Come with Me

A Memory

                               Oh my god.......I.....I can't believe I did this..... I take a shaky breath and I pull myself up off the ground near the corpse of the dead tree.....The one that I killed. The one who had warned me to leave while I could. The voice told me to choose to either listen to it or the trees......I hope I chose right. "Faint one......good, that's the second test that you have best........one more to go, but be careful........you may find someone to you who is not fateful.......keep listening to me and you will see it through.......chose otherwise and no one will ever see you.....". The voice purrs this in my ear, as I gulp and move forward. The voice has slowly gotten more and more creepy as I have made my way through the first two tests. My mind feels like it's being torn in two, one half of my mind is saying 'run as far and as fast as you can away from here. You are no longer in the human world, you have to feel before horrible things happen to you, before you get stuck here', and yet the other half is telling me to stay here in this world and to keep listening to the voice 'The voice is going to save you from our life in the human world, the voice cares, the voice might be lonely like us. You should stay and keep listening to it, the voice won't harm us, the voice is our friend, and it may need our help'. In the end, it is the half that favors the voice that wins the argument, and so here I am, walking towards the warm soft glow even deeper into the woods. My feet have begun to go numb, I put my hands in my pocket and feel the key, still in my pocket right where I put it. It's the only thing that hasn't started to get cold. It still holds the warmth of home, and I think back on my mother.....How she used to hold me in her arms and sing sweet songs to me, while we waited for my father to come home from work. I smile as those thoughts come to me, and I think about going back, but then I also remember that the family that he key reminds me of.....no longer exists. My father doesn't love me or my mother, My mother has grown cold and distant, and I've been left alone since I turned 14. There's no point in returning. No one truly loves me anymore, not there. I look up at the sky, and then I pull out my phone from my pocket with the key. 5:30!!!.....I've been wandering the woods for 3 hours!!!.....Mother will be up soon..... I sigh and put my phone back into my pocket. "Don't worry faint one.....your mother will not wake.....to find her missing daughter.....it is already too late...." I take a deep breath and continue on my way. I don't want to know what the voice means. I can't turn back now. If I do, I will get lost and end up back on the path I am on now. 

                "How much longer does this trail go for? I feel like I've been walking for ages untold." I mutter, as I keep making my way down the path towards the golden glow, that hasn't gotten any closer to where I am. I sigh, and I want to give up. My bones ache, my hands and feet have gone numb. "I'm going to die out here......It's too late to turn back......" I manage to say through cold and cracked lips. I come to a dead stop as I trip on a frozen patch of ice covered by the snow that is still falling. My black hair has turned completely white, covered fully by snow so none of the black shows through, and my emerald green eyes look even brighter against all the snow covering everything I see around myself. I can't help but frown. "I don't want to die like this." I mutter breathy as I try to push myself up from the snow covered dirt, but I don't have any strength anymore, but I keep trying. I don't want to die, I keep telling myself over and over, in hopes that I will find the strength to carry one, and finish the third and final test, but it doesn't matter, as after a good 15 minutes, I can't get back up still, and I just turn myself over onto my back, and I finally feel the full weight of my body. I look up at the sky, and as my eyes start to close, I see the dawn rising. Such a shame I'm going to die......Mother will be left alone with a bastard who doesn't love her......Has my body always been this heavy?...........I feel.....warm......I feel like a small child again.....I want the warmth to stay......I'm....so.....cold.....but.....not anymore......

             As my eyes close, I can't help but smile up at the sky, and hum a small, very short tune. My time has come, I should be scared but I'm not. I feel at peace. As the world around me starts to go silent, I think I can hear the sound of the music once again, and I think I hear someone move closer to me. I try to open my mouth to say something,but before I can, darkness takes over my mind, and I let the darkness consume me.

               ".......welcome.....you passed the final test."