Its dark…way to dark…where the heck am I?
I feel in the dark for a clue as to where I am and find rough fabric under my nails but it fails to help me figure out my location. The fogginess in my head lessens and become more aware of the sounds around me. It sounds like tires rolling on the dirt road. My body is suddenly jerked to one side and my head hits the barrier of this crapped space I find my self in.
How did I get here?
The question that I keep on repeating in my mind.
My heart speeds as I feel what ever I am in come to a halt. I hear more noise…perhaps a door opening. Now someone is walking, there foot steps making crunching noises on the ground. The steps get closer, they stop near where I am trapped.
Suddenly its not as dark anymore. The world has opened above me. There is a man in front of me now, shining a bright light at my face preventing me from seeing him well.
"Now miss if you would please get out slowly and quietly then we will have no problems." He saids to me, still shining the light in my eyes.
I don't move instead I speak. "Who are you? And would please remove the light from my eyes." I say.
He lowers the flash light. I can finally look up at him with a few light spots in my vision.
"Can you step from the car now?" He saids a bit impatiently. "It is not safe to be out and about this late at night."
I nod slowly and start maneuvering my way out side the trunk of the car. As I make my self stand my feet suddenly go out from under me and my head starts pounding. I can feel my pulse in my head and its making me nauseous. I raise my hand to my head and breath hitches. I am bleeding. What happened to me?
The strange man helps me back on to my feet. I lean on him weakly and look up. He is wearing a priest collar.
"Your a preist?"
"Yes mam…now lets get you inside." I nod my head but that just makes my head swim some more.
"What happened to me?" I tell him as we together make our way to a church that faces the car. Its run down and looks like it had seen better days.
It doesn't pass me that he did not answer my question.
He sets me on one of the many benches that occupy the church and then proceeds to barricade the door. Once that is done he starts lighting candles all around different areas of the church. I stare at him while he lights the various candles.
"Who are you?" I say to him again trying to forget the pounding in my head.
He turns and looks at me for a few seconds as if he is sizing me. All I can do is stare back at him hoping for some answers.
"I am Gabriel" He saids to me.
"Are you the preist of this church?"
He nods and walks towards me now that he is done lighting candles.
I look around and notice how empty it is in here ...how dead. "Where are all the people?"
"They are dead" He saids to me looking a bit surprised.
"They are what? What do you mean?" The confusion I feel is definitely not helping my headache. I need more answers…
He ignores my questions again and instead asks his own. "What is your name?"
"What is my name?" I say repeating his question back at him. He nods and smirks a bit like as if I have said something funny and he is entertained, it unnerves me. What unsettles me even more is the the question.
I look away from him thinking to my self….my name.
My mind draws a blank. Water gathers in my eyes. The stress of this strange situation I find my self in finally getting to me.
"I..I…I don't know it."