Dark At It's Brightest

Chapter - 2 - Enjoy your cofee!

In the kitchen was standing a girl who was kind of familiar. The girl had short dark brown hair and she was wearing jeans, light green blouse and flip-flops.

"Hi! Your awake! Finaly! I thought you'd never wake up" The girl said with a smile. 

"How did I get here?" I looked at her not sure where to put my hands.

I had woken up on a sofa. In some strangers house, dressed in someones pijamas. I was glad that whoever dressed me thought of leaving my underwear on.

"Don't you remember? We found you in the forest. You were unconscious. Michael carried you in the house and you mumbled something that you need to get back at them, you need to get revenge... You seemed angry. I didn't even know you could get angry in your sleep. Ohh... and by the way my name is Emily, what's yours?" the girl said.

"My name is Zarah. I don't exactly remember anything after I runned into the forest." I blushed.

"How did you even get in the forest. There aren't any towns near here. Are you from somewhere near here or from the city?" Emily asked.

"I'm from ... hmm... the city."

"It seems that you have walked a long way to get here. What brought you here?"

"I don't know." I replied as quick as my tongue allowed me. "I guess I wanted to be further from town than possible. It isn't the place I want to be right now."

"Why? Everyone who I've met surely loves to be as close to the town as possible. There are barely any people who live as far away from it as we do... well around here anyways..." Emily drifted off into another topic as she passed me a cup of coffee. "I didn't know what kind of coffee you like so I made my favourite... Hope you like it..."

"Don't bother our guest with so many questions, Emily." a deep voice appeared behind me... I nearly dislocated my neck from turning so fast to the kitchen door. I saw a tall, brown haired guy standing in front of the door.

"Just curious." Emily defended herself.

He looked at me "You don't have to ansver to her questions. You know that right?" 

He turned to face Emily and sent her a judgemental gaze. Emily just turned to face her coffie again and didn't bother to say anything back at him.

As I sat deeper in my chair I felt a burning sensation on my upper thigh. I looked at it and saw coffie on it. I barely managed to catch the mug which fell down from the table. I let out a small squeek as I realized what just happened and jumped up from the chair. I could feel the coffie running down my leg.

The guy looked at me and gave me a towel immediately. Emily took some papel towels from the draw and started to clean up the coffie on the floor.

"Are you ok?" He asked.

I looked at my now aching and swelling, pijama covered thigh and gave the boy unsure glance. He helped me to get to the couch and told me to wait. I took my pants carefully off and covered myself with a blanket which was laying on the couch. The top of pijamas were covering my but when I stood up so I wondered that it wouldn't be so bad if I took them of. 

The burn wasn't so bad after all and most of the coffie had spilled on the floor, but my thigh was really red and it iched badly.

He brought back some kind of cream which he said would help.

"We hadn't had the chance to meet properly. I'm Michael - Emily's brother. " he said as he lifted my leg and started to put cream on it.

"I-I'm Zarah." I said feeling a little bit shy. The shirt covered my but but my leg under his touch was still bare and part of it - hurting.