CHAPTER #1. ~ Run!
Nella was on her way home from the funeral of her late parents and younger brother.
Being left all alone in a world where she had no friends or surviving family, Nella walked around the city aimlessly hoping to come up with something in her now bleak and hollow world which had any ray of hope in it.
However, it seemed like fortune was against her and misfortune for her as she found none. She continued on caring less of what was around her or of where she was going. She was so lost in her own world oblivious of all save her sorry and current pitiful condition in life.
She had already graduated from high school back when she was 15 (I wish I could do that!) and had since then been practicing her acting and more specifically her stunt acting. So she at least had some way to survive, although she saw no way in finding work without someone to paying the bills for the hospitals which had accumulated over the various times in the last 2-3 threes she had been herself in and out of the hospital not to mention the three days her younger brother had been under constant care until he finally succumbed to his injuries.
Nella involuntarily shuddered as she remembers how he had ended up in that condition. She wished she wouldn't remember it but try as she might she was sure she would never forget being forced to watch someone attempt to take the lives of her family right before her very own eyes.
Bringing her hands up to her faces, she inspected the still noticeable rope burns around her wrists where she had been tied up by her family's assailant within two to three meters from them and completely powerless to help them. She had never felt as powerless as she had felt in the last three weeks of her life. Completely useless when it came to helping save her family.
She was useless. She kept telling herself until she was suddenly startled out of her reminisces by a feeling like something or more someone was watching her.
Taking alarm, she started running in the general direction of a park near-by hoping to lose whoever it was in the trees of the park. Yet, when she reached the park, no matter how fast she ran; how many turns she took; nor how many times she tried to backtrack on herself, her pursuer seemed to slowly gain on her. But that wasn't what scared her the most. What scared her the most was that it didn't sound like only one person chasing her but more like three persons were.
Getting desperate, she put on a sudden burst of speed before finding that there was nothing under her left foot and fell down about a foot or so onto uneven ground buckling her left knee in the process and rendering herself now helpless and with no possibility of escape...