BROKEN

CH.2-the woods

*ACE'S POV*

"Please talk to me Ace. I'm sorry about your mommy and daddy really I am, but I thought that you and I were best friends. I thought we told each other everything. Why won't you talk to me? Why? Why?"

"Kara," I whispered while trying to concentrate on my studies.

"Why can't I concentrate!" I yelled throwing a pencil at my wall causing yet another hole.

I went and got my pencil out of my wall before shattering it into pieces and throwing the pieces away.

They were everywhere again. All the pulses. The heart beats.

I started sweating again and my throat started hurting. My mouth was on fire.

I had tried so hard to run from who I was and it was all going well until this year. Until I turned sixteen. I had to bite down on my pillow to ease the pain.

I was a curse and nothing else.

That's why I shut her out.

Kara.

That's why I can't be around her.

I could kill her or worse.

I could turn her into something like me. Some spawn from hell.

The thoughts left my brain as I hit the floor in pain. My mouth hurt so badly, but I had fought it for this for so long.

I couldn't just give in now.

I bit into my pillow again before looking at myself in the mirror.

This thing in front of me was who I was becoming

My eyes were ablaze with red and sharp fangs had protruded from my mouth.

And then everything was black.

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*KARA'S POV*

I parked my car on the edge of the woods and grabbed my blanket out of the back. I also grabbed the picture of Ace and me out of the console in my car. I wandered into the woods to my usual spot between the circle of oak trees in the center of a field of flowers and lay my blanket down. I laid down and looked at that picture again.

I honestly thought about not looking at the picture before I go to sleep anymore just because it has been giving me bizarre nightmares about Ace. He's not what I dream about, in fact, I'm not even sure what possesses my mind to think in such violent ways about the boy who was once my best friend.

The sun shone on my skin and the gentle breeze blew through my hair as I lay there on the blanket with my picture in hand and before I knew it I was asleep again.

I had fallen into yet another nightmare.

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"There goes the ice cream truck, Kara! Get your bike!" Ace yelled as he raced down the street.

"Coming!" I laughed as I snapped on my helmet and sped out of the garage.

The sun shone on my skin and the gentle breeze blew through my hair...

We watched as the ice cream truck stopped suddenly in the road.

I didn't know what stopped it, but Ace and I parked our bikes and ran to the front.

A masked man with bright green eyes was there and was pointing a gun at the man in the truck.

The man hadn't done anything wrong, but he was there and he had every intention of killing the man. The man soon jumped out of the car and offered Ace and I ice cream and right as I was about to sink my teeth into the ice cream, it turned to blood and fell to the ground.