Callie White.

Whispers. That's all I am hearing now. I looked around the dark, but I just saw nobody.
I held my knees near me as I shivered in the cold night. And I tried to remember what happened this morning to cause all of this disaster.

"Callie !" someone screamed my name while I was reading one of my favourite book for the fifth time on my bench, bathing in the sun. I looked up from my book with a frown on my face wondering who could disturb me at the best part of the book. Far away there was a silhouette running toward me and as it approached I recognised those familiar blond hairs. It was one of my good friends, Belle. She stood in front of me smiling from head to toes. I scrunched up my nose waiting for whatever she had to tell me that looked so exciting.

"Guess what!" She squealed.

"No" I sighed.

Belle pouted but then her pout turned to a smirk "Well alright then I won't tell you where the group's going tonight.. did you know Ed was coming with us?" I slightly widened my eyes as his name left her lips. Ed was a very charming guy with breathtaking eyes, every girl were head over heels for him and I was one of them. "Ed..?" I whispered, suddenly feeling little in front of Belle. I never was the bubbly type or the courageous one. For being 17 years old I had a very petite height and people would usually treat me like a child because I always stayed away from any trouble or fight. I had long brownish hair and boring blue eyes, I never really felt proud of my appearance. I was plain and boring, I didn't have a large chest, I didn't have the perfect curves or the slim body, I didn't have the wavy hair and the sparkly eyes and I definitely wasn't Belle.
Belle was a gorgeous 17 years old woman, she had everything I didn't have. The curves, the wavy hair, the sparkly green eyes, the slim body, the bubbly personality. She always loved hanging out with the other teens, chasing some innocent animals to eat it in front of a firewood telling stories with her friends. She loved challenges so when someone dared her to do something she would do it. She was that badass type of girl, the one who wasn't afraid of doing something, the one walking around with her black leather jacket and her skinny jeans with the black boots and black eyeliner under her eyes. But that wasn't all, she was also a great fighter, she was one of the best actually. All of our teachers praised her and she never missed her target. While fighting, you would think she's actually dancing. Her gestures were perfectly calculated and so elegant that you would just dreamily look at her. No wonder all the boys flirt with her.
But even though she was in the popular group, she loved to hang out with me. Apparently I had something "special" in me as she said. And that's why she likes talking to me even though I have a very soft voice and I don't talk much. Belle always tried to make me interact with her friends but her friends and I weren't from the same world. They were born fighters, courageous, gorgeous, loud and I was a coward, fragile, shy and boring girl. But there was someone in her group that I always admired and it was Ed. With his blonde hair and his brown eyes.. He would always help the weaker ones and be the mature one in the group, trying to keep his friends calm. I remember when I met him, it was a cloudy day and a storm was about to come, I was assigned to take off the clothes from the dryer which was in a small cabin far away from my home. I had trouble holding the basket and as a thunder came I jumped, surprised, making the basket full of clothes fall. Ed was passing by and as he saw the clothes on the floor he rushed to me helping me to clean everything and accompanied me back home. Since then I always felt uneasy next to him as my heart raced and my mind blanked out. But Ed wasn't always part of the group, he liked to be alone and do stuff that nobody really knows what is it. So when he was in the group and Belle was asking me to come with them I would agree and stay out of the group watching all of their movements.
And when Belle told me Ed was coming tonight, I felt angry at myself as I agreed.

Everything went alright tonight, the group was complete, everyone was here. I recognised some faces. Someone that I didn't know explained that we were going to get out of the limits to explore around. I opened my mouth but then I closed it back, I wanted to protest but I didn't have the courage for it. Our village contained only a hundred of people, we were a small community with lots of trouble surviving in the wild. For that we found a safe place where the monsters weren't that plenty and the council had set limits around our village to keep us away from the danger. Whenever some tried to get pass the limits they would get caught by our lookouts. Everyone knew that the council was keeping stuff from us but we never really knew what and that's why the group was encouraged to pass the limits. They planned to trick the three lookouts that were assigned this night and we would search for anything weird. We walked for at least a good ten minutes until we reached the big wood gates. The group made their way toward the gate and someone took out of his bag a little stick and stuck something in it. He took the stick to his mouth and just blowed in it. Something went toward the three lookouts that were all on the floor after three seconds. We went outside and everything went well for a long moment. I was walking in the back while the group was laughing loudly while walking. Belle threw some glances at me, making sure I wasn't danger. I sighed as I stuck my hands in my pockets, kicking a rock as I walked. I had no excitement in me, I just wanted to be in my small bed and do nothing. I then felt a presence next to me and I looked up to see Ed. I widened my eyes as I straightly stared at the ground, losing my voice as my mind went crazy.

"Pretty hot for a summer night isn't it?" Ed asked out of the blue. I looked up at him to only see him looking straight into my eyes, I blushed as I softly said "Yeah.. it is.." I folded my arms together feeling naked next to him as I walked on trying to keep up with the others pace.

"Let me guess, Belle forced you to come?" He asked. I nodded, not daring to look up. We walked on in a complete silence for a good hour until everyone came to a stop in front of a river.
Someone, surely the leader of the night loudly said

"We have to swim pass the river or we will never reach the pit guys. So take of your shoes and anything that's valuable and let's hide it somewhere until we come back alright?"
Everyone cheered a yes as they took of their shoes and their most valuable stuff. Girls were taking off their earrings or their bracelets as boys took off their dog-tag and put everything behind a large rock. Everyone started to get in the river as I stood near the shore. Belle came next to me, patting on my shoulder "Do you want me to help you?" I shook my head, swatting my hand.

"No it's fine, I think I can do this.."
Belle nodded and smiled looking at me

"So.. You and Ed huh? Getting cozy?" I madly blushed as I fiddled with my fingers.

"He was just..talking to me." I whispered.

"Well I think that he's interested in you!" She said, laughing at my reaction. She jumped in the water swimming after the others as I slowly entered.

I was nearly at the other side when I felt something grabbing my feet and taking me under the water. I opened my eyes widely but then shut them fast as water circled me. I hold my breath as I kicked everywhere, going crazy. I started to panic as the hand didn't let go. But then it did when I nearly fell into darkness and something took me out of the water. I didn't hear quite well and my vision was blurry but I heard faint screams and I saw blurred bodies around me, which made me nervous as I backed up into the arms of my saver. I could hear a bit of their conversation as my hearing came back.

"What are you?! Mad?! Who does that kind of joke to someone?! She would've died! You JERK!" Belle screamed.

A guy screamed back

"If we can't even take a joke lightly now! That girl is just slowing down and I wanted to make a little joke! Why did you even bring her?!"

"Because she wanted to see Ed!" She retorted but then closed her mouth, her eyes wide open.

"Oh my god..Callie..I.." But I quickly stood up, feeling quickly dizzy. I took a look at my saver and I gasped as I saw it was Ed, who looked back at me with confusing eyes. "Why did you come for me?" He asked.

"I..huh..I.." I stuttered, trying desperately to find something to say, but words wouldn't come and I needed some and fast.

A girl said in a mocking tone "Because she looooove you"

Ed looked back at me "Is it true Callie?"

I sharply breathed as I started to feel my eyes getting glassy. Soon enough I was bawling and running away from the shoutings. Belle tried to run after me but I was too fast, which is weird because I've never been that fast. I quickly found a place in a little corner near a rock, in the dark. I sat there and just cried for hours.

Now my tears didn't come and I had nothing to do. I was mocked by the group, they never accepted me, they just let me come with them because Belle pleaded them to. Belle revealed that I liked Ed, Ed knows. Everyone knows. I shacked as I looked at my surrounding but seeing nothing but darkness. What was I supposed to do? Wait for the others to come? I didn't know my way back home and if I came back they would notice me and just put all the blame on me. So I decided I would stay here until someone comes. But I dreaded that moment as I didn't want to see any of these people, mostly Ed or Belle. And even though I didn't want to see them, I needed to. Because the hunger soon came and I had nothing to eat.
The only sound was the soft water flowing in the river. But then I saw a shadow and I backed up against the rock as I trembled in fear, what if it was one of these big monsters they were telling about?
But that shadow was small, or maybe it was just lying on the floor. And it didn't move. Took by curiosity I got up and slowly, very slowly, made my way toward the shadow.
The shadow was a body, lying on the floor, lifeless, but breathing. It was a guy, with wet clothes sticking to his body and looked pretty. I stood there for a long moment just looking at him, not knowing what to do. And then, he slowly opened is eyes, looked around, and his eyes finally landed on mines. He starred at me for a very long moment until he said four words after going back into his deep sleep.

"Hi, I am Al."