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Waltz with Death

"So this is what they mean when they say your life flashes before your eyes when you die." Betrayed. Battered. Broken. Evangeline Vermillion has had enough of her pathetic life. She was young—only in her early 20s—and she had planned to end it all by setting herself on fire. That was how she met Death—cold, dark, tall, and...handsome? Huh. Who knew the Grim Reaper could look like that? He takes her hand and guides her through the In-Between, the sacred realm between the Land of the Living and the Afterlife. Together, they revisit her most important memories. From the misfortunes of her childhood, to the chaos and bloodshed of the wrong kinds of love, Evangeline must confront the demons of her past to get to The Other Side. Through all of the pain and anguish, Death stands with her, an enigmatic companion and unlikely confidant. And in their brief waltz between realms, Evangeline finally finds what she always wanted but never had: to belong and to be loved.

ThreyaMidnight · Fantasy
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Hot Chocolate and Phone Ringtones

I was still dazed, thinking about the previous memory.

It made me wonder if I fell in love with Dante as an adult because I genuinely did so or simply because I was romanticizing our time as childhood friends.

Shaking my head, I realized there was no point in questioning my motives for loving him. In the end, it was my attachment to him, superficial or not, that made my last few moments alive a living hell.

I started whistling the song "Fallen" (the same song that Boss sang for me back in high school) in such an off-key manner that it barely had any semblance to the original song. My horrible whistling lightly echoed in the storage room, which was so huge it was more of a warehouse. 

"Time to open my next jar, I guess," I hummed, grabbing a random jar without giving it much thought anymore.