Behind The Veil (Completed)

The End Of The Road For Me

Julia's P.O.V
I was blind, deafened and motionless. I fell to the ground, landing on my back.
What I saw had knocked every wisp of air from my lungs and I lay there, struggling to inhale, exhale, to do anything.
That's how I felt now, trying to remember how to breathe, unable to speak, totally stunned as Marlene's name bounced inside my skull.
Suddenly, I felt my bowels churn and I vomited.
"No this can't be! This just can't happen!" This was all that echoed in my mind.
I wanted to forget everything but, I couldn't. I wanted to get rid of thoughts of what I had just seen. I rushed out of the house and ran to the street.
The night was dark, gloomy, dusky and silent, most accurately describing my feelings and what I had just been through.
All the street lights were off and there was nobody else around.
I heard a sound of footsteps. They became louder and louder which gave me the idea of someone coming closer.
I stopped.
I looked back.
I saw no one.
I heard nothing.
There was a shadow lurking behind a car. At first glance, I thought it was a cat. Then I looked again and thought that it was far too big for a cat. A shiver of fear ran up my spine.
I thought that it was Jessica.
Wherever I went, I could still hear the footsteps. I began to walk faster to get away from the noise of the footsteps.
All the street lamps were broken with the exception of one, a few seconds later, even that street lamp went off. The only thing that could be seen was the moon, it was shining brightly. I was taking alot of different routes just to get away from the footsteps of who I thought was Jessica, but wherever I went, I couldn't escape it.
I heard a car alarm and looked around in horror.
I started to run.
The footsteps had stopped but I kept running until I reached the forest.
The forest was even darker.
I tried to scream for help but no one showed up.
I tried to find my way out of the forest.
I tripped and before I knew, Jessica was right in front of my eyes. She pulled out a knife and tried to stab me.
I was extremely helpless and the fear had caused me to paralyse.
She threw her knife onto the ground and tried to choke me. Her bony fingers clutched my neck tightly. I couldn't breath. My heart was racing and all I wanted to do was curl up into a ball and wait for someone to save me. But no one showed up.
No one would because no one was there.
A choked cry for help forced itself up my throat and I felt a drop run down my cheek. It seemed as if this was the end of the road for me.
Just then, I heard a man with a gun shout, "Aye!"
I realized that it was the clergyman Toby and I had visited. He fired a bullet at Jessica but it did no good.
Jessica ran out towards him and stabbed him in the stomach until all his bowels leaked out of it.
I took the opportunity and decided to escape so I ran as fast as my legs could carry me.
But I tripped again.
Jessica followed me.
All I did was try to crawl away from her but I couldn't even move a single muscle for I was so terrified.
I breathed in and out but air wouldn't enter my lungs.
I starved for air, my heart raced at tremendous speeds and my lungs shallowly rose and fell in time.
Never in my life had I ever felt so scared before.
Jessica came closer and stabbed me in the shoulder.
I screamed in pain and agony.
I tried to shout for help but no one dared to show up.
She stabbed me in the forehead.
All I did was shout and scream.
I was remarkably helpless.
I have held my breath in a pool before but, this wasn't like that. This was like having a gun to my head and being told not to let my heart beat. Ofcourse it will beat.
She stabbed me again, now in the eye balls.
My vision started to blind. My world started to blur.
Then, she stabbed me once again.......this time in my stomach.
I cry for help gaped down my throat and I threw up blood.

But, after a few minutes, the pain that once burned like fire had faded away into ice numbness.
Blood oozed out of every part of my body. Black filled the edges of my vision and the only thing I could hear was my own heart beat.
My breath came in ragged, shallow gasps. Jessica had disappeared and the light shone brightly from the Sun. Seconds passed as I lay there, then, I heard voices. People swarmed over me, trying to help me, I realized. They wanted to save me. If I could have, I would have laughed. Surely they could tell that it was far too late for me to be saved, yet they were like children, naive to the darkness of the real world. The despair and suffering of the world, the curse that took everyone I loved away from me. I would be joining them soon though.
This was perhaps, the consequence of my own evil doing.
I would be able to leave all the pain behind.
I closed my eyes, I could die happily now.
My fragile human heart beat one last time.

                                                         THE END

Author's note:-
Read the epilogue and thankyou and give some kind feedback. :)