Ephemeral //H.S

Chapter 41

-Lucy Urbinati-

Days 24

The engine stops suddenly after what feels ages, after being in the dark for so long. I kicked and scream, cried and begged them to take the bag off my head, to let me see at least just a little bit of light, but all of that was for nothing, it was like talking to a brick wall. Eventually I closed my eyes, I was so tired I couldn't even cry anymore. So I laid there on the cold metal, and I imagined myself being in his room, the both of us laying in his bed right in front of his big window that takes up the entire wall, I imagined him whispering in my ear and telling me how much he loves me while the sun was starting to rise after a long night, I imagined him and the fear of darkness was only playing in the background of my mind.

But now that we stopped, the images of his face just faded away like dust in the wind and I'm brought back in the van, my hands and ankles tied up with that bag over my head, the blood still covering and sticking to my skin, and the darkness. We've stopped, which means that maybe now they'll let me see again.

I feel a pair of arms slip behind my back and knees and I'm lifted up in the air, I don't even have the strength to push away whoever it is and let him carry me out into the cold air. I keep my eyes closed, feeling the cold wind hit my barely clothed body, and hearing the loud roaring of engines, engines way louder than on any car. When I realize that what I hear sound like an airplane, it's like I don't even care anymore. I just let them carry me because frankly at this point I'm past the fighting point, there's no saving me anymore. I fought so hard, I ran away, I was living one day at a time always looking over my shoulder, always ready to run at any point, I was all alone. I tried so hard keep myself away from all of this, I killed people just to try and remain free but even all of this wasn't enough.

I stay still, feeling the air change and the sound of the engines lower a little bit when a door slams shut loudly. I'm being placed down on my feet and I stumble backwards a little when I can't really find my balance. The bag is suddenly being taken off of my head, allowing me to gasp for a deep breath of fresh air, the bright light inside of the plane hitting my sensitive eyes I have to blink a few times and squint to be able to see for the first time in a while. The first thing I see is the blonde guy that I saw earlier, standing tall right in front of me with a cold look on his face. I look at him for a few seconds, then I notice that we are alone in a bathroom. The room is quite large for an airplane, there's even a shower in here.

He looks at me with furrowed brows, probably expecting me to try to run away, to beg him to let me go just like I begged them earlier to let me see, but I don't. I don't scream, I don't cry or beg anymore, I just stand there shivering from the cold with my lungs burning inside of me. He looks down at my blood covered self, taking in my disastrous appearance before speaking for the first time.

"Wait for take off and clean yourself up, you have 20 minutes before I open the door." He says with a thick accent and my brows furrow, I don't really know what to say but don't have time to anyways because he leaves and slams the door shut behind him, locking it from the outside.

I stand there for a few minutes, not sure if I actually want to process anything that happened tonight. I decide that I don't and bend down to take the tape off my ankles, focusing on what he told me to do and not thinking about anything else. I avoid my reflection and sit down on the floor, waiting for the plane to take off just like he said. It takes a few longer minutes until the plane takes off and we were up in the air, with no way to leave for I don't even know how many hours. They could throw me off this plane without a parachute for all I care, I would probably let them.

Once the plane straightens out I stand up, glancing down at the clothes that are already laid there for me, gray sweatpants and a matching hoodie, simple black underwear and socks, and a pair of black vans that looks brand new, which is a bit weird.