I'm sorry that I didn't post yesterday—I really tried! Unfortunately, I was busy. So here's the chapter that I was going to post but didn't have time to finish. In the future, I'll try to post twice a weekend. This is going to be a short one, but I hope that you enjoy it anyway. Thanks!

Chapter Six: The Darkness

Lin jolted awake. "Where am I?" she asked out loud. It was so dark. She couldn't see anything. She couldn't hear anything either.

She could barely hear the sound of her voice, as though the darkness didn't want to be disturbed. It was almost painful—the weight of the darkness. It felt heavy and thick and like it would never go away.

She looked around herself. There was not even a hint of any light anywhere. Nothing. Her breath got faster. "Help! Can anyone here me?"

There was no answer. Only the pressing silence and darkness that wouldn't go away and seemed as though it wanted to devour her whole. "Please!" she called again. "Anyone! I just need to be out of here!" There was still no response. She started to sob. She remembered a shadow climbing into the bathroom and then there was nothing. She had lost herself for a while, but now she was back. Back and strong again. But it was almost worse than before. It was almost worse than the listless drifting in darkness that had lasted for days—or maybe hours; it was hard to tell—because now she was fully aware of the horrible feelings of alone and hopeless and quiet and dark and awful.

"Shut up, Chosen One," a quiet, low voice came. "We don't need to hear you crying."

"Just let me out!" Lin cried.

"No. We can't risk you ruining everything. You will stay here forever. You can never leave. Not ever."

"B-but…." her voice was choked and strangled and her words were coming out funny.

"No. That's it. Stop talking right now or we'll shut you up ourselves."

Lin gulped. Please don't just leave me here, Alice. You have to find me, she prayed. She stopped crying though, if only so that they didn't "shut her up," which sounded fairly gruesome. What have I gotten myself into? Last week, I was having a shitty summer, at odds with my father, and going to bars just like every other 17 year old, and now I'm stuck here wishing that a vampire, my captor, will come and save me! This is insanity! I hope it's all just a dream... Her thoughts trailed off. She was so scared.

She curled up into a little ball and just as she was starting to drift to sleep again, she realized that she didn't feel anything that you'd usually feel—tired, hungry, the need to use the bathroom—and even though she didn't feel them, she felt as though they should be there. Another realization that she had was that she was falling asleep, even though she felt wide awake. That can't be good, she thought. She usually had trouble falling asleep.