Liar • Noa Olivar

Chapter Seven: Carnival of Souls

Loud and quick footsteps were heard, running and the sounds of someone trying to catch their breath while keeping their footing planted to the ground underneath them and watching where they went.

Glancing back every so often to see the person behind them coming closer. The feet picking up more speed before it felt like they were in the same spot from running in circles.

It went from being chased all around from the woods and then randomly down a familiar street.

Just as they were about to coming crash into a large tree, the location changed.

Suddenly, a building came into view and they didn't question it before running up the stairs as quickly as they could.

Hearing loud, big footsteps approaching behind as if the person was directly on their back copying their every move and step they took.

The person's heart started beating even quicker, it sounding and feeling like it was about to burst out of their chest at any second now.

They looked up once inside the safety of the mysterious yet oddly familiar looking building, and suddenly they're were on a roof.

And it was the roof that Mickey wouldn't forget. She couldn't.

She knew exactly where she was and remembered what it looked like the last time she was up there.

It was as if she was spinning like a strong increasingly pounding headache before she randomly and magically transported to the rooftop.

And the next thing she knew the door busted open harshly, swinging back and hitting the metal railing as the person stood in the entrance way.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no." Mickey panicked as she searched around, looking in every direction for another way out but ultimately coming up empty handed once again. She spun around while freaking out and hoping that it wasn't really happening. "This isn't happening. Not again. No. It can't be."

"Mickey?"

The Diaz girl lifted her head and seen Noa just behind the man before he turned around and grabbed her and held her in a chokehold while the track stars eyes filled with tears and her face showed the amount of how much she was terrified.

"Noa?" She questioned before going to run up to the man. But it was like the roof separated and started cracking causing her to jump back so she wouldn't fall. It kept her further and further away from Noa. "Noa! Just stay there."

She warned the girl as she whimpered still in the masked man's arms while she heard an evil laugh escape beneath his mask.

"I'm coming. I'm gonna go get you! But stay put. I promise I won't let him hurt you again!"

And out of nowhere, once more, Mickey was back on the same room as the man. No more cracks, no more Noa... nothing.

Nothing but him and her.

Mickey felt her heart drop as she searched around the buildings rooftop for the other girl. "Noa?" She called out to her a couple of times and when she received no answer her stomach had this bad feeling. "Where are you?"

She looked back and the man was gone. She was in the clear.

At least she thought she was for a couple of seconds.

She turned around to go and walk away, but instead came face to face with the masked man. She gasped as she grabbed her by the collar of her shirt and lifted her up of the ground to where her feet were no longer touching it. She struggled and thrashed around in his impossibly tight hold, trying to escape and get out of there.