Blurred Memories

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: WASTING TIME

I open my eyes with caution. The light from the moon burns my eyes. I can see the sky shining through the branches of the trees above me. I am lying down in the middle of a random forest. The only noise I can hear is the sound of my own breath. I notice a red ribbon tied to one of the branches up above.

This is the forest that Ethan took Grayson and I when we were younger. Why am I here? How did I get here?

"Hanna," I hear a voice say.

I lift myself from my lying position. I see Grayson lying horizontally below my feet. He does not look like he is in any pain which is definitely a good thing.

"Where are we?" He asks me. 

"This is the forest Ethan took us to, the one that was in our memories a couple of days ago." I reply back.

"How are we here?" He says as he picks himself off the ground. He reaches out to me.

"I don't know. I am just as confused as you are," I say as a grab his hand. He pulls me up on my feet. 

I am wearing what I wore to school today; my blue jeans with rips on the knees and a plain white shirt. I am also wearing my black jack that comes with a big hood, but I wasn't wearing this to school. 

Grayson is also wearing what he wore to school. His jeggers and his transher shirt. 

I hear something moving in the bushes around us. I let my fangs seep through and I can feel my eyes shining. I look over at Grayson who now has bright yellow eyes and fangs.

"Are we in danger?" I ask him. I continue to look around the forest making sure I am aware of my surroundings. 

"Not for now, but we will be soon. I can feel it," he response which throws me off.

"How can you tell?"

We both stopped walking because we heard another sound around us. It sounded like someone walking by, or an animal. My question will go unanswered. 

"Ethan," I whisper. "Ethan is here."

Grayson turns around and looks at me with a surprised face.

"How do you know," he whispers walking closer to me.

"I-I can feel it," I whisper back. "Just like how you felt that we will be in danger."

Grayson turns back around slowly and start to walk. I follow behind him. The forest gets darker as time goes by. 

We continue to walk for another 10 minutes, or that's what it feels like. 

"What are we doing?" I ask him. Walking is not going to help with anything, espically since there is nothing we are trying to do. 

"I am not sure," he responds.

"If we are looking for Ethan then we are wasting time," I say to him. I take a deep breath and scream, "ETHANNNNNN!"

"What are you doing?" Grayson asks as he covers my mouth with his hand.

I take his hand off my mouth. "Calling out of Ethan, what does it look like I am doing?"

"Crying for danger!"

I turned to my right. I start to sprint leaving Grayson behind. 

"Johanna! Where are you going?!" I can hear Grayson yell from behind me.

"ETHAN!" I scream. I start to take random turns. Right, left, then right again. 

"Johanna please stop!" I can hear Grayson running after me.

Everything around me starts to slowly disappear, but this does not stop me from running. The darkness is being taken over with light, a bright white light.

I find myself back in my white room that I always find myself in, but only in my dreams. I turn around and Grayson is still with me. We are both stuck in this white place, I can't even call it a room because there is not walls. It is just all white. 

I am starting to realize that this is all just a dream.