Story by billfan

Unreal story

This history has occurred in London. Once in the evening some students of one of colleges had supper at restaurant on the occasion of the termination of academic year and the beginning of a vacation. Conversation has come about, whether the life after death proceeds or all stops, as soon as our body dies. Opinions, certainly, were divided. And then friends have made each other the promise that that from them who will depart in the world other the first, necessarily will appear and will inform, whether there is something "behind a coffin" or not. Cheerfully laughing, young men have sworn each other "if something happens" to arrive so. The summer has flown by imperceptibly, and the same company of students has gathered at restaurant this time to celebrate again the study beginning. All had an excellent appetite, the meal and а hard liquor instantly disappeared in stomachs of students. And only one of them touched neither to food, nor to drink and, sadly smiling, observed of sparkling fun of the companions. At last someone has exclaimed: - And you, James why you have not fun with us? Probably, any young unapproachable lady has wounded you in the heart? - Remember, about what we spoke with you last time? - James has unexpectedly asked. - Today I have come to tell to all of you - the life after death does not stop, and that I am now among you, - direct to volume acknowledgement. Students have become silent, puzzly exchanging glances, and James has risen because of a table and slowly left a premise. Has passed some days, employment have already begun, and James for some reason did not attend lectures, though companions some times saw it in college corridors. More and more or has less cleared up, when to an educational institution there have arrived James's parents. They have informed a management that their son has sunk in the summer, bathing in the river...