No way in Heaven or Hell - Afterlife Series Book 1

Prologue

Lea was in an ambulance. She could hear the voices of the paramedics talking to her, though she couldn't make out what they were saying. She felt numb, dizzy. Why was she in an ambulance? She didn't remember exactly... then the accident came back to her. She had been walking home from the library, where she'd been studying for her Biology test on Thursday. It had all happened so fast. The car coming towards her too fast for her to move, the screeching of the tires as the driver tried to stop, the deafening sound of her body hitting the car and then the rough ground under her face as she rolled onto the floor. She had been crossing at a green light and the car had come speeding towards her out of nowhere...

I must have blacked out, she thought.

She had no idea what had happened until she'd woken up in the ambulance. Had someone called her mother? She would freak something awful... When Lea's brother Dylan had ended up in hospital after falling off his bike several years ago, she'd been very upset. He'd been fine, but what mother doesn't hate seeing her child hurt?

Lea's head felt like lead. Or wool. Maybe it was both, in fact. She couldn't tell if she felt any pain anymore... although, after being hit by a speeding car, your body was bound to be affected somehow... She stared up at the ceiling of the ambulance, the paramedics sitting next to her. She knew they were probably expecting an answer of some sort from her, but she couldn't quite make her voice work. And the neck brace around her neck prevented her from nodding, which was probably not recommended after her accident anyway. She thought she felt one of the paramedics holding her hand. She figured he was trying to get her to squeeze it if she heard him... but his voice was so hazy she couldn't hear what he was actually saying. And she wasn't sure she could get her hand to move any more than her lips. Sometime later, Lea couldn't tell how much, she was rushed through flashes of light with the faint sounds of voices around her, though she had no idea what they were saying. She was vaguely aware of people bustling around her, but wasn't sure what they were doing. Just then, the light above her seemed to grow slowly brighter... and what was that sound? It sounded like singing but it was... different. Purer and more beautiful than anything she'd ever heard. It was like a chorus of all her favorite singers at once... And then, she saw a hand reach out. She wanted to take it, but wasn't sure she could... still she raised her hand, and to her surprise, it responded. All her numbness and haze had gone. She felt herself standing up. She meant to turn to the doctors around her and tell them that she was fine, though she had no idea how that had happened. But when she looked, she saw they were leaning over her... Trying to revive her. And then she heard the long toneless sound that indicated the heart had stopped beating. Eventually, the one who had been bent over her straightened up, sighed and said:

"Time of Death... Tuesday, March sixteenth two thousand and thirteen, twenty forty-three."

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What will happen to Lea? Let's find out!

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