the banshee

chapter 1

2 weeks ago-

"are we there yet?" paris asks her mom. "almost, just go back to sleep for a little bit, okay sweetie?" her mom says paying attention to the road.

"could we stop by a gas station or something? i'm getting hungry." octavia begs. "okay fine, but be quiet and don't wake your sister." her mom says pulling into a parking lot.

they park, octavia picks up her sister and walks inside as paris stays asleep in her arms. they grab what they wanted and check out.

getting back on the road, octavia spends the rest of the time texting her friends.

"you really should take a break from that device." her mom says.

"there's nothing else to do, we're in a car." octavia replies. "you could maybe talk to me" her mom tries to convince her. "okay.. what do you wanna talk about" octavia puts her phone down.

"friends?"
"crushes?"
"school?"
"okay well there is this guy.." octavia blushes. "oooh is he cute?" her mom laughs. "very." octavia joins in.

getting distracted by talking about octavias social life, her mom didn't notice a girl in the road. "mom! watch out!" octavia yells. her mom turns the wheel making the car go into the woods.

the car falls off a steep hill, making it flip over, octavia hitting her head against the hard glass, the windshield breaking, shards of glass stabbing her in the stomach.

as the car flips over, her legs hitting the dashboard, the glass shards moving inside her. there was nothing but the cry's of her little sister, her eyes suddenly getting heavy.

ringing in her ears, her whole body aching, and the feeling of her blood dripping everywhere. a faint voice yelling her name repeatedly.

"octavia, answer me!"

she heard the faint voice of her mom and sirens before everything just went blank.

the ambulances arrived and ran to the car, taking a stretcher. they safely removed paris first since she was the youngest.

"please help my daughter, she won't wake up!" her mom says crying.

octavia was in the passenger seat passed out from all the blood loss. the paramedics examine octavia to see how injured she was.

one of the guys pick up half of her body and another guy picks up the other half carrying her to a stretcher.

they help her mom out and she sits in the back of the ambulance with her daughters. as they drive, they examine octavia some more.

"she's not breathing!" one of the guys say to the other.

panicking, they put octavia on her back and perform chest compressions trying to open the airway. not working, they panicked more.

once they reached the hospital, they rushed inside yelling to doctors for help. they told her mom to wait in the waiting room until she was stable.

atleast 5 hours later, they came out telling her mom she could come in.

she saw octavia in a hospital bed with a steady heart beat. "oh thank goodness." her mom says tearing up.

"paris is awake..would you like to see her?"

"yes please" she says following her to the next room.

she sees paris in a bed watching cartoons and eating chicken nuggets. "mommy!" paris says in excitement.

"hi darling, how are you?" she asks.

"they fixed me." she says pointing at her cast on her leg. "that's good, very good."

"did they fix octavia?" paris asks looking for her. "we are still waiting for her to wake up." her mom says holding her hand.