The Missing piece

Chapter 1: Anna

This place was her favorite in the city, a lonely spot in the mountain where she can see the whole town and stay alone with her own thoughts and ideas, thinking about all the stuff that happened to her these previous days: The book she couldn't write, the trip she never went on, a lot of regrets, but the thing that concerned her the most was her mother. She was sitting there in that spot of the world that she could never fit in, watching the cars going by, life goes and move, it was like in every second something new pump up in this world, the busy life of every single human being down there, she never knew why she hated that city, was it the place itself or just the people? Still, she was not the type of person who always judges, because she believed that everyone has his own side of the story, and no one has an idea what's going on in someone's life or the battels he has to go through every day and that's exactly what she was trying to convince people through her writings.

Anna was a normal girl at the beginning of her twenties, she was a book lover, writer and someone who appreciate the art and all the beautiful things in this life, like the moon and the nice wind at 4 A.M, or the spontaneous conversations about life on a random roof, she was also a huge lover of the sunset and sunrise; her favorite times in the day. She wanted to make good things and spread happiness, positivity in the world, but unfortunately, the people around don't have the same soul she had. After a long time of sitting alone on the top of that mountain, she decided to get down not only because it was getting late, her mother was waiting for her; she had to go back home to her normal, average life but what Anna didn't know was that she was absolutely not an average person.

The next day she woke up so early as usual just to catch up the sunrise and that peaceful moment in the morning, where there was no noise of the cars, or the yelling people just peace and calm mixed with the singing of happy birds that woke up early too to live through the day. Anna started making breakfast for her small family, a lovely mom and her best and only friend; the dog Shadow. Sitting at the table face to face, with her mom, Miss Elizabeth; a sweet mom, she had a wonderful charisma and once you look at her eyes you dive into some painful memories, then you realize that she had been through a lot of things. Her parents chased her away when she decided to marry the man she was in love with, but unfortunately, that same guy left her when she was about to give birth to their first child, so Elizabeth had been let down by the ones she loved twice although she never let life put her down. She was stuck with a baby alone; no husband no family, no one to help her. Despite all the challenges she was facing, Elizabeth was a strong and powerful woman, she never thought about giving up on her girl so she decided to raise her to be an amazing and strong woman like her mom, and she did, but Elisabeth was growing up and started losing her energy. She felt like it was her time to leave this world and she was afraid to leave Anna alone no one to take care of her.

Anna started putting the dishes on the table, the most delicious breakfast you can ever eat is the one Anna makes it was like she has a secret recipe or magical powers:

· Anna! Sweetheart won't you think about getting married, five guys already proposed to you and you rejected them all without even giving them a chance.

· Mom! Can you please stop talking about that; you know that the idea can't take place in my mind.

· But my girl, my lovely, beautiful little girl there's a ton of guys out there wants you and I'm getting old as you can see, I feel like I don't have enough time, I don't want to leave you alone in this world, and I want to make sure that you're in good hands, with someone who will take care of you after me.

· Come on mom you know I can take care of myself I need no man or anyone else but you. Please stop talking about leaving me I can't handle thinking about it so please stop it.

Anna answered her mom with poisoned tears in her blue eyes. When Miss Elizabeth saw her only daughter's tears she stopped talking about the marriage idea and dying. She got up slowly from her chair because her legs became weak couldn't hold her anymore, and she walked in a slow-motion -like a turtle in her last days-to her garden, to talk with her flowers and trees the only ones who don't judge her or yell at her, they just listen.

After two months Elizabeth passed away leaving her girl, Anna all alone the only one she got at that moment was her dog Shadow. When the funeral was over, Anna rejected everyone who tried to talk with her or get close to her out of pity, she just wanted to be alone so she went to the only place she needed to be in, where she felt herself; no hypocrites, no lies, and sometimes a place where she can forget the pain, sitting there thinking about how she can live in this world and especially in this city that she always hated, without her mom. She was talking to her dog -as her mom was talking to her flowers - about everything she kept inside her, she believed that Shadow could understand her, and actually, it does. This time she didn't get down from the mountain at the usual timing, cause after her mother was gone, there was no one waiting for her at home, so she stayed there for a little while, that turns out to hours when she realized that it's getting so late, Anna decided to get down from there and go back to her sad, lonely life. On her way down she saw a little cottage with a shiny door in the middle of the woods she always walked by, which she never noticed before, her curiosity pushed her to discover what was behind that door, once she got close to it, a huge beast showed up, she couldn't tell if it was a wolf or a lion, it starts chasing her, Shadow tried to protect her but the beast was unbeatable. Anna start running with all power she got until she reached the edge of the mountains so she stopped, the beast stopped too and before it attacked her, it said:

"You will never stop what is happening I will make sure of that".

Anna had no idea what just happened but she had no time to think about it so the beast jumped on her and they both fall from the mountain, the beast said some weird words and they both disappeared. Suddenly Anna woke up and she found herself in a place, that she never thought existed or that she will ever see even in her wildest dreams.