Kiss of Death

Chapter 6 (Memories)

(The picture is persephone)

Roxanne P.O.V.

I woke the next morning with a racing heart beat and a dull headache. I stumbled out of my bed with weak legs in a panic as memories of last night come crashing through my head. My breathing picked up an I tripped over my own feet, falling to the ground. It seemed like time stopped as my vision black out. I blinked hard but when I opened my eyes I wasn't in my room anymore.

Flashback

"Help me" I heard a woman tell as I opened my eyes I realized that that was indeed myself screaming. Wind whipped past my face and suffocated me as I plummeted thousands of feet from a cliff, but for some reason that's not what worried me.

There was this nagging feeling that something horrible has happened and a sob breaks through my chest. My hands are tied behind my back and my ankles were tied together. My once blue hair is now black and shorter, floating above me.

My cries get louder and louder as my body descends closer to the bottom. I manage to look beneath me but I see nothing...yet.

"Persephone!!!" I hear a man yell, my cries get louder as crystallized spikes come into view on the bottom of this cavern. I look up and see a man jumping over the edge, reaching for me. It's too dark to see his face but my body knew who it was. With only seconds left I cried out one last time.
"Luci-"
End of flashback

I blinked again as Max caught me before I hit the floor face first. I pushed him away and backed up against the wall. My chest was in an enormous amount of pain, my head too. I started to sob as the image kept playing over and over in my head.... Like a haunting memory.

"Roxie are you ok?" Max asked worry written on his face.

"Stop it, stop it! Help me, I don't wanna fall, please make it stop. Catch me, it hurt. I don't wanna fall, stop it" I repeated holding my head trying to blink the memory away. Max cursed and yelled something in Italian. His father walks him along with his mom and mines. They all look at each other before my mom walked up to me.

"Baby what's wrong, can you tell me?" She asked, reaching a caring hand out.

"DON'T TOUCH ME!" I yelled in a voice that wasn't my own. Her hand automatically retracted and she blinked looking at her hand in confusion.

"It's her authority, it's leaking out because her emotions are high" Mr. Remano, Max's dad said. My mom nodded and looked back at me.

"Baby look mommy in the eyes. I need you to be strong for ten seconds and look up, can you do that for me?" She asked. I wiped some tears out of the way and lifted my head. As I looked at her my world froze.

"What are you-" I began.

"Shh, it's ok, mommy is here" she reassured. I slightly nodded, still transfixed in her eyes. As we stared at each other he face began to turn into a shocked horror. She cleared her throat and cautiously brought her hand to my stomach and another to my forehead. Ice consumed the pain and everything in my brain came to a halt. All the images and memories were tucked away in a filing cabinet. Not forgotten but not attacking my every thought either. I slumped over into my moms lap and closed my eyes. I wasn't sleepy but my body just went through a lot so I'm not moving any time soon.

"She's starting to remember " my mother said finger combing my hair. I sighed and relaxed, listening to there conversation.

"I think our lord is right. Let her memories come back to her by themselves. If we try to rush things, she might break down." He said, everyone in the room agreed. An alarming thought came to me and I tried to get up.