It is regretful that I haven’t seen them yet, but I had haven a few mysterious experiences.
This story is one of them.
I had an aunt. She lived next door to me.
She had no children. So she loved me like her own son.
When I was a third-year student in high school, she got in sick and went into the hospital. On the bed, she cared about me, because it was before my entrance exam for university.
After that, I get through the exam. The news gave her big pleasure.
One day, I had a strange dream. My aunt was out in my dream.
She was walking in the woods. I found her and called her.
"Hey, auntie! Where are you going to go?"
But she didn’t reply any and look at me as if I didn’t exist there. She was only walking and she had gone to somewhere.
Suddenly, I waked from the dream. I thought I had a strange dream, and I looked at a clock. It was 2 o’clock at night. After that I slept again.
Next morning, when I came to living room, I looked my mother was crying.
I asked her.
"Hey, what’s wrong? Why are you crying?"
Mother said.
"Auntie was dead at night"
I was surprised very much.
There was a thing I must know, so I asked her again.
"What time was she dead?"
Mother said.
"It’s 2 o’clock at the middle of night."
I still believe that my aunt visited to me at her last…
「Ｚ-ファイル シーズン２」
僕は不思議なことや超自然現象が好きだ。実際、幽霊やＵＦＯの存在を信じてる。
残念なことに、まだ見たことはない。けど、不思議な体験はしたことがある。
この話は、その中の一つだ。
僕にはおばさんがいた。あばさんは僕の家の隣に住んでた。
おばさんには子供がいなかったせいか、僕のことを自分の息子代わりにかわいがってくれてた。
僕が高３の時に、おばさんは病気になって入院した。でも、大学入試を控えた僕を、入院中も心配してくれてた。
その後、僕は何とか無事に合格した。そしてその知らせを聞いて、おばさんはとても喜んでくれた。
ある日、僕は夢を見た。その夢の中におばさんが現れた。
森の中をおばさんは歩いていた。おばさんに気づいた僕は声をかけた。
「ねえ、おばちゃん。どこ行くの？」
でもおばさんは、まるで僕がその場にいないかのように、返事もしなければ、僕の方を見ようともしなかたた。おばさんはひたすら歩くだけで、とうとうどこかへ行ってしまった。
急に僕は夢から覚めた。変な夢みたなって思って、時計を見ると夜中の２時だった。そしてまた眠りについた。
次の朝、居間へ行くと、母親が泣いていた。
僕は尋ねた。
「ねえ、どうしたの？何で泣いてるの？」
母が言った。
「夜中におばさんが亡くなったの」
僕はびっくりした。
僕にはどうしても知りたいことがあったから、母にまた尋ねた。
「おばさんは何時に亡くなったの？」
母は言った。
「夜中の２時よ」
おばさんは、最後に僕のところにやって来てくれたんだって、今も信じてる。
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5 comments:
Very good story even if it is sad. Your writing is getting better everyday. However, (you had to know that was coming) where you say "I had haven a few…" you should say "I have had a few…".
Also, it should be "she got sick," and not "she got in sick." I think I understand the Japanese grammatical construct that would cause one to use the preposition 'in', but in English it is indicated by placement. 'Sick' directly follows 'got' (except in cases where there is an intervening adverb as in 'she got very sick') to show that it is the condition she acquired.
Back again.
First, at least in America we consider any time after midnight to be morning so when we are giving a specific time we would say, "It was two o'clock in the morning." When you are speaking generally of the period between going to sleep and waking up, that is usually referred to as 'last night.'
The natural English for "Auntie was dead at night." would be "Auntie died in the night" or "Auntie died last night." Also, death is a constant state, so we would ask for the time a person actually passed away (ie, stopped living) and would ask, "What time did she die?" The assumption is that she has, sadly, been continually dead since then. Your mother would then answer either, "It was at two o'clock this morning" or "It was last night around 2:00am."
Finally, it is picky, but it is the kind of thing we old farts notice. When stating a time, if you are going to use the phrase "o'clock" it is usual to spell out the name of the hour like "five o'clock" or eleven o'clock this morning (AM and PM are also not usually used with o'clock.) When using numerals to indicate the time we always show both the hour and minutes separated by a colon like this, 4:00 or 5:39. Indicating before noon and after noon is optional, but if it is before noon you indicate it with "AM" as in "2:00AM." A time after noon would look something like "8:32PM" Tradition has smallcaps being used for AM & PM, but many people now, including myself use lowercase letters such as "8:11am." Finally, Noon and Midnight are traditionally neither AM or PM, and the traditional way to write them is as 12:00Noon or 12:00 Midnight; or to simply say 'Noon or Midnight since it is understood they occur at 12:00. Young people have taken to saying 12:00AM for Midnight and 12:00PM for Noon; but I think this is a result of relying on digital watches.
Please remember, what I said in the first comment is very true. Your writing is improving every day. The problem is that as your skills grow and become stronger, you naturally take on subjects that are much trickier, and have many shades of use.
Albert Einstein once said: "The only people who do not make mistakes are the ones who don't do anything." Another way of putting it was said to me by the president of the first large corporation I worked for. At that time we were one of the two largest two sellers in the US. He was inspecting my operation one afternoon, and I showed him some shelving layouts that I felt didn't work, and apologized. His answer was he was proud I had tried something new; and even if it didn't work the way I wanted I had learned something. As he was leaving he said, "keep up the good work. If you are not screwing something up once in a while, you are not trying to improve.
I'm a believer in supernatural and UFO phenomenon too and had the good fortune to see some interesting things. I look at it from a scientist point of view that we should be investigating these things. Ignoring them does not make them go away!
I too am a believer in UFO's and ghosts. UFO activity all over the world is rising.
About your story though. I fully believe you saw your aunt that night. People in my family have had similar experiences to the one you describe here.
your English is also getting very good.
I actually had a student in Wakayama who had a similar experience. He and his mother was walking down the street to the train station and they saw a family friend walk by. They greeted him, but he kept walking, and they thought it was strange because he had always been a cheerful guy, willing to greet anyone. When they returned home, the mother was disturbed by this, and she called his house. His wife answered the phone and my student's mother told her what had happened.
The wife started crying on the phone, and said "He's been dead for a week now."
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