Dark from the World

Chapter 1 (And It All Comes Crashing Down)

The alarm went off, repetitive and well, alarming, even after all these years. Lindsey groaned, she felt emptier than usual, strange. After going to SkyReach High for four years her soul had eventually been sucked out like the hollow senior that handed her the orientation pamphlet. Lindsey half got up half fell off of her bed. 'The morning struggle.'
Lindsey had thought, practically lying on the floor. Suddenly the door began to creak open and Lindsey leaped up in shock, she was relieved to hear it was her Mother's voice, of course, she loved her Father, he was just a little... Harsh, in the mornings. "Hi sweetie, I have to leave early today, I hope you have a good she loved her Father, he was just a little... Harsh, in the mornings. "Hi sweetie, I have to leave early today, I hope you have a good
first day." Her mother gave Lindsey a kiss on the forehead with her beautiful cherry red lips and then she was gone.

Lindsey stepped out of the shower and draped a towel over her shoulders when her phone buzzed again. She immediately knew it was Mason, but she wasn't in the mood, he knew not to text her in the morning.

The drizzle gently hit the car's windscreen and Lindsey gazed at her caramel brown hair in her reflection, well her eyes muddled in colour stared back. As Lindsey pulled into the school grounds she noticed Mason, his face was wrinkled and eyebrows curved like boats above his eyes. Softly to cars roaring died and Lindsey threw open the door. "Hi, Mase." Lindsey pecked him on the lips and joined her hands around his neck. "oh, um, Lindsey, did you get my text?"
"Of course I didn't! You never text me in the mornings!" His brow furrowed, "oh, right."
"Is something wrong?" Mason distractedly shook his head and Lindsey frowned. 'He never calls me Lindsey...'

Lindsey sat giggling next to Stella as she gazed at someone across the room. "Found someone nice, have we?" Stella practically jumped through the ceiling as she turned around with wide eyes. "Shut up! She might hear you!"
"You say this as if she doesn't talk about you all day."
"Yeah, whatever... How are you and Mason going?" Lindsey would've pointed out the topic change if it weren't for the fact that for the first time in three years she didn't know. "Ugh, why do I even bother asking? You guys are always about as separable as conjoined twins."
"That's a weird way to put it..."
Stella looked at Lindsey with apprehension but decided to keep her mouth shut.

The bell screeched through the school hallways and Lindsey left quickly, her phone in hand. The phone vibrated quietly and Mason's name popped up on her screen, the text read, "Hey, meet me on the field wanna-" The rest had been cut off. Lindsey felt she got the idea and made her way to the field, mud-caked the ground and a delicate rain fell to the ground. She saw the figure of Mason, tall and foggy in the mist. She couldn't see his face, but still, she pictured his warm smile from all the years before until she got close, his face was blank and untroubled or good at hiding the fact that they aren't, depends on the person. "Mason, is something wrong? In case you didn't notice, it's cold as hell out here." Lindsey said, playfully teasing Mason, expecting loving banter but it seemed the entire world had gone silent in that moment. "Mason?.."
"Did you read my text?"
"Of course!"
"All of it?"
"Well, I-"
"Why do you always either ignore my texts of never read them fully when I have something important to talk to you about!?"
Lindsey shrunk back, Mason had never shouted at her before. People had always talked of the normal couple arguing, maybe this was it, it was normal for couples to argue... Right? Just as Mason had stepped forward, Lindsey's phone vibrated violently in her pocket, she desperately searched for it in her bag and brought it up to her ear.
"Um, hello?"

Lindsey swiftly made her way through the brooding yet pristine hallway, Mason in tow.
Lindsey crept into a room of blinding light, a single bed sat, casting a dark shadow across the room. "Mum?" Upon hearing Lindsey's voice a pathetic figure stirred from within. Lindsey choked down a sob as she fell to her knees beside the bed. "M-mum?" Lindsey's mother gently grasped her hand and turned to her slowly she opened her mouth to say something when suddenly her hand went limp. The monitor over her bed flashed a flat line and an ear piercing wail screeched through the cold building, all Lindsey could do was desperately cling to her dying mother's hand and wail. "No! Don't leave me, please!" Doctors rushed into the room over to Lindsey's mother's side. A nurse softly pulled Lindsey away from her mother, kicking and screeching her throat raw. "NO! STOP IT! GET OFF OF ME! LET ME GO, LET ME GO, LET ME GO!" Mason wrapped his hands around Lindsey's waist, she tried to fight his grip but ended up slumping into his arms, thick, heavy tears falling onto his chest. The world around her slowed, all light left the room as the doctors backed away from the body and the flatline wail echoed through her ears. Her mother was gone and she was too.