In 14 Days

Day 1 - Tested

WARNING - There are parts of this chapter that follow dark themes. It's not too severe but this is still a warning.
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THEY HAD BEEN PART of a tale of a land far far away. Their eyes glowed blue, and their hair almost looked golden in the sunlight. When my eyes met a younger boy's, he smiled, his gaze friendly and welcoming. The love I had felt for them all was indescribable. But the love I felt towards them could also be my downfall.

My mind was in a haze. I couldn't remember how I had gotten here. But what I did know for a fact was that my family was here. I had seen them.

"Sana!" I could hear someone shouting my name in an urgent tone. Whipping around, I once more could spot my father and mother standing side by side, with my younger brother waving towards us. I silly-grinned at them, skipping over but as I held my hand out to hug my mother, I knew this moment was real. All my doubts faded around me as I spent long moments beside them. I could smell the sweet cinnamon shampoo that she had always used and let myself fade into her arms. This was how it was always meant to be.

"Sana." There. It was the ominous voice saying my name but I couldn't recognize it. Go away! I thought passionately. Nothing could ruin this moment. Not even the voice.

"Sana!"

The air shifted around me. Desperate, I clung to my mother but when I looked up at her, tears flooded her eyes. There was a sickening sad smile on her face which made my stomach drop. I didn't understand what was wrong. I blamed the voice.

"Sana!" It was even louder now.

Then, something I never thought would happen started to happen. My father, my father who had always been strong, started to sob. I couldn't hold back my own tears anymore. There was a throbbing pain in my heart which I didn't know why.

"Sana!" Louder.

The world around me shifted. My grip on them tightened. They had started to fade. "DAD! MOM! HAYDEN!" I shouted desperately, and as they began slipping away, I tried to chase after them. They couldn't leave me.

"SANA!" Booming.

I wouldn't give up. They were right there. They were my family. They were my everything. I leaped forwards, and for a moment, time had stopped. My fingertips brushed against my mother's hand but I couldn't hold on. I was falling. The world around me was getting darker and darker and I couldn't keep my breath. I was winded from the terror of losing everything. My family had been right there but now it was dark. Was it never meant to be?

Dark.

Deafening, suffocating darkness. I stayed there for what felt like years.

Until I opened my eyes.

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Blinding white lights. That was the first thing I had seen when I woke up. My mind was still startled by the intense dream-state it had been in, but once I started to adjust, I noted some things. For starters, I was laying down on a bed for the first time in a year. Secondly, I was in a room. It was somewhat small, with calm sage green walls with paintings of forests and nature and waterfalls plastered along the walls. There were also a few more beds in the room, although most were empty except for the one in the far corner. Squinting, I could make out neat but wavy dark brown hair, and I gaped for a moment, shocked. Cad? EI knew who it was at once, but I couldn't comprehend it. Why were we here? Where in the world were we?

I closed my eyes. We were on a journey, I told myself, slightly panicked as I used memories to piece together what I knew, We had reached the Farlands. Buttercup darted Waylon, and then my father. My father has pestiliyas. I started to tremble when I thought of the last part. There was blank space afterwards, as I couldn't remember what happened, and there was no one else but Cad in the room, but I couldn't even talk to him about it since he was unconscious.