Do You Pay Life? Or Does Life Pay You?
Dancing Elephant Press Prompt week 39 of 52 Paying Life
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“So, when we do bad things, we end up paying life. But for the good, life will pay us?” she questioned.
I am thinking about the lives of the people I know. Wondering, how their lives turned out the way it did. What did they do to contribute to their failure or success?
I believe that for all the bad humanity does, they will have to pay life. But life will pay humanity back for the love and kindness it shares.
Your prompt is to write something about life paying you or you paying life.
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A loud bang nearby, pulled ten-year-old Lacia Wilson out of a dream she was having, of her father taking her to a baseball game. She lay silent for a while. Listening, as tears flow and collided with the memory of her father’s casket lowering into his grave a few months ago, her body trembling.
Fear pulled her into her mother’s room.
“Mom,” she called out entering the room, guided by the bright light from the lamp on the right night table. Walking towards her mother’s bed, “Are you ok?”
Lacia screamed, staring at the blood oozing from her mother’s right temple, rushing to hug her mom. She screamed and screamed until she passed out.
When she came to, she was hugging her mom covered in blood.
She jumped out of bed and called 911 from her mother’s cellphone which was on the right night table, beside the lamp.
Her only living parent, her mother, committed suicide. According to the Detective on the scene, the suicide note read, “I had to pay back life.”
No one could comprehend what Loraine meant. A thorough investigation into her background and life, and the entire Hillsboro police department couldn’t understand what she meant.
Detective Abrahams, the first police officer at the scene was baffled with this case and fought to keep it open. He believed that there was more to her death than what the evidence says. Unfortunately, the evidence speaks louder.
Eighteen years later, no one had the answer.
Mother’s Day was approaching, and Lacia was restless. She had taken a few days off and was home cleaning when her phone rang.
She arrived at the hospital at the speed of light and hurried to room 2705, which was on the second floor.
Hugging him as he sat up, wires running in and out of various parts of his body, “thanks for coming,” he said easing back into his bed.
She sat down in the chair beside his bed, wondering if he had found the answer.
He read her mind and said, “Your mother wasn’t an angel. She did many things wrong and had many enemies.”
With raised brows, Lacia asked, “Why didn’t you tell me before?”
“I didn’t want you to have negative memories of her or hate her,” he said.
Lacia sighed and asked, “could one of her enemies have killed her?”
“No,” he said quickly. “There was no forced entry and according to the evidence, only the two of you were inside the house.”
“No one visited us,” Lacia recalls. “Not even family.”
“That’s what the evidence said.”
“And they stayed away after she died,” Lacia recalls.
Detective Abrahams sighed deeply fighting his emotions and the truth. His heart reminded him, that it was time, “she contributed to the death of your father.”
Swaying her head from left to right as tears flowed, her memory went back to their many fights.
Detective Abrahams stared at her and asked, “You knew?”
Wiping away tears, Lacia recalls, “They fought a lot.”
“According to the evidence, her partner schemed and cheated the pension of many elderly people at the investment firm she co-owned. The money was in several untraceable offshore accounts her partner created in your father’s name. He found out and hacked into the account and transferred all the money back to the company,” he reports.
“Her partner killed my father?” Lacia asked.
“That’s what the evidence led us to believe,” Detective Abraham answered.
“I don’t understand,” Lacia said in confusion.
“She was the one committing fraud, not Janet Karel her partner. She killed herself and her suicide notes say, “The guilty ones must pay life.”
Something flipped in Lacia's heart and Detective Abrahams reached out and squeeze her hand. Then went on, “Your mother was a nasty character according to the people we spoke to and her family. Because of whom she was, no one wanted to take you in.”
Easing her hand away, Lacia wiped her eyes and asked, “Why did you and your wife adopted me?”
He smiled remembering the day Justice Leonard Gills approved the adoption. Fighting tears, he recalls, “Ruth, your adopted Mom, believes that for all of the evil we do, we must pay back life.”
“What about for the good?” Lacia asked quickly.
“Life pays us,” he recalls his late wife’s words.
“So that’s why both of you raised me with so much love and kindness and made sure I give back only good to our world,” Lacia recalls in tears.
“Yes sweetheart,” he said reaching out to caress her right hand. “We wanted to save you from having to pay back life like your mother did.”
“So, when we do bad things, we end up paying life. But for the good, life will pay us?” she questioned.
“Your adopted mom believed that,” he answered.
Allowing her tears freedom, she said, “Both of you saved my life!”
Five days later Detective Josh Abrahams died of lung cancer. Lacia was shocked to see so many young people at his funeral. Many eulogies were read and each one thanked him for helping life to pay them back through the kindness, love, and consideration he encourages them to give to our world.
For all the bad humanity does, they will have to pay life. But life will pay humanity back for the love and kindness it receives.
Some of us must pay life. Others, life will pay us.
Do you pay life? Or does life pay you?
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