Endlessly Infatuated

Prologue / Part 1 - An unwilling escape.

"It all happened so fast, I was just looking out the window and suddenly everything went dark, I'm sorry I don't remember anything after that officer," I said with a look of misery as I saw my family car crumpled up like a tin can in the corner of my eye.

It was hard to look at, somehow I ended up meters away from the wreckage and both my mother and my stepfather were nowhere to be seen, I was so worried about them but at that point it was beginning to dawn on me that I was now completely alone without anybody to help or look after me as my parents had always done.

Looking down at me I could see the pity in his eyes as he followed protocol and gave his vague attempts to reassure me that everything would be just fine but I wasn't going to allow them to fool me, after all, how could they, my parents were in that car and now they were missing.

Their bodies couldn't be found in the surrounding area and there weren't any traces of blood around the car, it was like they had just vanished from the face of the earth.

After the police had conducted their search of the surrounding area and were happy there was no more than they could directly do I was escorted back to their station.

The drive was dull and painful, all the way there I was thinking and worrying for my parents. I kept thinking to myself "Please let them both be OK". Of course, my prayers were not answered and the only piece of solace I could find was that the sun had begun to set over the edge of the valley telling me this horrific day was almost over.

The drive took the best part of half an hour and once we had arrived at the station I was told to follow the man who had brought me there, he opened a door and asked me politely to take a seat. I soon understood something that angered me incredibly, the room I now found myself in was an interrogation chamber, they couldn't really think I had something to do with all this, could they?

Luckily my new found hate for the two men now sitting before me was short lived as they only asked me a large number of menial questions over and over all of which of course I had no answers of any actual use to. Around half an hour had passed of their questioning when suddenly the door to the questioning room slammed open.

I Instantly recognized the tall muscular figure as my grandfather, he was extremely doting as a grandparent, to say he was well built for his age was an understatement, his piercing amber eyes stared dagger into the officers that held me detained, giving a small smile to me his lips parted.

"Listen to me you good for nothing pests, you have no reason to continue your questioning, if you don't believe my granddaughter to be a suspect in all of this then you have no reason to detain her any further, come on Reina. We are leaving this place" my grandfather said with rage filling his eyes.

The officers couldn't respond as they knew he was right so I stood up and followed my grandfather out of the station giving the officers a slightly dirty look as I walked past them.

Once we were outside the cold air hit me and caused a shiver to run down my spine. Looking up I saw the dark empty abyss of space filled with stars and the beautiful moon emanating its brilliant gaze down seemingly bouncing between the falling snowflakes.

Seeing the snowflakes I was reminded of when I was just a child and my mother took me sledding by the creek every time the ground was covered in a natural carpet of white.

Thinking of my mother was a bad choice as I could now feel all my emotions bubbling up inside of me, though against my best efforts my willpower had broken.

Without saying another word I erupted into a fountain of tears and wrapped my arms around my grandfather feeling the warmth of his chest seeping through his jacket and against my red cheeks, trying to see through my tears I looked at my icy breath dissipating into the night.