Marked

Chapter 14

        It wasn’t the end, but it felt like it. After blacking out one last time I opened my eyes to a bright light in my eyes and a sense of peace, like the world had vanished and been rebuilt once again. It all felt like a new beginning.

            That´s why I thought I was dead.

            There could not be this feeling inside me, but it was and it felt so alien to me. I blinked. Maybe I was dead, maybe it was all over and this was my ending. I blinked again. My eyes began to accustom to the bright light, which in fact was being produced by a light bulb, and then I saw the roof. I was inside a room.

            “You’re up.” said a voice next to me.

            A shudder went through me and in seconds I sat up and cowered back and then I saw him. He had a hell of a lot to explain. But I also felt something else, or maybe I felt everything, but the thing was that I felt. I could also see. The word was bright and full of color; I saw the brightness and liveliness of his green eyes, the darkness of his hair and the olive tone of his skin. My surroundings no longer paced in slow motion, I saw the world at full speed and it was terrifying.

            Marcus put his hands up as in a form of ease, but that did anything but calm me down. I could feel my breathing accelerating, different feelings danced inside me fear, confusion, anger… but I somehow knew that if I needed to fight I would be able to, there was a strange feeling of strength in me that I didn’t know I had. I felt completely volatile.

            “I-I can explain” Marcus said with a worried look in his eyes, “there’s a reason behind all this, I swear, but please just listen”.

            “You have a big habit of having things to explain Marcus,” I said, my voice angry “What happened to me? Why am I here? What the HELL is going on?”

            A lump formed in my throat as I felt an unfamiliar burn in my entire body, making me shake, there was also this feeling of change in my eyes, like if they were morphing into something familiar yet strange.

            “Skylar, I need you to calm down and breathe for me, please and I’ll explain everything I swear” Marcus’s voice was desperate and afraid, but was he afraid of me?

            He could be afraid of me all he wanted but all I felt for him at that moment was anger, I did not want to breathe, I felt unsettled, angry and a hidden feeling of peacefulness all at the same time. I was not going to calm down, I didn’t know how and I did not want him to tell me what to do. I felt a pulling sensation in my gut and then in the corner of my eye I saw something catch fire.

            I sat there frozen in my place as the bureau next to me burned down. Smoke began to fill the room. Fear was the only thing I saw in Marcus’s eyes. He jumped to his feet and quickly grabbed a bottle. He poured it on the flames, which died down for a minute but the fire quickly rose back up.

            Then he was standing right in front of me.

            “Skylar I need you to breathe and calm down before you kill us both” his voice was soft but I couldn’t do it, I took shallow breaths as brought my knees on to my chest and put my hands in my face. My body shook uncontrollably.

            “Skylar you are burning up!” he said as he put his hand against my forehead.

            The thing was that I didn’t even feel warm. A shudder went through me. What was happening to me? I was suddenly aware of his arms around me and the way they too, felt cold to the touch.

            “Make it stop!” I screamed. My head pounded, it felt like many tiny hammers were slamming themselves against my skull.

            “It will only stop when you want it to Skylar” I heard him say, his voice was strained and raspy, “that’s why I need you to calm down”.

            I tried to focus on my breathing, like Mr. Simmons had once taught me. In, out repeat. Inhale, exhale. I shut my eyes and tried to distance myself to where I was, I pictured myself far away. Slowly, I began to stop shaking; I unfolded my legs and glanced around me. The furniture was slightly charred, like black rain had fallen all over the place, the smoke began to die down.

            Marcus was right next to me, sweat covered his forehead and his green eyes were bright and lively. He let go of me and then I saw them, red sores in his forearms, right in the places where his skin made contact against mine. I had burned him.

        I felt like a monster.

        “I burned you.” I said aloud, catching his attention.

        It felt like if I were in a trance, I could see Marcus talking, a furrow in his brow and a worried look taking over his complexion. But I was in another place. It was like thinking about everything, yet nothing at once. I just stared across the room at a certain thing, that I then realized were car keys and then it dawned into me, where was I really?

        “…And I now you are scared but you can trust me Sky, I swear this all has an explanation and I can’t believe this is actually real” he said with a sly laugh at the end, I guess he didn’t realize I was lost in my own head up until then. “But I can help you, ask whatever you want and I will answer I swear”

        “Where am I?” my voice was emotionless, but it was all because I was scared to hear a tremble of fear in my words. This was not the time to be afraid.

        “At my house” he said calmly as he sat down on the chair in front of me, now we were face to face. Eye to eye.

        “How did I get here?”

        “I drove you here” Marcus said “Jen asked me to pick you up because something came up, and when I got to school all I saw was a trail of blood and you were missing. So I followed the trail and found you lying on the dirt in the middle of the woods, covered in your own blood”

        There was a moment of dead silence as I took it all in, Jen was ok, somehow it was easier for me to breathe when that thought dawned into me. But something was wrong.

        “If I was lying on the ground, nearly dead why am I here?” I said slowly and enunciating each and every word.

        “Because I brought you here” Marcus said in an equal tone, “I had already said that…”

        “No” I interrupted him “if I was almost dead, covered in blood why am I here and not in a hospital? Why am I still alive? Any other person would be dead by now”

        And then he said the words that would be engraved in my brain forever.

        “Because Skylar, you are not human”.

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Author's Note

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