Chapter 19
Snowflakes in Hell
His hair was snow-white. His eyes were emerald green and his skin seemed to have a deep lit candle glow to it. He felt like a super version of himself. A self he always dreamed about.
“God, this is..”
God put his fingers to Antels lips to stop him from talking. He then handed him and Roosafee one wrapped gift each. It was the prettiest paper he had ever seen. The sight of the gift was a gift in itself with the rainbow colors and the way it crinkled in his hands. There is something about a unoppened gift that stirs excitement and wonder. He felt like he was a little kid at christmas all over again.
The tag read, “To Antel, Love The Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and the scores of Angels rooting for you.”
Roosafee and Antel looked at each other, smiled, then looked at God with tears in their eyes. It was a magical moment. So magical it actually began to snow. No sooner did the first flake hit the ground did God let out a great big belly of a laugh. It was indescribable. Tree’s sprung up and bloomed, fish jumped out of the waterfalls and did flips, rainbows crisscrossed, and the sound of instruments played in a way he has never heard instruments play before. It was as if God’s laughter dared life to live, and Life dared God to laugh again. It was an organic dance that flooded Antel and Roosafee’s soul with peace and body with warm chills.
And with that, God disappeared. Completly gone. The funny thing about it was the weight of his presence remained. Nothing could argue that God was indeed in that place. They both looked around in wonder until their eyes fixed on a table prepared under a cherry blossom tree. There were all sorts of warms breads still steaming, fruit freshly picked, sliced and displayed. There were nuts, and vegetables, arranged into hearty salads. There were all types of dressings in tiny crystal bottles and two frosty pitchers of Hartley’s Lager. They put their gifts on the table sat down, gave thanks and began to eat. There was not talking for the first fifteen minutes. Just a bunch of ,
“ohh man.. Hmmm..This is so good….Ahhhh….now thats what I’m talking about….”
There was no silverware. The two of them ate with there hands. Antel thought about how nice it was not to hear the clanking and tinking of forks, knives and dishes. Finally when they had their fill Roosafee leaned back completely naked. “You want to open our gifts kiddo?”
Antel laughed and said, “okay, I sure do hope its clothes.” He felt bad ripping the nice paper, but that faded very fast. He slowly opened the box and took out a pair of sox, superman tighty whities, a white t-shirt, a completely black jogging suit, the coolest pair of nike airs he had ever seen and a dog collar looking thing with a ruby in the center.
Roosafee smiled and said, “I like your underwear.”
Antel shoved his arm and replied, ” Open your box, I cant wait to see yours.”
Roosafee did. He took out a pair of Levi blue jeans, a tight black shirt, socks, fancy looking cowboy boots, and a belt with the most interesting buckle he had ever seen.
Antel looked at him and said, “you didn’t get any underwear?”
Roosafee replied, “I go commando, (He then did a funny provocative shuffle gyrating his hips),always have. The good Lord knows that.” With that they the two of them fell to the ground with laughter. So hard they were brought to tears and their stomachs hurt.
The two of them wasted no time getting dressed. Antel remembers feeling completely refreshed and renewed. Its funny what a change in socks and underwear will do to a man.
“Roosafee what is this?” Antel handed over the dog collar looking thing. Roosafee looked with joy and said,
“The master has given you a good gift, a very good gift.” With that he actually put it around Antels neck like a dog collar and had the ruby part in the front.
“Is it too tight?”
“No, it’s actually really comfortable, what is it?”
Roosafee stepped back and said, “Press the ruby in when you are ready.”
“Ready for what?” Antel replied.
“Just press the button.”
Antel looked at him with a crazy look in his eye and said, “ok.”
“Click, click”
As soon as the ruby was pushed, it glowed a bright red. Black vines came out of it and covered his body from head to toe creating an armor on him. It didn’t look ugly, it looked majestic as it complimented the tatoo that was glowing brightly on his chest. It was outfitted with wolverine blades and a set of wings that flapped on his command. He felt like a superhero and looked like one to. Without thinking he jumped and actually soared into the sky, higher, and higher, and higher until he did a barrel roll and nose-dived to the ground until he was about ten feet away. He let his wings out like a parachute and gently floated the rest of the way.
“That is captains war armor Antel. Now press the button again.”
Antel did and the armor crept away and went back into the ruby. “Now thats what I am talking about.”
“God gave you the armor for a reason. We face much darkness ahead of us. You will definitely use it.”
Antel smiled, real happy and confident in his new gift. “Whats up with that shiny belt buckle?”
Roosafee’s eyes lit up, “This is my new armor.”
“Click, click”
