Fear

Chapter 1

Barefooted, a girl in her teens runs into the forest. She screams like nothing she’s ever heard before. Tiny pieces of rock, twigs and leaves claw at her feet like wild animals. She ignores the pain because the urge to survive is too strong.

She screams again. The voice doesn’t sound like hers. It sounds scared and trapped. She hears her screams and wonders about the poor soul that’s making them and soon realizes it’s her screams. The terror that runs down her veins is too terrifying to be just called terror.

Blood pounds in her ears. She tries listen to her surroundings, but all she hears is the thump-thump of her heart and the shallow exhaling of her breath. She slows down. Is she alone? Is she safe?

Thump-thump. Thump-thump. Yes. She was alone. She was safe. She feels so relived like nothing she’s ever felt before. Snap. Something was there. Something broke a branch. The horror returned to her.

She began to run again. She was looking behind her. She didn’t notice the root of a tree sticking up above the ground until she felt the strenuous pain of bone ripping into muscle and what pain did it cause! She now had tears rolling down her face. Dirt, blood, sweat and tears all mixed. Leaves were in her dirty blonde hair.

She got up. Her arm was broken. The skin was broken. You could see the yellowish white bone sticking through. She retched at this sight. Blood was flowing freely from her wound, but as long as her blood was pumping, she could be none the happier. Things could be far worse.

She ran again. Screaming for someone, anyone to hear her. She falls again and this time, she lies on the ground crying. “Help me…please help me….” She muttered.

She repeated the words again and again. “Anyone…” She began to sob and scream.

She sounded like an animal trapped in a trap. It was like she was just another poor, helpless animal. She realized she had her cell phone on her. She dialed a number that she had dialed many times before. She cried, telling the person on the other side to come. To save her from this…fear. She was scared. She felt fear.

She didn’t even notice the dark figure lurking in the darkness. She never noticed the snake hidden in the dark waiting to strike. She felt a small blade enter her body. She waited for the pain to come, but it never did. Her world was just…black.

It was her end. She was gone. Where one person ends, another person begins.

And so this story ends as it begins.