Until Dark

Chapter 3

When I finally got home, my heart was beating so fast, that I thought it would jump right out of my chest. I opened the door and walked into the kitchen. I stumbled to the fridge, before I noticed, my favourite little orange suitcase was sitting on the floor in front of the table where my parents sat.

"Honey."

My mom said in a sweet tone.

"You have to get your stuff packed."

"What!?"

I yelled. After everything that had happened tonight, my brain didn't have the power to understand what my mom had said. I was tired and just wanted to go to bed. Ignoring what  my mom said, I staggered to my room and flopped onto my bed.

"Honey, this is important, you need to get packed."

But my mothers words where lost in the sound of my snoring.

"Honey!"

My mom yelled, forcing me out of sleep. At that moment the weight of my mom's words hit me, but before I had the chance to say anything, my mother said.

"You know your letter."

"How do you know that?"

I didn't tell anyone.

I thought. A questioned formed in my mind.

"Well, I got one when I was fourteen, but I refused. It was the biggest mistake of my life, I was then cased a side and forgotten. I had an amazing opportunity and I blew it. My little girl now has the chance to go and you should take it."

She paused, the words getting caught in her throat. It seemed it might even  be causing her pain to talk about this.

"I can't say anything else they can hear us."

That made me mad. I hated it when adults talked to me like I was a child. I hated when they didn't tell me the whole truth, because they thought they were protecting.

"I want some answers! I don't care if 'they' can hear us! In fact I don't even know who 'they' are!" 

"You will know in time, my lucky  little girl."

Her mother softly whispered to herself, but I could hear her through the door. My anger seemed to fade away, being replace by fear, thoses words seemed to scare more than anything that had happened tonight.