Prologue
I feel my heart beating against my chest.
Feeling your heart beat should be a good thing. But now, the speed in which it pumps the blood through my veins and its throbbing just feels menacing. It sounds like the harsh, heavy pattering of raindrops on a window pane that seems to constantly try to get through the glass to reach you. To grab you with its sloppy fingers and toss you into the storm outside.
I allow myself to slowly slide down the wall in my back and try to focus on the feeling of the smooth glass beneath my trembling fingertips. That, and to breath. To take steady, even breaths. I suddenly feel like a little girl again. A girl, whose eyes are blurry with tears and hands clutching the tattered ends of her blanket tightly in a stormy night. Counting. Waiting for the thunder yet to come.
"Well, that was pretty close, huh?" A voice rolls its way through my mind. Nothing like thunder, more like a chilly breeze on a sunny morning in spring.
Startled I push myself away from the pane, nearly losing my balance due to the sudden effort. My fingers grab the iron handrail next to me, hoping to save me from the storm pulling me ultimately into his ruthless swirls.
I gasp.
How did I forget about him? At all?!
The man behind the pane places his hands on his knees and pushes himself up, a diabolic smile on his lips. His icy-blue eyes capture mine, like they are sensing and soaking in the evident fear shining in them. Imbibing it.
An uncertain hunch crawls up my throat. I cannot turn my gaze away from the dark-haired man. His presents seems devouring and yet calm like the eye of a storm.
In the back of my mind I start to wonder: was I really successful in escaping from the monster I was running from? Or am I facing the true monster in this very moment?
Note
Hey everyone :)
this is my first fanfiction in English (a translation of my own 'native-language'-fanfiction)...so I hope it's not too bad (please tell me when it is...immediately... before it's too late^^)
I just thought, I give it a try, you never know...
Hope you enjoy the following chapters :)
Update
This 'new/rewritten' prologue is the result of some editing work. A very special thanks to my beta-reader 'Idyllicdream' for helping me make this 'mumbo-jumbo' of mine more readable ;)
Revised Chapters are coming up soon only on dv...uhm no, here, of course ;)
