Lost

What is Happening?

I look back. I think I lost them. Everyone, but I continue to run. 

There's a sound. It's someone crying. Ringing throughout the forest. Louder and Louder. The crying won't stop. 

Something grabs my arm and in a split second, I go from running to collapsed unconscious on the wooded green floor.

Three nights before

I grabbed my journal to write in it about the game.

March 5, 2016

We won our rugby game! Niki, Diane and I all went out for lunch afterwards and then went over to shop for Niki. She got a date! His name is Martin, and he's one of the rugby captains. Extremely cute and really good at everything. 

Smart, handsome, tall, and the list goes on and on. Niki was so excited when he gave her his number and told her to meet her at 8 tomorrow at the park. 

Niki wanted to shop for a cute outfit that moment. 

I looked at the cover of this journal again to try to decipher it. I got a little bit:

Samantha,

T-nk you... th-s m-t not be sh-n... I look a-r you...

There's so much more, but I still could't read it at all.

I put the journal away in my desk drawer and covered myself in my fleece blanket. I checked my phone to see a text from Don that read,

You looked really cute in that dress that you tried on in Target...

I was a little freaked out, but I was flattered that he even was flirting with me. I thought he liked someone else anyways. 

I texted him back and then put the phone down. I couldn't sleep well that night... at all

I dreamed that night of something I hated most. 

I am sitting in the woods. All alone like usual. I don't speak, just listen. As I sit, someone comes up behind me. I look around, but no one is there. The sky darkens and trees begin to fall. Lightning stirkes one of tallest trees and the fire spreads. I run, but as I near the edge of the forest, everyone is there as if waiting for me. Niki, Diane, Don, even my own teachers. They all look at me in horror and scream.

I don't understand what's happening? What did I do? I touch my face to feel fire burning my body, but it doesn't hurt nor harm. My tears extinguish the flames on me and everything goes silent. Diane looks at me and grabs a gun, she shoots me, but I do not die nor feel any pain and there's no damage done. Niki comes at me with a knife. The one I used to open the journal. She plunges it into my chest, but again, not damage nor pain.

What is happening to me? Am I dead? Just then, Don comes up to me and touches his fingers to my cheek. Steam comes and he is exposed to pain. His hand completely burned. He cries out and everyone charges at me. The only place left to go is the forest. I run. I try to think of what is happening, but there is no time to think. No, not now. I'm running, and I'm running from everyone.

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