The Letters

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I walked out of the cabin, looking up at the sky.. How am I supposed to go about this..? How long has she been dead in there? How long has Elisa been on her own? Where was her dad? So many questions ran though my head as I began walking.. Geez, I'm gonna have my exercise in for the week, that's for sure!

Looking ahead, I could see the blinking red light from the radio tower. Could I actually make it? .. I hope so.. No. I had to make it. I was making it. For Elisa. She needed me to make it. She needed that medicine. I was soon knocked out of my thoughts when I saw something hanging from a tree.. Was that..? It was! It was the parachute! "Autumn!" I yelled, running in the direction of the chute. She had to be here! She just had to!

on my way up, I began noticing something.. Pieces of paper that were pinned to the trees.. "I have been watching you." "You are so beautiful." "You will be mine." I read, starting to get a little creeped out.. Weird.. The one that stuck out the most was clipped to the chute.. "If I can't have you. No one can." the letter read as I began to panic "Autumn?! Autumn, where are you?!" I yelled, looking all over the area.. If she got down from the chute, then she had to be okay, right? I had been helping her learn some survival skills, like how to find shelter during weather like this.

I saw an old abandoned shack.. Looked almost like a miner's shack. "Autumn!" I yelled, running to it. It felt so far away.. It felt like the more I ran, the farther the shack got.. I got inside, seeing that the whole roof had caved in, along with the north wall.. Of all walls.. "A-Autumn..?" I said, seeing my fiancée laying on the bed.. Please, be sleeping.. I turned her over, feeling her frozen shoulder, seeing that "No! Autumn!" I yelled, seeing that she had frozen to death.. No.. Not her, please, not her!

My legs collapsed as I hit the floor, crying my eyes out.. We had been together for three years.. We were getting married in a week! She couldn't be gone! Wake up, James! This is just a nightmare! I continued pinching myself, hoping to wake up. Tears rolling down my face as I laid there for what felt like an eternity, but really, it was probably 30 minutes.. I knew that, no matter how much I wanted to stay and die right here.. I couldn't.. I couldn't fail Elisa.. That little girl needed me..

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