Darkness enveloped me. The smell of fear mixed with my own sweat was lingering in a cloud surrounding me. As I tried to move my feet just a small inch thick coarse rope cut into my ankles, I could feel where my skin had broken as I had been writhing in my unconscious state. Slowly I tried to move my hands that were stuck behind my back, I could feel more rope cutting into my wrists: drawing blood, slowly tricking down my finger to the middle of my palm, running down the end of my index finger dripping off the tip. The continuous drip of my own blood on the floor was the only way to keep any sense of time.
I could feel the coarse rope slowly working its way into my skin.
Reaching my hands behind me as far as they could go, my fingertips grazed over a cold damp surface. The walls and floor were rough and moist like a cave. A small breeze tickled the bare skin around my ankles. Slowly I picked up my legs; wincing at the pain it caused- edging away from the frigid air.
Every move made the rope cut into my skin. Closing my eyes and gritting my teeth I moved my feet again.
It seemed like hours had passed, but time was irrelevant.
Cold waves of realisation rolled over me. Feeling it creep up in my chest with nowhere to go.
I started to scream using up all the air my lungs could muster. Screaming until my mouth felt dry scratchy and exhausted. The hysterics followed soon after, each breath sent my into another frenzy it felt like forever I sat there, fear overwhelmed me.
Tiny goosebumps covered every inch of my body as i started to shiver
My face, concealed by a layer of snot, tears and dirt.
Pounding in my ears, the sound of my heartbeat was all I could hear.
I felt numb inside and out, I could not feel anything anymore. I silently thanked my captor for leaving me in this darkness alone. It gave me time to think about the pain I had caused to everyone I loved, no one would miss me in their perfect lives that I had never fit into. I was only a rock drowning them in a sea of my depression.
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This is a passage that i wrote for my English teacher when i was practicing my descriptive writing.
