It's not you it's me

Chapter 21

* Skylar's POV *

All I could hear was screaming...

people 

women

children

fathers

families...all screaming from a distance

I was in the woods, why do these woods look familiar ...why do I feel like I've been here before. I kept hearing the screams and ran towards them hoping that its all in my head but the closer I got the louder the screams became and the more anxious I felt. I stopped and in front of me I saw them...running...bleeding...screaming for their lives.

but what happened...why are they like this?

I began running towards them screaming whats going on but no one heard me, I ran towards this girl...she was on her knees bleeding and crying 

" whats going on here, who did this, whats wrong?" I asked her but she didn't respond to me. I looked around and then realized that she was pointing at something...at someone.

I followed her finger and saw that she was pointing at a figure that was just a couple feet away from us, smiling and laughing...blood...I saw blood I turned to her and told her to run and to not stop, she wouldn't move, I picked her up and kept screaming until she finally looked at me, she smiled and touched my face and said something but I couldn't hear her and she disappeared

who was this person?

"Skylar..."

I froze in place, and turned around 

It was calling me, but why did this person look familiar as well. 

It disappeared and I began looking around for the person but I gave up because they disappeared, I went to turn around and jumped when I saw the person standing right in front of me. Him? it was a him...

but that wasn't the scary part

the scary part was that the person was ...

" Skylar..." I heard the voice again

"Skylar wake up" I felt my body burning I was being set on fire, I started screaming while He laughed at me

" SKYLAR WAKE UP!" 

I opened my eyes, scared, confused. It was a dream...it was only as dream

I looked around realizing that I was in a cage, I didn't recognize this place. I saw someone standing by the cage I looked at my clothes realizing I was dirty and my clothes were ripped. I couldn't remember anything except for when I came home and saw my father then everything went dark after that. The person cleared their throat making me look at them.

" You're awake, finally"

" Where am I ?"

"California"

California? what the hell was I doing down here?

" Your father, he brought you here, you put up a good fight"

A good fight? but all I remember was blacking out, unless...

"Where is he? I want to speak with him."

"He will be here soon, in the meantime you have time to relax and enjoy your last moments in that cage" and with that he walked out the room slamming the door behind him. I sat there trying to figure out what was going on and if Alice was okay, I couldn't break the bars I was too weak it must've been days since I last fed maybe weeks, I don't know. My mind was still unclear, in the meantime all I could do was sit here and wait until the perfect moment for me to escape from here. I sat down in the corner again, closing my eyes and praying that Alice was not here and was safe.

"Skylar..." I opened my eyes looking around but there was no one in the room. Thinking my brain was playing tricks on me I closed my eyes again and tried to calm down and figure out a good plan.