Вдруг кому-нибудь понравится...The sigh was hardly audible but nonetheless it made Aslynn open her huge brown eyes and slowly look up. As she had already figured it was her loving mother sighing and doing her best not to let tears appear.
Aslynn, a six-year-old that often seemed to be much more experienced and wiser that any other girl her age, gave a little sigh too. This bright, fun loving child, that kept on claiming that she was “happier than the happiest person in the world”, could hardly move now. She was quietly lying on the wide hospital bed looking so very fragile and vulnerable with her pretty pale face and thin limbs. Her lips and fingertips were of the dark shade of blue that made the little girl look as if she’d just came out of the icy water. “My little mermaid” her mother called her, stroking her unruly blond curls.
Her heart was inexorably failing and Aslynn knew that. She knew it better than anyone else did. She needed a transplant real bad and she even used to hope that someday she’d finally get one, but after a while the idea of never really getting one started growing on her. After all, what difference would it make if any other child died to give her a new heart? There would be crying time in some other family and that wouldn’t do the world any good.
That day, when she heard her mother sigh, Aslynn woke up with a clear thought that she wouldn’t make it after all. In her mother’s teary eyes the girl could see that she was troubled by the very same thought. Aslynn herself wasn’t scared, months of battling with her wearing heart condition left her unafraid of leaving this world of pain, she just felt bad for her mother and her beloved baby sister. What she wanted least was leaving them suffer and it bothered her that they would suffer and grieve no matter what.
The weakness was overwhelming but Aslynn knew she had to do one last thing to try to soothe her mother, the woman that brought her into this world and stayed by her side through all the hardships of the last few months. It took all her remaining strength to whisper the words that kept running through her head for quite a while – “I’ll be your guardian angel when I’m in heaven. I love you, Mom. You and baby Mia”. The girl opened her eyes again to make sure the words reached her mother’s ears and was just in time to notice a subtle smile appear on the woman’s lips. “Good”, thought Aslynn, feeling relieved, “good”. She wished those words she whispered would stay with her mother for a while and probably even help her make through the pain and sorrow that seemed inevitable now.
Two hours later Aslynn somehow knew it was time to stop struggling for every breath. With her blurry mind she felt her heartbeat slowing down and getting weaker, and weaker and weaker… until all signs of life stopped.
Soaring high above the weary world she no longer belonged to, Aslynn had a feeling that whatever kept her on Earth it finally let her go, and from that moment on she was free to fly high on her newly gained wings, growing strong again as pain was left behind… forever. She was far, far away at last.
