ALONE

CRASH

CRASH

I heard the trees falling around me. I couldn't bear the feeling of all these thorns stuck in my arms, legs, neck, and stomach...

How can I get out of here, aha! I screamed as I cut off pieces of my skin one by one. Quickly cutting so I could get out of here as fast as possible. Which was still slow..

I saw a flash of white light in my eyes, then red and blue lights, sirens. It was the police, they would come and find me, maybe my mother was with them. I screamed as loud as possible. I couldn't hear anything of course because well, I'm deaf. I saw them walk up to me and immediately remember who I was, the deaf girl who went missing 2 months before. They started signing things like You're Flora, right? Or We need to get you out of here.

I saw my mom, Sapphire, come running, with her pale skin and light blonde hair standing out in her all black in her police officer uniform. They said they found you, I came as fast as possible, oh I missed you so much. Tears ran down my mother's eyes as she wrapped her arms around me tightly. It stung but still felt good. My mother started to wrap up my wounds after she realized that I even had them. She slowly wrapped around the parts where I skinned myself to the tissue. She signed Honey. Be careful with these bandages...

I nodded and walked toward the ambulance knowing what was gonna happen next.

I passed out then about 1 or 2 hours later I woke up. My blood streamed down my forehead as I lay in the hospital bed. The police are asking my mom questions in the far corner of the room. But..but...it was like I could hear what they were saying. I was reading their lips and imagining the words in my head. I saw them start talking about where I went missing. I watched my mom say that I went missing when we went to school. She said that once I got off the bus I started to play in the backyard and when dinner came...I was gone. Tears trickled down my cheeks as I heard the story. I remembered getting into a van they said I would go to a museum. I love museums. After that everything went dark...I can't remember anything else.