I Never Gave Up

Dreams

"My darling girl..... Hela... Hela!"

I stand helplessly in a void of darkness. That unknown voice calling out for 'Hela'? Who is the girl that this pained voice seems to long for so dearly? I try to run to find an escape from the darkness but find that I cannot move my legs. Suddenly a dim glow begins to outline the tall figure of a man. His features unrecognizable in the darkness, none except his bright, glowing, emerald eyes.

"Hela! Hela! My darling girl where are you?" he calls, louder and louder and louder and LOUDER!

"STOP!"

I bolt upright in my squeaky metal bed. sweat beading down my forehead and hair sticking to the back of my neck. I tremble uncontrollably for what seems like the the thousandth time. For the past two months ever since that night that I fell asleep hiding under my bed, each night I have been plagued by this same dream. Those glowing eyes chilling me to the bone every time, without fail. "What is happening to me?"i whisper as I being to sniffle, the tears in my eyes threatening to roll down my flushed cheeks. I lay back and stare at my ceiling, unable to do anything but wait for sunrise or for this ongoing nightmare to be over.

-THAT DAY AT HELENA'S SCHOOL-

I hurry through the halls, the image of the man with the green eyes from my dream still haunting me in the back of my mind. I clutch my books to my chest and walk with my head down hoping no one would notice me as I pass them.

"HEY BONES!" no such luck. I turn around to see a group of my regular tormentors. "GET THE FUCK OVER HERE!" calls Angelina, a tall beautiful girl with chocolate brown hair and brown eyes but a menacing smirk on her face. behind her was her brute of a boyfriend and some of her other mindless followers. "H-hi Angelina... what do you want?" I shakily say and stare down at my feet.

"How could I be such a coward. She should be the one cowering! I never did anything wrong! I swear these imbeciles with regret this one day!"

I think to myself.

My thoughts are interrupted by a forceful push forcing me up against a locker, knocking the air out of me. I look up and am greeted by the dull thoughtless eyes of Angelina's joker of a boyfriend as she comes next to me and tugs at the sleeve of my dark green shirt, pulling it up to my elbow revealing old scars and bruises. Some straight red lines that I created surrounded by black and purple bruises from my latest beating curtesy of David. "Where'd ya get these FREAK? Try ta slash yourself up? Those drunk foster parents of yours beat ya? They didn't do a good enough job, YOU'RE STILL HERE!" Angelina sneered, the look on her face showing that she's enjoying every second of this. "After all, your parents didn't want you, they just dumped you right? How does that feel you little bitch?! Does it hurt? WHY DONT YOU JUST PUT YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN MISERY? LIKE A STUPID DOG THAT NEEDS TO BE PUT DOWN CUZ NO ONE WANTS IT!" she spits! Every word she says is like venom and this ogre restraining me puts his hand on my throat and presses down, blocking my airway! I drop my books and throw my hands to where this idiot's are strangling me, desperately trying to remove his hands but to know avail! I hear Angelina and her friends laugh as I struggle and feel my face turning blue!

"........" I try to scream but not a single noise escapes my mouth! There are no faculty are insight and my fellow students simply walk past, ignoring my struggling!

Suddenly the pressure is taken of my throat and I collapse to my knees on the floor. I look up to see something I was not expecting! Angelina and her crew are all collapsed on the ground appearing to be unconscious! "What!?" I scream and look around, to find that everyone was in the same state! I begin to shake with fear, energy pulsing through my veins not knowing what was happening! I look down at my hands, a faint green glow seems to be growing around them! "WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME?!" I scream, tears of frustration and fear now spilling from my eyes when I hear another voice, one I've heard every night, scream "HELA!" but before I can turn to finally see the face of my nightly visitor... everything goes black!