Dark Shadow (Book 1 in DARKNESS DUOLOGY)

Prologue

It started off as any other day.

There wasn't anything that gave off a weird vibe when I had woken up that horrible morning. Everything was as it was supposed to be, normal.

That morning mom was downstairs looking over our monthly expenses and dad was in the kitchen with an apron wrapped around his waist while cooking up breakfast.

My oldest sibling, Wade, was at the table piling more food onto his plate and with his mouth already stuffed. Cece, my older sister, whined at my brother to stop hogging all the food and then whined to my mom who flatly responded, "Wade... stop hogging the food." without looking up.

Then there was my youngest sibling, Cody, sitting at the table beside our brother and grinning at Wade—still with a mouth full of food—raising his elbow at Cece climbing over to take away the ladle for the eggs.

Like I said. Normal. Nothing was off.

When I finished breakfast and said my farewells to my family that I was going out to hang at the park with my friends, they smiled and waved me off. The whole drive to the park I blasted Spotify music from my phone.

So as I sit here on the grass with my two best friends, we were talking and laughing about the cute boys from the college nearby. A few of them were there at the park across the ways and stealing glances at us between throwing a football around.

Everything felt so normal. There weren't any signs of a storm heading my way. Because I did believe in signs even if it was silly to do, but I thought they were special. I thought that they meant something to those who were willing to acknowledge them.

But I'd be breaking my faith in signs after that moment. Because there should have been something to let me know—to warn me—that after today, nothing would be the same for me again.