Don't Worry About Me Brother

He still couldn't shake the previous night's dream.

It all began about four week's earlier when he received a call from his mother back in New Orleans about his youngest sister. She was very sick and the doctors could not figure out the cause. All the blood tests and studies had come back negative.
His mother had told him that two days earlier, his sister had awakened feeling nauseated with a slight fever and everything had deteriorated from there. She had slipped into a coma after three days in the hospital and now remained hospitalized in the ICU with no change in her condition. She had been to a birthday party and had eaten a hot dog and some cake and ice cream but none of the other children at the party had become ill.

He had flown back to New Orleans to visit his younger sister in the hospital. He did not arrive until after she had slipped into the coma and all he could do was sit by her bedside and hold her hand. He remained in New Orleans for a week and visited with his sister everyday while there.

In the dream, he was at an amusement park with his youngest sister, and she had gotten lost and he could not find her. He searched frantically everywhere but she seemed to have vanished into thin air. He had found her at the Park's Welcome Center, sitting at a table in a room all alone eating ice cream and cake. When she turned to look at him, she seemed surprised that he was upset and asked what was wrong. When he explained that he was upset because didn't know what happened to her, she had only laughed and said he was foolish for worrying about her. She explained that she wanted ice cream and cake and she knew that she could get some for free at the Welcome Center. As he was talking to her in the dream, she started to scream and cry loudly and then she fell on the floor thrashing wildly. This had continued for several minutes, when suddenly his sister had sat up and told him she had to leave now because she was going on a long trip and for him not to worry. She told him she was going to be fine, and her speech and demeanor seemed too mature for an eight year old girl. She then turned and walked away out of the Welcome Center and disappeared again into the crowded park. He tried to go after her but he discovered that he could not move from the spot where he stood. He had awakened from his dream at that point, sweating profusely and confused as he tried to make sense of his dream. He had showered and dressed and headed off to work but he couldn't stop thinking about his dream.

He knew the call was coming before the phone rang. It was his mother and she told him his younger sister had passed away about an hour earlier. He felt very sad but unusually calm at that news because he felt his young sister had sent him a message in his dream. She was ok and he should not worry because she was in a better place and not suffering anymore.