Project Zero

Prologue

Eight years ago.
Freedom Park, Mecklenburg county,

She found herself on a tree with total amnesia of the past events. She looked at the blood all over her body and she started panicking. She tried to go down but her trembling limbs didn't help, she fell off and hurt her arm. She was in pain but she had been in too much pain before she didn't really mind that. She cried not because of her arm or the bullets she couldn’t count inside her body, but it was for the hints of memories she started to receive. She remembered gunshots, people screaming and a lot of blood! She remembered saying "sorry", she remembered saying "run" but nothing else. She didn't want to remember because it was already so painful to imagine. She couldn't take the idea, she kneeled to the ground and threw up and it didn't make her feel any better because of what she saw on the ground. She totally collapsed, she covered her mouth and screamed. She couldn't think of anything other than killing herself. She was hyperventilating and she could hear her own heartbeat. She squatted and covered her ears and started crying again until she had that feeling again, she wanted to throw up. She tried to stop herself because she didn't want to see that again. That time she prostrated and with clenched fists, she started hitting the ground with all her might. She stopped for a second because she could hear someone approaching. She hid behind the tree as she closely listened to that heartbeat, whoever he was, he was afraid. She heard him, he was too close to the tree.
"Lily is that you?"
Her heart pounded when she heard the voice. It couldn't be true, but she never forgot that voice, she never forgot that accent. She slowly approached and looked at him while the tears made its way through her bloody face.
"Lily!" he smiled and covered his mouth in an attempt to hold back all these emotions but tears failed him.
"Eric?"