Mist Falls

Chapter 2 : New Places, Same Pains

We drove for two days not even stopping at night Mike and Fox took turns driving while I sat in the back or slept most of the way after taking two very strong sleeping pills Mike new I was taking them it was the last from a stash I had the doctor gave me and they stopped me dreaming but after six months the doctor said no more.

I wake up with a sniff neck and a need to pee, I sit up from where I had been lying across the back seat and look out at the forest that seems to surround us from all sides, dark and damp and full of life.

"So you finally woke up?" Mike mumbles from the drivers seat, "There is food for you in the bag and water make sure you eat all of it you where out for almost a day and a half."

I open the bag a look inside, a tune Mayo sandwich, some chips and a banana await me I take the banana first and eat it slowly.

"Where almost there now we past the state lane a few miles back," Mike whispers, I look around the seat at Fox who has his eyes closed and is breathing softly.

"How long?" I ask my throat feels ruff and a little gruff I open the water and take a long drink.

"Half an hour", Mike sighs and looks back at me a frown forming on his face as he looks into my eyes before looking back at the road, "Are you sure there where no more sleeping pills left".

"They where the last I told you," I whisper and look out of the window, there not I still have a couple of packets left I told the dotor and Mike I lost a months surply and he gave me anouther month.

"Yea well you know what the doctor said there not good for you anymore," he whispers a hint of anger under his words.

I don't say anything I know they are bad for me after half a year of taking them, I had a hard time sleeping without them and the nightmares come every time I don't take them but I would rather risk my heath than have another nightmare.

"When we get there you can settle for a while, I have to talk to the boys will you be alright "? he smiles but it never reaches his eyes and I knew they would be talking about me.

I nod and he sighs as he goes back to driving, I pick up my phone only to relise I went to sleep with my music on and the battery has died.

Fuck I promised my best friend, my only friend Mandy I would text her when I got there last week before she left for a cruise with her mum and dad she also got me two gifts for my seventieth birthday that Mike had yet to see a tongue bar I had no idea how Mike had missed it and a tattoo a dark angel over one of the scars on my shoulder that was easy to hide seen as no one ever saw my back.

I smile a little at the look on Mandy's brothers face as I set in his chair and told him if he didn't I would tell his girlfriend that he slept with her sister which he did and he even did and awesome job and it was free as was the tongue piercing he did.

Even though I could hardly talk for three days but lucky for me Mike was to busy packing up the house to notice I think he had been walking around asleep for a least three months, since the doctor told us no more sleeping pills.

The tress seem to get thicker the further we went but the ones to my left seem to get more and more dead there are no green leaves, no flowers or grass, just rotten tress and moss covered everything as well as ivy but on my right the forest was alive and well it was almost like looking at two different places at the same time.

After another few miles a large stone wall blocked my view of the dead forest on my left and soon we pulled up to a hug double gate with a large M in each one, Mike slows the car to a stop and I can see you need a code to open the gate but he just waves at the camera and the gates open.