My Woods

Faster

Run! Run! Run! The whispers engulfed me! I couldn't get away from that house...ever! I was the reason my mother left and she is not coming back anytime soon...so neither am I.

I raced through the field. I watched as the red barn with all the animals flew by.
       The barn animals!
       I thought as I slid to a stop in the middle of the field and looked back. I dumped hay and chicken feed and caviar into the various buckets and stalls. Then, I continued running. I crossed the river and ran through the bushes. Mouse and Kitten were waiting for me and I hoisted Kitten onto Mouse and then my self.
My childhood was ruined when the truth came out. I now know why I was always being pushed away. Now, my childhood was going to tear me to pieces. I rode faster and faster through the woods. Faster! Faster! Faster!
The whispers! I held my hands around my head while Mouse carried me away. I pushed against my head, near my temples. "It's not real!" I said to myself. "They are just whispers of my mind!" I could hear the voices in the wind and the trees and the river. In the drip-drop of the water from leafs. Faster! Faster! Run! The whispers got louder. "STOP! STOP! STOP! Leave me ALONE!" I screamed to the woods. Kitten comforted me but I couldn't stop! I was a lonely girl without a home or family. Running from the world until I reach the ends of the Earth.
        How?! How could I have been picked out of a million people to live this horrible life?! Life isn't as fair as hell and heaven! My mom used to say that, meaning who goes to hell and who goes to heaven is fair because it is based on their deeds but life is the exact opposite. I just wish I could forget everything about anything. Hunter, my mom, Aunt Lorie, the notes, the house.
       My hair untangled itself in the wind and tears blew across my face as the whispers told me to go faster. "Go Mouse! RUN! FASTER!" I screamed. "FASTER! FASTER! RUN!" this time it was not directed to Mouse...but at myself. I cried out to the wind and the trees. I held on to Mouse's mane like it was my life. That thought that it was my life made me let go. Holding onto my life and I just let go. Everything was in slow motion as I fell. I felt myself fall off the back of Mouse and watched as he stopped...stopped to late to save my life. Kitten turned around and jumped off of mouse as I kept falling. The impact was hard and rocky. It wasn't my actual life I was loosing. It was the thought that I could be gone as easy as that and no one would even know. I slammed my head on a log and almost instantly felt dizzy. I didn't give a damn. Dizzy or not, I tried to stand back up. I instantly fell back down. I held my hand up in front of my face and counted my fingers. "O-Un. Two. Three. Fou-" I didn't see more than three fingers. "Three is better than none!" I thought and tried once more to get back up. I got up on my hands and knees and then lifted one leg until it was ready to pull my weight up. I pushed myself up and then held onto a near by tree. Everything began turning grey and black and orange. The things I could see out of the corners of my eyes suddenly disappeared. Then, everything started disappearing and before I knew it I only had a small box of what I could see orange out of. I felt numb as that slowly closed and then everything was black and my body hit the ground.
"Faster! Run! Faster! Run!" The wind told me. To bad I couldn't move. I was stuck here and I could do nothing about it.

Hunter's pov

      I waited for Brynn to return for 3 hours. I didn't want to barge into her aunts house uninvited! For all I know she could be asleep or crying or something! I decided that when it got dark that I would go and check on Brynn. In the meantime, I decided to do some homework. A teacher from the collage university I got into is going to come here to check on me and my work. There is only one more month of school left meaning that I get to go on summer break pretty soon and hang out with Brynn even more. No more worrying about stupid due homework even though I am a straight A student.
I got out my backpack and opened it up. I grabbed my work from out of a thick white binder. "One more month of this crappy hell!" I said enthusiastically. I was good at school but homework was my hell! I hated every moment of it! I had to create a speech and poster board that was due by the time the teacher came which is in one week. I guess I'll get to work on that. I pulled the format out of my binder and started reading. Then, I pulled out my laptop and did loads of research. Finally, I began the first page of my speech. On this particular format, I was aloud to read off pieces of paper because it was going to be in front of the schools' board members.

          When I was halfway done with the first page of my speech, the sun started sinking below the horizon. It was around 6:30 and I wanted to be able to find Brynn before it got totally dark. After all, I still had a week to finish and I have already began the first page. I was planning on making it around five or six pages.

       I opened Brynn's Aunts' house door and walked up to her old room. I had only been in this house 5 times but I  knew my way around. When Brynn wasn't there, I checked every other room, including the bathroom.
       "Brynn?!" I called a few times.
She must be with the barn animals.

       When I reached to barn door, I knocked. When no one answered I allowed myself entrance.
       Brynn wasn't here either! Where could she have possibly gon-"Oh shit!" I said suddenly remembering the forest.