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*ASH'S POV*
Little kids screamed with bursting animation from the swing set in the park across the street. Mothers smiled affectionately at their children as they ran wildly through the playground.
Simplicity, that’s the word I chose for this scene, complete simplicity and straightforwardness. It felt like forever since I’d last felt that.
Garnet, the half-vampire half-witch girl, had left just after lunch after escorting me to my class. I couldn’t believe that Kayla had the nerve to have her practically babysit me. I didn’t see why she cared anyway, seeing as she knocked me out and practically admitted that she had to kill me.
Ok, that was a little stretch.
She never said that, sure, but she never denied it when I asked. She said before that the alternative was having the human’s memories erased. She’d done that before and it had worked, well, for a while, at least.
The knowledge that someone took away my memories was terrifying. Even if though they had come back, I felt so...violated...so betrayed.
I stopped in the middle of the street, ignoring several irritated looks from other people across the road.
That was another thing that I didn’t understand.
If Kayla erased my memory then why did it return? I didn’t know a lot about the Shadow World, I realised that, but I knew that that wasn’t meant to happen. But something went wrong. Something allowed my memories to come back.
If I were being honest with myself, I wasn’t sure whether I really wanted it that way. After all, did I really want to know that my friend was a deadly Shadow Being? Did I truly want to be stalked by a vampire-witch?
Simplicity... what a joke!
I looked up, taking in my surroundings. I had been so distracted with my own thoughts that I hadn’t been paying any attention to where I was actually going.
No problem. The infant playground was still just in sight down the street I’d been walking on. I’d just have to turn back, make a few lefts and I’d be home.
Instead, however, I found myself going in the opposite direction, to the wide dirt path that led off into the old wood.
This was ridiculous, I thought, nobody went to the woods anymore. It was wild ground. The only entrance left to it was the old dirt road that hadn’t been used or tended to in years.
I stopped at the start of the road, looking ahead into the shadowed path.
The woods weren’t just unused, it was forbidden.
Years ago, several animal attacks were reported in the middle of the woods, including two killings. Their bodies had been ripped to shreds, completely unidentifiable.
I shuddered at the thought.
The woods were dangerous, but I felt overwhelmed with a compelling urge to go inside. I couldn’t explain it or justify it, but I just knew that if I walked down the shadowed road that I’d find something. Something that would give me answers.
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Night Guardians
Teen Fiction‘Nothing happens in small towns; everyone knows everyone, no new faces, no surprises and no change. Nothing ever happens in small towns, especially not a tiny speck like Greenvale. At least that’s what I always thought...’ A year after Ash Gautier’s...
