We all stopped moving and talking , not darning to make a sound not knowing who was there " Jack thank you dear " A female voice called everyone knew who it was instantly , my mother " Traitor " I screamed " You lead them right to us " I said my blood boiling " And to think that I protected you from her " Baliy now stepping away from him giving me free range " Get em " Ivory said " Touch him and your friends will never see the light of day again" my mother said with a snarl , I just sat there and glared at her as her soldiers tied us up and headed back to the castle . I wanted to tell her off, tell Jack off, I wanted to scream, cry? I don't know what I wanted, I just wanted it to be over everything, I wanted life to go back to normal, I didn't think it would ever do that, but I had to find a way to let go, start new, yes that's what I wanted, to start new. It had been 6 months now since this whole thing happened and I was finally ready to let go and take my friends out of this cycle of running away, getting captured, escaping,benign found again. I was so done with it, so done, and that when I decided to escape this place and never go back. I did not realize how much time I spent thinking these thoughts, but we had reached the castle, and we went down to the same dungeon and they locked us up all in different sells because they did not want us to get any ideas, but I just sat down in the bottom of the sell and thought and found a plan to get out and leave. I could see my friend's mouths moving but I was tuned out so far that I could not hear what they were saying " Alex-" I heard a now fading voice say, but I ignored and thought about what the "real" world was like, I mean the world where there is no kingdoms and everything, no swordfights, normal people and I wanted that not to recognized at every coner , not being hunted down. I thought about all those lovely things for a while , so long that it became dark outside " Alex.... are you ok ...? it's been like 2 hours ...... hello?" The fading voice called, it faded in and out, quiet to loud and I finally snapped out of it " Alex! " Baliy said hitting me on the shoulder , she was in the sell next to me and had fit her hand through the bar, she hit me again " Jezz I'm here, stop hitting me !!" I said grabbing her hand making her squishing to the bar " Ow " she said with a snarl " I was just tiring to shake you back into reality " she said petting her hand like it was cat " I wonder what Jack is doing right now " Olive said sadly " Probably being treated like royalty for snitching " Ivory said coldly " Oh how I would like to beat the crap out of him" I said narrowing my eyes " You already did !!" Baliy said " And it was very funny " " I Know but I would like to do it again , this time not being stopped and threated , but whatever" I said with a happy yet sarcastic voice " You really are something Alex " Ivory said with a slight chuckle " I think it's kind of funny that even though that are lives are pretty much over , and we might die down her we still are laughing " I said numbly " Wow , um - that's grim?" Olive said looking at Baliy and Ivory has if saying um what should we do. We stayed in silence for a long while, I was spaced back out from reality and Ivory, Olive, and Baliy just stared at each other not knowing what to do or say to bring me out of this dark whole that I was in. I felt very sickly and tired , like someone had drugged me , I fell asleep and when I woke up I was in a place I had never seen before , it was just a feild of nothing , no one , empty , I rubbed my eyes to make sure I was not dreaming and the sky light up it showed me what looked like a movie , it showed my younger self , some of my favorite memories from when I was little but everything went dark and I saw my mother with a different man and then a baby was born , a boy , and I saw the boy's life , he grew up like I did with my mother and other man but it was like it was in secret , the boy grew and grew until I started to know who the boy was, Jack . Jack was my brother { well half-brother } , my head was spinning but I watched to sky roll through and I saw Jack the day he met us and I saw Jack , and the man was talking to him " Spill or make them drink this , and they will trust you and we can move on with our plans " The man said { witch I assume the man was his father } and then I saw Jack come to us . It all made so much more sense now, that's why we trusted Jack so easily, and that's why it was so easy just to let go of him, act like we did not know him {because the potion wore off} now I really wanted to punch Jack's face in. I felt numb but full of emotions at the same time, I stood there still but I thought about crying, screaming, falling, but I just stood there numb, the ground rushed up to my face and I blacked out. I woke up again and now was at the foot of the throne, my mother looking down atme, I stood quickly and blurted " You filthily cheater, you had a whole entire life and son be hide my back, be hide dad's back! " I said very angerly walking toward her now getting inches away from her face "Down, down tiger does you hate me now " She said pushing me back and mocking me at the same time " Hate? Hate you? Mother I loathe you " I said never taking my eyes off of her shing emerald eyes " I hope you burn in the hell that you have created in my life, and all for what" mother laughs and giggles," I had a good relationship with you, we made pancakes every day for god's sake Pancakes!" I said pacing back and forth {mainly because I knew it made her mad}, and now I felt pleasure in making her mad. I now hated Jack, my mother, whoever the man was with my mother, I hated my father, I hated the world right now, and I desperately wanted to walk up there, to her throne and jab out her eyes, yeah that's a little dark, but my mind was twisting and truing with rage and somber. I stood there for a second getting angry, and angrier and something almost felt like a snap in my mind, and I walked up to her, snapped a piece of her wooden throne and stabbed her in the thigh, I was like in a trance and snapped out of it once she screamed in pain, my eyes winded and I backed away slowly before she decided it was a good idea to slit my throught. I was luckily enough that she thought it was a good idea to have no guards in the room because one I think they would have killed me, and no one could stop me from running, and boy did I, I ran and kept running, I had forgotten about my friends who were most likely now going to be used as bait, but I felt happy running away from that place. It was like a breath of fresh air, I stopped,looked around and realized how far and how long I had been running. I was 3 miles into the forest , I was at the orchard that we had called home for a short 1 month , some of the people were still there in the trace like state we had left them in and I wanted to set them free but I know if one of them saw me there would be a swarm of men in black to come put a bag over my head and ropes around my wrists , funny I have this memorized . I almost felt bad about stabbing my mother but in the other part of my brain said that she deserved it, kind of like angel and devil on my shoulder and sadly I chose the side of the devil, I didn't mind that she was in pain now. I slumped down leaning against a tree, it crossed my mind that my friends were still locked in that hellish dungeon probably waiting for me to burst through the door, come up with a plan, and leave. I thought the probably were waiting for me to escort them back to the forest, and we would climb a tree, think of a plan, pursuit that plan, fail, get captured,escape, and the cycle repeats. I wanted it to end all of it, I wanted to be normal, like
people who live in cities, small towns, houses, condos, apartments, walk their dogs, play on their phones, go to the store, nobody I knew knew about this world. When I was little I used to sneak around and find things about this world and before everything happened, I had a planned to take a trip there and see what it was like, but that never happened. I sat there alone wishing my life didn't feel like it was hopeless, I made a pact with myself to not let them get to me, and not to let them win. I stood up and decided to through myself back into the cycle I headed back to that damned castle and that damned dugon I once again crossed the courtyard and headed back to where my friends were supposed to be " Alex!" Ivory cheered, I smiled weakly. I couldn't speak to them, it's like I never knew them. We walked out of the dungeon and back into the red wood forest they conversated together me not in their conversation but just answering with a "Yeah " or a "Sure" every now and again, after that I thought of them to be shallow because they didn't even notice that I wasn't listening and I felt so distant from them. We made it back to that same big red wood tree and the cycle went on I made a plan. I told them about the other world, and I said we would leave for it in the morning, they were excited for it of course. They all went to sleep" I'll be up in a sec, just have to use the bathroom " I called again smiling shallowly " Ok " Olive said I listen for the voices to stop and the snoring to start and I packed up and left for the newworld. I knew I had to leave without them , it would be good in the long run , or would it ?
