Chapter 1- the beginning
Shadows. Visions. Spirits. You name it and I’ll bet you any money, it follows me. Sitting in this empty house, locked away from anything and everything, well it’s boring and lonely. I just hope that someone, someday will find this and read it. Then they will know the true story of Aurora Mellainee, not the one the media tells people. Ahh, the media. Supposedly knows everything. Although they get parts of the truth, the rest, well that’s just a whole bunch of lies. Well I probably should start with how I came to be here…
I was a lot different back then. I was thirteen, just going into year 8.I was a moody teenager who had more care for her friends than for her family. Right now, I’d give anything for to have that back. My life then revolved around who was dating who, what I was doing on the weekend, who my friends were etc. I was so stupid and caught up with what didn’t really matter, to see what was going on around me. I wish I had of noticed because then a lot of s*** could’ve been prevented and a lot of lives wouldn’t have been ruined. I started noticing things around the time that the twins came to my school. Their names were Hayley and Tjay Peterson. Hayley, well, she is one of the nicest, most caring people you could ever meet, but Tjay. He is someone I despise greatly. Hate even, though I didn’t think that at the time.
Back then I thought he was cute, funny, nice, basically my dream guy. Hayley kept trying to tell me otherwise but all I thought was that she was being an overprotective sister, trying to keep all the girls away from him. How I wish I’d listened to her. Weeks later, Tjay and I were dating. All my so-called “friends” said we were the cutest couple ever. I thrived on being in the spotlight. It seems stupid how I did seeing as I usually preferred to be away from the spotlight.
Life was blissful, like I was in heaven. But then it ended.
It was my 14th birthday party, a disco in fact, with a DJ and all. I pretty much invited the whole of my year because all my “ friends” convincing me that it would be so awesome to have a huge party. I was getting a new drink and I turned around to see a person I didn’t know. They spoke loud and clearly over the music. They told me to go around the corner, then they moved away, seeming to disappear into the crowd. I was freaked out to the max but I still did what they told me to. When I went round the corner, I saw something I never in a million years wanted to see. Tjay and my “best friend” Misha were hooking up against the wall. I called his name loudly and ran over to them. He heard me as I approached and lifted his head to look at me. His eyes were filled with shock, but not regret. Subconsciously, I slapped his face. As my hand connected with his face, I saw visions from his past. They weren’t just any visions, they were ones of him and Misha together, doing things that no one our age should be doing. I snapped out of it, my eyes filled with tears. Why was the first thing I asked him. His answer, well there wasn’t one and nor will there ever be one.
I could see black arms and legs that looked like someone’s shadows, grab his neck and crush his voice box. I couldn’t believe what was happening. My heart was hammering through my chest. I was scared and I burst out in tears and as I did, the black shadows disappeared into thin air. I looked around and saw Misha huddled up in a corner weeping and Tjay was on the floor, grabbing at his throat. There was no blood, just a gaping hole were his voice box should be.I screamed and screamed till my voice ran out but no-one heard me over the sound of the pounding music.
“Aurora!” I heard Hayley yell. I still don’t know how I knew it was her, I just knew. She grabbed my hand and pulled me to an open back door away from the noise.
“What happened?” she demanded. So I told her. I was surprised she could hear what I was saying. She calmed me down with her reassuring words that seemed to destroy the fear and heart break within me.
I remember asking her why she wasn’t p***** and angry at me for what happened to her brother, she told me that it was karma for him because of all the hearts he’s broken and all the people he’s hurt. Hayley walked beside me as we walk everywhere and nowhere, just roaming the streets for no apparent reason, or at least that’s what it looked like anyway, but in reality, we were out there to escape, from what I don’t know. Hayley might’ve told me but I wouldn’t remember ‘cause most of that night is a blur, still waiting to be remembered. At one point I vaguely remember going into a largish house that wasn’t mine.
”Hey, your finally awake,” Hayley said.
“Yeah, where am I?” I asked.
“You don’t remember? Anyway, you’re at my house.”
“Oh… Then that’s why everything looks so familiar…”
I was still confused as to how and why I came to be here at Hayley’s. I decided against because I felt like an idiot enough already. If only I did ask then maybe Ben might still be alive. Hayley walked me to my house and once we said our goodbyes, I went inside. My parents didn’t care less that I was home. I think they were happy to have me out of the house. Well they’ve got their wish now. I went up to my room and saw shadows lurking everywhere. The events from last night flashed through my mind, like something was making sure I wouldn’t forget. I ran over to my light switch and turned it on to make all the shadows disappear. I glanced around to see people that I’d never known or met in my life standing around me and black shadows coming from everywhere. I put my back against my door and slowly moved my hand to the door handle but before I reached it, someone or something grabbed my hand. My eyes instantly went to my hand. I saw an extremely pale guy clutching my hand between his. I shook my hand away from his and started running round the room like a mad person. As I stopped, everyone and everything was silent and still in the room, unmoving, just staring at me. Unless they had moved and went back to the exact same place when I was running around the room, I would’ve gone straight through them…They were ghosts…Or spirits or something. That’s why I could get away from the guy that had my hand so easily. It only felt like he had a hold of me but really, he didn’t.
What could they be then? Was what I asked myself. I heard someone laughing and I turned to see Ben, a guy from my school. When he saw me looking he ran away over my back fence. I glanced around me once again. They were gone. The air around me was freezing giving me Goosebumps. At that moment my mum came in exclaiming how it was suddenly so cold and told me to put something warm clothes on and to get ready for dinner and she also said she had something to tell me. I nodded and as she closed the door, my legs fell from under me and I lay there on the floor crying. What for? I don’t know but I guess it was shock. It finally settled in that all of that had just happened. My chest tightened around me and I was finding it hard to breathe. Never in my life had this happened. Before long, I couldn’t breathe at all and I could feel my eyes beginning to shut. I fought against it but I lost and black surrounded me.
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