~Chapter One~
As he pushed us closer to the edge, I couldn't help trying to reason with him one last time.
"Please James, just let us go, we'll forget this even happened." I say hopefully.
"You know I can't do that, Sarii."
At least let Jaydyn go, it's me you want."
"No! I am staying right here Sariia, I promised you I would never let you be harmed, and I am not going to break that promise, ever." Jaydyn replied heatedly.
"Come on Jay, it's my fault we're even here, I'll sort it out, I promise." I say with a very pointed look at the forest trail behind him.
James hasn't bothered to restrain or even hold onto Jaydyn, he knows it's going to take a lot for him to leave me.
Me, on the other hand, my arm is bruised and sore from James' clenched fists, my legs are sore and failing, and as I get more and more tired, I stumble more and more often.
Just then, a jutting rock appeared from the mist, and I tripped over it, sprawling across the dense forest floor.
"Sarii!" Jaydyn's anguished cry sounding loudly in the silent expanse of forestry.
"Shut up." James growled at him fiercely.
"I-It's ok Jay, I'm f-fine." I say, choking on built up tears and despair.
James kicked the dirt up, scuffing his workboots.
"We're almost there, get up."
I hurriedly scrambled to my rubbed raw feet.
"Where are you taking us?"
"The end of the yellow brick road." He replies with a psychotic grin.
After a further ten gruelling minutes of walk/stumbling we arrive, and I gasp in shock.
No more than three metres in front of us, is the sheer face of a cliff.
James shoves me closer, and closer, before leaning close and whispering in my ear:
"I will always love you, but you've got to go, you are too much of a problem now, you know it."
Just as he leans back to shove me right over, Jay gives a cry of outrage, runs over, and shoves me out of the way. James is too slow to stop himself, and he shoves Jay right over the edge, into the black beyond.
As I watched my brother disappear, I gave a truly feral scream, wracked with pain and grief, all the tensions from the past few months being released into the night air.
I swing to James, and the last thing I see is his fist coming towards me, before I fall into the deep dark abyss of unconciousness.
Ok, um this is the first time I've done this so.. let me know what you think?
~Chapter Two~
I wake to a flickering light, and painfully white walls.
My mouth feels empty of all moisture, and I lick my cracked lips, feeling a gash starting there. I slowly reach up, feeling the gash extend from the right-hand corner of my mouth to my cheekbone.
My face feels as though it has been beaten with a baseball bat, and I know it is covered in bruises.
I'm obviously hooked up to some machine, because as I lift my arm, an insistent beep begins from beside the bed.
I hear running footsteps, and then my mother slams through the double doors, my father close behind. I wince at the sudden noise but then mum is there, taking my mind off of that small pain at least.
"Honey, are you ok?" She asks, feeling my forehead. I manage to nod, and croak out the only thing I need to know. "Jay?"
The look on her face says it all. She shakes her head. "Honey, Jaydyn, he, he..." She can't continue. Dad finishes for her. "The search party heard a scream in the forest, and when they got to where you were, sweetie, they found you, collapsed and unconcious, just as James ran off. Jaydyn went over the cliff."
The walls start to spin, and as I get dizzier, an insistent beeping comes from the machine beside me. The last thing I see before I slip back into the darkness, lose conciousness, is a single tear tracing it's way down my father's cheek. It is the first time I've seen him cry.
