Chapter One

Elizabeth POV

*"Run Sera! Run! We can hold him off!"

I look at the scene that surrounds me. Four familiar figures were fighting off strange black creatures that seem to scare me to the bone.

"Sera get out of here!"

That voice it seems so familiar!

"Jack!"

That's my voice! But I didn't say anything! I turned around and saw someone running towards me, their arms moving around telling me to get to safety. But I can't. I'm frozen to the ground as though it would be my last. The figure does the same. Our fingertips are just about to touch when suddenly I felt a searing pain enter my chest. Where my heart was. Everything went slow and fuzzy as I fell. A voice then shouted out.

"SERA!"

Everything went black.*

I woke up with a start. Beads of sweat ran down my face. My breathing was fast and shallow as though as I had just ran a marathon. My hair was plastered to my neck and forehead. Once my breathing had returned to normal I rested my head in my hands. That nightmare again! It occurred when I had turned sixteen and every night I would have it. This has been happening ever since that day. The nightmare was always the same with the same figures, same lines, same voices, same actions…same ending. I looked to my left at my alarm clock. 7:00am it read.

Thoughts began to ponder in my head; who was that person that I kept trying to reach out to? Who were the others? What was happening? Thousands of questions rambled on in my head but there was one that stuck out like a bright light in total darkness: who was Sera?

Shaking my head, I got out of bed and wandered down that corridor of my care home to the bathroom. Yes I live in a care home. I'm a care kid so what? I've been one ever since I could remember. I never knew the reason why, but it didn't bother me so I never questioned it.

I arrive at the bathroom, luckily no one was there which meant that I was the first person up. I locked the door and started to get ready for a shower. It was best to have one early so then you wouldn't be having the other kids banging on the door telling you to hurry up whilst you're washing yourself.

15 minutes later, I stepped out of the shower with sopping wet hair. As I walked out into the hallway, I noticed that it was still quiet apart from the bustling noise that came from the kitchen. Levi, one of our care workers, must be up. When I made it into my room, I shut the door, making sure that it was closed properly before taking off the towels that covered my body and hair. Thankfully, I had a room to myself or else this would've been super awkward. I stared at myself in the full length mirror that leant against the wall in front of me. My green eyes stared back at me, my brown hair was in a slight tangle from drying in the towel. I then looked at my body, I wasn't overly self-conscious with my body, I mean I'm slim, I have a small waist and my top area was a nice size. But sometimes I doubt whether or not I was good enough for someone because unlike most girls at my school I didn't have a big bust and bum, I didn't have amazing hair that fell perfectly around face and I certainly wasn't popular. I was just someone who seemed to blend into the crowd so much that no one notices me. I was just regular Elizabeth Collins who has no parents, with no real family, with no one to love.

I sighed told myself to stop wallowing in self-pity. I grabbed one of my favourite summer dresses from my wardrobe: a basic pink skater dress that had short sleeves with the skirt going above my knee. I placed a silver locket around my neck. It was the only thing that I had left of my birth family. It was quite pretty. I then blow dried my hair and tied it into a fishtail plait that rested neatly on my bust. Before running downstairs for breakfast I grabbed a pair of tan ballet pumps, a light wash denim jacket and my school bag.

I raced down the stairs and into the kitchen where our head cook/ care worker, Levi, was cooking an English breakfast. Everyone else was sitting around the large table, eating their cooked breakfast.

"Hey everyone." I said.

"Hey." They replied.

"Morning Liz." Said Levi as he stirred some baked beans. "Did you sleep well?"

Liz was my nickname but my full name is Elizabeth. The name could be a bit of a mouthful at times.

"Fine thanks." I mumbled, not looking at him. I didn't want Levi to know that I had the nightmare again.

"You had the nightmare again, didn't you?" said Anna sympathetically. I only nodded to confirm. Everyone knew about it. At first they weren't so concerned but when I started to get it every night, they began to worry. Was it normal for a teenage girl to get nightmares so frequently?

I settled down into my seat and began to eat my breakfast. I was enjoying it when a girl called Lisa asked me a question, "Liz can you tell us what happens in your nightmare again?"

Lisa was about the same age as me and was very curious about everything. Sometimes it was nice but other times it was plain annoying. But at the same time she was like a sister to me. Everyone here was either like a brother or sister to me. They were my family (even though we're not related).

I looked up from plate, "Umm…" I didn't really want to answer that question. I looked at the clock hanging on the wall, it read 8:10.

"Sugar." I said scoffing one more mouthful of bacon as I rose from the table, "Sorry but I'm gonna miss my bus if I don't get going, see ya."

I grabbed my stuff as I ran out of the door and towards the bus stop. I let out a huge breath when I realised that I wasn't late. I saw the bus arriving and relaxed. I climbed onto the bus and showed my ID to the bus driver and made my way to a seat. Another day of hell was about to start. But little did I know that what was going to happen today was going to change my life. Forever.

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