When Darkness Consumes

Shadows return

Erralin's P.O.V.

My hair seems to have choosen to be an unruly mess, thanks to my lack of blowdrying. Not that anyone would care anyway, my subconcious sneers. I pay no attention as I descend the stairs hastily.

My stomach growls as I walk past the kitchen to the front door.

As I trudge through the weed infested grass, I hear a nagging raspy voice yell my name. Shit. I pause, closing my eyes as I slowly turn to face the cause of my delay.

I open my eyes, only to see an old hag hovering in front of me. Shock causes me to jump back, or at least attempt to. The woman snags my arm, her hand a chilling ice cold feeling.

"Erra what in heaven's name do you think your doing? Mr. Duffles hasn't even woken up yet and here you are walking around. Do your parents know you're up? Lets go have a little talk with them shall we?", The old witch bellows, smothering me with questions. I shrink back away from her, hoping-praying that the old hag will fall dead onto the wet weeded grass.

She glares at me, obviously waiting for some type of response. I clear my throat and straighten my shoulders, preparing for battle.

In a voice much stronger than I feel I respond," None of your business."

Mrs. Duffles growls, literally growls in my face.

Jabbing one long pointed bony finger at my chest, she suprises me by talking in a calm voice.

"Child. I will not ask you again. I don't know what's gotten into that pee wee little brain of yours, but I will not stand for it! Now you answer the question before I get my paddle."

"I'm going to the coffee shop, like I do every morning...ma'am.", I say the last word as if I have a bad taste in my mouth.

She looks at me sternly, clearly trying to find flaw in my excuse.

Finally coming to the conclusion that I am not lying through my teeth, she slithers around for a moment before abrubtly stopping.

Finally she speaks,"What made you decide to stand up for yourself?", She basically spit in my face.

Just as I'm about to respond she cuts me off.

"I'd watch it if I were you", are the last words she says before disappearing back into her house.

'Well thankfully you aren't me.', I can't help but add in my mind.

After a few minutes of walking, I am met with the dense forest that lives a street away from my house.

I cross over from the street and into the trees. The smell of damp pine invades my senses as soon as I reach the trees. The sky is a grey-ish white, an effect of the storm that occured just hours ago.

I sigh and let out a breath of relief.

I feel free when I'm here; nothing but the trees, sky, and fresh grass. I continue to make my way through the forest in complete bliss, in my own little world you could say.

I begin to hum one of my recent favorite songs,"Sugar".

Just as I get to the end of the first chorus, the wind picks up speed for about half a second.

Nothing really noticeable, but still I quiet down and move quicker.

Minutes later nothing happens so I slow back down, still not letting down my guard.

Just as I pass a huge pine tree- a sign that I'm only minutes away from the school- it happens again.

'Something's wrong here', my subconsious warns.

I decide to listen for once and begin to take off into a sprint. I glance behind me, not that someone would show themself if I was being pursuded, but I checked anyway.

No sooner than I whip my head back around do I hit what feels like a brick wall and stumble backwards.

I fall flat on my behind and stare up at the figure in front of me.

"Your coming with me.", he states in a heated and charming tone. I find myself nodding along before I catch myself, shaking out of my trance.

He seems familiar, but I can't remember how... He takes of his dark tinted sunglasses and my world comes crashing down.

I let out a gasp and a cry at the same time, this time staring in horror at the beautiful creature in front of me.

"Landon?", I ask shaking my head in total and utter disbelief, my voice bearly audiable.

"Hello love, long time no see.", and with that I lose consiousness.

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