chapter of my memoir.
Respite.
Bethany, Bethany’ it’s me Amy I’ve cone to see if you need anything bringing to you from home?
“What as I stared round the white sterile room, that smelt of lavender, blurry but trying to focused. Amy is that really you!?”
“Yes of course it’s me now sit up , drink this and let me know if I can at least of be any help.” Amy dryly replied as Amy was not one for emotional situations or giving any emotional responses.
I tried to pull myself together and drink the hot cup of coffee in front of me and comprehend or at least trying too, of what had occurred, no they beat me. “Okay what has happened?” I asked
Amy stared at me in a way I had never seen her look before, almost compassion wheeling around in her eyes.
“ That’s enough for tonight”, this tall fair haired man said with a Doctors coat on, pick it up tomorrow now.
“Bethany, Bethany.” I heard It was John. “Hello , are you felling better today? “ “Today, why what happened yesterday?” I replied.
“Yesterday you mean the past two months sweetheart, you have been hospitalised.” He replied. I stared at him, for some reason I just didn’t trust him, “what do you mean I’ve been hospitalised?” I asked
“Exactly that. Do you remember anything over the past say year?”
“No, nothing. Why am I in hospital John?.”
You tried to kill yourself Bethany with a drug overdose, when you heard of all the Greek Islands on fire and flooding.”
“Don’t be so absurd, why would I do that!” I retorted
“Do you remember what happened to Toby?” He asked
John this is beginning to feel like I a am a stupid teenager from a drunken night out. Now just tell me what on earth has happened. Or leave me alone I’m exhausted, yes you, you are are making me feel exhausted and a little infuriated.
Mr Dunes have you got a moment, I could see the blonde haired Dr speaking with John and I must of dozed off.
I remember seeing a tall man , blonde hair blue eyes walk quickly passed as Toby and I was fetching ice cream from the place we had found next to the beach, quite pebbly and plenty of little sea shells. There was a cream and orange one that caught Toby’s attention the most; so I lazily strolled around the boulders and pebbles and collected a few, as I noticed a tall fair man, blue eyes walking past again, arm in arm with a very pretty dark haired young lady.
Took me right back to when John and I first met, before the children and the hectic life began; wouldn’t charge it for the world as a I Looked across at Toby. I made my way back to him with his bucket and ‘goodies’ from the sea in his bucket and then his spade went in. Well his little face was a picture a thousand word’s could not express, I knew how deep he really wanted that prance and cream spiral shell and there you see, he had it.
“Mrs Dunes, Mrs Dunes”.A meek voice asked, a young lady in a nurse’s uniform.
“Yes”I replied, as I looked around the white sterile room again.
“Please could you take your breakfast tray and the Doctor will be around to see you shortly.”
“Yes”. I replied “Thank you”
It was all rather strange this I vaguely remember John in the room last night. Asked me if I remember the last year!
The fires have been raging on and the landslides, tornadoes and flooding in the Lands around the world for the past two years mainly in force. The Cold Greenland’s have been particularly warming this year causing sea levels to rise. We always knew from 1988 that the fossil fuels of greenhouse gases were going to increase and cause climate changes but in 2023 it was “ready or not” . I sat talking In many Galatien Cosmos Conferences to the Spiritual Science and Gods Council- where the pleading for the earth planet earthlings were up! As there was no real evidence to suggest that there were any intelligence to know that pleading our Sins and worship in working’s together to even prevent War was ever going to happen, we were going to be prepared for lands to disappear, some to appear but migrating on a level like no other . Sea, air, Land was going to give us no choice for any man made wars, they looked trivial looking at this big new world lay out flat that I could just about see in between important figures coming to a fro from it.
The Animals were going to disappear , appearing of some old and away with the new to other breeds, the whole migration in the Animal kingdom too. There will be a lot of head bashing, gnashing of teeth and crying but if they cannot live in peace together, what hope do they have in living together without radical changes of the planet to protect others.
“Mrs Dunes, Mrs Dunes. I sat up startled and bewildered at what or if I should have remembered what I had just seen and witnessed.”
Yes, yes I replied I’m awake.
Or if I had imagined it, only I could hear Albert Einstein mulling under his breath, Time! Time is an illusion we do not have enough of!” He left the room scratching his head and I just thought “what is this hospital?”
The news was showing across the television over the Dr and Nurses Station, they had catastrophic weather from one extreme of heat on one side of Italy to Hailstorm on the other side of it, “How very bizarre,” one Dr was talking to a Nurse , from the weather to the Animals; I couldn’t quite understand what all the news and information was in great detail; only that it must have been really devastating to cause such a stir.
Then I spotted John, I just stared and thought, you know everyone was right when they said “you’re only Kids , you will grow like brother and sister you two. We didn’t we grew apart from each other’s trauma, it caused emotions that were not the same and it was kind of weird. Because I would die for him but deep inside something told me there was a change coming. John leaned over and kissed me on the forehead and said “ you know I I love you?”
“Yes” I replied but I really wanted to say, “if you loved me I wouldn’t be here!” But I wasn’t still sure myself why or what fully happened, somehow I didn’t want to either and John reminded me, ‘I had too’
I looked into his eyes and connected deeply within his soul, not his heart, not his mind but his soul as I knew I had to hear it from the very chord that connected us spiritually. John , “why am I really in this hospital?”
He sat down in the big old high back chairs placed at the side of the bed, I suppose they were meant for comfort if you were visiting a long time, or needing sleep, truth be told; they are the most uncomfortable and hostile of chairs that smelled of cheap plastic death.
“Bethany,” he looked like a little boy lost, “you won a holiday in the Greek Island and, I’m sorry Bethany! He shrieked”, then ran out off the ward.
Memories, flashbacks, pain in my head, tall blonde, blue eyes, “Help, help me ,I screamed; my son Toby, my Son has been taken by a man , blonde hair, blue eyes, then a couple; Hispanic took him I think! Oh please, somebody help us, he is here on the island!” The room began to spin as I saw the blonde hair, blue eyes look upon me, “Nurse hold her down “ Mrs Dunes please lie still, we need to stabilise you, this injection will not hurt, just lie still; Porter over here quickly, hold her down, that’s right just relax, everything is going to be fine.”
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Dawn Earnshaw
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