Aaliyah didn't want to admit it, but she was hopelessly lost. It was dark. She was cold, afraid and lost. Every tree looked the same. The people that she had been trying to follow had long out run her. She was sort of wandering in the same direction hoping to find somewhere to stop.
She couldn't believe that she was doing this. It was absolutely stupid. She should have immediately gone back home and let Janelle and Ellen obsess over whether she had been hurt or not. What her emotional state was, how fast her heart was going, blah, blah, blah. But even as she found herself wandering a forest, the farthest she had been from her small room for a very, very long time, she could find it in her to go back.
But the reality of the situation began to sink in the first time she puked. Toppling over she just sat there, expecting more to come, expecting just to drop dead right there in the middle of the forest. Nobody would find her, nobody would know. Her father would spend years searching for her when it would be impossible to find her.
It was with that though that the tears came. Stabbing at her eyes she tried to get up only to collapse again. When she left she thought that her dad would have wanted her to leave. Would have wanted her to find a way out off that small bed and into the world. There were doctors other than Janelle. She could find one, get a job to pay for it. She could get better and do something with the life that she had, see the world.
But sitting here, in the dark forest it all seemed so silly. She wasn't going to make. It was just a bunch of childhood fantasies manifesting from just a breath of fresh air.
So she just sat there, quietly crying and feeling sorry for herself when she heard the rustle of leaves.
She froze. Dozens of things that it could be running through her head, paranoia about some horrible things that she had read happened in the forest. Her breath quickened as she attempted to back away from the place it came from.
A flash of warm light cut through the dark night sky. A shout. Aaly could feel the fear in her stomach rising.
I'm going to be sick.
And as she felt herself about to heave up another meal, a man with a lantern came through the dark. She didn't feel safe. This man wasn't a good one. She could feel it. And when she realized that was the moment the headache came.
Oh no.
Was her only thought before she heaved all over the grass.
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The Marble Tower
אקראיShe had been locked in her little tower for eleven years. Confound to bed because of the mysterious disease that plagues her every breath. Though she doesn't remember much about her life beforehand she does remember one thing: the death of her mot...
