Nur ein paar Minuten   von maidlin
                         (Percy Jackson-Rick Riordan)
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                         Kapitel 2: Just a few minutes
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This is it. The moment I die.
I knew it would end like this, right from the start. I had known when I had
chosen this path. But I didn’t expect it to be so painful, so slow. I thought
it would be over pretty fast.
My body feels like it is on fire, like my muscles and flesh are torn off from my
bones, little by little, piece by piece, slowly and apparently endlessly. Every
breath feels like needles piercing my lungs. When is it over?
There is Percy and Annabeth and Grover right in front of me but my vision is
already blurry. Though I can see the tears in her and Grover’s eyes. True
friends, I think, friends I may not deserve. But I’m glad that they are here.
Just a few words. More I don’t want to say. Only a few words… I fill my
lungs with air, open my mouth and force myself to speak. But as soon as the
first words escape my lips I want to stop. Even speaking hurts so much. I never
experienced such a pain before.
But I go on. It won’t take long anymore.
A last deserved praise. A last question and an answer I’m relieved about. A
last promise.
A final farewell.
When I finish the last sentence my hand falls down and I know it will be only a
matter of seconds. Then the room starts glowing. I can see it behind my closed
eyelids.
They come back.
I wish it would have taken them longer. I don’t want to die with him near me.
I don’t want to feel all the feelings I carefully locked away.
The pain lessens and my body becomes lighter. Life leaves me. Soon, I think.
Soon…
For a very short moment I see my mother before my eyes. It’s strange… my
whole life I run from her, from her eyes, which scared me to death. Even now. I
still don’t know why she was like that. And I will never know now. Will she
still wait for me? I hope he will tell her that I will never come back.
But I love her. She is my mother and the little boy inside me wants her by his
side.
Muffled sounds come to my ears, voices, men and women, movements and steps. I
don’t understand what they are saying anymore. I drift away.
He is besides me. I can feel him, powerful and mighty. And now I know why I hold
onto the last bit of my life. Again I see the boy I once have been. He was
alone, longed for his father’s love, an indication, a prove. The little boy
still longs for his love. He doesn’t want to die alone.
A hand on my cheek and a kiss on my forehead, a final blessing. And when he
holds my hand I finally let go.

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