THE WHITE LADY

It's early evening. White Lady perches herself in one of the mid-branch of the rubber tree, her favorite place to see people pass by. There is a beaten path under the tree leading to a flowing creek where fishers gather to catch fish or couples walk for a stroll. Children in groups to go and swim during the day or play around under the tree on moonlight nights. These groups of people are afraid of the White Lady. She is dressed in pure white, no one has seen her face at all. Rumors about her spread by rumor mongers who tell her past life story. These rumors maybe true or not scare those people who pass by the rubber tree. The White Lady might catch them to become her victims to be sacrificed or she may inflict bad luck to them or get sick out of their fear incase she is able to catch them. People doesn't know the White Lady is trying to be kind looking for an opportunity to help others. Who would believe about her motives when she is a lady of the dark showing up when the weather is eery and bleak making people feel scared incase she is there on one of the branches of the old rubber tree. In her own words she has been around for many years in her present state. A wanderer who is able to find this place. Her purpose is to make amends what she has done when she is alive. How many sins she has committed like abandoning her children and breaking up with her husband to live with another man. She can't define the true meaning of love. She has no respect to her parents although they tried their best to provide everything for her naming her Blanca(white). Blanca has led a life of misery and committed undesirable acts. When her first husband didn't meet her expectations to provide everything she wanted in life she nagged him to do more, to get more from him. She became disappointed although he tried his best to please her. She complains why he can't give what she asks like a piece of jewelry or the latest style of fashion selling in the market. She is also a jealous type to confront him when she caught her husband talking to a lady confronting them subjecting her husband to embarrassment. One day he left her and she isn't able to locate him, with no trace at all. Blanca is left desperate and hang-out with men in the bar at night. Until she met her second husband who has more than her first husband. She is again disappointed when she can't hold his money, he will give her at the time he wants to give her. It is like making Blanca wish more from him meaning she has to please him first before giving what Blanca asks from him. How can Blanca do that when she depends everything she needs from him? Again her second husband left her with two children, a boy and a girl. Blanca's problems piled up leading her to stress and depression. She brought her children to her parents and left them under their care. She decided to go to another place to find excitement and temporary pleasure where she used to hang-out, a night in the bar where men drinks hoping a man will find her to provide her wants and caprices. She is so excited when she met that kind of guy in her dreams, to ride in a luxury car and to live in a beautiful house , she can call her own. Blanca's heart, body and soul are insatiable, looking for more even if she has everything, she didn't care about her abandoned children, her parents who raised her and his latest husband who cared and cherished her. His efforts to make her happy to meet all her needs are nothing to her. She spent her days playing cards in the casino and going home late at night. Many times her husband convinced her to stay home. Blanca didn't listen to him. Until one night she met an accident. The roads are slippery when the bad weather struck ,with heavy downpour coupled with gusty winds. The car went out of control and rolled over many times and landed on a ditch. Blanca left her physical body making her soul and spirit travel anywhere. Blanca found herself wearing a white dress perched in one of the tree branches. She has passed the forty days she is supposed to go to heaven. The night she died at the scene of the accident , she tried to ask the key to enter the gate of heaven, she has been rejected to enter due to the misdeeds she has done on Earth. She is told to mend and change her ways before she can enter the gate of heaven. She called herself White Lady from her physical name Blanca(white). White Lady became a haunted soul. Haunted by her past. She can't rest at all, she has to find time to amend her sins she has committed to her children, her parents and husbands. She could have been a good mother to her children, a respectful daughter to her parents , a good wife to her last loving husband who has loved her very much. What a beautiful and happy life they could have spent together? What the gatekeeper in heaven told her has stuck in her mind. "Go back to Earth and show people how to be kind, to be helpful, and show them respect. The White Lady doesn't know how to do all of these. She has to find someone to help her. She has been roaming around for days , weeks, months and years until she found this rubber tree along the creek she considered it her home. One night as she is perched on the rubber tree branch, a flickering light caught her sight approaching her, the flickering light is a mini-lantern carried by Isidro a ghost like her. The White Lady doesn't know what to do but Isidro said he is sent by the gatekeeper in heaven to look for her. They have been waiting for her to come back. The White Lady told Isidro she has not done anything good yet with all the years she has been alone. She can't appear to people in her ghost condition. People get scared that might lead them to sickness. Being a White Lady is no longer a human body but a spiritual soul. How can humans understand her? They can't accept to associate with her. Isidro explained both of them can still do good things to humans. Both of them can make the rubber tree as their abode This time people have seen the flickering light and the White Lady. They can't see Isidro wearing a black suit. The more people tried to walk in another path to go to the creek. the White Lady and Isidro leave the rubber tree during the day. They go to an empty barn and sleep there. No one can see them there, no one is using the barn for how many years. The White Lady and Isidro talked about the good things they can do. They don't like to stay on Earth , to be around while people are scared when they see them in their state of being ghosts. The gatekeeper told Isidro they have to do at least three good things together then go back to him and enter the gate of heaven. On a rainy day, in the darkest of the night, at dawn , they heard someone drowning in the creek. A fisherman who came to check if his fish trap catch fish causing his boat to capsize. The White Lady and Isidro immediately carried him to the shore and applied CPR. Isidro is a nurse before he died of cancer. They stayed with the fisherman until his family arrived who contacted them on his cellphone. The White Lady and Isidro are very happy of what they have done. Sleeping in the empty barn for sometime gave them peace of mind to think what another good thing they can do to others. One day going back to the empty barn before sunrise they saw a car blinking its lights. There must be someone inside the car asking for help. They immediately approach the car to look inside. There's a couple inside. A man is attending to his wife who is about to give birth. Isidro knocked at the window to let him inside. The man is not afraid to see a ghost, considering his situation, he needed help. The White Lady and Isidro assisted the wife while the husband started the car to bring his wife to the nearby hospital. As soon as the car stopped at the Emergency Door of the hospital the White Lady and Isidro left right away. The more they became excited and happy. Their final good deed is coming' They talked about the place they are going to. Their final destination of rest, a peaceful place to stay. They will no longer go anywhere else. There will be no more trouble there. As usual going to the rubber tree at night and sleep at the empty barn made the two ghosts comfortable. They see people when they perched on the rubber tree branch but sleep and rest inside the empty barn during the day. It took for sometime when the White Lady and Isidro encountered what they are waiting for. They didn't expect to see a child crying under the rubber tree looking for her parents. They are wondering why the child is left there knowing The White Lady and Isidro is living in that old rubber tree. No one wants to pass by it anymore. They didn't know people heard what they have done to the fisherman. His family spread the rumor no one could have saved me says the fisherman. That night a woman has to find someone to take care of her little girl ,none other than the White Lady and Isidro. came to her mind. They took the little girl to an orphanage. , There, she will be taken cared of very well by the staff. She will be raised normally after she will be adopted by a couple to become her foster parents. Someday she will meet her biological parents . The Whit Lady and Isidro are getting ready to go to the gate of heaven, the White Lady thanked Isidro on showing her, teaching her good things to others. Both of them entered the gate of heaven opened to them to rest peacefully together.GP