Thick grey clouds hung over the city, blanketing the usually bright sky and souring the moods of almost every inhabitant in it. The flashes of lightening couldn't be seen above the monolithic business buildings and brightly glowing advertisement signs that dominated the air space- and yet the thunder managed to rumble its way down into the busy streets with ease. Reverberating off of the glass castles and drowning out the bustle of voices and obnoxious vehicle horns.
No, mother nature would not be ignored so easily today.
As if the roaring wasn't enough, the sky opened up and fat droplets of water started to pour onto the streets and people bellow.
No, today wasn't going to be a good day.
The expression "when it rains, it pours" seemed to be a very accurate one for a small girl named Sarah.
don'tlookback,don'tlookback,don'tlookback!
The amount of adrenaline coursing through Sarah's veins right now should have been enough to either kill her or power an entire football team for a weak. The thundering of her heart rivaled that of the storm above and almost deafened her to her suroundings. The rain that poured from the sky, soaking her hair and clothing, had begun dripping into her eyes which should have been extremely annoying.
But Sarah wasn't concentrated on those mixed emotions and feelings at the moment.
Her concerns lay with the bullets bouncing off the concrete pavement bellow her red converse shoes as she ran. The black car to her left that was speeding towards her through the alley way exit at a dangerously fast pace. And the unbelievable surge of fear that crawled along her spine and through her pumping limbs, causing her body to enter survival mode.
Sarah was runing for her life.
Again.
move,move,move!
"Stop!" A voice shouted from behind her as two more bullets ripped through a wall beside her hooded head.
"FUCK YOU!" Sarah screamed back, not even looking or caring who she just insulted, but wanting to rebel none the less. "i am not going back there." she panted more quietly to herself.
Everything seemed to happen so quickly after that.
The black car that had been making its way towards her at an alarming rate was now upon her, almost literally. But Sarah dive rolled to the right before poping back up and dashing towards a chain linked fence- the driver of the vehicle, missing its mark, swerved before plowing into an old rusted fire hydrant.
Sarah glanced over her shoulder and watched as water gushed from the destroyed utility piece out onto the street. The two agents that had been following her got the full brunt of it and slid on their feet before promptly falling onto their asses in the massive puddle that was now forming. A small chuckle bubbled past her lips at the sight of the agents stumbling around behind her. The split second that her attention had been focused elsewhere, is when everything went south in a hurry.
A single agent she had missed a few feet ahead of her, shot out from behind the corner of a crooked looking hotel. A single shot was fired, hitting its target right in the stomach.
A sudden knawing, burning sensation shot through her body, clenching her muscles all at once and bringing her sprint to a dead hault. Her face collided with the ground none to gracefully, skin scrapping painfully against the wet ashfault of the street below her.
"Ouch." the word was groaned out. With her muscles still spasming, Sarah could do nothing other than lay there. She had been hit by tazers before and never felt a thing, what had changed?
Eyes squinted shut, Sarah could do nothing more then wait and listen- A rush of noise. Helicopters and police vehicles circled around the area and many footfalls could be heard aproaching. Sarah was growing nervous, her twitching body growing even more taught with anxiety. It was all too much.
Sarah could hear someone finally coming closer to her person, their heels clicking against the cement of the road. Stopping less than a foot away from her head, she could hear a rustle of what sounded like paper- followed by a crisp female voice.
"Shoulda' listened, Sarah."
The pain intensified dramatically before Sarah finally passed out. Sirrens and muffled voices lulling her into the blackness of her mind.