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Chapter 2 Goodbye, Home

"Hey, Kate"

"What is it?"

"We're best friends, right?"

"What are you talking about? Of course we're best friends"

"Then, will you promise not to leave me?"

"... Of course I won't, dearest"

"Sierra"

"Hmm?"

"I love you"

"That's weird, because I love you too"

"Kate!", Sierra awake with a scream.

She opened her eyes but the dizziness soon took over her. Quickly, she closed her eyes with both of her hands.

The pain from her right hand multiplied, made her hissed from the pain. After a minute of hissing and whimpering, the nausea subsied and she let her arm down to look to her surrounding.

But the pain from her right hand nagged her again, forced her tto snapped her head to stare for the cause of her pain.

Sierra must hold back her muffled cry when she saw the state of her back of her right hand.

The wound was shaped in a circle with two lines went through it in shape of an X, resembling a symbol of some sort. It was like her palm was carved with a hot knife, every muscle she lifted could cause the wound to reopen again. Gosh, she could even see the muscle beneath the teared skin, complete with some dried-burned off blood here and there.

Silent tear dropped through her face in her attempt to hold back the pain.

She finally looked around to find that she was in her very own room, on top of her own bed. It looked the same to her, as if that night was never happen.

Then two drops of clear liquids soon after the first one as a tug in her chest remind her of Kate.

The frustation built up inside her, all the mixed up feelings piled up to one another. Did she make a right decision? To gave up everything for her best friend? Calling for help won't do anything, she even doubted that a full armed troops can go against that entity. Fear, fear for the unknown, fear for many things that surely awaits her.

But no, she didn't even has the time to think.

She had to do this, she had to! She was the only one right now that could save her! The only one... the only one... She sometimes hate that word.

While she held back another tear, she grabbed a pen a paper from the nearest table and wrote.

"Mom, Dad, when you read this I will probably gone. Please promise me you won't search for me, you'll never find me. Well, to think that I'm in a better place was totally wrong, the place I gone to probably worse than hell. Please don't worry about me or blaming yourself or others, I will be fine, I'm just doing this for Kate (please don't blame her, it's none of her fault). Just remember that you raised me well and I'm so sorry for all the mistakes I've ever made. Maybe if you're lucky -or unlucky- you will see me again. Goodbye for now. I love you two.

Your daughter, Sierra Baker"

Her writings was in a mess because it was painful evn to wrote a single letter. But after some mistakes here and there, she finally finished her letter.

Two more tears dropped as she stick the letter on her bedroom wall wtih double-sided tape.

Her parents was out of town due to their work for two weeks. Yes, when they read her letter, Sierra will be gone. She hoped not dead yet.

Sighing, she grabbed her school bag from her chair and opened her wardbrobe.

A simple grey jacket, clothes, jeans, shirts, dark-colored leggings and some underwears. All of that she shoved to the bag.

Toileteries, a small box of frist-aid kit, a towel, her pencil case, some paper and a clip-board. She shoved them to the bag too.

It's like packing for some trip, but with her and her best friend's life on the line.

Her eyes caught a large sewing scissors that laid on top of her table. The scissors had many memories from her childhood. She even remembered she cutted herself because it's too later thought, she put it to the bag.

With a grunt, she stood up and slide the heavy bag to her shoulder and began to walk outside.

School bag... huh? So after she forced to leave her parents and her house, she must leave college and gave up her education too? All her friends in the university, she'll never see them again, won't she?

When another tears dropped, she couldn't stop crying. She felt so useless.

From few steps in front of her front door, she turned around to make the last look of her house.

A house she will probably won't step into again. A house she left behind a numerous ammount of her memories. a house that for years, she called home.

And forced to leave it.

Goodbye, home.

TBC.