Sleepless Nights ✓

🌑 Chapter I 🌑

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS

CHAPTER ONE

The blood drips down her fingers onto the the floor as she sits there tied up in a chair and is the only sound her ears pick up. Her hands bound together by the ropes that dig themselves deep into her fragile flesh and create a pain yet it can be ignored. Her legs strapped together to the metal legs of the chair with rope but her jeans take most of the sharp edges of the rope. Her head hanging down from pain and exhaustion. Her body on the brink of falling into the forever sleep yet she continues to fight. Fight through the pain and agony to live.

Her right arm carrying a stab wound that blood continues to ooze out of and slowly but surely leak down her arm and down to her fingers where it drips down into the blood puddle on the floor that has gathered around the chair. Her eyes are half open and blank, empty and lifeless yet life flows through her veins as she takes soft but uneven breaths. Her body nothing more than flesh and bones from lack of nutrition and food. Her mouth hanging slightly open from thirst and dryness and her throat burning. The room around her dark but then a door opens...

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Her eyes snap open and she jumps up front he bed with tears streaming down her face as she huddles together and hugs her body as she rocks back on forth in the darkness. The heart within her chest pounding to the point where she can almost hear it. Her silent sobs as she hugs her knees close to her chest and her eyes looking everywhere around her to see any signs of danger that could be lurking around her. She stays close to the wall and her back slightly touches it to keep her back safe if the danger were closing in on her.

Minutes pass as the tiredness is hanging over her yet she refuses it as she looks at the clock to see it is only about three in the morning. It took some time but she calms down and stands from the bed. Through the darkness she walks with a cold sweat covering her body she turns on the light and finally she can breathe a bit better as she walks back to the bed but walking past the window to see the stillness of the night. Her small town is always quiet.

She stops in front of the window and looks outside for a small moment before a thought has entered her mind that has been blank. Thoughts never even crossing her mind at all. Her feet take her to the door of the bedroom where she opens it and goes out of it, entering the small apartment that she lives in and the darkness is what she's met with and the only light she has is the one coming from the bedroom. She walks over to the front door of the apartment, picks up her shoes and keys and walks out of the apartment.

Walking down the streets through the darkness, only feeling safe when the streetlights watch over her and light her path. Her hands in the pocket of the hoodie that she wears to bed and she also wears sweatpants. The stillness and quiet is more welcoming than the thoughts that she doesn't want to reach her mind. As she walks on she finds the lake that is in the center of the town and buildings go around it yet there is a path that one can walk all around it and he goes that path and while she may not have a destination in mind she goes where her legs take her.

The path is a long one and when she has been walking for half an hour she finds herself too tired to continue and she finds herself a nice spot to sit on the grassy hill and watch the lake as the waves move softly back and forth, brining harmony without knowing it. The shiver runs down her spine as the cold chills her to the bone. While the wind is still and the weather is silent it is still chilly and it brings forth this coldness to her.

Not knowing how long she has been there, her eyes staring ahead. Not necessarily at anything but the lake and even when she does stare at it, she does not look at it and she does not think of it. In truth she doesn't think of anything. Only stares ahead and allows her mind to become blank. Her knees are close to her chest and she holds them closer with her hands which she has hooked together around her knees. Protecting herself if anything were to happen yet ready if anything were to take place around her.