Blue Waltz

Chapter 6 - Lost

Lyr's POV:

I found myself alone, in the middle of nowhere. There was not one person near me, and it was completely quiet, it was eerie. Even when I looked around, I couldn't see any path or any sign of my friends, "Okay..." My voice was shaking, "I'll try to find them, I guess," I told myself in a low voice, trying to dispel the silence. I looked for the flashlight I put in my bag a few minutes ago, or what felt like a few minutes ago. After a few moments I managed to find it and the pocket knife I brought with me, I put the knife in my pocket and turned on the flashlight to see my way, everything looked the same – trees, trees, and more trees.

"Maeve? Oliver? Somebody?" I shouted to the forest but heard no reply. I decided to start walking, "I don't know where I am anyway, at least I'll try to find some kind of path," I thought. The forest was silent as if there was no life there at all, there was barely any wind, so even the trees didn't make any sounds. I walked for a relatively long time, but it didn't seem that I was getting anywhere. If I thought I was lost before, then now I think I would never get out of here. "Keana? Maeve?" I shouted again, hoping I got closer to one of my friends, but to no avail.

I wondered what time it was, the forest was still totally dark, even a bit foggy. I felt like I was stuck in a very bad nightmare. "Maybe it really is a dream?" I pinched myself with full force, but nothing changed, except the new bruise on my arm. My heart didn't stop beating in a crazy temp from the second I came to my senses; tears flooded my eyes out of hopelessness. I started humming some random melody, wanting to just fill the void, to feel less alone.

Maybe it was better if I kept feeling alone because suddenly, I heard a twig snap from an unknown direction. I didn't know if I should run and if so, where? Another twig snapped and I decided to run in the direction I was walking, better than staying put. I ran like my life depended on it, and it probably did, tears clouding my vision. I tried to get a hold of myself and stop crying but I was so scared I simply couldn't. It didn't matter how much I ran; I could still hear the twigs breaking around me, "it's following me, it's following me!" I screamed in terror inside my head.

After an unknown amount of time running, my legs betrayed me and gave out, I couldn't run any longer and fell to the floor. Whimpering, panting, and taken by anxiety I heard another twig snap. I turned around to see a huge bear huffing and staring at me, in that moment my heart officially dropped alongside me. "That's the end of me," I thought, I didn't have any energy left to move. The bear growled at me and my whimpers got louder as I prayed for someone to save me.

"Lyr?" I heard a voice calling me, I didn't know how to feel – happy that someone found me or mortified that they will share my fate. I opened my eyes to find no bear, instead, I saw Maeve. Tears filled my eyes again, I stood up with the last of my strength and ran to her, stumbling a bit along the way. "Maeve!" I called to her and opened my arms for a hug, she did the same, but when I crushed into her arms she faded and disappeared right before my eyes. "No!" A sob escaped my lips, "it can't be! Maeve!" I screamed, not knowing if at myself or at Maeve, who wasn't really there.

A few moments later I decided to pull myself together, I lifted myself from the floor again and started walking slowly to the direction I was originally running to numerous moments ago, no use going back now. I walked and I walked and when I stopped to rest, I saw something in the corner of my eye. I turned my head and saw an anomaly that was very hard to describe: kind of weird blueish light, it looked like glowing dust particles. The light seemed to be dancing in its place, circling itself. Something in that light compelled me and I wanted to go to it. "Is anybody there?" I heard a familiar voice calling, yet I couldn't tell exactly who's. After everything that happened up till now, I'm probably hallucinating this time as well. "Hello?" The voice called again from inside the forest, but I ignored it. I chose to follow the blue light instead.