《Here》Chapter Six
Advertisement
I gradually opened my eyes and was met with coal black darkness. My skull was throbbing with a migraine. I tried to move my hands to feel where I was at, discovering that they were bonded together.
I was laying on something that felt like a scratchy carpet.
Where was I?
I attempted to shout out for help but nothing came out except a pathetic raspy croak.
All at once my body flew up. I let out a quiet cry of pain, due to the loss of my voice, as I came back down hitting my injured side.
I heard the deep rumble of an engine and realized that I was in the trunk of a car.
I tried to calm my rapid breathing due to panic.
He got me. How did he get me?
I kicked random parts of the car, not knowing where I was kicking. My feet were bonded together as well.
I began to weep, feeling trapped in this hot trunk. I am helpless. I am trapped. I am going to die.
I hyperventilated, terrified and unknowing of where I was being taken, or what was going to happen to me.
"Someone help me." I called out in a hoarse voice, panicking.
My throat was so parched.
I coughed, my eyes watering because of how dry it was. My bare toes were cold, but I had no idea why because of how hot it was in the trunk. I felt like I was breathing my own air. Sweat was covering me, even though my whole body quivered.
Something moved below me. I pulled my legs towards my chest, my wide eyes boring into the darkness below me, trying to see what it was.
Icy pastel fingers clutched my bare calf, pulling its mangled body up towards me. I shrieked in terror as a pale-faced, black-eyed Morgan came face to face with me.
Advertisement
I clenched my eyes shut and took a deep breath. This couldn't be real. It's not real. Morgan is dead.
I waited, distracting myself with random memories.
Catching pretty blue butterflies with black along the edges of their wings in the field behind my old house, picking all kinds of flowers and making crowns out of them.
The grip was released.
I drew a deep breath and opened my eyes detecting that there was nothing there. I sighed in relief.
It felt so real. I was hallucinating, probably due to how much blood I've lost.
How long has it been since I injured myself?
I calmed my breathing and laid back, trying to clear my head so I could think straight. My splitting headache made everything so much worse. I couldn't clear my head. It felt like there was a giant wall blocking me from thinking about anything.
My stomach grumbled from lack of food. How long have I even been back here? Is Amanda dead? She had to be. If so did they find Amanda's body yet? Would they ever find her body? Who was this man? Why didn't he let me die or kill me himself? Was he planning to kill me?
A thousand questions ran through my head and I could not seem to find the answer to any of them, no matter how hard I tried to understand any of this.
I do know one thing though.
If something doesn't give sometime soon, I'm going to die in the back of this car.
____________________________________
I was reciting every song that I could remember in my head out of boredom when I heard it.
Breathing.
Loud raspy wheezing. The ones took as someone is dying, breathing their very last breathes. It was directly beside me, in my ear.
Advertisement
I whimpered, horrified as the labored breathing gradually became louder and louder.
"Please go away." I begged desperately, "Please leave me alone."
It was quiet for a minute before I got an angry response.
"You left me to die." I heard someone growl.
I gasped for air as I sobbed, guilt and fear filling every edge of my body.
"You left me there to bleed. You did this. This is all your fault. You were scared so you ran, and left me there. There in that hallway all alone to die." The voice mocked in a high pitched voice.
"No, no." I sobbed.
"Look at me, look at what you did!" she growled.
I whimpered.
"LOOK AT ME!!!" She shrieked in my face.
I opened my eyes, face to face with Amanda.
Both of her eyes were absent, they looked to be scratched out. She was grinning at me, blood covering her now sharply jagged teeth and running down her chin. Her mouth was open, cheeks stretching open in an abnormal way as she let out a deafening screech.
A shrill scream escaped me in response as I flung my entire body away from her violently.
The whole back of the car shook as I thrashed around, screaming and sobbing while ignoring the agonizing ache of the injury in my side.
I felt as if someone was sitting on my chest. I couldn't breathe as I hyperventilated.
The car suddenly hit the brakes and came to a sudden stop. My whole body was shaking in fear.
The trunk opened and a man looked at me with an angry expression on his beautiful face.
"It's my fault, I'm sorry I'm sorry!" I wailed, flailing my body everywhere apologizing to the stranger.
His eyes were wide with shock as he took in my appearance. He sprinted back to the front of the car and returned with a needle.
"Calm down jay. It's okay, nothing is your fault." He soothed with that familiar voice.
He stuck the needle in my neck with ease, with experience.
I whimpered as my vision became blurry. I felt him pet my hair. A warm hand cradled my face, tracing my cheek.
"You're safe with me now." Was the last thing I heard before the world went black.
____________________________________
Advertisement
- In Serial33 Chapters
One Death Forward, Ten Years Back
John has died many times before. Who hasn’t in this day and age? The average person could go online in seconds and die to their heart’s content. There were so many ways to experience it – death by fall, death by fire, death by the blade. But to die – to truly die – who can seriously say they died to a friend? Would one taste pain, futility, despair, but most of all, regret? After a life of success, but a life of loss, fate has given John another chance. Armed with knowledge of everything: of quests, of skills, of strategies, and yes, of the occasional game-breaking bugs, regret will be a thing of the past. To re-enter the game, to reach a peak he once could only dream of. Rise.
8 294 - In Serial40 Chapters
Apocalypse
It is the BEGINNING OF THE END. A ZOMBIE OUTBREAK has been spread via planes leaving JFK airport, New York and now humanity has a FIGHT TO SAVE ITSELF. Read an account of the END OF TIMES, live the END OF DAYS, and the END OF MAN. Join the ride and watch civilisation CRASH AND BURN. Read the story here, or listen to it on your preferred Podcast app.
8 444 - In Serial64 Chapters
Tiffany
Some demons yawn at human affairs and others are outright mischievous. And then there’s Tiffany. Out of goodness or maybe just when her interest is piqued, she occasionally interferes in the fate of some poor soul. She usually shows up as a dark-haired woman in her middle 30s. Her eyes are black and blazing and she radiates authority… The world is ours but the sky above has been mysteriously replaced by eye-bending Chaos. A storyteller stumbles onto a secret of the Planners and a fearless little girl named Jasmine explores secret tunnels that lead into the demon world.
8 194 - In Serial15 Chapters
The Network
"Rejoice earthlings! For you have been chosen, to be part of the grand scheme of things...The Network! " "You will fight. Live and die. Struggle and rise above. You will be given a taste of power, the weak will succumb; the strong will thrive, that is the way of life." Or that is at least what I remember hearing from that raspy prideful voice coming from the towering azure light in the sky.Through everything, I was taught by the Network, I learned that my new life is an unfair cold hellish place to be alive. Like earth from before. Just my forte.
8 68 - In Serial13 Chapters
The Girl and Her Whale(Completed)
Jenessa has always loved Killer Whales and only days before she goes to college she gets special access to see all the Killer Whales at an aquarium. Just before the end of her backstage tour, she gets to met a whale named Agent. Agent was know for being mischievous and not listening. But when Jenessa meets him both of their world's will be changed forever.
8 256 - In Serial69 Chapters
The Boy Who Read Minds ✔️
Highest rank: #1 in Teen-Fiction and sci-fi romance, #1 mindreader, #2 humorAaron's special power might just be the coolest- or scariest- thing ever! It's always helped with his bad-boy reputation, his rightfully arrogant all-knowing intimidation seemed to go a long way with his love life and somehow also his education.Until he met Violet, one of the smartest girls in school; a girl he's been using for years, zoning in on her mind to ultimately cheat on exams and steal the title of valedictorian. Until one day, Violet failed him. Her mind wandered all over the place- her parent's divorce, her breakup, and he couldn't help but sympathize. But Violet's a smart girl, who knows how long it'll take before she finds out.Aaron depends so much on his mind-reading capabilities that when they suddenly disappear- so does everything he hasn't worked for. His secret was like Samson and his hair, once it's told, the magic's all gone.Word count: [85,000 - 92,000]***Copyright © 2021#1 TEEN FICTION#1 mindreader#1 sci-fi romance#8 romance#2 humor#1 puberty#1 superpowers#1 sweet#35 comedyFor business inquiries, please contact: [email protected]BOOK 1 of the Mind Reader Series
8 136

