Until Dark

Chapter 4

I might not of wanted to, but I packed everything up anyways. I look back at my empty room as I walk out, all the posters of my favourite bands, my library of book, and all of my toys and stuffed animals I've grown up with was put into boxes. Some we're being put into storage, some I would take with me. I still didn't understand what was going on, and my parents didn't seemed to want to give me any answers.
I'm not sure I have ever seen my room so clean, it was nice but also sad. This is the place where my childhood had taken place, in the streets around my house and in my room.
With eveything happening so suddenly, I had a terrible feeling in my gut that I wasn't going to see my room, house, family or friends in a long time.

I am not scared easily, but this was terrifying. I always stayed in the same place. I have never moved, never really travelled, and now I didn't even know where I was going. My mother talked about the new place as a school, but still didn't really know what to think.  My mom was so clam about this, how would she feel if you just got pulled into a world of magic like you were in a book? Ok, that might be over doing it, but it could be anything after what happened last night.

As I thought about the strange events that had taken place, my mother called a cab.
I still couldn't get past the fact that I was leaving everything behind. What would all my friends think when I didn't go to school tomorrow or what my grandparents think when I never showed up for Christmas. But I guess that my mom got a letter to, so maybe they knew or on the other hand, maybe she never showed them. I  remembered that I still hadn't opened my letter, but now I didn't really feel like it.

I sat there for what seemed like hours before the cab came. Time seemed to drag on in anticipation of what was to come.

A was loading the bags into the car, I noticed it's color. It looked pretty normal, and at first glance nothing seemed different. But there was something  odd about the colour that made it different. Then I realized it had the same eerie glow immiting from it as the letter had. Now I was starting  panic. It was so unnatural.  

I was going to point it out, when I noticed my mom.
She looked so calm that it was scary, when I was little she was to scared to take me to the park. I realized that hidden behind her calm, was fear. I could see the tension in her mouvements, and she hadn't said a word to me, probably hiding the fact that her voice would break, if she tried to say anything. I looked away, and turned my attention to the driver.
There was also something off about  him, kinda like his head wasn't screwed on right. It almost looked as if his whole body wasn't put together properly. Suddenly my attention was drawn back to my mother who was humming.  Humming of all thing! Then I saw how her calmness started to fade, it was tearing her up in side.

"Quickly get in the cab!"

I could hear the urgency in her voice, breaking when she looked at me.

"What no, "Goodbye my wonderful daughter"?!"

I said gently, bearly getting any words out.

"You have to go!"

That was just cold. I could bearly move my legs, as I walked to the door. I looked back to my mom as I got in but she had already gone back into the house. I said goodbye to air, that had taken my moms place, and the cab drove off  down the street.