Living through Lenses

Chapter Four

Chapter Four

My eyes automatically tried to find some sort of clue to who was behind me. They twisted and turned until they could no more. I thought of all the possible situations and then I realised whoever was there had removed the gun from my back. I bolted all the way to the other side of the fields and then looked back. There was a boy holding a stomach gasping for air. His laugh was echoing through the entire area but I doubted anyone from the outsides of these walls could hear him. I cautiously walked closer and kicked him in the leg when I saw that there was a rolled up newspaper next to him.

‘Oww! What did you do that for?’ He rubbed his leg and looked up at him, still smiling.

‘Hmm, I wonder,’ mockingly I placed my hand up to my chin and looked upwards.

‘Oh, I know now,’ I smiled. ‘Because you pointed something at my head that felt like a gun.’ I was now staring at him in annoyance. He didn’t make a sound but he was obviously shocked at how much of a scare he had given me. He looked so familiar and my brain was telling me something I couldn’t put together. His blue eyes were slightly covered by some strands of his messy blonde hair. He pulled his hand through his hair to unblock his eyes and he stared, straight into my eyes as though he were looking into me and reading my mind.

‘So, what brought you here?’ he stared into the distance.

‘I, uh, was looking for a place to take pictures.’ I wasn’t lying, I was just leaving some details out, and I didn’t have to tell a stranger the complete truth.

‘Your lying, aren’t you? But I don’t expect the complete truth cause obviously I wouldn’t tell you my story either.’ He chuckled.

‘So are you going to tell me at least something?’

‘To find somewhere to escape to.’ He turned to face me with eyes filled with sadness.

‘I’m Ethan, Ethan Rain. May I have the pleasure to know your name?’

‘Kayla Frost, nice to, umm, meet you.’ He held out his hand and I shook it.

‘How did you know I was lying?’ I asked him.

‘Because this place would only show to someone who is desperate and I was desperate, taking photos isn’t serious enough.’

‘Desperate, huh? Makes sense.’ I thought aloud.

‘I’ve got to go now, ill come back another day, maybe.’ I smiled at him and gathered the stuff I had thrown on the floor.

‘Bye Kayla.’ His voice was deep and husky, and he grinned at me. ‘Come back soon.’

Without replying I squeezed through the gap in the wall, on my way back home I caught myself smiling and forced it off my face as I walked in the door.

‘Hi honey, where were you all afternoon?’ I hid my stuff behind my back and ran through the hallway sidewards.

‘Eh, umm, I was out downtown. Is dinner ready?’ I was desperate to change the subject.

‘Yeah dinner’s ready just waiting for your dad. So did you go with anyone?’ Damn it.

‘Umm, no just by myself.’

‘Oh, I see, so did you buy anything.’ My mouth was beginning to go dry but just before I could answer her phone went off and the moment I hid my camera my mum came bursting into my room.

‘Your dad,’ she almost whispered gasping for breath, ‘your dad has been, has been in a car crash!’

I was still in shock when we arrived at the hospital. We were in the waiting room of the surgery area. It had been hours until the lights on the sign in surgery finally flashed off. The moment they did my mum had started hyperventilating. It was just like I was watching one of those cliché movies, the doctor came out wearing a completely white coat and looked like he pitied us but instead he smiled.