Eyes of Darkness

Chapter Deux

My grandmother drove the station wagon up to the cabins drive way. I stepped out struggling with my  cruches, as I stepped out, my combat boots smooshed against the wet mud, it made me smile it had been years I had stepped on the soil of this cabin. My grandmother smiled at me as she carried my things from which I owned. The smell of fresh wood filled my pours, the cool wind trickled on my skin.

"I missed this place." I smiled as the sun shined through the tall trees where the birds carelessly sang.

"I would expect you to." She said it with anger in her tone. I knew she had grown anger towards Jeff, but I would not blame her for I had a passion to hate him with all my might. "I could have saved you Angela." She said as we walked together towards the small cabin.

"I know you would have nana. Just like you would save me all those times from my parents." I sighed while looking at her. "Did you tell them?" I asked at her, she knew the relationship I had with my parents, it was not even a relationship but a sad case gone down the drain.

"Yes I did." She looked away and opened the door.

"I should have known." I put my head down as I walked inside the warm cabin, it smelled like chocolate cookies with peaches and coffee.

My parents never treated me as loving as I wanted them to, I was the oldest of my siblings, and the one who nobody ever cared for. When I was not able to do as I was told to, my mother would send me to the basement and think about what I did wrong, but as a pass time I would sing songs thinking that probably all parents treated their children to severe physical punishment, swearing, and spits on the face. My mother would always get in my face and say how I was not supposed to be born, how I was an accident that should have never happened. My father could never look at me, not even a glance, a day when he got hom drunk and I helped him to the sofa he took my collar in his hand and told me how I was a condemned, because of my past. However, I was sixteen at the time, what past could he possibly be talking about. My siblings picked up my parents attitude towards me and even though I was the oldest they would command me just as mother did. My grandmother was my hero, she would take me to her cabin every weekend so I would not go through the abuse, even though she knew the abuse was going on she always taught me to respect and honor my parents and so I did, until one day that lesson could not hold me back anymore. I moved in with her at the age of seventeen, got a job at a small diner as a waitress, went to our local university progressed in life, and then I met Jeff.

I looked a the fire place as the crickets began to sing outside the cabin, the smell of hot cocoa made me smile as it fill the entire house, even though I was twenty three my grandmother was spoiling me. A flash of plans began to overflow my mind, I had to have an escape plan. Jeff was wealthy he would find a way of getting out, and finding me. I knew in my mind as I planned he was planning. How he plans on killing me before I even have time to go towards the police department.

"Angela!" My grandmother yelled in my face, I jumped on the sofa. "What are you thinking about dear?" She asked as she laughed at my reaction.

"Nana, I need to leave, Jeff can come and find me." I said while she sat down next to me, I noticed she was shaking her head in disbelief. "I have to. Jeff will not stop nana, he won't. This will be the first place he will come looking for me. Nana, I do not want him to hurt you." I held her wrinkled soft hands in mine.

"Angela he is jail, he cannot hurt you anymore." I stood up trying not to blow up the feelings of anger that I had against him towards my grandmother.

"Nana, jail is a temporary confinment, if one of his friends already paid bail then it is done, he can leave and more since he knows every judge, and lawyer in this town. He will not stop nana, trust me" She tried to reason with me, but I knew their was no time to be taking any chances. "I have to leave tonight, if he is already out on bail, he is not taking a breather, he is searching for me." I walked towards my room without the cruches, pain was the least I could worry at that moment. "Nana, I have to go, please help me pack." She walked behind me.

"Look at me Angela." She raised my face to view hers. "I need to tell you something." She said while looking into my eyes.

"Nana, not right now, write it to me, call me and tell me about this 'something' but right now my priority is to leave." I said while throwing clothes that I had unpacked back into my bag.

"Angela look at!" She yelled at me, I looked at her, I had never seen such a strong expression on my grandmother, this meant whatever she wanted to tell me was something very serious. "You told me that your father said one night how you were condemned because of your past. Remember?" She said while looking at me across the room.

"Yes, but what does this have to do with anything?" I said while walking towards her. She shook her head while looking down on the floor. "Nana?" She looked weak, I held her tight against me and sat her down on the bed. She looked at me with tears in her eyes.

"Angela the reason why your parents never loved me, or treated you equally to the others, it is because you were abandoned and given to them." Tears rolled down her eyes, a pain filled my stomach. I shook my head and stood up from the bed. 

"No." I repeated while walking around the room. "You kept this from me for this entire time!?" I looked at her with my hands in the air. 

"Angela listen to me please, sit." She said while tapping the space next to her. I sat next  to her. "You parents are under a covenant, one that I wish not to talk about the moment. They had you but they're covenant did not want you because of an odd reason that your mother never confessed to me. I was under the same covenant but I escaped, your parents trusted me, and told me to send you to an ordinary family where their covenant could not find you." I shook my head.

"Where are they now?" I looked at her, she shook her head.

"The last I heard of them was when you had just turned one." I stood up and started packing all my things. "I want to send you to that covenant." I looked at her with anger.

"Nana, they did not want me, why would I go, they seperated me from my real parents. Parents that could have shown me true love and care! I should not even be calling you my grandmother!" I said while walking out the room. 

"Angela! Stop in this instance." Suddenly I felt like every piece of my body was under her command. "Look at me." My body involuntarily moved turned around to look at her. 

"What are you?" I said while looking at her not being able to move.

"The covenant, is a secret covenant that I cannot tell you about." I looked at her confused still unable to move my body. "I will give you directions so you can find more information about who you are." She said while putting down her hand, in that instant I had control over my own body.

"Why would I go to a destination where they never wanted me in." I said while taking the small piece of paper.

"Remember when you were young and you would cry to me saying how you would see things that no other person would see?" She said while taking my hands in hers.

"It was just childish moments, it has no meaning to them." 

"Did they ever stop?" She said while looking intensly into my eyes. Then I realized they had never stopped, seeing things that other people did not wish to see was normal to me, being away from everything and everybody since I had gotten with Jeff made me forget of the things I saw. Shadows that crept in the dark, voices that surrounded every corner believing it was a real voice speaking to me. "You must go." She said while leading me towards the door. Either this whole covenant deal could go really good to the point I find out about my parents and my 'past' or it could go really bad.