Moon

14

"Elis, calm down."

We were in the car. Shannon sat next to me, trying to soothe down my inner turmoil while attempting to warm herself up with the car's crappy heating system despite it's luxurious reputation. After I heard my name and accusation I managed to storm out of the building without alerting the others and drove all the way to the blocked entrance of Luna Park. Shannon didn't question me, my look was enough.

Another wave of anger rolled through me and I slammed my palm down on the steering wheel, nearly breaking it. "What the fuck was that?" I growled.

Shannon shrugged, wide eyed. "Exactly the reason why I wanted to inspect it."

"What do I have to do with it?" I asked, ignoring her, as questions threw themselves at me in my head. 

"Well, we haven't exactly have had visitors in a while. Especially since mom decided to adopt you. But that's about it, for everything else I'm just as clueless."

I suddenly threw the door open and stormed out, kicking a tree in the process and punching another, bringing out blood on my knuckles. It felt good, I brought the fist up to my mouth, and sucked on the wound. Slowly it began to calm me, but not before I let out another round of attacks to the tree. 

Shannon climbed out after me, leaning against the metal fence. She watched me, different emotions flashed across her eyes. "Are you okay?"

I shook my head, my fist in my mouth. 

"Do you want to go back?"

I shook my head again, biting down on the wound and shivered in pleasure at the stinging whilst more blood oozed out of my split knuckles. 

"Let's take you home then," Shannon walked back to the car, this time taking the drivers seat. 

I shook my head for the last time, making myself take my fist out of my mouth, I licked the blood on my lips. "You go home, I can take care of myself. Don't worry."

Shannon opened her mouth ready to protest when I gave her a look. She hesitated, before giving me her own look of longing and regret, and then driving away leaving me in the dark. I took a deep breath, faltering as the sudden realization that I was alone, deep in the woods in front of a closed down, abandoned park in pitch black settled in. It didn't help at all as my heartbeat rose to an unnaturally high peak.

A sense of belonging came from deep within my chest as my heart took off, it felt almost painful as the feeling spread throughout my body through every breath and beat. No longer to hold it in anymore, I let out a frustrated scream and tore through the forest, breaking through the metal chain link fence and crashing through the wild shrubbery before me. 

After what seemed like an hour I slowed down and stopped before a tree that looked strikingly familiar. Closing my eyes, I rubbed my temples and counted to three over and over again. Could this night get any worse? Oh wait, yes, I'm lost. I felt wet tears run down my cheeks as I slid down into a crouch against the rough bark. What was happening to me? Why am I suddenly no longer able to control myself? Will they take me back to that hospital? And then to the orphanage? Again?

Shaking my head I reopened my eyes and looked around, it seemed as if I had found myself in the middle of a clearing, with a tree in the middle. Trembling, I stood up and wiped away my tears, I'd better find a way out before the sun rises, or else Mrs. Stellard will notice and get curious. Following a small trail almost invisible to the human eye, I was led down away from the clearing and to a thinner scene of forest. There wasn't as much shrubbery and the trees were far anough apart that you can catch sight of the dusky, grey sky above, with faint specks of orange as if to announcing the soon to come sunrise. Picking up my pace, I hoped the trail would take me to a local road, and from there I'd find my way back. Suddenly, the next thing I knew, I had a faceful of dirt and a painful throb in my knee and toe. 

"Fuck it," I stood up, looking around for the cursed object that made me fucking trip, when I noticed something else. A path. A pathway made out of stone. What was this? Stepping off of the trail I was originally on, I followed the stone pathway, it led me to another clearing, except in the center of this one, was a house.