READERS TALES
Saying
Goodbye
(NOTE: Read this author's
other submitted tale
HERE)
This
happened several years ago in Sacramento, California, 1992, I was living in an apartment
by myself. It was a little after 1 o'clock on a Wednesday morning. I couldn't
get any sleep. I was tossing and turning and hearing all of these voices in my
head. Whisperings, pssss, pssss, all these voices talking to me all at once, in
my ears. It sounded like a hundred little voices talking all at once. All of a
sudden I felt something in my room. I looked around in the dark and felt a
presence. I couldn't touch it or see it, but I felt it. I actually felt my bed
sag like it does when someone sits on the bed to talk with you. I pulled the
covers over me and felt the hairs stand on the back of my neck and asked "who's
there". I had to cover myself, it felt as if someone was watching me. I couldn't
stop the feeling that someone was beside me. After a while I fell asleep, but
was kinda scared to be in the dark. The next day I couldn't shake the feeling of
the last nights experience.
Anyway, two weeks later my ex husband called to tell me that our best friend K.
had died. K. and I had become really good friends when my husband and I lived in
Oklahoma City for a year. She was like my mother. Since my mother lived in New
York and I was in my twenties, K. kind of took the position of mother to me. J.
had kept in touch with K., because when we divorced, K. was always under the
assumption that I would return to J. I never did.
He told me that she had died in the early hours of a Wednesday morning. All of a
sudden I knew that my friend had come to say goodbye to me. Even now as I'm
writing this experience, I still feel like crying. It was K. who was with me
when she passed!!! Those voices were angels talking to me. I knew something too,
but didn't know why. I asked my ex if he had received a letter from K.. He said
that he had and that the letter was received on the afternoon of that Wednesday.
I also asked him if in that letter she had stated that she had hoped that we
would get back together. He said, yes, how did you know?. I said I just knew,
that's all, I just knew. Although at the time I did not know what the presence
was, it was just this knowing that she had cared enough to say goodbye. I cried
for two weeks knowing I lost my best friend.
-Sandra.