The Beautiful and the Damned
Right time

BETHEL:

"HELLO, is anyone there, hello!" I called out to the darkness that was apparently surrounding me.

How did I end up here again?

"Bullock's" I cursed.

"Young Bethel, we finally meet" a strong powerful voice suddenly says.

Turning round in circles I try to pin point the direction the voice was coming from, but I couldn't, it felt like it was coming from everywhere.

"Who is there? Show yourself" I boldly called out.

"I'm afraid I can't do that child" the voice once again speaks, though it was deep I could make out the softness in it's tone.

"And why is that?" I asked. Sure I was terrified I mean I don't know how I even ended up here to begin with but curiosity was just too deep in my bones.

"If I did you wouldn't last a second on seeing my true form Yohanna, your eyes would sadly burn out, literally" the voice spoke smooth and firm.

"Ok then if you can't show yourself" with sarcasm in I spoke "Then at least tell me who you are and where the hell I am"

"Fair enough I guess" the immerse masculine voice laughed a little. Was something funny?

"Well then?" I raised a eyebrow now getting agitated.

"To answer your question" the voice began "For who I am, I'm known by many names and titles to different languages and to different tribes. For a start I'm known as Deus, Oɛóc, Dieu, mulungu, Gott, Dumnezeu, Chukwu, Dia, Oghene, ☐☐☐ Haneunim, Irun, 000000, Allah, Jupiter, Dios, ghmerto, Diyos, Shén, Kami-Sama, while the holy sacred book refers to me as; The most high, Ancient of days, Rock of ages, I am that I am, The Lord of lord's...but to one and all I'm know by the name, God" wait back up for a second there.

"Oh no no no no no, let's refresh that" I said shaking my head a little.

"You mean to say you are God? like God the supreme being?, God the creator of the freakin universe?" I stared slack Jawed into the darkness. "Yes"

"Stop messing with me tell me who you really are" I said.

"I have no reason to lie to you dear child" the voice spoke smoothly resonating wisdom without any form of wavering.

"I'm not a child" I muttered.

"To me every one of my creation's are children in my sight, including both the good, bad and the ugly" the voice spoke booming with power.

I gulped, could this actually be the real authentic God? But how.

"And for your second question, we are in the deepest part of your mind you see, we are in your dream. Though I created this particular dream myself because I wanted a safe and private place to talk to you little Yohanna" he wanted to talk to me?

"I highly doubt I'm that important for the master of the universe to make time for me, as you can see I'm really nothing special, your holiness.. wait am I to call you that? Can I call you that, is it weird to call you that?" I rambled on with a blush staining my cheeks. I really did love embarrassing myself.

"You can just refer to me as how you've normally referred to me before now" God chuckled. Woaw is this a dream. Oh right I forgot it actually was. This is all too weird.

"And also you are very special child, you might not know it yet, but someday you will. After all you are the one who is going to stop this world from going into complete total annihilation" Scrunching my nose a little I asked "What do you mean?"

"When the time is right you will know Yohanna"

"A lot of people have been talking about this 'right time' fiasco, it's really getting old" I was soo feed up of hearing that same phrase.

He didn't answer my question instead he said.

"It seems like my dear son is trying to wake you up" I somehow automatically knew it was Seker he was talking about. His voice sounded almost sad when he mentioned his son.

"Take care of him would you? He's always been strong-headed" he released a short laugh.

"You've not still told me what I want to know" I called out.

Dismissing what I said once again, he spoke "I'm quite sad that our little meeting has come to a short end, It was nice talking to you once again child, I hope the next time we have a chat would be under less tense times" his voice began to slowly fade out while a light began to grow brightly in the darkness, I covered my eyes the intensity of the light being too much.

The one thing that was left lingering in my mind was that God had used the word 'again'.

what did he mean by 'it was nice talking to you once again'? Because I'm pretty confident that this was the first time we've ever spoken.

If we had indeed met before I would have definitely remembered instantly, I mean he was God after all it wasn't possible to just forget about meeting someone as important as him.

So what did he mean?