In Check

chapter thirty one

Mandy’s POV

I didn’t even feel anything after the needle was plunged into my arm, I fell into this abyss of white lights and blurred imagine, I began to panic knowing absolutely nothing about what was happening. I couldn’t hear any voices or make out anything in this hazy atmosphere.  My eyes searched around but I couldn’t even see the rest of my body when I looked down, it’s like my mind was just floating, I lost contact with everything else.

Suddenly I felt a harsh pull, like someone was yanking on my hand even though I didn’t seem to have one; the pulling came to a firm stop as the fog all around me began to clear. I could see myself. Well not really myself now, but me when I was about 7 years old.

When all the fog finally cleared I familiar myself with my surroundings, it was the park I always use to go to that was near my house. I could see my 7 year old self playing in the sand pit just a few steps away from me, it didn’t take me long to figure out that I was invisible and nobody would be able to see me.

“Mandy!” I and the little version of me both turned around to see my father running towards us, mostly her.

“Don’t run away like that, you gave me and your mother a heart attack.” He huffed and bent down to pull me out of the sand pit. I could see the pout being etched across my face.

“But daddy, Cara always goes to the park by herself.” She whined and clung onto him as he placed her on his hip and walked back towards my mother, who was standing near our house with her hand placed over her heart.

“Well that’s her parent’s decision.” He spoke calmly and kept walking, for some reason I felt tears spring up in my eyes and I didn’t even know how that was possible. Everything seemed so much simpler then, the biggest problem my parents had was finding me in the park, now their dealing with my suicidal self. The father my father walked away the hazier things were again, I felt a tougher yank pulling me forward and felt myself being dragged even faster and further away.

I suddenly came to a halt, there was no longer and fog as I found myself in the middle of a very familiar street, I remember this street far too well.

I looked down at the end of the street to see the house.

The house which I ended up burning and hurting an innocent boy. I heard some faint murmuring and squinted my eyes to try and make out the two figures edging closer towards the house, I gasped as I saw it was me and Andrew.

We were going into the house, I could stop this.

I could stop it all.

“Wait!” I shouted as I tried to run but everything around me was moving painfully slow. I tried to get my feet to move faster but it didn’t feel as if I was going anywhere.

“Stop! Don’t go in there!”  I shouted again but it was no use, they had already emerged inside the house. Suddenly the white light swept me up again not giving me another chance to yell.

The white, bright light around me seemed to turn dark, almost blood red, the light fog turned into heavy smoke and I found myself being hurled at a wall, automatically I had seemed to gain the rest of my body, but the pain in my side pulled my away from that.

“Shit.” I coughed and held my side trying to stand up, I looked around finding a dark room, nothing but a red light laminating the dark corners.

“What the hell..” I walked forward slowly to the door, hopefully being able to find a way out of here, whatever here might be.  I reached out for the door handle.

“Mandy?” I gasped and spun myself to see Conner standing there, unharmed, like the fair I started didn’t case him any damage at all. I felt numb