What Once Was Feared

Chapter Four

After countless hours of tear-blinded sprinting, I finally run into a pole.

I was so stunned that I fell to the ground. Instead of getting up, I just sat there. What the point of getting up and moving on? I have nowhere to go anyway. I don't even know where I am or completely understand who I am. All I know is the only person I knew as just ripped out of my arms. My mother, my own mother, dead.

I knew it was coming somehow. Becuase for some reason I feel like its happened before. Like my life is a broken record. Nothing is original.

My thoughts were cut off, yet again, by that awful sound that made me cringe.

Clack. Clack. Clack.

Well you know what? I'm done running away from my fears. What do I have to loose anyway? I spin around to face my fears.

Fear is beautiful.

His features were perfect. Too perfect, nothing human could be that perfect.

It was disgusting.

His eyes were dark and calming, but at the same time hollow. Like he had no love, no compashion. Like he cared for nothing. "Who are you?" I say in a flat tone. He didn't bother me anymore.

"I'm the reason you're here. Don't you remember?" he smirked as panic washed across my face. A series of words scattered around in my head. "Ugly troll" "Hideous" "You miss your mommy?" "Go kill yourself. Like mother like daughter!" "No one likes you." "Everyone hates you." Tears forced themselves to the surface once again.

"Refresh your memory?" he was enjoying this.

I tried to grasp the right words, "why are you doing this? What did I ever do to you?"

"Oh, nothing. I just love seeing you in so much pain. After all, you deserve it," he smirked once again. "Now come on, finish what you started. Those pills weren't enough to do the trick. Just think you could be with mommy again! Mother and daughter reunited! Two weak and pathetic human beings together once again!"

I was about ready to break his perfect face when something did it for me. I blur of tan plowed into him. The last think I heard escape his lips was a high-pitched squeak of fear and I laughed. I actually laugh in the first time since... well... ever. Even though I still do not know what saved me the first time or this time, it didn't matter. Nothing could scare me away anymore. No more cowering away for me.