Redemption

They were at the peak of their lives.

Her brother’s ship was ready to set sail.

“When will I see you again?” He had asked.

He kept kissing her.

“One day when you and I come home together.”

“Then we will never be apart.” He finished.

He kissed her again as he boarded the ship as she stared down at the waters; tears rolled down her face.

“We will meet again.” She silently said.

The kiss lasted for twenty-thousand million years later.

***

Josh Hokum was escaping out of prison and the darkness was upon him.

He was climbing over the walls of Jersey Shore and found himself staring off into the wild.

He was good at swimming. After all, that was where it all started.

As he had swum, he remembered one thing in his mind. Get back safely to shore.

He dived in confident that he would make it but he saw a navy ship coming and nearly drowned.

They were on a mission and they were very sick.

Josh Hokum was hungry. He was hungry for blood.

Ripping apart their necks; blood in his mouth, he bit them and drank till the last drop and jumped out of the ship and swam ashore.

He knew his hunger wouldn’t last.

***

Certz woke up to find the barracks were empty. She was a witch with many past lives. Lives she dreamt about with one ending.

Death.

At one time she was a cowgirl in the Midwest who migrated to America from Italy. At one time, a Native American. At one time, a nun who had joined the military on a bus, but with the same face that was Josh Hokum’s.

She was haunted by many things but she was scared of the ocean for some reason.

For every life, the same warnings as though someone were to have killed her by them.

Every night the same people appeared.

Every day another warning.

Beware Cymbeline.

Her best friends Garett and Kimmy had disappeared.

Certz kept thinking that she was killing them because of the blood on her hands.

That’s what got her into the asylum.

She needed to kill them.

She had visions that she was flying and that God had given her wings.

Of course they thought she was crazy, but Josh Hokum didn’t.

Every night the same comfort from Josh.

Until one night, he stopped coming.

Josh Hokum had joined the military and so it happened. He had met up with Certz.

The fires in him raged.

Little did he know they’d meet up again once she had packed her bags and came home.

Where they would be together.

Forever.

Now the way to happiness was a long one. But Certz and Hokum were willing to wait.