In The Dark

□TWENTY□

The only noise I made was escaping from my mouth, each of my breath trembled as I breathe.

I flee through the patterned hallway. I noticed the women's bathroom by a hotel window. I quickly rushed in, smashing my palms on a unique, porcelain sink. A horrendous creature towered before me, its bloodshot eyes burning at me.

Choking out a sob, I clamped my hands over my gaping mouth. The monster mimicked me. My weak knees gave out, and I slid down the steady walls that was secure for me to lean on. Pathetically, a bathroom's walls are my closest acquaintance.

I don't have a loving mother by my side, telling me everything was all right. I don't have a strong father to get a grasp on, encouraging me. I don't have a big sister as my role model, her bigger hand in mine, kindly giving me consolation.

My little information about the world informed me that my family had turned me in the dark, to be tortured by the Creators. In their eyes, I was a threat to them, a dangerous witch that would all sent them into hell. And I no longer disagree.

The whole world wanted me dead.

If I was gone, everyone would have peace.

I dried my tears, using my fingers as a handkerchief. I was not a rebellion. If I wanted to prove the country wrong, my first step is to stop feeding myself negative contemplates.

Pushing my knee as a launching pad, I forced myself to stand up, to face the world with bravery. As I straightened myself, another wave of abdominal emotions crashed toward me.

I sank down the wall again, my fingernails scraping against the dirty objects in between the wall's cracks in effort to retain my posture. I flopped down to the floor like a wasted and ignored toy.

I was tormented, rejected, heartbroken.

Anna's hostile expression, Ross, unable to trust me. My parents, sending me to hell just to defend themselves. The Creators, harsh, brutal, ruthless, cruelly planning a death for me. The citizens' dislikes for me. What use is showing myself to the world?

Why did I have to be born with gifts?

Why can't I be normal?

Why do I -

"Laura!"

My heart skipped a beat. Alarmed, I jumped up to my feet, and dashed to open a bathroom stall. My heart beating like a hammer smashing against my chest, I placed my right hand on my neck, and pressed my ear against the door.

I wet my dried lips as I listened to Ross's steps and his ringing and tensed voice. Finally, those feet skidded to a stop, and my heart followed. I shut my eyes, pinching my eyebrows together. I pressed my lips together, and tried to hold my breath. My grip on the knob tightened. My teeth clattered against another. My legs shivered.

Don't come in don't come in.

I knew he would, even if it meant dragging my butt across the bathroom's tiled floor.

"Laura, I know you're in there."

What, another gift? To see people through solid doors?

Letting out a sickening sigh, my exasperated my arms stretched out, and the door swung open. My eyes met with Ross's. He looked like he had been showered by sweat. Beads of water lined up against his forehead, amd lines creased on it as he furrowed his eyebrows.

In that second, he looked like an elderly. After a minute of stares and glares, Ross called over his shoulder, "I found her!" My chest rises and falls, and I gritted my teeth. I was enraged, the sadness evaporating from my mood.

Ross was staring at me.

Alert, I turned away. I will not be simulated by his stupid powers. What use did they cause, anyway? They only made me angrier.

"Laura," Ross's voice was pleading. I did not turn around. But after an awkward minute, I finally forced myself to twist around. Wesley was gaping at me, panicking. I fought the urge to roll my eyes, what a coward. Ross was far from afraid, he was worried. Even Anna furrowed her eyebrows, like if I was one of her woes.

"Come, Laura, a nice shower had been set up for you in our room," she said.

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