Epilogue
I ran. I ran as fast as I could. It wasn't fast enough, I needed to go faster, but that was next to impossible. I turned down an alleyway. It was a dead end. I heard him behind me. I spun around. Never leave your back unprotected was one of the rules. I would go down fighting. It started to rain. It's funny, when you're so close to death that you could even notice something like rain. Or the fact it smelled like earth and new beginnings, that I would think about something like that when I was about to die. It was funny to think that a year ago I was a normal girl. As I stared through the rain at him, he smiled at me and beckoned for me to come to him. I went forward to meet him. There was no other way. Not another choice. It would end like this, with me becoming like him. It was because I knew the secrets and now because of that I would become one of the secrets, one of their people, one who lived by their rules. He wiped away my tears and smiled at me. Smiled at me because he won and I lost, lost my life. I saw something different in his eyes. Sadness. He was sad, but then he stared laughing and I realized he was only sad because the game was over. It had ended in the moment I gave up the will to fight anymore.