(A/N: I've been so busy! Sory for the delay, I know how much you all want to proceed reading the next chapter! And to reward you, here it is!)
Witten by me!
--The chilly breeze
Captures me
In a spell of eternal tears
I have no one, nothing, here
Loneliness is like the jacket I wear
The shadow that stalks me
I swear
It is like the skin I have
I'll never be rid of it
Smiles and laughs
No more
Only the haunting pain and sorrow
The same feeling tomorrow
And forever more--
She rubbed her wrist as the fire, that kept them warmth, crackled.
"How did you know about me?" she monitored him pacing back and forth, snapping the twigs, crushing the dry leaves of the grassy ground.
"Know? I saw." He riddled her with his reply.
She furrowed her eyebrows, thinking.
Yet, she was stumped.
He chuckled.
Seifer had a feeling she wouldn't comprehend his perplexing answer.
"Think on it." He advised her.
She wrapped her arms around her knees as she rocked herself, forward then back, forward then back.
A heavy breeze swept pass them and, unfortunately, blew the fire out.
Its crackling sound slowly died out.
And nothing but wisps of smoke escaped from the burnt logs.
"I knew that wouldn't last long..." he whispered.
Quistis stopped her action when Seifer turned to her.
"I'll search for more wood, stay here. I'll be back ASAP."
He took off.
'This is my chance...' she thought.
Quistis swiftly got to her feet.
She hoped over sharp rocks and pointy twigs, like a mouse avoiding traps, as she flee.
Her distance from him increased farther, and her distance from them grew closer.
'Need to find help. I need to get away from him!' her mind commanded as her heart beat rapidly.
Not once did she pause to catch breath.
Run. Run. Run.
Closer... She was getting closer to a Gas station, she saw the glowing lights.
"I'm almost there!" she shouted with relief as she continued to the road.
The grass and leaves beneath her feat were wet, greasy from oil.
A sharp fall. A sharp pain.
Without notice, Quistis slipped and landed hard on the floor.
She coughed as her eyes burned, tears flowed down her cheeks.
She remembered.
-The attack. She slipped and a shard of glass made way, deeply, into her knee.-
She used the back of her hand to wipe away the tears and rolled over to find her thigh with a large cut, blood oozing from the wound.
"Hyne...please just kill me. End it all. I thought it was bad, but now it's terrible. I hope I get struck by lightning...or shot acidentialy or purposely, I JUST WAN TO DIE!" she cried as the tears excelled faster down her rosy cheeks and she choked.
'No...I must survive. I have to put a criminal in jail. I have to enforce justice.' She told herself.
Bearing all the pain, hauled herself up onto her feet.
'I'm too close to give it all up now.'
She clasped her hand over the wound as she limped onto the road, towards the Gas Station.
Light.
Then a flashback came.
A quick image of the lights of her stolen car, fading into the darkness. It was just before her attack.
In an instant, fear struck her.
'No...no-no I'm safe. I'm fine, I'm fine. I am so close, so close.' She repeated in her mind.
The light blind her as it approached.
'Hyne, please let it not be him...' She prayed.
Not he, however, Rinoa.
"Quistis!? Is that...you!?" Rinoa stepped out of the car, her mouth open.
Quistis didn't respond. The strong feeling of betrayal returned to her and she gave Rinoa the 'back' as she commenced for the Gas Station.
"They're closed!" Rinoa warned in advanced, making Quistis halt.
"You can—Quis...I'm really, REALLY sorry. I feel absolutely terrible about doing that to you. Please, come with me."
Quistis shook her head and laughed, "So, you think, giving me a ride home will convince me enough to forgive you? Fuck yourself. I don't need you if you're going to pull shit like that."
Rinoa smiled.
She was, like, oblivious to the fact that Quistis was telling her to leave.
"You're bleeding; you're in a silk night gown with NO bra on, andddd we're in Dollet. Did you know that? Aren't you the least bit afraid of being attacked? Or did you suddenly come over your paranoia?" she tilted her head to the right.
A well made point.
"....Fine." Quistis, at last, gave in.
Seifer smirked when he saw Quistis no longer there.
'I knew she was gonna leave.'
He threw down the logs and trailed out of the forest.
Quistis made a flaw.
She underestimated Seifer, not a wise choice.
He always had a backup.
Seifer walked the path she had, as he sniffed out her scent, like an animal...
Like a dog.
Like a wolf....
Quistis peered out the window.
Wolves.
"I wonder why there are so many wolves outside of Dollet?" she inquired.
Rinoa stole a glimpse at the wolves, "If you ask me, they should all be hunted down."
"Wow...what a cold thing to say...."
Rinoa did not reply to that, she clearly meant what she had said.
Pure hate.
"Why don't you go to sleep?" Rinoa implied.
Only, she was late.
Quistis soundlessly slept as Rinoa drove down a misty path, dim path....
The path to Quistis's nightmares.
---Not satisfied? Yeah, I know it sucks....BUTT!!! The next chapter will be the key to the whole story, so if you want your questions answered, stay tuned!