Close your eyes

Chapter 3

Amanda's glowing fingers are intertwined with my cold ones and she nods at me. I focus on the blue light coming from her and feel painfully warm in my chest, I feel the warmth worm its way across my stomach before it stops and my vision is clouded with black spots.

All I see now is complete darkness like I'm walking through a tunnel  with only a dim flashlight to keep me company, which in this case is Amanda's soul. 

"Wow!" Amanda whispers "I just...I...wow...It's just...wow" she finishes.

I chuckle softly and look around in the darkness wondering what she saw. Only souls get the pleasure of seeing how the journey to the in-between looks like although they won't remember all of  it later they will still remember fragments of it. Apparently its very beautiful and some go crazy trying to see it again or even just once.

I wonder what they see, is it a memory?, a pretty picture?, why can't I see it?

I was suddenly drawn out of my thoughts when I felt the absence of Amanda's fingers. "Amanda!" I screamed before reaching out and digging my fingernails into her waist and pulling her into me.

She looked at me with a confused expression and then started clawing at the air. She began shrieking, crying and bit my arm. I loosened my grip and yelped in surprise before recovering my composure to tighten my hold on her. I start jumping and forcefully make her jump with me. I hear a cracking sound, soft but loud enough to hear.

Amanda was too lost in the moment to think rationally and would be like this until I broke the barrier. I lift up my shirt enough to reveal the knife I tucked into my pants earlier and pull it out. I hold Amanda to me so she won't see the knife and get frightened, not that she'd notice it whilst in her trance but best to be safe rather than sorry. I throw the knife down to my feet and hear a cracking sound slightly louder than the one before. 

I use my foot to push down on the handle and I can vaguely see the ground, which basically looks like black glass, break and I see the cracks snake further causing more of it to crack.

Amanda screamed loudly and twists in my hold, desperate to loosen my grip.I scream just as loudly but in frustration and jump again while making her jump with me. There is another cracking sound but this time it's louder.

Good

Amanda elbows me in my stomach causing me to fall to my knees, she stumbles away from me but doesn't get far because I grab her leg and make her fall. Another cracking sound echoes through the darkness amidst our screams.

Come on, just a bit more

Amanda uses her free leg to kick my nose hard enough to draw blood. She stands up and before she runs away towards what only she can see and I stand up hurriedly, I hurl myself at her and jump onto her back. She screams in frustration and her long arms grab at me, trying to rip me away from her but I only hold on tighter.

She screams and bends forward in an effort to get me off her. I bury my face into her shoulder and rub the blood from my nose that leaked down my face onto her clothes only to see it fade once it touches her. I wrap my arms and legs tighter around her torso. 

I feel her ragged breathing on my arm and the tears that marked her face now drip onto my arms. She starts screaming before biting my hand, this time making blood ooze out. My fingers tremble hard from the shock and I have to let go of her but before I fall I grab onto her hair and pull her down with me. There is another crack.

This time loud and continuous. I cover my ears because the cracking sound becomes mercilessly loud but Amanda doesn't hear it, she is too captivated by what she sees to notice anything. The sound abruptly stops and the ground beneath us gives away. 

Amanda and I now fall into complete blackness and this time I know she sees it because of the fear in her eyes. I stare down into the dark as we fall along with shards of black glass accompanied by Amanda's screams.