When I was eight years old, I got hit by a van. It was Christmas Eve and I was sledding on a hill by myself. I went a little too fast and I slid out onto the road. Then Bam! All I remember is waking up in the hospital.
My head felt like it was on fire, it hurt really bad. I couldn't help but cry. I overheard my parents talking to the doctors when they thought I was unconcious.
One doctor said my brain was swelling and if it didn't stop, I would be dead before morning.
I remember my mother crying and she said she was going to pray in the hospital chapel for a miracle. My father went with her to console her.
It was late and I remember the snow was really starting to fall. It was so beautiful.
All of a sudden, the wind picked up. I remember hearing the bells of the church chime. I counted the last chime out loud, "Twelve."
It was now Christmas.
My head hurt so bad and no one seemed to be able to help me.
Then I thought I heard someone call my name outside my room. I looked at the door but no one walked in to see me. Then came a loud slam from the other side of me.
My window was now wide open. The snow was coming into my room. A big gust of wind blew the snow in my face. I turned my head away and when I looked back the window was shut and a young beautiful girl was standing next to my bed.
I thought it was one of the young college girls in training, but this girl was in a long flowing gown. Her hair was white blond, kind of like the snow. Her eyes were blue and she was smiling at me.
I looked at the girl and said, "It hurts so bad!" I grabbed my head and began to cry.
She got on the bed with me and held me.
She whispered to me, "Will, you're going to be just fine."
She smiled at me. Then she took out one of her breasts and said, "Drink, Will."
She moved my head to her breast. I had never seen a girl's breast before. It was soft and white except for the pink center that was poking out.
I looked her in the eyes and put my mouth on the pink part and began to suckle.
She smiled at me and said, "That's it, Will, good boy."
She ran her fingers through my hair and stared at me in awe. I could feel the warm liquid come out of her breast. It tasted like milk but a little sweeter. I drank eagerly and the girl said, "Not too much, Will, okay?"
I pulled my mouth off of her breast. I could feel something in my head. I swear it felt like I had bubbles on my brain. The pain was gone and I began to giggle a little bit. I got nice and comfortable in her arms and I laid my head against her breast.
Her skin was a little cold all over her body. I touched her face and it too was a little cold.
I asked, "Do you want a blanket? It will keep you warm."
She smiled and said, "No, thank you, Will. I'm fine."
I looked deep into the girl's deep blue eyes and noticed that I could see clouds rolling across the blue part of her eyes.
I said, "Wow!"
She winked at me and said, "I have to go now, Will. Be a good boy, okay?"
I nodded my head yes.
She started to walk away when I said, "Oh, wait!" I ran up to her and handed her my Spider Man blanket. I said, "I want you to have this until your mother or father gets you a jacket, okay? That way your skin won't be cold and you won't get sick."
I smiled at her.
She looked at me and a tear ran down her cheek. She said, "This is very important to you, Will."
I replied, "Not as important as you are."
She looked very happy and said, "Thank you so much."
She took my blanket in her arms and told me to lay down because I was going to sleep soon.
I laid down and yawned out, "I'm not tired."
Then my eyes got really heavy. I could barely keep my eyes open at all. I saw the girl open the window and the wind and snow blew in from the outside. I closed my eyes and then opened them up, but only half way. I thought I saw a pair of white wings on the girl's back.
She looked at me, smiled, and whispered, "I'll be watching you very closely, William O'Riley."
Then out the window she flew and I fell asleep.
I told my parents the next day but the doctors told them it was probably just my pain medication. My parents didn't care, all they cared about was that I was cured and a miracle had occurred.
Time passed and I was thirty-five years old. My parents died in a car crash when I was twenty. In high school I was invisible. All I could ever think about was love and finding my soulmate. Not one beautiful girl I asked out would go out with me. I would write them poems and love letters, but it didn't matter because they came from me.
Even in college, no girl would give me the time of day. Again I tried poems and love letters but they just didn't care. I wasn't good enough.
After my two years of college, I ended up getting a factory job. That was my life after that. I worked, I came home to my condo, I ate, I slept, then I started all over again the next day.
There I was, all alone on another Christmas Eve. My failure and depression always hit me the hardest on that night. That night was going to be different though. That night I was going to kill myself.
I stood on my balcony, leading off of my condo on the tenth floor. I had a great view of Lake Michigan. It was iced over with snow. The wind began to blow and snow started to fall from the night time sky.
I got up on the balcony's wrought iron frame. I looked down and thought to myself, 'No more pain, no more heart ache, and no more being alone.'
Back in my condo I heard my grandfather clock begin to chime. I decided on the last chime I would jump off.
When the last chime came I said it aloud, "Twelve."
Then I remembered the girl from the hospital window. I laughed and said, "Pain medication."
I let myself go.
Straight out I went, my arms open wide. I got to about a forty-five degree angle, then I couldn't go any further. The wind and snow blew so hard, I couldn't fall.
I screamed, "What the hell?!"
Then without notice a huge gust of wind and snow blew me back into my condo a good twenty feet.
By the time I got to my feet, I noticed I wasn't alone. This person closed the balcony sliding door. My heart started to race.
From the back I could see it was a woman. She had long white hair and was wearing a white gown but she also had something wrapped around her.
I got a little closer and to my surprise, she had a Spider Man blanket wrapped around her. She turned to me and my mouth dropped wide open.
I said, "It's you! You from the hospital! But it can't be!"
I walked up close to her and said, "You haven't aged! You look exactly the same as when I saw you last!"
I now looked at her with a man's eyes. She was about 5'7" and maybe 110 pounds. She looked around her early twenties. Her breasts, from what I could see, were perfect in size and shape. Her skin was as white as snow. Then there were those big beautiful blue eyes with the clouds rolling by in them.
I cried, "I thought you weren't real! I thought you were a dream from my pain medication!"
She looked disappointed with me.
I looked away and said, "Would you like a drink?"
She cut to the quick and asked, "Why did you do that?"
I replied, "Because I thought you might be thirsty."
She yelled, "No, William! Why did you try to kill yourself?"
I screamed, "You should know the answer to that, or weren't you watching me closely?"
She replied, "I know everything about you, Will."
I said, "Oh yeah? Then why didn't you help me?"
I began to cry. I asked, "Do you know how hard it's been for me? I'm always alone and not one girl that I asked out would say yes to me! Not one! Then in high school, guys set me up with a girl I didn't really love and I didn't think she was very pretty, but I used her for sex. I wanted to know what it was like so I settled for one girl my senior year. Then in college, I settled for another girl in my sophomore year. I've had sex with two girls I didn't love! The sex didn't mean anything at all. I felt bad because I used them and I felt horrible because I wanted to be in love when I had sex."
I broke down sobbing uncontrollably and cried, "All I ever wanted was someone who would hold me, care about me, mate with me, and, damn it, love me! Love me! In high school and college I was at least okay looking, or at least I thought so, but look at me now! I'm going on thirty-six, I'm fifty pounds over-weight, I have hair all over my body, and I've become this ugly thing that high school girls laugh at and college girls look at in disgust. I look in the mirror and hate that person I see."
I fell to my knees sobbing, "I'm never good enough! Never!" I looked at the angel and cried, "When am I going to be good enough to deserve love? I want to belong to someone! My heart aches so bad! I want to be good enough! Where is my soulmate? I need her more then anything in the world! I can't live without my soulmate!"
I felt so ashamed sharing all of my feelings and crying, I just covered my face with my hands.
She came over to me and knelt down next to me. Her wings spread far out and she surrounded with me with her arms and wings. I grabbed onto her tightly, my face was buried into her breast.
I cried, "I want to have babies with a beautiful girl too! I know a guy isn't supposed to say that, but I want to have babies with a beautiful girl. I need and ache for my loved one so much!"
She held me tight and said, "I know it's hard, Will, but you will find her, I promise."
I yelled, "No one wants me! No one! Can't you see how horrible I am? Can't you see what a . . . "
Before I could finish, my angel kissed me. Not just a gentle kiss, but her tongue found mine and played slowly with it in a passionate kiss.
She stopped kissing me and smiled.
I was in shock. I gently carressed her cheek. I kissed her on the lips and ran my fingers through her long hair. I pulled back and just looked into her eyes.
I asked, "Do you have a name, angel?"
She smiled and said, "Rory."
I laughed and said, "That's my favorite name for a girl."
She replied, "I know."
I looked down at her body. I wanted so badly to see underneath her gown. I looked back into her pretty blue eyes and she smiled, looked down at her white gown then looked back into my eyes. Slowly her gown fell to the floor.
I was in awe. I had never seen real beauty until that moment.
I loooked at her and said, "You are not beautiful." Rory looked sad, then I said, "You are beauty itself.'
Rory gave a big grin and put her hands behind her body, looked to the floor and blushed. Her wings went out like she were stretching them or more like she was showing them off to me.
I laughed and said playfully, "Rory, are we shy?"
She laughed and hit me on the head with one of her wings.