Unknown Destiny

7

I wake up and the bed beside me is empty, I look at the time and it's about 10:00. I groan and sit up and then I realise I'm wearing no clothes. No bra, no underwear. Nothing at all. So I hurry to my bathroom and take a long shower to think about what happened last night.

I made out with Rachel. The girl I punched. The girl I knocked out.

I made out with her, probably had sex with her. I can't even remember if I did, all I remember was that I was caught in the moment, it was all heated and rough. I was being dominated, something that hasn't happened in a while.

And then I think about Anne, and what her reaction would be. Would she be angry? Happy? Curious? I was thinking about her when I was kissing Rachel. I know it sounds weird but I preferred Anne being there instead. I mean she doesn't even like me that way but can't I dream? Can't I have a crush?

I get out of the shower and get changed, my head is spinning, not from recollection of last nights events but from the sudden drop of temperature. My breath hangs in the air and I know something's wrong. I've heard about a fire, not an ice age. Well, I have heard of the ice age but... You get it.

I leave my room hugging my chest, my bare arms begin to sting as I enter a different room. Not my lounge room, not my kitchen, it's almost something out of a movie. Some place that's not home. It looks fake but it feels so real.

I blink once and now I'm completely surrounded by snow and a frozen river. I'm on a small island in the middle of a river and I'm shivering out of my mind. I turn around to go back to my room but there's nothing. Only this beautiful scenery that I'm stuck in, frozen in I should say.

Time seems to be still, there's no wind and there's not chirping birds that are so annoying in the morning. I guess the need to at least see something from my own world that's not this one is so empowering, since I see a person standing on the far edge of the river. They just stand there, almost like they're frozen. But then they begin to move, in silence they slowly approach me. The clear ground underneath them leaves no footprints as I back away slowly. This person looks like he's hovering.

But that's impossible, well so is transportation apparently.

The person comes closer to me, but it's like they're in slow motion, like it's trying to move faster but it can't. Is it trying to get to me? Well apparently so since it's crossing the river- Oh my gods he's crossing the river.

I back away once more but I hit the edge of the island, and then I see its face, the crisp atmosphere heightens the quality as I see two electric eyes and no mouth. And by the length of its eyelashes I decide to call it a girl.

I hold my breath, hoping that this is just my imagination. The girl quickens her pace, she's now a good five metres away from meeting the island I'm currently on at the moment. I can feel my heart quicken and I breathe in a large lungful of air, the cold stings my throat as I hold my breath again.

The girl reaches the small island I'm planted on and looks down at the ground and then she looks back up cocking her head to the side with curiosity, maybe that or pure demonic anger. And then a line forms where her mouth should be and she rushes up to me quickly, grabbing me by the shoulders keeping me in place.

I give up on holding my breath and begin to hyperventilate. This feels so real, I can feel the cold harshly stinging my bare legs and this girl's long hands grasping my shoulders tightly, trying to keep me in place. My attempts to escape from her grip is futile and now I can't move. I've been paralysed and all I can see is her cold, emotionless blue eyes and line on her mouth. Almost as though a child has drawn an emotionless face. The girl then opens her mouth and all I see is black, no teeth no tongue no anything, almost like outer space except minus the whole star thing.

And she screams. The noise she makes is deafening and it sounds like the screams of the dead. Their cries of pain, sorrow and solitude fill my ears as I begin to cry. All their emotions fill me up and I begin to scream. It's not even a sound anymore, but a physical pain, it feels as though the screams are reaching into my soul and tearing it apart one by one. Almost as if the dead are trying to get a piece of what they lost when they died. I scream at the top of my lungs and the bottomless void of pain and suffering only increases, this time it feels like they're tearing apart my heart, it feels as though they're killing me from the inside out. I scream even louder when I get to a point where I think I'm screaming louder than the dead itself. She lets me go, pleased with the outcome of her plan and dissipates into thin air.

I fall. Not onto my knees then slowly onto the ground, but straight on my head. And I stay there for what feels like forever, just hugging myself with tears running down my face. What I had just heard was the anti-Christ itself, it wasn't natural at all.

So I cry and scream. The pain still lingers as there's one last wave to my previous experiment. I scream, the pain seems to last forever until I hear a voice.

"Cameron! Cameron! Come on wake up!" The person says. It's sounds like Anne, but I keep screaming. It feels like someone is tattooing something on my heart, and they're not quite done yet.

I feel like I'm on fire, it feels like I'm melting the very snow I lay on. Anne speaks again, "Cameron wake up! Come on you're having a nightmare."

My screams fill the air as a soft splash of water reaches my face. "Cameron please!"

The searing pain that is on my heart settles down a small but but not enough to call in endurable, so I keep screaming.

"I'm sorry Cameron." She says and I'm not entirely sure why until a huge wave crashes upon me, filling all of my senses up with liquid. It seeps through my nose and makes its way into my lungs and I cough.

I cough and I cough until I'm choking, "Oh God!" She says urgently.

I can't breathe what is this?

I'm not breathing.

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Am I dead?