PROLOG
I could not believe I decided to go out during rain and darkness. What was I thinking? I didn’t need new books so desperately to walk alone in total darkness. I guess I needed a distraction. Since I moved here two weeks ago, I felt like someone was watching mi constantly. It might be just paranoia. Grandmother said that it may have something to do with my mother’s death but I was not sure. Either someone was watching me, or I was in fact, going insane.
I felt cold. Shop was not so far away, I think. Still didn’t get used to that small town to be honest. I started to shiver but not only from cold, something or someone was following me. I speed up a little bit, looking behind myself. Nobody was there but It didn’t make me feel any better. Maybe my grandmother was right- I had to much stress recently.
I started to walk faster and faster and rain seems to get worse with my every step. I should have turn around in that very moment, but stubborn me, try to show how brave I was. And then, there it was, sound like a song, started drifting within air. I inhaled slowly calming myself down. I was telling myself I am tired and depressed, therefore I imagine stuff. Song got lauder and lauder.
- Who is there?! – I shouted. There was no answer only very quiet laugh.
I started to panic. My breathing went fast and unregularly. And then I noticed him. He was dark, standing few fit away, covered in black. I couldn’t see the person face.
- Who are you? – I asked.
I heard laugh again. I still could hear the song in my ear, like someone was trying to scare me. Stranger did not move an inch but somehow it terrified me. I could feel something heavy in the air, tension building up. I try to take my chance and come back home. Truth was I sneaked out, as my grandmother didn’t let me go out in that weather. Now I understood why – there was no people around. It was only me and creepy stranger, who , was staring at me or at least I thought so, since I couldn’t see his eyes.
I slowly turned around and that as it I could swear I heard quiet “run”. And that’s what I did. I only managed to take few steps when it hit me. My bones shattered and my skin was on fire. There were no flames around me but pain was unbearable. I wasn’t sure what happened. Pain overwhelmed me and I collapse.
-Well, that was easy – I hear followed by another laugh. I was lying now on very wet ground, my hands covered in mood and tears purring down my face. Wonder if that kind of pain my mom felt when she was hit by that truck.
I knew I was dying, slowly, in pain. It was like someone was stilling life from me. I could not move or breathe. I closed my eyes waiting for my ending. Guess I could at least see my mum. But on the other side I did not leave my life yet. It was still too much to be discovered and now I was lying here alone. Many thoughts moved in my head. I tried to scream when pain went to my heart. At that moment I wanted to die. I prayed for someone to take the pain away. I screamed but it seemed like no one could hear me. That was it, my short life will end here, in a little town surrounded by forest.
I could no longer open my eyes. I was ready to see my mum. And then the sudden warmth came over me. If that what people felt when they died? Then I felt a hot rush all over my body and could swear someone was touching me. I could not scream no more, speak, or even beg. I wanted to die.
- Sorry mother but it will be different – I was imaging a deep, gentle voice followed by a kiss. Why I was thinking about kissing in a state of pain and when dying? Probably because it never happened and I wanted to have my first kiss before the death. And then pain stopped, like it never happened, I found myself falling into darkness. There was no light at the end of the tunel, only warmth mixed with cold – a perfect balance.
That was a moment when I let go and lost myself to a total darkness.
