Ribbon In The Wind

Ribbon In The Wind [ 5 ]

Chapter Five:

I knew he had something to do with my photo missing; I look down at the photo. The last photo Luke gave me. A surge of hate goes through me, why couldn't this asshole leave me alone what more could he take from me. The answer was a lot.

I look at him and then back at Jason who has the biggest look of fear across his face but I don't understand why, he doesn't know the guy, well I think he doesn't he couldn't right? But when I look back the sun catches a glistering object held in the hands of the guy I still don't know the name of, the guy I’d rather never know the name of.

I can’t recognize the object until my eyes focus. Oh no. A knife. Just after I have time to register what it was I don't have much time to do anything else because the next thing I know is that its flying across the river towards me, I don't have time to move. I tense my body waiting for the searing pain to pierce my body.

Then it hits me, a pain I thought I would never feel. I open my eyes and there he is smiling, I look down at the knife half in my stomach and half out. I gasp. I feel myself falling darkness shades my eyes and then I feel hard arms wrap around me and lower me to the ground and just before unconsciousness takes over I hear yelling and sounds of flesh hitting flesh and then nothing. Nothing at all. I’m all alone in a dark place that won’t let me go.

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I feel myself lifting and all I can think of is that I must be waking up and suddenly I’m afraid. What am I going to wake up to? Images flash before my eyes:

The last rays of a sunset,

A silver moon,

Jason’s Smile,

A blue sky,

The last photo of Luke, and me,

Luke smiling,

Waves breaking over rocks,

Then its over….

My eyes slowly open and I’m in a hospital bed. Oh great my mother is going to freak I can just imagine the call.

Mrs. Johnson your daughter is in hospital…

Before the person finishes a scream will return, a drop of the phone and then nothing until she arrives at the hospital her hair wind blown from running to the car, then from the car to the hospital door like her life depended on it when truth was it isn’t her life its mine which isn’t worth running like a crazy lunatic for, but she’s a mum so I guess its ok.

I look around the room on one side is Jason holding my hand with his hand leaning on the bed with his eyes closed, on the other my mum who’s staring at me. When she sees my eyes open she smiles.

“Welcome back my beautiful girl, you scared me so much’ and yup there’s the truth in my words of the phone call.

“sorry” my voice sounds like I have been asleep for like 2 weeks, I scrunch up my face at the sound.

I turn to look at Jason who’s still sleeping.

“ He hasn't left since the Ambulance brought you here”

“How long have I been in here?”

“Three days so far”

My heart does a leap, omg three days he’s stayed here for three days to make sure I was ok. This guy who barely knows me sat next to me waiting for my eyes to open.