The Whisper

Chapter 12

CHAPTER 12

I still can't imagine why he chose to do this, what brought him to it. I honestly thought that he was generally a nice person, that even though I don't trust any of these lunatics, he was the only one I could kind of rely on, if it came to the upmost need for someone. But I was completely and utterly wrong, really, I couldn't have been more wrong about Matt.

He looks at me with guilt in his eyes, want for forgiveness. I turn away, not arsed to put up with his sulking. He should feel guilty, he had no reason to do this, and even if he does, I don't want to hear it. I spin on my heel and begin to speed walk as far away from the scene as possible. Only stopping to stuff my belongings into my backpack and wake up Daisy, I am out of their view in less than five minutes.

The adrenaline I had running through my system has now faded and I am hit with the sheer pain of the slash. I crumble and fall to the floor in a matter or seconds, my head taking the blow. I lie there massaging my temples with one hand, applying pressure to the deep gash in my shoulder with the other. The pain is crippling, but I manage to heave myself up to sit with my back against the trunk of a large tree.

My hands shaking with the pain and my breathing uneven, Daisy comes to my aid. With long gulps of water and strong squeezes of the straps of my backpack, I keep conscious through the pain as she cleans and bandages my wound.

Tired from the day we both rest, not bothered to set up a camp we just lie there hidden in the shade of the great trees surrounding us.

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I open my eyes, suddenly nauseous with the day's events. After hours and hours of lying there restless, tossing and turning, sleep never came, and unfortunately, I don't think it will.

Tears fall on my cheeks and I shake with sobs. My life is pretty defective at the moment, but then when hasn't it been. With a dysfunctional family where my parents are always working, kept busy, too busy too even remember my birthday or notice that I'm not even home, my brother died and my little sister basically always in child-care, I don't really have anyone there for me. My whole family fell apart the day he died and sadly, I'm pretty sure it's too broken and can never be fixed.

I hiccup as the sobs begin to fade and pull my legs up to my chest, only to drop them just as quickly due to the pain in my side. My cheeks wet and eyes stinging from the tears I watch the sun rise, intrigued by it's beauty and significant it is.

The sun, sets every evening and rises every morning. Good day or bad day, it brings and brightness to the world no matter how dark the day is. Hopefully one day the sun will finally break through the dark shadows and storms that cloud over my days.

And as the sun rises an lights up the sky in the distance, I can see the hope and know that one day, however far away it is, it will all be okay in the end. The pain, suffering, tears, blood and heartbreaks that currently cloud over my life will one day be a distant memory in a time of happiness and love. Only thing now is to see if I can actually make it till then. 

END OF CHAPTER 12

Hi Everyone!

Long time, no see hey?

I am so so soooooo sorry guys!! I haven't actually updated this book in 3 months! 3 MONTHS!!! I feel so bad. I only realised how long it was today when in my notifications when I saw someone added this to a reading list called 'Good Reads but Haven't Been Updated in a Month or More' And I felt really bad. But here is the long awaited update and I promise that I will try my hardest to update more often! Its just with school, exams, saxophone, my family and heaps of movies in theatres that I need to see I didn't get round to it!!!

Anywho, this chapter is dedicated to everyone here who has waited for this update and doesn't resent me for it! Thank you so much. I love you all!!

Sorry again!!!

ILY 

Aoife