Believing In Blair

Prologue

The car accident that happened on the night of Friday October 23rd that claimed the life of Mackenzie Tookes was truly a sad night in Trinityvill for the community, and for everyone.

That same night twenty minutes before the driver would lose control of the vehicle, Blair Nightingale was waving off the last customer to leave the local bowling alley that she works at. She always was in charge of closing the place down on a Friday night, but that didn't bother her.

After she'd all the lights turned off and re-checked everywhere to make sure everything was in order, she walked through the back of the kitchen to find her little companion Derry was sitting waiting for her as he was told to do.

Putting him on the leash, they exited the building through the back door. Blair texted her grandmother to let her know she had finished work and that she'd be home in time for late dinner. She always did this knowing her grandmother would always be on edge whenever she wasn't close to her. They had gotten very attached to one another every since that day a year ago when she rescued Blair from that cabin in the woods her parents owned.

Though they didn't like to talk about it, it was a forbidden conversation and neither were allowed to mention a thing to anyone. Sometimes things are just better left alone. It's safer that way.

The sun was long gone from the sky and now different stars had replaced the larger one. Blair listened to the wind howling around her, her ears also picking up on the occasional honk of a car horn that drove past. A dazzling full moon was out tonight, almost foreshadowing the dark grey clouds with its enchanting effect - a sigh that a storm was approaching on the vast horizon not too far away.

Trouble and danger always found ways to run into Blair.

That night Blair took her usual route home; the ring road that would bring you the whole way around the outskirts of the town. The road wasn't used often, since a more modern motorway had been built straight through the town, making your journey significantly shorter. Blair never particularly liked the new road cutting straight through the town. It dug up most of the landscape that belonged to the Downtinegro's. But when the most well know family in Trinityvill accepted the offer, everyone changed their minds about it being a terrible idea and encouraged the road to being built as quickly as possible.

The view from the ring road was what gave Blair such a trill. The whole town was what lay beneath her. There was nothing but nature along this road. No houses - nothing. A single bench lay at the only opening where the tall trees didn't touch each other. From that opening was the beauty of the town, but it often went unnoticed by many people.

The trees continued rusting the leaves with the power of the wind that night, but Blair knew she had to keep walking in order to prevent her entire body from freezing up. Her breath fogged up in the air as she continued to release slow steady breaths with every stride she took up that constant slope.

Shivers ran down her spine as the temperature of the night quite dramatically began to drop at an alarming rate.

In front of her, Derry had come to a standstill, ears perked and his tail hanging low as it lightly skimmed the sidewalk.

Thinking nothing of it, Blair kept her pace going as she shifted past him. She was forced to come to a stop when she ran out of lead. She whistled for her collie to start moving again but to no avail. She tugged on his lead a little, but still nothing.