Everything was spinning sickeningly. There was light and there was darkness. Doors opened and closed rapidly around me; the sound thundered through me like the blood pumping from my heart.
My heart was still beating.
I remembered the swirling ceiling of my room. I remembered the thunderstorm and the shocking green eyes. I remembered it all.
The doors snapped at my heels as I ran.
A dark laughter swirled around as I fell.
His eyes were two different colors.
"Where are you, Phoenix?" The voice taunted. "Is that what you want to know?"
I was breathless, and I couldn't remember why.
"Let...," I let darkness consume me for a few moments. The doors softened for those precious seconds. I wanted to sink into a dark sleep. "Let me go..." My voice sounded pathetic.
Shane stood in front of me. His eyes were playful and his lips were curved in a half smile. He held a hand out to me. I reached forward, leaning my body into him, just to meet the cold ground.
"Interesting," that horribly soft voice said. "You think of him first."
"Where am I?" I said, barely above my breath. The sound was muffled against the ground. I didn't have the will to lift my face up yet.
A searing hot hand grabbed my chin and yanked my face upwards. I stared at a hood with flames licking the outside. The Nightmare laughed. "You don't even recognize your own mind?" The hand threw my face back into the ground. "Pathetic."
"Let me go," I muttered again.
"Your body will be in a coma," The Nightmare ignorantly said. "You won't be waking up."
"Why don't you just kill me?" I mumbled into the strange, black floor.
"I need you alive for now, dear. Your body will serve me greatly."
I felt a twinge of anger. Of fury. Flames shot up around me, but they were small. They wouldn't have boiled a gallon of water.
"I really hope you didn't like those friends of yours. Baby sister, you were never good at keeping friends, were you?"
"I am not your sister," I snarled. "You are not Mackenzie."
"You're right," she agreed. "I'm so much better."
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For Now | Dreaming Trilogy | Book 1 (HEAVY CONSTRUCTION)
FantasyThe flames took everything from Phoenix; now they want her, too. ***** Shadows cast down upon a realm far from our existence bring four teens right into the open arms of a distant memory, trying to force her way back home. Shane, Shyanne, Kayla, and...
