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Chapter 10 (i'm BACK people, miss me?) |
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Chapter 10 How long could people survive on pure determination and their friends alone? This is a question that goes through my head a lot lately. Discovering who we were, WHAT we were, was a lot for a thirteen, near fourteen year old girl to take in. Even if I was the one who stumbled apon the information it was enough to make me do an anime fall, and if it was humanly possible I probably would have. It's amazing what can happen in one conversation with three not so normal teens. Thanks to Shana me and Dan were as close as ever, closer even. On Friday I had started slipping away without even realizing it, started letting go. I had fallen..and he had caught me. I ended up admitting to him that I was scared, more scared than I had ever been in my entire short existance. I had admitted to him what I had admitted to Shana a while ago, that I was close to giveing up. That's when he said it, even if it was online it made my heart skip a beat. "You can't give up, Nira. We need you, we love you." We meant him too, even though I know it wasn't suppost to sound that way. That one stupid phrase, it gave me enough strength to suck it up and make it through one more day. That's what Dan's good at, even if he doesn't realize it. He's done it so many times, given me that one comment that made my day, got me through it. Nira: It's funny, I detest crying, and yet I find myself wakeing up with tears streaming down my face every night. I guess I hate crying because, to me, it's a sign of weakness. I'd never told anyone that. Dan: Crying isn't a weakness, it shows that you have a soul. Or, rather it shows that you have emotions. I stopped crying at funerals when I was five. My dad's haveing a major operation and I'm not the slightest bit upset. Sometimes I fear that I have become nothing but an emotionless shell, or that I will become one. Oh, he couldn't have been more wrong! Never in his entire existance could he have been more wrong! Nira: You don't get along well with your dad, and there is no way you are emotionless. You showed so much joy at the dance, your eyes sparkled. I've seen your anger flare many a time, sometimes directed at me. You saw a friend slipping away, giveing up..and you pulled her back, you're careing. Besides, if you had no emotions you would have no aura, and your aura is beautiful. When you are calm it is the most amazing blue, the paleist I have ever seen, when you're angry it's almost black, but I love that blue. Dan knew about me and Shana, knew we were psychic and could see things others couldn't. Long silence, something tells me I said something I shouldn't. Dan: I guess.. "You'll never be alone Dan.." The thought went through my mind too quickly for me to stop it. When I had finally stopped freaking I realized it was true. Always he would have Shana or me watching over him, makeing sure he isn't harmed. Whatever happened in the past, obviously it wasn't that clear, but what was clear to me was the fact that I never abandoned him, any of them. I've always watched over him, never really knowing why. Could this whole thing be part of the reason? I couldn't help but wonder. Dan: I gtg *hug* night Nira: Night. *hug* talk to you tomorrow Dan: Ok, bye. Already I missed him, already I worried. That was my job, right? To worry about my friend? I put up my away message and trudged to my bed. It was nearly three a.m., I was exausted. The light was turned off and I laid in the darkness, ontop of the old quilt on my bed, which at one point had been pretty beautiful. I closed my eyes and let my mind wander. How could Dan, my Dan, geeky but not quite a geek Dan, think he was an emotionless shell? His image drifted in my mind as I slowly fell into a troubled sleep. Camping, my friends wanted to go camping. What could I say? All but Shana looked thrilled. We were in a bus, heading for the same place we went for a school trip a while ago, and I was exausted. Long car rides always make me sleepy, so this didn't suprise me. My head slowly began to lull to the side, my eyes slowly closed. My head finally rested on Dan's shoulder, and my friend's chatter slowly began to fade away. The next thing I knew Dan was shakeing me gently, we had finally gotten to the campsite. It was quite beautiful, the lake, the woods, and a cabin waiting for us. We all dropped our things in the cabin, and I sent a glance at Shana. The lake unnerved me, a lot. Dan didn't know how to swim, and for some rason I feared him falling in. This beautiful place just got a bit creepy. As the sun slowly set we lit a fire and I sat next to Dan, his arm looped around me in a casual manner. I really loved it when he put his arm around me and let me lean on him, he's so tall it's like I dissapear. We sat there in comfort for a while, our entire group of friends, until Cristi mentioned we needed more firewood. I quickly got up to get it, this place still unnerved me and I didn't trust anyone else wandering around out there. I grabbed my old black sweatshirt and a flashlight and headed toward the door. Dan followed me, a concern look his face. He asked if I wanted him to come with me, and my first reaction was to say yes, but then I looked around at the lake. I shook my head. "I'll be fine", I said with more reassurance in my voice than I achually felt "Ok.." The look on his face told me he didn't full believe me, but that didn't stop me. I smiled at him, then turned and headed out the door. Outside I found an old rooksack that looked ok for firewood. I picked it up, turned on my flashlight, and began my search for firewood in the woods. After a while, when I was a good distance away from the cabin, my flashlight went on the blink and finally went out. I got a bit shaken by this and looked around, not a clue where exactly I was. I let my eyes adjust to the darkness and began walking in the direction I though, and prayed, the cabin was, thinking the bit of wood I'd collected would have to do. The sound of that laughter, HER laughter, made me freeze in my tracks. I whipped around and glared at the form infront of me, her two blood red eyes diveing into my dark brown ones. Seeing her, here, so near my friends fueled me with anger and fear, being this close to her in the dark was too much. I started stumbling backwards, heading towards safety and people. I was shakeing from head to toe, and when sense finally returned to me I dropped the rooksack and ran, half blind, through the woods. I felt myself stumble, then fall, thinking "Dear lord..this is it. I'm going to end up dieing alone, just as before." She had been right on my tail the entire time, and I felt her standing over me before I opened my eyes. I knew what the glint of silver was in her hand. That dagger, that accursed dagger that had haunted me for so long. I watched in horror as she lowered the dagger, and I felt it pierce my body. She followed the first blow with a second, then a third, over and over again, the same wicked grin etched across her face the entire time.My screams rang through the forest, mixing with her laughter. I begged anyone to come, to help me, but no one did. Strike after strike I screamed in pain, strike after strike I was left alone to be delt another blow. Slowly it had sunk in, this would be my undoing, and no one would know, nor would they care. I heard birds stir near the cabin, so near, but no one left the cabin to look for their friend, not a single one of them. When daylight finally shone through the cabin windows, that's when Dan and Shana woke and ran outside to look for me. They stopped about midway between me and the cabin. I heard Dan let out a sob, Shana cry out in anger. Dan stumbed towards me and fell to his knees beside me, tears streaming down his face and hitting mine. Shana came and knelt beside him, her tears falling on my still form. The others finally came a short while later to see what was wrong. They all stopped dead at the sight of me. There I was, Shana and Dan crying over me, Dan running his hand over my hair. My eyes were open, but glazed over, a sure sign of death. My mouth was wide open, uttering a scream never answered. Blood was all around me, on me. As my friends cried around me another sound rose over the mistique of the forest, the sound of that cackle. That laughter, that evil laughter penetrated through everything, chilling me to the very core. I shot upright in bed, tears blinding me. I could feel pain where the stab wounds had been, and felt a trickle of blood run down my arm and leg. This had been a sign to me, a sign of the horror that was to come. I don't really care though..all I know is I'm scared. I curled up and whimpered softly, too scared to sleep. What I wouldn't give to see my friends right now. To see them alive and well, to know they were safe. That stupid laughter though, it seemed engrained in my brain. Even though I was awake it still rang as clear as in my dream But it couldn't be real, could it?
AshesToEmbers · Sat Jul 16, 2005 @ 11:30pm · 0 Comments |
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