AMNESIA: Book 1

Chapter One

The door swung open as I ran out, still barefooted and blinded with tears. I stopped a few paces from the front step and turned to look at the woman standing in the doorway.
  Her tall thin figure blocked the light coming from the room behind her, and her pale face gave her a somewhat ghostly appearance.
Awful woman.
  "I hate you". I blurted out. "I will never forgive you"!
  The woman sighed. " Come on, sweetheart. You know you don't mean that". She outstretched her arms as if expecting me to run into them. It wasn't going to work. Not this time.
  I turned and ran down the street as fast as I could. She was calling me, trying to tell me something. I couldn't hear her. And even if I could, I would pretend I couldn't.
  I didn't want anything to do with her anymore. I just wished none of this ever happened. I wanted to forget about everything.
  The tarmac on the empty road was cold. The houses and the street lights on the pavements seemed to tower over me, and they became a blur as I ran passed them.
  I don't know how long I ran for. But time didn't matter to me.
  All that mattered was to leave this place. Leave behind a world which was falling apart from almost all directions: left, right and back... But not forward. So that's why I kept running.
  I finally stopped when a splinter dug into my heel. I must have run a few miles, because I was in a place I didn't recognize.
  As I sat down to remove the splinter there was a loud bang.
  Thunder.
I had to find shelter. Within a few minutes it started to drizzle. By the time I got to the high road it was bucketing down with rain.
  It was so strong that it wasn't easy to make out what was up ahead of me. I stumbled and slipped several times.
  I could make out some woodlands up ahead. It was my best option for shelter. But I had to climb a hill before getting there, and it could be dangerous.
  I had no choice.
The hill was muddy and I had to use slippery stones to climb. When I got to the top, my bare feet were bruised and cut and i was covered in mud.
  The woodlands were thick, and beyond them was a small town.
  I held the locket around my neck. If this thing really was meant to be for good luck, the best time for it to work was now.
  I started to climb down, slowly, the rain still pouring.
  Suddenly, my bruised foot slipped on a rock, and I flipped over as I was thrown off the hill,crashing into tree branches.
  I landed with a thump on the soggy grass, as the world span around me. I was about to die. Was this really how I wanted things to be?
  The rain continued to beat down on me, mercilessly. Then suddenly, everything went black.