Summary: Finally giving up on herself, Sara wished it would all end. Her dreams had been broken, her family had been torn apart; what did she have to live for anyway? Hoping the river would save her from her suffering, she decided to just let it all go; to just jump in - the water would do the rest. But what's that in the shadows...?
Chapter One "Can't stand it anymore…."
Lights from the town get dimmer and dimmer, as the girl walks away from the town. Silent tears roll down her face as she looks down from upon the bridge she has come too.
The words "why did you have to leave me..." come silently from her now purple lips in-between sobs, as she descends over the railing, and stands at the edge of the river, then she slowly sits down, letting her legs hang over the water.
The water ripples, and the splashes onto the rocks at the side. Mist comes up and sprinkles her pale face, with its cold breath. The girl takes off her mittens, but not before seeing the words "I love you Sara" sown into the lining, and sets them on the damp ground beside her.
Her mind goes back to the day her mother had given her the mittens, and then to the day her mother, her only friend, had been taken from her. It was raining that night, and her mother had taken Josh, and gone to pick up John from a friend's house just out side of town.
The police had said that her mother had swerved out of the way, not too hit a deer, and the car crashed into a pole, just above the river. John had been killed instantly; a piece on the windshield had flown off and killed him. The only thing that bothered the girl, Sara was that her mothers and other brother, Josh's, bodies were no longer there, nor anywhere else. Sara had spent long endless hours, telling them the bodies had to be somewhere, but after months of searching, they were never found.
Her father, and two other brothers, Mike and Steven, had seemed not too care, and instead of letting any of their anger go, they held it in till today. Sara's body ached from all the beatings inflicted upon her.
The multiple cuts that she had done to herself in the last year, had been seen by her father, and the beating only got worse from there. Her wrists had been tied, chains cutting into her, and her brothers had been told by her father that she liked to cut, and had began to cut open the arms, legs, and abdomen, until she had fallen to sleep from blood loss.
Pain shoots up her spine, and she looked down, and seen the cuts on her stomach had opened up, and now were bleeding through her thin black shirt. She closed her eyes, and put her hand onto her cuts, to try to stop the bleeding, as she slowly, and carefully stood up.
She looked over and into the shadows before her, just beyond the water, wondering what lurking in them. A cold chill seeps up her spine, and she shivered, watching the sun peeking over the horizon.
She began to think about who she was, what reason she actually lived everyday. I had never been the one in the popular crowd, never the one who spoke for her self, she thought, always alone, never having anyone to protect me except my mother, who was no longer there. No friends to count on for those little girl talks, they seem to have, or those day trips to the mall to seek out the boys, they had dreamt about, that they wished would give them they're first kiss.
Her mind wonders off as she thinks of those things she had never a chance to experience as her eyes dart back to the shadows, as she sees something move in the darkness out of the corner of her eye.
Small piercing yellow, almost white eyes look at her from within, and slowly come closer. Her heart starts to race, and sees a black figure start to come out of the shadows, running toward her.
"Their going to stop me… I need to get out!" Words like these race in her mind as she quickly closes her eyes, spreads her arms out, and let's go, waiting for the cold water to absorb her.
Only then did she feel two strong arms wrap around her, and heard the words "Join me in death.." in her mind, as she felt pain shoot up her neck as something dug into it, and a cold hand cover her eyes, as she fell into darkness…