Unfolded

Chapter 1: The Back Story

Darkness began to cloak the night sky. With her vision blurry, to the addition of the sun setting, she could faintly see redwoods rushing at each side of her. Her feet were flying below her as if she had Hermes' shoe on. Looking back and forth at her surroundings.

Fear and determination pulsed through her veins. A clammy hand clasping her own as though it would never let go. She heard panting from the direction where she heard the panting sound from where the angle of the hand in hers' body would be. She looked in the direction and saw a figure with a lump on its back. A feeling of warmth fills her heart.

All of a sudden, a sharp pain blows into her back and slashes around her waist, and she crashes on the ground. Her eyelids are beginning to flutter when she sees the figure on the ground shaking her and its mouth is moving. She realizes that the figure is saying a name and other things. Someone begins to try to pull him away, he was saying....

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Braelynn jolts awake to the sound of clinking of the train running on train tracks and hits her head on the pillar above her bed. She looks around the train car that she's been occupying for the past three days before realizing that she's drenched in sweat. She's been having the same dream ever since she's gotten out of the hospital.

Her and her family got into a serious car accident and she was the lone survivor. Braelynn couldn't remember anything; her favorite color, her moms name, her dads hobby, her little twin brother and sisters' songs. She just couldn't remember anything from her past, but the only thing that she has a connection from her future was a necklace that she doesn't even know what the charm on it is.

She was in a coma for a long time and her doctors didn't think that she would survive her fatal injuries, but then one day she woke up and surprised her favorite nurse, Lorelei.

They kept Braelynn in the hospital for two months to "make sure she fully recovers" when in her opinion she though that they were just keeping her there while they figured out where she was going to go since she doesn't have any living kin.

So that's what leads us to where we are now: Braelynn begins to get out of bed when the train makes a sharp turn sending her to the ground. Pain begins to crawl up and around her torso as she slowly picks herself up.

As she holds onto the corner of the bedpost, she realizes that Today is the day that she meets her new and maybe temporary home. Her social worker told her to be packed and ready by nine thirty and to meet him in the lounge car.

Braelynn starts packing her new belongings while picking out an outfit to wear for the day. She eventually sides with jeans, a shirt with Audrey Hepburn as her character from Breakfast at Tiffany's with a cat attacking her face that nurse Lorelei got her as a "good luck" gift, a black hoody and her necklace that has never parted with her neck since the doctors gave her her necklace back.

Just before she fully pulled down her shirt, she took a good hard look at herself in the mirror. A ugly and jagged scar slithered across her torso like a snake, and the sizzling pain from her hard fall was its hissing.

She didn't really liked the way she looked, of course all girls think that, but something was off. Her shoulder-length auburn hair didn't find her face, her height was supposedly tall for her age, she felt her hips were a bit wide, and as nurse Lorelei and her social worker calls her eyes mood rings. But the thing was she felt like something was missing about herself, but the question was what was missing?

After her self pity therapy session with herself, she finished packing up what little she had into her backpack, walked over to the doorway, and peered back at the first room that she occupied and could temporarily call her own that wasn't a hospital room, and started for the lounge car.