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We drove. And we drove. And we drove. The never-ending drive was nauseating, tiring, and depressing. I wanted to go home. I was worried about Shawn. Did those things want him too? I hadn’t realized that I’d said that out loud until Daren answered, “Yes. They want him too. But they won’t get him anytime soon, because my brother has already got him and we’re going to the same place. You’ve probably never even heard of this place. Right now we’re in the state of Kansas, and we’ve been driving for about 24 hours.”
I was glad that Daren had answered all of my questions, but I still didn’t know where we’d end up. My mind was pondering that when I fell asleep.
When I awoke, the car was stopped, and Daren wasn’t in it. I thought about getting out, but then decided against it. Daren would’ve woken me up if he wanted me to go inside the convenience store with him. Minutes later, Daren was in the car again, with food and drinks. We didn’t stop to eat, because Daren said that we didn’t have enough time. We were being hunted. And the hunting wouldn’t stop until someone was killed.
“We’ll be there in about 20 minutes.”
“Will you tell me where we’re going?”
“No. I can’t tell. You won’t figure it out until we’re there. Telling you while we’re driving gives those things a way to track us.”
Like Daren said, we arrived 20 minutes later, at a very terrible looking place. It didn’t spark my mind that it would be very entertaining. It’s probably a temporary place, where we will make plans, then move on. I wondered how long it will take until one of us is killed. I also wondered who would be killed first. A thing or a person?
We were brought in by some guy wearing a lot of hideous armor looking stuff. He had a very grim look on his face. The man had a large build and deep set eyes. As scary as he was, I felt a sense of protection. I decided that it would be best to ask Daren when no one was around who he was.
My prediction of the building wasn’t far from correct. The inside was grey and blah. The walls and floors were cement, and the only furniture was a fold out table and chairs. Guarding the entrances were more of those big men with the deep set eyes and stocky, giant build. They must be some sort of body guard. In the chairs sat people whom I didn’t know or recognize in any way. They must be the people that Daren were raised with, because mundane means human, and when Daren said that I was raised in the mundane world, he meant I was raised with normal people. So who was Daren raised with? Who are these “people”?
All my confusion resurfaced a lot that night. I never found out who those body guard looking people were. I still don’t know why we’re being hunted. I don’t even know what I am. It just irks me. The fact that no one, not a single being, will tell you where, who, and what you are. Could you even begin to imagine what someone like me might be going through?
It’s also hard to think that within the same year, my life has changed completely. Not in a good, positive way that might have just had the slightest chance, but a terrible, horrid life. I don’t even know how to live my life. I mean how do you even live your life when you don’t know anything?! I hope this is worth it. I hope Heaven is worth all of this. Actually I know it is, because if it wasn’t, I wouldn’t be standing here right now. I would have let those things take me. I would not have let Daren take me away from them. They could’ve had me. But I have things and people worth living for. Well, I shouldn’t say people because there is only one person. Shawn. Shawn is the only one worth living for. I want to see my mom. I want my old house back. I want to be in Portland. I want, I want, I want. Just listen to me! I’m a mess, an emotional wreck. That’s what I am. I am an emotional mess or wreck or whatever. I just know one thing. I’m not the same Kelsa Jordan Faine that I used to be.
Suddenly I was moving, a weird kind of moving. Not like the kind when you’re driving. Actually I think I’m in an aero-plane. Or whatever they call it. It might be airplane. Oh I don’t know. I ask Daren where I am. No answer. I finally decide that I should open my eyes, which are crusty from my slumber. I don’t like what I see. What I see is that all the seats are empty. No one is with me. That’s when I hear someone from behind me. I assume it’s Daren so I ask my question again. That’s when they grab me. And that’s when I scream.
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And today I learned, that it is, in fact, a dark world.
Teen FictionKelsa Faine thought she was just a human. Everyone thinks that at first, right? Just an ordinary human who'd been handed a bad set of cards. But when she meets Daren, her opinion of the world changes. And when no allies are left, who does and who ca...
