Chapter 1: Listen
The day my life whent black was the day I never saw comming. Which is ironic since I'm blind. It all went wrong, three years ago on my 14th birthday...
I had been sitting under a tree that was next to the lake I went to every summer on my birthday,my mom had been sun bathing a couple feet away from my dad who was reading his favorite book. The Lake had always been my favorite place to be. the sound, the smell, the veiw had all added up to one big paridise, but I rarely got to go there because it was nearly 4 hours away from where we lived in Ohio.
"We need to leave in a few minutes it will be dark soon" My mom had said flipping onto her back
" Ok" I'd said back getting up from my spot under the tree.
It was my last chance to gaze at the beautiful lake that seemed to call to me.I couldn't beleive I had to wait another year to visit this place agian or so I thought I only had to wait that long.
Little did I know I would never see this place agian or anything for that matter.
I bent down to lightly run my hand through the water the coolness of it causing a chill to run up my spin.
" Be careful sweety" My mom warned.
"I will" I said annoyed.
My mom had never seem to trust me with anything always overly protective.
I only wished I had listen to her that day.
I remember thinking what could happen its just water, but I was extremly wrong. Just as I thought that another memory popped into my head. It was the only thing I could see anymore. My memorys.
I remember... Remember...I remember falling...
My mind was racing, a loud high pitch noise surounded me, it didnt take long for me to realize the noise was me. I could hear was my mom calling my name, I tried to answer but was met by another ear wraking scream. It was like everything was in slow motion, and I was falling,falling,falling into a black whole that never seem to end. Then everything seem to speed up water surrounded me and all I could hear was the faint sound of someone talking to me. I opened my mouth to scream but was stopped when water fuiled my mouth bringing me further into the bottum less pit called a lake. The voice(a woman I think) became louder this time in my head in some language I couldn't understand. I opened my eyes only to see a bright light bairly daluted by the murky water. I tried to move closer to it but was pushed away by water crashing into my chest, pain ripped trought me as a stick ripped through my skin. The voice became louder and louder. My head started to pound. My eyes blurring from lack of oxygen. Everything else fadded until the only thing I could hear was the womans weird but compelling voice chanting (Onoce coma salla meno ahtaha elsa mokona neahh) The words pounded in my head over and over agian, I couldnt see anything,feel anything but pain.The pain was everywhere starting in my side rising until my eyes stung. I sucked in a breath as the pain intinsafied only to be greeted by more water. Everything became still,no sound, no water lapping at my stinging side. I had finally hit the end of the bottum less pit. I felt lost . I was gone. I could faintly feel strong hands wrap around me pulling me further and further away from the pit but the pain only worsened. I kicked and scratched only in hope what ever it was would let me be takin over by the blackness. It almost took me over only to be revived by someone pounding on my chest. I wanted to die but it seemed the world had other plans for me. The pain was to storng, I felt empty like my soul had been ripped from my body.
Water pumped from my chest spilling out of my mouth. I could hear my mom begging me to come back to her begging me not to leave her, and yelling at me that I should have listen to her. I tried to answer her but seattled when a cough busted past my lips fallowed by more water. My eyes flashed open only to be greeted by blackness and a more than audiable gasp that fuiled my ears.
"Oh God sweety your eyes" My mom screamed............
"Get out of my way"someone yelled bring me back to the future. I groand banging my walking stick agianst the wall in the school hallway.for the past 3 years i had heard nothing but the sound of people telling me to get out of their way, them making fun of me because I was blind and although I was thankful that they had interrupted my horrible memory it still made me mad that they thought they had any right to treat me that way.
"Are you going to move or are you going to stand around in the middle of the hallway like an idiot" a deep husky voice said from somewhere around me, I'm guessing behind me. I squeezed my eyes shut, my teeth clam-pinging together.
I don't know what made me do it, what i was thinking when my hand balled into a fist my body spinning around not even sure if i would hit my invisible target but, somehow my hand connected with something hard making a loud crunching noise only for me to be pinned against a wall my breath coming out in pants and something warm and firm moulded to every part of my body that was breathing in time with me. A person?
"Your lucky I don't hit girls" the voice said. My eyes were still clenched shut although i don't know why. What would i see? Nothing. That's what i would see. I relaxed my eyes sighing went a puff of air hit my eyes.I gasped in time with someone. I could see white light.
"Your blind" the voice gasped moving away from me. Desperate I grabbed his arm. The light was starting to fade.
"Wait"I gasped.The light was fading into something else. A shape. I closed my eyes then opened them agian the light had changed into a picture of a beautiful girl with a look of shock on her face. She had long flowing black hair and vibrate blue eyes, her lips were full the color of a rose and she had pale flawless skin that almost looked translucent. I was still clutching at his arm shocked at what I saw, but then suddenly the picture dispeared into darkness as he ripped his are from my grasp my world flashing back into darkness.
"What are you" was all he said. I could hear the anger in his voice, my world fading.
"I don't feel we'll" i mumble before my brain shut down and I was gone.
