Chapter 3~ Annabel
It was dark. Very dark! The moon was giving off a small glow in the distance like it was bouncing off water. I make my way to it. Well try to. There are so many trees in the way branches digging into me. Cutting up my arms and tearing my dress.
Finally after what seemed like forever I reached the end of the woods. I’m stopped in my tracks. There's a boy standing by the water I only thought was there. He looks young but old enough to be around nineteen or twenty.
I don’t know why but I’m mesmerised by this boy. Maybe it’s his dark hair that falls to his shoulders. Or maybe it’s the way he looks so calm in his stance. Something about it makes me want to come to him. To hold him. Maybe even kiss him.
What am I thinking! I don’t even know this boy. Yet at the same time I do. Out of nowhere he turns around and stares at me. I gasp! His eyes, they're the color of Violet's. Then It hits me, It’s Landon! When he sees I've figured out who he was he smiles. His brilliant smile. I find myself walking towards him. This all feels too familiar.
I stop right in front of him, peering up at his perfectly structured face. He takes his hand and runs it along the side of my face. My breath catches.
“Hello my lovely!” He says in a heavily accented voice.
Somehow my breath came back to me when he spoke. “Hello, Landon.” I glance around looking for a way out. I remember what happened last time.
“Oh Anna! Are you still thinking I'll hurt you again? I won’t repeat what happened last time.” Landon says in an amused voice.
His hand moves from my face to right under my collar bone. My breath quickens. Now he can feel how much he’s making my heart beat and my breath race. Damn why does he affect me like this. I can see it in his eyes, he’s loving this.
He leans down to whisper in my ear; “Look down.”
I know I’ll just see my ripped up dress and torn up arms and legs but I look anyway. My eyes go wide. What? How can this be? There's no way! Did he? How would he even do this? I look up at him curious and a little bit scared. With the question ‘Who is he really?’ burning in my head.
“How did you?” I asked sounding curious not scared. My dress was fixed and my arms and legs were smoothed.
He smiles a dark smile and laughs a bit. “That’s for me to know and you to find out” He brings me close to him. Hugging me tight. “You know I didn’t mean to hurt you last time. I’m sorry my love. I just want to protect you from now on. I love you!”
I feel the slight feel of falling. I pull my head away from. How did we get on a cliff. Or was on a cliff. We were falling. Faster by the second. I let out a scream. Out of nowhere Landon disappears a few feet from hitting the water. I hit the water and my breath is knocked out. I hear a faint high pitched laugh in the distance. And it’s getting closer.
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I sit in my therapist office watching her scribble something on her notepad. “Is there anything the same about this dream and the last one?” She asks. I know she’s just doing her job but it gets annoying to hear every time i tell her I’ve had another one of those dreams.
“Yeah, The boy, Landon, was there and the laughing in the water getting closer.” I say leaving out that there had been eyes staring at me in the water like before.
“Ahh I see. Well good thing this is just a dream. Our time is up i'll see you again next time.” Dr. Slav gets up and hugs me as soon as i stand. It seems like she knows something, but why is she keeping it from me?
