• This morning I woke up nearly screaming the pain in my thought was to great for me I tried to breath but the air gave out on me it wouldn’t let me breath it wouldn’t let me speak so I laid there in fear
    'Is death really out to get me' I thought to myself 'no its just playing holding on letting me know were I might go one day'
    A sudden gasp a fresh air is let into my body 'that’s better' I tried to move my body but it couldn’t move I could barley move my arm a few inches I laid there in pain as my mother walked in
    "Do you think you be able to go to school...?"
    I couldn’t speak so I shook my head no
    "Do you need a doctor...?"
    as stubborn as I am I shook my head no again
    "well get some rest dear."
    she kissed my forehead and left not knowing the pain that flowed through my body like a snakes poison flowing though a rats veins I wanted to go back to sleep but I knew that grasp of that cold hearted angel would come back and take me so I stared at the ceiling waiting for some metrical for me to move I manage to move my arm trying to grab the water left for me the night before but when my hand touched it wouldn’t move the glass it was weak I was so weak that I couldn’t even lift a needle if my life depended on it I was hurting I was praying I was dyeing in that room so I push all my strength to my legs and managed to get up
    "deaths grip my take my strength but never take my will to move forward"
    I manage to say without stuttering it was 6 in the morning and I was ready for anything to happen to me today
    "I...need...to...get...out..."
    I was breathing hard and could barley move and breath I manage to get up and walk using the wall for balance my parents left my sister went to school I am home alone with no one but the angel of death he is sitting at the table with a deck of cards he saw me walk in
    "you manage to escape my grip"
    "it was easy"
    "strong you are girl"
    "weak you are angel"
    "hahaha you are a funny you"
    "yeah so"
    "so you manage to escape death, and instead of cowering in fear you come to make jokes about it"
    "that’s just the way I am"
    "in that case you shall be my apprentice"
    "why would I give you my life"
    "so you can live forever and ever in a circle with no beginning and no end"
    "so why should I believe you you’re the angel of death why should I travel in eternity while everyone travels in a straight line"
    he starts messing with the deck of cards
    "seeing that this conversation is getting us noware lets play a round you like gambling right"
    "you seem to be watching me"
    "indeed people like you don’t come around as much anymore"
    "I guess ill play a round or two"
    "o no girl not in this game in this game its one round if you win you are my apprentice if you lose you better be ready to know what the after life is like"
    "I already know what the hand of death is what more is there to see but a cold hearted world full of lost souls like mine"
    "hmmmm I see you have been seeing these images in your sleep"
    "death has crossed my path more than once"
    "I see"
    he shuffles and I split the deck
    "winner takes all hope you get a lucky hand"
    "hope your ready for an apprentice"
    "your such a stubborn girl"
    I noticed that his cards were different than mine and that I saw an ace up his sleeve
    "well if you play that way then there is no point in playing"
    I laid my cards down
    "full house"
    he looked at me
    "what do you mean 'if I play that way' girl"
    "the ace up your sleeve is slowly falling out and your cards are different than mine"
    "you pass"
    "..."
    "That’s right this test was made for the sight of difference"
    "so I win"
    "indeed my apprentice"
    "well my lord if you indeed intend to keep me as your apprentice I shall have to leave my life behind me wont I...?"
    "Yes your body will be here dead in this room"
    "and what about me...?"
    "You will come to see the world in different ways of life"
    "I don’t understand how can the angel of death lose to such a mere girl"
    "again you are a smart one"
    "..."
    "You manage to see I did intend to lose to see at how you would take your new place in the world"
    "death is cold but it still has a heart"
    "how did you know of such words girl"
    "I've heard them from you a time or too ago from when my human friend and dog friend died a long time ago"
    "ah now I remember after that day you were in the hospital very sick death was in that hospital for you to"
    "indeed"
    "you will make a fine apprentice"
    it is silent now the heartbeat of a loved girl was drifting away form her cold body
    'Death may be cold but it still has a heart even if it is a ice cold beat of death'

    you may have ice in your veins and a cold heart but death will find you when you least expect it