The Day Death Went Away Chapter 3 Miracles

 As Mark looked out the window in the car he watched the trees blur by; he could see the reflection of himself. His skin colour was pasty. It was as if he never seen the light of day before.  Mark turned his head to face Ruby. Every now and then he would catch her staring at him out of her dark brown eyes. Then Ruby reached her hand out to turn on the radio. The radio host's voice came booming out. “A quick news update on what people are calling a miracle. I am standing with a man who had taken a direct shot to the head and is still breathing. Sir please tell our listeners how you’re still alive.”

“I don’t know. The doctors say I should be dead right now. No one has ever survived a direct gun shot to the head before.” the radio news men carried on speaking. Mark ears perked up when he heard the news. Mark was placing his hand on his heart where he was shot. Ruby turned to Mark and said “unbelievable there been cases like that guy popping up for the last 48 hours. People just surviving fatal accidents, I did not believe it tell I saw you. I mean look at you! You look like you could drop dead any moment but your alive and breathing, miracles appearing all over the place. Mark was thinking about what the woman was saying feeling his arm for a pules. Mark could still not feel any pulse and still could not hear any beating in his heart. “Say something kid.”

Mark found it annoying how Ruby was calling him kid, when truth be told she could not have been that much older than Mark 2 to 3 year older he thought. Then he remembered That man on the bridge that shot him, had called him kid too. Mark gave Ruby a glare. Ruby jokingly said. “Do zombies get hungry? You’re not thinking of eating my brains are you? The way you’re looking at me right now really suggests you are.” There was a hint of fear in that last bit Mark thought.  

“No! I am not a zombie!” 

“Woah their how old are you? 5.”

“No I’m 18.”

“You don’t say much do you? Well I am 21 for the record.”

 “I don’t like talking.” She stared at him she wanted to know more.

“Well I am afraid you better learn to like it because I just picked up a total stranger in a forest. I want to know how the hell you ended up in such a state. You own me for frightening me half to death.” Mark said nothing. He just carried on staring at Ruby and thinking about what she had said about miracles.  Ruby looks back at Mark. “We almost there now at great falls hospital."