Out of the Blue

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I could barely move enough to press the 'end call' button on my phone after the call I had a week ago. I hadn't heard that voice in a very long time, no since before I discovered my abilities. When I left that place, I left for a reason, I didn't intend on going back. But know I have to, what else am I to do? Watch my loved ones die? Or let them go? Both decisions result in the tearing out of my heart. Soon enough I'm going to have to leave Katerina too, I'll have to find a way to make sure she's safe. The others won't be harmed as I have done what she asked, but by not bringing Katerina with me I am forcing we into a life of secrecy and hiding. The other options worse though-inevitable death. How am I going to do it? I can't exactly tell her I never want to see her again and then tell her she has to move to another country, can I? No. But I wish I could.

I walk into my bathroom and Am not surprised to see a sticky-note on the mirror with a message written over it in red lipstick. It's been happening every day now, instructions from that vile woman. I can't even let myself say her name, her real or codename, just the thought of her makes me taste bile at the back of my throat. The past instructions have been just things like 'Well done, now start ignoring ...' so I'm not very worried when I peer down at the scrawly shining writing. I should have been though. So, today's the day then.

"You still have teddy bears?" Rick catches me off guard.

"What?" I ask, bewildered.

"Teddy bears, for the picnic," Oh. I forgot Rick was just like his twin sister, Marissa(power-wise anyway), he can read minds.

"Today's the day the teddy bears have a picnic. I guess that wasn't a very funny joke."

I let out a tiny laugh and shake my head.

"Ah, but I caught you see, you laughed didn't you?"

I don't answer. I don't want to make more friends just to have to push them away in a few seconds.

Suddenly, a large thump echoes around the room and startled, I look up quickly to see Rick walking back in the room. I hadn't realised he'd left. I make a quizzical face at him.

"What's the matter, Elizabeth?" The use of my real name surprised me and I found myself staring at him. How did he know? I was sure I hadn't told anyone my actual name, in fact not even Sam knows my real name. The reminder of Sam brought a pang of pain to me, but I pushed it down. If nobody knew my name-how did Rick know it?

My eyes widen and all of a sudden, I'm sprinting as fast as I can out the room, out of the building, off the school premises and I feel as if I'll never stop now.

I just begin to realise that if I don't turn back now, I'll probably get lost, when I fall down from the force of my shoulder slamming into something. No, someone. Someone who I thought I'd never see again. Someone who I never wanted to see again.

I try to calm my nerves and speak with a clear, slightly agitated tone, as if the sight of this person was merely a con of my day, rather than the nightmare of my life,

"Mother."

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