The Death of Tammy Janeway
A Bachelorette Party Side Story
"I'm SHOT!!!"
I knew that soon I would be dead.
If you've never been killed, you might want to stop reading now. I'm going to tell you how it happens. Real talk, OK? Dip, if you need to.
First of all, time slows down. I saw the bullet exit the gun. I watched its progress as it barreled towards my heart, inch by inch, millimeter by millimeter. I knew it was coming. I just couldn't get out of its way.
If you've read (and understood) the physics of black holes and the theories about event horizons, yeh, it's a little like that. The bullet was on its way. I knew it was coming. I knew that this was my last day. Yes, my whole life flashed before my eyes. But what they don't tell you is this--it took forever. I lived my past life and a few future lives in the time that bullet took to puncture my breast.
When it struck there was a HUGE flash. I lived another full life, from womb to tomb, in the space of that instant, and I mean that literally. Childhood. Middle School. First dance. Varsity volleyball. First kiss. First joint. First fuck. College. Love. Marriage. Children. Career. Adultery. Middle age. Ten-thousandth fuck. Pain. Reconciliation. Longing. Old age. Death. Each and every minute of that instantaneous life, I knew the bullet was on its way. When the bullet struck it was only briefly painful. I experienced another flash of light as I transitioned. It was almost joy, you know, like when you've waited for something for so long and been so frightened. When it arrives it's almost as if a weight has been lifted.
And then I was fully dead, spaghettified from my toes up, spiraling into the black hole on an elongated stream of atoms, fully aware of my surroundings but wholly unable to change my destiny. (Event horizon theory posits that, if you fall into the event horizon of a black hole feet first, the pull of gravity on your feet is so much greater than the pull of gravity at your head that your body is snatched into atoms from the toes up, "spaghettified" as it were. An event horizon is a "gravicline").
In that instant, believe me, the dead are aware. There were millions of them transitioning, even as I. I could see their contrails. They waved to me. I was a newbie, happily streaming my way into the abyss, a whisper of matter no more consequential than a wisp of smoke.
The guy who shot me stood there forever with this idiot, quizzical look on his face. I could see him just on the other side of the event horizon. He hadn't meant to shoot me. The fear and confusion on his drug-addled grill solidified as he drifted into his own abyss. In that instant his whole future changed. He was headed for a different destiny, one more obscenely tropical than my own. I could see the recognition of perdition in his eyes. As I lay there dying in the snow, he turned and ran. Coward.
I lay there for an eternity of lives before the police arrived, already dead, but transitioning. I saw the po-po drive up. They rushed in and took my vital signs. No heartbeat, no breathing, just awareness. There was a great chasm set in place so that those wanting to cross from one side to the other could not. The event horizon is a one-way trip. The cops taped off the crime scene.
After that my lover, Chad, drove up in his Porsche. He bolted from his car in a crazed rage of loss and grief. Seeing my body lying motionless in the snow he unleashed an agonizing, soul-bending shriek. I reached out to him uselessly. He couldn't see me. I was dead.
I wanted to tell him I loved him. I could not. He lived in a reality I'd left behind. I could see him but I could not communicate with him. I was spiraling into the black hole of foreverness. Still, I felt gratified at his ungodly shriek of anguish. I knew then that he loved me. That knowledge would sooth my long trek into infinity.
My husband was there, too, the man who'd thrown me out into the cold on Christmas Eve. He'd flown into a rage after receiving news that a strange man had kissed me on the cheek at a Starbucks. I loved my husband, too, but my death showed me a future life with the man who'd kissed me, Chad, and three little bi-racial children with crooked smiles. My legal husband was nowhere to be seen in this future. I had no future with him.
You may be confused at all this. Let me back up. I have all the space-time in the universe to tell my story.
I was born Tamitha Janeway to Robert and Tamika Janeway of Allen Park, Michigan in early nineties. As you may guess, I grew up in an ordinary household. My mom was a housewife. My dad worked as an I/T manager for General Motors. I have an older sister, Shelby, and a younger brother, Malcolm. I fought with my siblings regularly but, of course, nobody else had better fight with them. Shelby is the family athlete. She ran track and played softball, earning a scholarship to the University of Oklahoma in the latter. Malcolm was a spoiled child. He got in trouble a lot and ended up being a pothead. My dad put him out of the house when he turned eighteen. My mom kept letting him come home. He finally straightened out. He's a bartender up in the northern tier now, and lives in a cabin that he built with his girlfriend.
I was the family scholar, a little nerdy, I guess. I made good grades and ended up getting a partial scholarship to Purdue. I stayed in Indiana for two years after graduating before moving back to Greater Detroit.
While I was at school I came across the Jehovah's Witnesses. I'd say this was one of the defining moments of my life. I've always been something of a pragmatic rationalist with a spiritual bent. Studying with the Witnesses answered a lot of my questions about the Bible and religion in general. It just made sense, you know? So even though my family looked at me funny, I agreed to be baptized into the religion. On weekends I would take up my spot on street corners to proselytize. During the week I worked as a low level executive at a Big Pharma company.
But you're not here to read my bio. You want to know about my sex life, right? I mean, this IS Literotica. It's not a forum for me to discuss my religion. You also want to know about how I ended up being dead.
So here's what happened:
I'm no prude. I'd had several boyfriends in high school, but I didn't lose my virginity until my sophomore year at Purdue. I was dating this guy. He was a Que. By that time I'd pretty much learned how to fend off men's advances. I'd let them get only so far. This guy (I'll call him Joe) wouldn't take no for an answer. I let him finger me, I let him lick me, I let him suck me. I even went so far as to suck him. "Joe" was SO persistent! One day...I don't know how it happened. We're kissing and petting and going on. The next thing I know, his dick is inside me.