When No One Else Was Looking
Chapter 1: Power Outage
Sarah sighed as she entered her apartment, exhausted from the final exams. Her senior year at college had taken a harsh tole on her, and at the moment, all the 22 year old wanted to do was collapse into her nice, warm, inviting, comfy bed and sleep away the rest of Friday's hectic evening. But, she knew she had papers she had to finish, so she adverted her gaze from her welcoming bedroom and to her, not nearly as welcoming, desk that sat pushed up against the wall of her one bedroom apartment that she could barely afford.
She collapsed into the chair and puled her laptop out of her bag. She placed it on her desk and caught a glimpse of a picture frame on the corner of her cheap desk that was on it's last leg. Toby's 8 year old grin shined up at her. His hauntingly familiar blue eyes, that she swears to this day weren't that blue when she wished him away, were sparkling with joy.
"I miss you, little brother." she said silently before her computer woke up and reminded her she had work to do.
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Sarah spared a glance down at the corner of her computer screen and saw that it was well after 4 o'clock in the early morning, making her realize she had to go to work in two hours. She groaned and shut her laptop down before retreating into her bathroom, reluctantly preparing herself for yet another day.
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She had truly had it. Completely and Throughly had it. The manager was an anal retentive bitch that took joy out of Sarah's, and all her coworkers, misery. On top of the everyday hell she went through at her minimum wage, barely worth it, job there had been a power outage at her apartment complex. It had somehow shorted out her power chord for her laptop, causing it to die. When she finally, after almost an hour of searching, she found her spare chord and rebooted it, she found that the paper she had spent all night on had decided not to save. Angry tears welled up in her eyes. She took a few, long, calming breaths and cried her way through the first few paragraphs. It was edging close to midnight when her emotions took over again.
She pushed herself away from the computer and slowly walked over to her couch. She balled herself up and let her tears fall over her cheeks, after a few moments she was full out sobbing. Her body shook through her sobs and heartbreaking sounds exited her lips.
Her head fell back against the couch and she closed her eyes, "I wish someone would take me away from this horrid place." she mouthed, barely uttering a sound. Suddenly she felt extremely tired, she yawned and spoke again, "I wish the Goblin King would take me away from this Horrid Place." she said a tad louder this time, but it could barely be counted as a whisper. The sudden sleep overtook her, but her tears continued to fall for a few moments after her world blacked out.