Lonely

1 - Tragedy

Tragedy: a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or
affair; calamity; disaster

I could hear people talking around me, staring at me, touching me, but I just stayed still, not talking, not looking away from my own hands, not even blinking.

Everything seemed to be blurry and buzzing like an annoying bee. I just wanted to scream as loud as I could, as long as physically possible, as hard as my voice would let me.

I examined my hands for the hundreth time in the past few hours I had been sitting on this stupid road. They were covered in dried blood. My own blood as well as my brother's.

Flashbacks from the events of the night came flooding back, making me want to scream even more.

"Run, Alice! Run."

"No, no I'm not going without you."

"Please Alice, I'll be right behind you. I promise."

He grapped my face with his hands and looked at my tear stained face.

"I love you, you're my sister and it's my job to protect you, now go!"

"But you can't stay here, please Anthony come with-"

And his face was bleeding, there was a cut right next to his mouth. It was deep, so deep I could see bone in there.

My eyes widened in fear as I pressed my hand on his cheek to stop the bleeding. The blood was running down my hand as I applied even more pressure on the wound. My brother's blood.

Then I felt sharp pain on my back as it was sliced with a kitchen knife. That very knife had been the one to cut my brother's cheek just a second ago, and that knife was held by our father.

"Twins? Who would want twins? You two should've died in your mother's arms like she did in mine the day you were born."

He was drunk, so drunk that he fell to the ground next to us.

"Go, please Alice I peg you. I'll find you. I promise."

"But I don't want to lea-"

"GO!"

And so I did, I let go of my brother's bloody cheek and I ran, I ran for my life, not looking back even when my father's yells were heard. I placed my hand on my back, trying to press my own wound the same way I had pressed Anthony's.

Everything went back to normal in a second, or to as normal as it could be for me to be screaming my brother's name with all I had. Then it went black.

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I know it's a short first chapter but they're gonna get longer. I hope it wasn't too confusing.