Little Dark One

Chapter 3: The Call

She was startled awake by the sound of her phone ringing. Ciara very carefully levered up an eyelid, took a glimpse at the time, and shut it again fast. 'it's 2 am, who could be calling at this time? I haven't received any calls for days", she thought before she barely managed to open her eyes to see that it's her country's code number which made her immediately wide awake, "something must be going on... Or else nobody would've called me at this time." She mumbled.

She finally picked up after hesitating for seconds. "Ciara! It's Naomi, I'm calling from grandma's house. Things are really messy here I don't know what's going on but the police arrested dad and mum said that there's nothing that she can do about it then disappeared, I then found her note and from what I understood... She ran away. Ciara... Can you please come back? It's only you and me right now, we should be by our father's side hm? Why aren't you saying anything? Ciara... Are you still there? "

To her shock, Ciara couldn't say anything, she just hung up the phone.

She was frozen in her places for minutes trying to process what just happened. Her father has been involved in some illegal business to save the company for years... "They've been trying to shut me up since the day I found out, but we all knew that there's no way I could do anything that would get my father arrested, no matter how much I hate being a member of this family I couldn't afford to be the reason for its breakdown... How did that happen.. why now all of sudden..."

She sneaked out of the dorm to get some fresh air, feeling lost, confused, and worn out. It was one of the longest nights ever, her walk seemed endless. She needed to think about something else, to get distracted, with all these thoughts haunting her mind, it felt like she could go crazy. "It's only you and me right now" "It's only you and me right now" "Can you please come back?" Her sister's words repeated in her mind over and over until she bumped into a random guy all of a sudden. He seemed nice, he asked what she could be doing out at such a late time all alone, and that's how their conversation started.

It was a strange encounter, he was an American guy named Jeremy. They talked for 30 minutes straight but she didn't tell him anything except for wanting to get her mind off things, he suggested to meet his squad and have fun and play games altogether and that he knew a way that would make her forget everything and only think about how great it is to be alive. She hesitated for a while but although she knew it would be foolish to trust a stranger, the idea of forgetting about everything for a while seemed quite tempting.

Ciara met Jeremy's squad, and they seemed all fun and lovely, they kept on talking about a vast and fancy party in one of the hugest mansions in town, so they all decided to go there. Never did she think, with everything going on, that the party will be graved in her memory eternally.

An hour after they got to the party, Ciara stepped out of the mansion let her diary out, and started scribbling down her thoughts. " Dear diary, while I was hanging out with the guys, it seemed to me like I was the happiest person on the planet. The music never sounded better, colors never looked more colorful, the moon never looked prettier, and my life never seemed better. Everyone looked friendly and lovely, and I fell in love with every single soul in the room, every single object, every single creature on earth, I just wanted to hug everyone and tell them how much I love them although I've never met them before. I danced and danced and it felt like all I wanted to do for eternity is dancing, shortly after I felt dizzy and wanted to go out and get some fresh air. I looked at the sky, it seemed like it couldn't get higher. Trees were so friendly, it felt like I reunited with the best friends I've never had, we talked and talked, our conversation was so enjoyable, and I remember wanting it to last forever, I fell asleep for a few minutes then I woke up still wanting to carry on with the conversation I was having with one of the trees."

One of the guys saw her writing in her diary and started poking fun at her which got her ranging so fast. She started shouting at him and telling him off until Jeremy came to calm her down.

They went back inside and sat on the couch, but something felt odd. Ciara was very paranoid, it seemed like everyone in the room was talking about her or thinking of hurting her in some way, as if all the whispers, all the insults, everything was about her. She covered her ears and screamed her lungs out. "Shut up!" "Leave me alone!" "Stop talking about me!"

Everyone looked at her as if she was insane, some of them even laughed. Jeremy approached her again trying to calm her down but she pushed him with all her might which made him fall on the floor. "This girl is a maniac man! You shouldn't have brought her here" One of his friends yelled. "I told you that putting drugs in her drink wasn't a good idea" Another one ranted.

And that's when her whole world flipped upside down, all the voices mixed up in her head and everyone started to look like a monster to her. She suddenly remembered her parents, her sister Naomi and everything going on at home, that's when she lost it. She started smashing everything in front of her, all the cups, plates, tables, She pushed everyone on her way until she laid hold of a knife and placed it on her wrist. "Don't get any closer!" She warned everyone. "I'd kill myself if you do, trust me I'll do it."

She had no idea what she was doing, her thoughts were messy and she didn't know what made her so raging at everyone. She wanted to be left alone, She wasn't sure what was real or what which was just a hallucination but she saw everyone running towards her, she begged them to stay away, she begged them to leave her alone, but nobody was listening until she ended up stabbing one of the guys in the arm.

"I-I never thought I'd hurt... some-someone, I never I-I didn't mean to- I thought I'd-... You shouldn't have- have... please" She stumbled upon her words appalled by what she had done, she never imagined in her wildest dreams that she would hold a knife towards someone let alone stabbing them.

She dropped the knife as she knelt, closed her eyes as her vision was getting blurry, she heard her mum singing her special birthday song for her. She felt her father's arms around her, she heard Naomi's giggles. For once after all that mess, she felt warm and secure for a split of a second.

She then opened her eyes, and everything around her had turned messy, a guy was bleeding right in front of her and everyone looked at her with contempt, fear, and disgust. She started freaking out again, she couldn't breathe normally and she felt utterly numb all of sudden. She felt her whole body getting heavy, and her eyes were slowly shutting down, the last thing she heard was the police siren, everything turned black after that.