A forest, she could never leave, a dream, from which she could never heal. Astrid, currently a student studying mythology and history. Her parents died 4 years ago, she was the only child so she got all the wealth her parents had left which was a lo...
I run outside and go to the location it is showing me. I need to know that what is happening to me.
I keep running and I suddenly I feel like I know this way. I stop for a second, put my phone in my pocket amd start running through the path the same way I remembered from that dream. While running I start to put all थर pieces together. This all started to happen only after that weird dream. There must be a connection with that forest, because now I don't know how or why but I think that it is the same forest trail I saw in my dream. Or......it was not just a dream afterall.
I need to find what happend. But I feel exhausted already, what am I supposed to do now? It's already dark and somewhere near 11 pm. But I've already came half the way, I should continue, but maybe a bit slower. I stop at my tracks to take a deep breathe. And then start walking through the path as I remembered. I saw the same bushes through which I had passed by in my dream. I pulled my jacket sleeves a little more up and used both my hands to push away those bushes. After good 5 minutes, I finally got out of the bushes and look in front of me.
"I still have more to go" saying, I start to walk again. It was getting dark, and it was already near winter time. Then why am I nor feeling cold? This jacket can heat me up but not to the extent that I won't feel cold at all.
Anyways, I go on as I still wanted to figure out what happened.
After 20 minutes I reach a spot. The same one where I was standing before. But this time, It doesn't seems so enchanted. It seems more scary, like someone just died in here. I walk around the open area a bit and decide to take my phone out again to see that am I at the correct location or not and what I see is the place I'm standing at is zoomed in, and the location I just searched is pointing at an exact spot, it was in front of me. I keep my phone in my pocket again and slowly walk towards the place. I bend over and touched the ground. I felt something hard in it, moving.
I got goosebumps, but I have seen a lot of horror movies, even if I run now, I will die, so I better check out what it is if I'm gonna fie either ways
I dig a little and something like a necklace shows up. I try to pull it but seems like it is stuck somewhere. I look at my hands and then at the ground. Guess I really have to ruin my hands now.
I was so out of my mind but I just needed to find out what causes all this. I dig in and in. And sae black hair, just like mine. I got more scared and decided that now I really should start running, I backed off a little when suddenly, something under it started rising.
I was so shocked that I wasn't able to say a word or move a muscle. Then, a body rose up, still dead, like someone pushed it from under the ground to the surface. Now that it is out, and there is no way I'm gonna survive, might as well just check out who died in here. Also, this figure looks a little familiar to me...
I pull up my jacket sleeve more up and dust off the soil which was covering the body's face.
When I was done with it. Tears started to form in my eyes...I can't believe it, its, it's,
"Me?" A small whisper left my mouth, my eyes still fill with horror, how could this be? I can't believe it. How? I died? Then how am I standing here? If this is real me then who is right there laying dead in front of my own eyes? I just sit there for 5 minutes trying to process all that just happened
"Ok Astrid, no time to cry now" saying I wipe off my tears and look at my dead body. My shaking hand tried to get the locket and holds it. It was a lock.
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I stare at the locket and then at my dead body infront of me. I try to take that locket off, when a hand grabs my hand. I look to see who is the owner of those hands when I see, it was me only, the dead me to be precise. I look at the one who is laying dead in front me Shor her eyes open which startled me. Her eyes were all white, her hand had grabbed mine. And she opened her mouth to speak something when I let out a blood curdling scream. She left my hand then the ground started shaking, there was an earthquake I guess.
I used the last brainchild I had left and grabbed that locket as tight as I can "if you, I mean me but the 'unalive' me, don't want me to take this locket, then I am definitely taking it, this might just solve this nightmare!" Then the ground cracks And opens up and we both fall down in it.
I shot up, drenched in sweat, breathing heavily and starting looking around only to realize that I was again in my bed. Then I looked at my hands, I remembered pulling the locket. If someone has picked me up from the forest and left me in my room, then the soil in my hand must me there.
I check my hands and no, there was no soil, but in my nails there was a little soil. I knew it, it wasn't just a dream.
I suddenly get up and search for my jacket. And it was in the machine. "I knew it! I never wash my jacket" I yell Luke I just won the best detective competition.
Now it's time to put all the pieces together
I take my phone and see that it's 1 am, I don't care, I can't sleep. Until I uncover the truth about all this. I take an A3 size sheet which was actually for my project but who cares at this point. I stick it to my wall and start to write all that had happened. First the dream, so I wrote the dream in the middle, then I wrote everything, like the weird symbols when I woke up, my hair colour, the numbers, then how I ran to the forest, what all I found and then again came back But had the same soil in my nails and my jacket was on the washing machine. Then I started to think it through. "First, the dream, same forest again, then the symbol and numbers won't go off, as the number ment something so the symbols too. Then my hair colour changed, but, I dont know why. Then I gor back to the forest to find the dead me, with a locket who suddenly wakes up and grabs my hand, still creeped out a little about that. Then there is an earthquake, I fall in it and the next thing I knew was I'm back in my bed, which definitely someone dropped me at my house because I did went zo the forest and I'm not crazy. So overall a person is behind all this and doesn't wants me to find out. But also doesn't know about my simple habits because it doesn't keeps an eye on me so that means that I am free to do whatever I want without him knowing unless it's with the forest. Then, both of the events were in nighttime so that also means that I am free on my own at daytime but not in night. Wow, I should become a detective at this point. So that also means that I can do my research at daytime but I should not make the person who dropped me here get suspicious or I might be dead.....again I guess....."
Hope you enjoyed reading this chapter, the next chapter will be coming tomorrow so stay tuned ;)
