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Chapter 1 - prologue

Girl's POV 

In the dead of night when most would be sleeping soundly and unaware to the world around them, I woke up. 

I couldn't think straight I couldn't breathe properly and my body felt heavy and it hurt all over like I was just hit by a truck 

But still, I had to leave so I forced myself up and walked to the door, luckily it was unlocked 

guess they didn't think that I would wake up so quickly, they didn't even post any guards by my door 

I made my way through the house careful to not make any noise I couldn't take my phone or my jacket I couldn't even put on my shoes , there was no time to look for for them, let alone put them on. The longer I took the less likely I'd be able to leave. 

In the end they didn't matter, Nothing mattered Only escaping mattered, this was my one and only chance, just making it outside was its own victory.

 I couldn't leave through the front or back door so I chose next best thing a window on the side of the house. Crawling through that window without me making any noise or painful cries was a miracle, after I took a quick break to catch my breath I closed the window back up, leaving it like I was never there. 

As I made it to the front of the house I hid to see if anyone was out front but as I hoped it was left empty, luckily for me the on duty guards didn't like to guard out in the rain 

I slowly made my way down the streets in the pouring rain listening to the thunder ring in the not so far distance, I wasn't going anywhere in particular not that I knew where I was in the first place. I just wanted to get away, away from everything and everyone

I was grateful that it was raining so hard because no one was outside so there was no one to see me cry 

although even if they did they probably wouldn't even notice they would just take it as The rain falling down my face. 

I suddenly found myself running, well a pathetic hobbling run really, not in any particular direction still no destination in mind I just ran and ran. Eventually I reached the end of the neighborhood a thick forest stood before me. 

I hesitated only for a moment before deciding to go inside 

If I went in, then I could finally be alone where no one would bother me and no one would find me, at least for awhile anyway. 

The further I went, the darker my surroundings became until eventually I couldn't see anything only darkness

 I walked until I couldn't walk anymore 

I tripped and fell and just laid there soaked to the bone too tired and hurt to move. 

As I laid there, being pelted by the rain, my body, long numb from the cold and my mind slowly cleared giving way to the nightmarish memories of the previous few days. 

I remembered the series of unfortunate events that had happened to me up until this moment 

They replayed in my head over and over again, trapping me in an endless nightmare

Unable to take my pent up feelings anymore, I started screaming or at least I tried to, my chest and throat hurt so bad that no sound actually came out

So I just laid there crying my eyes out unable to take the fact that I alone was left out of that massacre, how everything and everyone I ever cared for was now gone, taken from me brutally and mercilessly one by one with no exception.

But that doesn't mean I was spared, no far from it. I was to be used and tortured slowly and painfully until the day I died.

To hell with that, I refuse to die that way, I refuse to give them the satisfaction of ending me, if I die then it's going to be on my terms no one else's. 

Did I deserve to die like a dog?

I wouldn't know, it depends on who you ask, but I couldn't outright deny it. Not with who I was or more accurately who my family were. 

I could tell that I wasn't far from death as it was, it was such a pitiful way to die. I never thought that this was how I'd end myself, ditched my own body in the middle of some god forsaken woods in the middle of nowhere

All alone, broken so bad I can hardly move, half starved, drenched and freezing cold from the rain and not even knowing which would claim me first, slowly dying from hypothermia, starving to death or perhaps from some internal injuries I might have. 

A truly pitiful dog's death, yet a satisfying one I could accept , so I couldn't help but smile. 

as I lay here dying my enemy sleeps unaware that I have escaped, when they wake and notice me missing, they'll search high and low for me probably paying generously to bring me back to them only to eventually find me already dead in their own backyard, i couldn't help but laugh while picturing their faces when they realize that they failed, their revenge would forever be left unfulfilled and their anger with no other outlet to vent on. 

After a while I stoped laughing and looked up at the sky, oddly enough at the giant circle in the middle of the clouds, like someone cut out a part of the cloud just big enough to show some stars. 

There was one that was isolated from the rest but it shone especially bright. after a while I managed to stand up and started walking towards that star as if it was drawing me closer to it, having nothing left to do I spoke up to the heavens saying my final goodbye,never taking my eyes off of that one lonely yet beautiful star. 

" this it for me, there's nothing left for me in this world anymore, everything and everyone I ever loved is gone and I'm left alone with these unbearable memories and no strength left to keep fighting on, it was a short life but one I'm satisfied with. If it's my fate to die then let me die quickly." 

I ended my prayer by bowing my head in silence and started a new one giving one last prayer for my fallen loved ones, the rain somehow getting heavier, the winds getting stronger and the thunder getting louder. 

And yet clear as day I heard a voice 

"Well since you no longer have something to live for in that world, how about coming to mine ?"

Before I could register the meaning behind those words, lightning flashed like it was on top of me, it was so bright. The brightest I had ever seen and bright enough to bleed out all colors in existence.

Scared I covered my face and closed my eyes the thunder that followed was also the loudest I had ever heard, it sounded like it was all around me. 

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