Reformity

1 - Justin

"Justin"

I could hear her calling me.

"Juuuussssttiiiiiiinnnnn"

Getting louder by the second.

"JUSTIN"

I could just make out her dress flowing around her, white layered silk billowing out, making her look angel-like. Her chocolate brown hair was flowing around her as her face trapped in a scream called out to me. Her eyes were pitch black, but I could see movement behind them, and could still tell she was watching me, trying to tell me something that I couldn't understand. Through her eyes I could see her memories running through her mind, but whenever I tried to focus on them, they slipped away from my grasp.

A smokey mist ran out from behind her, it's tendrils curling out like arms, clutching onto her and dragging her further and further away as I watched completely immobilised.

"You must know..."

She was being pulled further back every second, visibly getting more and more tired. I watched in a trance, utterly enchanted with every move she made. With her last ounce of energy, she leapt forward and grabbed me, staring right into my eyes and practically screaming as the smoke tried to pull her away.

"Don't trust them"

Suddenly, her eyes turned a blinding white, and I was ripped with an intense pain running through my whole body. My eyes burned as she sacrificed her memories, each one of them running across my head like watching a film on fast forward. I jerked and spasmed, with the pain being almost unbearable. I pleaded and begged her to make it stop.

"Be strong young one"

Suddenly, it was like someone had flipped a switch. My mind opened to her thoughts and I stopped resisting the pain, instead embracing it, letting the intensity run through my vein's like a wildfire spreading further, and further, and wasn't going out any time soon.

"They are not what they seem..."

She gave me one last touch to the forehead before giving into the fog and slowly sinking further backwards into the darkness as I tried to comprehend the whirlwind of thoughts going through my head.

At first I couldn't understand what was happening until I saw her. Not like she is now, but a younger her running through a field of flowers, smiling and laughing. She kept asking her Dad to move faster and follow her as she moved closer and closer to the forest on the other side.

"Come back here sweetie, I don't think we should go any further today", He yelled to her worriedly, "That's what you always say!" She exclaimed pouting, before turning around and skipping away closer and closer to the forest. "Sweetie please", he said almost begging her now with fear in his eyes, "come on, lets go back home to mum okay? We can come back here again." She stopped for a second and his face filled with relief before being engulfed in an expression of pure terror as she defiantly sprinted to the forest. "Sweetie No-"

I jerked upwards as someone grabbed me by the collar ripping me out of bed and throwing me on the floor. It happened so fast I didn't have time to look at them or even cry out as a needle was injected into my neck.

I tried to flip myself over or even turn my head to look at him, but I was frozen in place. My eyelids felt like enormous weights, too much for me too handle, as everything around me went black and I fell into a deep sleep.

***

I yawned slowly getting out of bed, it was really quiet this morning, without the usual rustling about of my little brother always so persistent in not wanting to shower, and my parents racing to get him ready on time. Sometimes I wondered about that kid, was I really like that at his age? I rubbed my eyes taking my time to get up, and almost going back to sleep a couple of times. When i finally was awake enough to think straight, I looked at my alarm clock wondering why it didn't go off, when I realised it was 8:30.