The wind blew, picking up my hair and throwing it around. I took a step towards the blue glistening water. The warm sand was soft beneath my feet. As I looked around I could feel the sun beating down on my shoulders. I took another step. The beige satchel that I had been carrying flew to the ground. The sun left and the sand disappeared. I could no longer hear the birds chirping. I realized that I had fallen into a deep hole and couldn't get out. I was trapped.
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As I opened my eyes, I realized I had to get out of bed. I felt like I was on a cloud and there was no getting off of it. I tried for, like, 2 minutes before realizing it was almost impossible, so I rolled over and fell back to sleep.
The lights flickered on and voice that could only belong to one person blared like a foghorn.
"Audrey, are you seriously still sleeping? Even mom's awake before you!" My sister, Harper stated.
"Ok. Fine I'll get up, just leave me alone." With that, Harper closed the door and sulked down the hallway.
Very slowly, I got out of bed and stepped onto the carpet the surrounded the bed. Looking around I noticed the bed next to mine was empty. The suit case was still packed. There was no sign that anyone had ever been there. I hurried to get dressed, swung open the door and ran down the stairs. As soon as I reached the bottom of the stairs, I stepped out onto the cold wood floor. Harper and my parents were sitting at a table. I sat down at the table next to them. There was one empty chair. Someone was missing and I knew exactly who it was.
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I woke up to something crawling on my leg. It was too dark to see anything and there was no light anywhere. I couldn't hear anything either. All I could hear was the sound of rushing water. Where was I? How long had I been here? What had happened? I started to get scared. Then I remembered something.
I had a flashlight in my back pocket. It had been mandatory to carry one at all times along with a pocket knife back when we had lived in Peru. It definitely came in handy now. Once I was finally able to grab it, I turned it on and shone it around the surrounding areas. Looking around I saw what looked like stone walls. I stood up and began to walk forward when I saw a stream at my feet. It seemed to be glowing. It must have just been from my flashlight. I leaned over and touched the water. As soon as my finger connected with it, the water turned gold. Quickly, I pulled my hand out of the strange substance. As soon as I did, it turned back to blue. I must have hit my head when I fell. That had to be why I was seeing things. Then I noticed it. Leaning against the back wall of the cave was a book. A very special book.
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"Mom? Where's Riley?" I asked. Mom's head jerked up. Frozen on her face was the look of panic and terror. Quickly, the look dissolved as she then spoke,
"Audrey, I thought she was with you." Now it was my dad's turn to look panicked.
"No. She wasn't with me. She told me she was going to the beach with Harper." Once I stated this, all eyes turned to Harper. She only looked confused.
"What do you mean? Riley just walked up with me and said, 'Do you want to come to the beach with me?' I said no. That was that." After Harper explained how things happened between her and Riley, everyone broke out into mad chaos.
Mom picked up her phone and started dialing numbers, dad ran outside and ran up and down the block yelling, "Riley? Riley! Where are you??" Then he would stop and start talking to nearby pedestrians, explaining the situation. Harper ran around our vacation home yelling the same thing dad was.
Meanwhile, I just walked down the pot hole filled street and headed towards the beach. Start where Riley last was right? I wasn't that I just wanted to find my little sister, I needed to save her. Then I saw a small beige satchel on the ground. An object that could only have ever belonged to one person. Riley.
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It drew me in much like a light draws in moths. I couldn't stop moving towards it. The purple cover was shining and glittering like a diamond would have. I dropped my flashlight and it disappeared. That's odd. I reached down to where I had dropped the flashlight. Just like I had thought, it wasn't there. As soon as I stood back up, there was light all around me. I didn't have time to look around at the place that was holding me prisoner. I just needed to get that book. Then a sound, similar to the sound of an avalanche was all around me. Suddenly, a person dropped right in front of me. They were just an obstacle between me and the book. I would need to plow through her. Then she turned towards me.
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I walked towards Riley's bag. As soon as I picked it up the ground started shifting. I fell down, catching my last glimpse of the sun. Rocks fell over my head. I crouched down and covered my head. Once I could feel that the rocks had stopped falling, I stood up. The lightning was blue and I was facing a book. The book sent waves of terror through me. Quickly I turned around and saw her. I had found Riley and she was running directly at me. I opened my arms to hug her but then I noticed the look on her face. She would not stop. She would plow through me. Riley was obsessed with obtaining that book.
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Audrey. Audrey was here to steal the book from me. Without thinking, I just started running. And running. I need to get that book. Audrey opened her arms. Trickery. She was pretending to want to hug me just so that she could throw me on the ground and grab the book. Why wasn't she moving? Whatever. It didn't matter, in the end I would have the book and that would be all the mattered. I kept running. Why wouldn't Audrey move? Did she seriously think that I would just let her have the book? No. That wouldn't happen. Before I knew it I was three feet in front of her. 2 feet. 1. Impact. There should have been one, but there wasn't. I looked around. She had simply disappeared. I looked behind me, looking for a body, blood, anything that would symbolize that my sister had been here and that was not losing it. Nothing. I saw movement coming from my left. It was a young girl, maybe about six or seven running along side of me. Competition. She just wants the book. I kept running, making sure to check that she had the same motives as me. She did. I quickly pushed the little girl over, sending her flying. I almost had the book. I was right in front of it. I reached out and grabbed it. It was heavy. It shimmered than lit up changing colors from purple to gold. Than it shrank and I put it in my pocket. Now I had to find a way out. But how? Suddenly, I felt something hit my back and the light that filled the cave flew away. I couldn't see. I couldn't hear. I was alone, locked in my own thoughts.
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YOU ARE READING
Changed Everything
FantasyWhat would you do if you made a single mistake and in the progression of it you killed your sister, made enemies with an entire continent and discovered a lethal weapon?
