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I came back from the darkness a few minutes later, screaming. I had this pain, that felt like I was on fire, literally, but inside my body. It was running throughout my whole body. I feel like my heart was trying to burst out my stomach. I just don't want to be in pain. What I did I do to deserve this? Maybe I'm not going to go to heaven with daddy. Maybe I'm going to hell instead. But why? What did I do? I never hurt a fly. I don't want to be by myself.
After a few minutes of the fiery pain it finally started to lessen but now all the heat was in my chest. I was worst then the fire. It was a piercing pain that I couldn't compare to anything. My heart was slowly dying and fading away. 'So this is how it feels to die.' I thought. I felt like I was going to cry from the pain. I was not only screaming in pain but also thrashing around. I was trying to put the fire out that was inside my body.
Finally, the pain stopped, but the last drum beats of my heart started to stop too. The only thing is, when I opened my eyes, I didn't see daddy or what heaven was. I saw the woods. How did I get here? I stood up and also noticed that I could see so far. Farther then before. I smelt the fresh air and even that was stronger. I could smell a bird that was high in the air.
I looked down and saw that my clothes were in shreds. There was barley anything holding them on my body. I also noticed that my skin was pail. I remembered being way tanner then this.
"What happened to me?" I asked myself, but I didn't have an answer so I just started wondering around in the woods. My voice didn't even sound the same. I said my name a few times more, testing my voice. It was and wasn't me who was speaking.
After an hour of wondering around I found out that I was really fast. This little bunny was taunting me, and even challenged me to a race. I laughed and followed the little animal and started to chase it. I took a few steps and was at least a few yards in front of it. The deers around me coward away, and I decided to run with them too. I was fast!
I noticed when I was running that I could see anything and everything I wanted. I wasn't wearing shoes, and nothing was hurting me. It was like running on pillows. The twigs and tree stumps I stepped on crushed under my foot. A song popped up in my head and I started to sing in my head.
I'm walking on sunshine! Whoa oh oh!
Lost in that song, I walked up into a street. I stepped out on to the concrete. I noticed I was taller, taller than I was before. I grew?
There were cars slowing driving on the road. I stood back the shadows, afraid to go out there, afraid anyone would see me. I didn't know who was out there were the cars drive. I was stuck in the woods and I think that's where I'm staying.
I suddenly felt a burn in my throat. It came so intense that it hurt so bad. It felt like the fire was back in my body. There was one problem. I didn't know what to do, so I just tried my best to ignored it. I couldn't though. I walked out into the street, where a car stopped in mid tracks.
A woman walked out with a concerned look on her face.
"You okay sweetheart?" She asked me. She looked at my face and gasped, stepping closer to me. She smelt good. Really good. I attacked the woman, blacking out as instinct took over me. She screamed and yelled, but there was no one around her. After a few minutes, she laid, unmoving on the ground. She was dead, I could tell. She laid in the pool of red liquid that I just drank. I back away, not even looking back. What had I done?
I kept running til I was really deep in the woods. Here, it wasn't pretty. Its was ugly, dark and dreadful. Exactly where I belonged. When I ran, it felt as if I was dancing. When I walked, there was some song I was stepping to that was impossible to hear. I didn't want to be...I just was.
I just spent the next few days wandering the woods non- stop, trying to learn my new home. What happened before the Barbie lady bit me was a blur. I felt stronger, I felt smarter, but at the same time, I felt so weak that I usually had to rest for a while everyday a few times, not because I was tired, but to think. Where was the Barbie woman, and why didn't she get me? None the less, I still had the burning in my throat and I wished I had a way to stop it.
Once I took my 4th break of the day I got back up and sluggishly started my journey of the woods again. I saw a hill and started to go towards it when I caught my foot on a small rock and tumbled down the hill. It didn't hurt, but I fell anyway, feeling the wind on my face when I tumbled. When I finally stopped rolling down the hill I just stayed there and didn't move. I don't think I could move if I had to. Where's Mommy?
I looked up at the sky and saw a full moon and a lot of stars spotting the black sky. At least I had a nice view. I laid in the same position til morning. One would think that I would feel better after a night of rest but I didn't. I can't sleep. At all. I couldn't feel pain, but when I touched something I knew what it was immediately. I felt worst and I didn't know how to stop it. Why couldn't I just die right now? Or last night? Under the full moon and spotted sky? That would have been peaceful.
I started to get up when I smelt something nearby. It smelt good too, like the woman in the street, but weird, too. Not like a...human? I wasn't I human, was I?
I heard a noise in the brush. I didn't move, I just laid on the ground, still looking at the sky, but turned my head to look at the moving vegetation. Then a small girl came out. She had bronze curls and wide brown eyes, and stopped in her tracks when she spotted me. She was cute. She looked like she was about my age. Seven or eight years old.
When she saw my she looked at me curiously. I was still spread out on the ground from my fall yesterday. She took a slow hesitant step. Then another, then again, until she was by my side, looking down at me.
She just stared at me for a while then she knelt down and touched my cheek. I saw images of me. It was at her point of view. That was her looking at me. She was showing my what I looked like.
My hair was all matted, my clothes still their torn look and they had dirt ground into it. The clothes were hanging off my body, hardly covering my, but I could care less. I couldn't believe that was me. My pail face looked sickly. My eyes have bright purple rings around them and my whole eye was red. It looked like I had no pupil, but it was slick like a cat's. But I didn't look like me. The girl I saw was beautiful. Like a barbie.
The girl removed her hand and the image of me disappeared. "I'm Renessmee." She said looking at me sadly. "Whats wrong with you? Are you lost?" I shrugged. I wasn't sure what my voice would sound like because I haven't used it for some time. I gave up on my imaginary friend Joshua, so I really had no one to talk to.
Great...now I believe he's not real.
"Can you talk?" When I didn't answer, I decide I would try.
"I don't know." My voice cracked horribly, but still sounded like a wind chime. I could hardly understand myself. It was so hoarse and dry. Painfully, I tried talking more. "I... can...talk." I said but it was more silent talking. I couldn't get enough air up to speak.
Renessmee put her finger on her chin, then put her hand on my cheek again. She showed me a deer that was running in the woods. I felt my throat burn more then normal. Is this what I wanted? I started breathing hard but it sounded like wheezing.
Renesmee, looking really upset, backed away from me, scared. Another person afraid of me, was I that scary? Was I like the barbie lady?
"I'm going to get my Grandpa to help you." She stood up and was about to go but I stopped her.
"No!" I squeaked raising my arm but it fell back down after a few seconds of being held in the air.
She walked back to me and sat back down. "You need help. I'm going to go help you."
I raised my hands to my throat and grabbed, trying to give her a hint to my throat. Maybe she would know.
"Your throat?" She asked noticing my action. I nodded. "Does it hurt?" I nodded weakly again. "Are you, maybe thirsty? Because I know that's what happens with my family when they' re thirsty. Then they going hunting. I do it to, but not all the time. My family! You'll like my family I promise, you will. They're great...and oh! You should try what Aunt Alice cooks cause its amazing, I had it yesterday..."
Hunting? Like for turkeys and deer? I wouldn't be able to carry a weapon. I'm to weak to stand. "Hang on, Ill be right back." Renessmee said as she disappeared up the hill that I fell down.
She came back about 30 minutes later dragging a big deer with her. As soon as the scent attacked my nose I, slowly, rolled to my stomach, resting my head on the ground.
It smelt horrible. She put the dead deer right under my nose. I used all my strength, plus Renessmees to pull the deer close enough for me to sink my teeth into it and drain in, slowly. I took 5 minutes to drain because of all the strength I lost over the past week after hurting that woman.
It tasted terrible, too.
When I finished I was not close to being cured. I still had the burning throat but I could talk , but I wasn't able to support my own weight so I just laid on my stomach.
After I finished and I got comfortable on the ground that I think I'm not permanently going to stay she started asking questions.
"Whats you name, since I told you mine?" She said. "Oh, and you can call me Nessie, instead of Renessmee, That what Jake calls me."
"I'm Ashley." I said a little hoarse but not as bad. I was still thirsty but I didn't have to the nerves to ask Nessie to get me more food. I should be able to do that by myself.
"Oh, I like that name. How old are you?" She asked, and sat down next to me.
"8."
She smiled, "Me too. Um, what about you parents?"
My face went down to a frown. "My daddy died 2 years ago. And I was taken from my mommy a few weeks ago by a barbie lady who says she's a vampire. And bit me, and I'm not the same anymore. My home is the woods." I said sharing more information with Nesse then I should because I just met her but I felt that I could trust her. She was my age and she was nice, so what harm could come from her? Plus she got me food. She helped me unlike Mary-Ann.
"Awe, I'm sorry, Ash." She went to hug me but then went back when I flinched from her touch. I was still hungry ans she smelt good. But why would I hurt the one who helped me?
"You should really get help, Ash. This isn't right. I don't like you in pain. It makes me sad. Let my Grandpa help you, please?"
I shook my head. "No, I don't want any help. I should just walk away from here. I'm sorry, Nessie, I should. I'm glad you want to help, but I cant except it. I have to deal with this myself. Maybe I'll find my mother."
"You can't walk away, because you can't get up."
"I just don't want to ruin your life. I know what I have to do, so I can just go on with my life." I said.
"But I like you Ashley. I want you to stay." She said then stood. We were the same height.
"Meet me here tomorrow?" I asked. And she smiled and nodded. Then she disappeared over the hill.
I guess I wouldn't blame her. But, really, I can't except such help. Its not right. With the way I look it already, and I'm not die, I would guess not. I guess they just suffer until they eat.
Nessie came back, again, with four rabbits in her arms. She sat them in front of me. "Okay, well, this is all I could find, but it should be enough to get you able to move, right?" I shrugged then drained the first rabbit, then the second, then the third, then the last. She was right. I was able to stand but I was still weak and a little slower the the average vampire.
"Yay!" Nessie sang as I stood up and climbed the hill. She was gone, and I remembered the area so I could come back tomorrow.
I walked back some more, but I was stopped when a figure stepped in front of me.
Mary Ann.
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