A 23-year-old woman stood with her back leaning on her- the car she owns now.
Her eyes locked on the group of teens inside the store across the street from the gas station she's at, just staring and thinking, more like reminiscing. 'Those were fun times...' she thought then let out a sigh as she turned and closed the cap after the tank was full.
Around 15 minutes later she exited the store with a couple of bags which she threw in the passenger seat after getting the car she now owns and drove off.
Where? Isn't the question to worry about, to What is. Well the thing is she does not know where she is heading, these questions where, when, and why? She never knew the answers only IT does.
she glanced at the front view mirror looking at the backseat "I'm almost there and you gave me nothing so far...am I supposed to guess?" She asked and looked back at the road as she came to a stop at the traffic stop.
"Oh? So Eager are we?~"
"Oh yeah...I'm totally..so thrilled isn't it obvious?.." she responded eyes fixated ahead, face opposite to the words that just came out her mouth.
A chuckle came from the backseat then followed by a long sigh, "Well dearest, I was gonna make it a surprise but of course, your ass can't wait! Oh well- I'm sure it's nothing to ya by now, it'll be a quick one~"
"Whatever..." She let out as she gave a glance at the backseat, she let her back relax as she leaned back in her seat, the car next to her at the traffic stop caught her attention.
From the side of eyes, she gave a glance, it's a family, a father, a mother, and their child in the backseat. The parents seemed to be chatting about something, as for the child, the little no older than the 6-year-old girl, she was staring at her with her little innocent-full with life eyes. The woman only stared back absent-minded.
"Beautiful isn't it?~ this lil life- oh it's too inviting! Hard to resist em at such young age! Oh well unlike you I am patient. Your next has one of those- the brat is older but oh I can't wait anyways! Hahah~"
The woman paid no attention to what the voice in the backseat said, she should've gotten used to it by now anyways, her eyes kept locked on the child as she tugged on the cross around her neck.
The child's eyes wandered from the woman to the backseat of the car next to them, the moment her eyes shifted they were met with an unsettling pair of eyes, eyes filled with complete redness, those eyes shot a sharp shiver down the child's body, it was enough to make her scream, and so the child let out the loudest most piercing scream her parents ever heard.
The woman's eyes never left the child, she knew it was coming and was grateful the light turned green it was her sign to get out of there so she did, she glanced back through the front view mirror at the child, it was chaotic. Her parents, who are completely startled with no idea what just happened, are trying to calm her down as the cars around them honk and drove past them.
She didn't pay any more attention to that, her eyes shifted to the figure in the backseat who seemed as if it was having the best time of its life.
"—Ahahahah! Oh it never gets old! Wasn't that amazing!? Oh what a blast! Ah hahah~"
"Good to see one of us is enjoying their life.." she hissed. Eyes on the road, hands tightened around the wheel.
"Oh dearest?~ Is something wrong? What's the matter? I thought after all these years you finally found the joy in this- oh wait! I know! Oh how silly of me!- I know how you like 'em."
She gave it a glance.
"Oh yes, yes, you like it when they're preserved, frozen, restricted. I got to say that must be even better!"
Eyes back on the road she only let out a hum in return. 'Whatever you say..' she thought.
"Don't worry I'm sure you'll love your upcoming task, I'll see you later, my dearest."
There was a shift in the car, almost like a wave shook the car sideways and pressure was taken off. It left.
'...bastard.' She left out a sight- more like a breath she was holding, she could never breathe whenever it was around, you'd think a person would get used to it after such a long time. That's right it's been years...How long has it been? 4 years she thought, she really never forgot, she just prefers not to think about it or linger on it more, it's for the best she told herself.
Hours passed, the night came slowly and it was time for her to stop, she reached a destination, where? Again it didn't matter, it was some town in Wisconsin. She parked her car outside a half-empty motel and got it. After getting herself a room she made it back to her car, grabbed a bag and some other stuff, and made her way to her room.
It was okay, she thought as she looked around the room, she had worse.
On the bed she sat with a map, a journal she kept, and her phone. She checked her phone, It was 10:55 pm on a Wednesday, the year is 2013.
"Oh time can't you slow down for me.." she mumbled while examining the map, 'I'd like those years back one day...' she thought, '4 years are almost complete...then I'm back...I'll be back..' she continued to think, her eyes glanced at the mirror on the wall, she got up and walked over to were it was hanging next to the window.
She took a look, at a 23-year-old woman looking back at her, she doesn't recognize her, she is only familiar with a 19-year-old she left behind that day, one hand-held into the cross around her neck, another running through her long black hair, dark green eyes staring back at her.
A faint smile formed on her lips, oh she misses her, she missed that girl, she's still there but in a safe place, it's not time yet to come out, to go back.
As Judith Ann Cobbett stared at her reflection in the Mirror she murmured to herself "It's almost done...", Judith's eyes might've been on the mirror but her ears and mind paid attention to the window, more specifically to what was out there, from her second-floor room she had a feeling, a feeling that was born and grown because of the thing(s) she had to do in the past few years, that one feeling She had learned to trust, the feeling of being watched, seen.
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