before I even hit the bottom. Blackness overwhelmed me, and I welcomed it.

I opened my eyes to find myself in a dark space. It wasn't a room, as far as I could tell. I was just there. I wasn't alive, or dead. I simply existed. It's difficult to explain. I barely understood it at the time.

Blinking, I looked around. At first, I was alone with nothing to see except darkness, but then a blue box suddenly appeared in front of me. It was almost like it glitched. Like in a game. It was glowing, and hovering above the ground.

Words slowly began appearing. I didn't understand what was going on, but this was the afterlife, and anything can happen here, right? I just decided to go with the flow. I waited until all the words were in the box before I read the message.

"Choose one of the options below," I read inside my head. I glanced down. More words appeared. They were written in a list. "Reincarnation. Heaven. Hell. Rebirth. Other." It made no sense to me. Well, I got the gist of it, but the options were pretty vague. And who would ever willingly choose Hell? And what was "other" supposed to be? I was curious, but there was only one way to find out the answer to that question. And I wasn't about to risk something so important as my life because of curiosity. There were too many unknowns. Too many unnecessary risks I'd have to take. And I didn't want to have to do that. "Heaven" was obviously the best option.

I tapped the word with my finger. Nothing happened. "Heaven." I said aloud. Nothing. I groaned in frustration. Now what? "I choose Heaven." I said. Nothing happened at first, but after a few seconds a second box glitched into existence. Words appeared. "Option not available."

I swallowed. Great. Maybe Heaven is full and therefore there's no room for me? Or I'm not worthy enough. I took a deep breath. Everything is fine. I just need to choose a different option. Hell was a definite no-no. I didn't want to get reincarnated. Spending my second life as a chicken or something sounded absolutely horrible. (Unless I got reincarnated as an overpowered slime. That would be awesome.) That left rebirth and other as my last choices.

I decided rebirth was better than "other". I'll lose all my memories and redo my life. It's even better than spending eternity in Heaven. I hoped that in my next life things wouldn't turn out the way they had. In my next life, I'd live a happy, normal, boring life and I'll be satisfied with just that.

"I choose rebirth." As soon as the words left my mouth, I glitched out of the dark space. My body started feeling lighter, my vision got blurry, and my fingers and toes started shrinking. My arms and legs got smaller, then my head and finally my torso. I took one final breath and closed my eyes.