Rides

Chapter One

I woke up drenched in sweat as usual. I also fell like a Hippo is sitting on my chest. I reach for my inhaler and take a puff. I feel like I can breath again as I look over to my clock and see that it is two thirty in the morning. It's no use going back to sleep I'm just going to wake up drenched in sweat again anyways. I get up and head to my bathroom and turn on the shower. It's scorching by the time I get in and I stand there until the water gets cold I get out throw on a towel and go sit on my floor. I look over to the clock an it's 4 am and no ones going to be up for another 2.5 hours. I put my face in my hands and cry. I can't keep up the act about how I am so happy anymore it's gotten to be to much. I go back into my bathroom and pull out my razor and I cut. Deeper and deeper again an again until my floor is covered in blood. I grab a bandage wrap from my cabinet and wrap it up. I go downstairs to get a towel to clean it up and I notice that Jacks door is open. Not wanting to be found I grab the closest towel and run back upstairs. His light is on as I pass his room. I go back into my bathroom and start to clean up the blood. I've soaked up about half of it when I start to feel dizzy. I sit back and my vision as all over the place an I pass out. I wake up by being jostled. As my vision starts to clear I see Jacks face all worried.

"What time is it?" I barely whisper.

"Are you ok Shauna?" He says

"I'm fine" I lied

"Help me up" I say as I start to get up.

"Oh, no your staying in bed Shaun."

"But I have to go to school"

" Relax it's only 7"

"How did you find me?" I ask suddenly confused.

"I heard a thunk on the floor so I came to see what it was and I found you laying there." He exclaimed.

"Oh" I say feeling stupid.

I sit up anyways despite his efforts to keep me down and I head for my closet.

"A little privacy please" I said sounding demanding.

He leaves and I find a sweater and a pair of jeans to wear and I walked downstairs only to be greeted by 'good morning's' and 'are you ok? 's' . I tell them I fine even though I am not. I go outside to wait for Riley an I am hit from some where on my head. I can't tell where but everything goes black.

I'm running faster and faster away from nothing. It's dark here wherever I am. I turn around and see a dark figure running after me so I'm not running from nothing after all. He shouts and I can't tell what he's saying put he sounds furious so I try to run faster away from him. I tip over something I assume is a branch and I fall face first into some dirt. I manage to lit my head up just a little bit to turn it around just enough to see that he is getting closer. Then everything goes white and I wake up. My wrists hurt I try to rub them but they seem to be tied along with my feet I can't move anything.

"I was hoping you would wake up soon." A familiar voice rang.

"What the hell Kyle!" I shout aggressively.

"Stay quiet or I will use this." he says with a smirk as he hold a knife to my throat.

"What do you want Kyle?" I whisper almost completely silent to the human ear, but he was no human.

"You know what I want Shauna. I want to know how you do it." He exclaimed as he took hold of my face.

"I don't know it just happens" I gave him the same answer every time he asked that question.

"Ok then I'll make a deal with you." He offered. "You give me what I want and your little friend over there won't die." He sneered pointing over to Riley who was lying on the floor that surrounded him in blood.

"What did you do to him?" A tear fell own my cheek.

"Oh Mr. Hero over there got in the way so I gave a little taste of what I was." He paused "Are you crying over this pathetic thing?" He said as he kicked Rileys limp body.

"It's the tattoo." I whimpering.

"What tattoo?" He started to sound interested.

"I can show you if you untie my hands. I promise I won't do anything funny" I lied.

"I can't trust you but if this means knowing the prophecy then I'll do it." he walked over to untie my hands and as soon as he did I grabbed the knife from his hand and turned around an stabbed it. He screamed in agony and anger and lurched for me. I pulled the sword from my two guards who were now at my either of my sides and I launched myself at him with everything I had in me and stabbed him right in the heart. I turned and ran because my guards could only keep him down for so long. I can feel the walls closing in on me and start to crush my arms to my side. Then I am being lifted up and am now looking in on it from above.He took hold of my waist and then we flew back down to earth. We land in an alley and I thank him and he goes back. I've come out of the alley and looked down the street and saw no one. I was quite surprised but it was lunch time. Out of no where Jack comes running up to me an pulls me in a tight hug.

"I though you were gone forever! Where were you?!" Jack yells.

"I was kidnaped." I say quietly.

"Who kidnapped you?!" He shouted.

"It's was no one. It doesn't really matter anyways,he's gone now"

"Doesn't matter? Of course it matters Shauna. As soon as I find who did this to you I'm gonna-"

"Your gonna what?" I cut him off. "You couldn't find him if you wanted too, and if you did Ky-he would hurt you to no end. And I can't let that happen." I pull away and start to walk away and remember I left Riley back there.

"SHIT!" I yell as Jack come running up behind me.

"What is it? Are you hurt?"

"It's nothing, I just uh forgot my umm bag back there" I say as I start to run back for Riley. I run into the alley not caring if Jack saw me. I let my body rip into its form and spread my wings and flex them as if I haven't used them in months.

"What the?" I hear Jack whisper in shock.

I look at him and put my finger up to my my mouth signaling to him to be quiet and took off.