All I saw was black. Darkness, and pain. I felt as if I was on fire. What had that man done to me? He bit my neck? Like a vampire? No, that couldn't be possible! But, oh, the pain was excruciating! I felt as if I was burning at the stake, and something was flowing through my veins. No, not my blood, but something...poisonous. It lasted, I don't know how long. It could have been minutes, hours, or days, I don't know. I just begged and pleaded with the darkness to stop it, to stop this deadly pain. The darkness scared me more then the pain. What happened to my body? Has anyone found me? Am I in a hospital? Do my parents know? Annie? These thoughts raced through my mind between the pleading.
Then finally the pleading paid off, and the pain ceased, suddenly. I slowly opened my eyes, adjusting to the brightness of day. My eyes?! They changed, I could see clearly, I could see far distances! What's up with my contacts? I thought. I saw color heighten, enhance, and, wow, new colors.
"Oh, my god!" I breathed. Thats when I took in my surroundings. I wasn't in my dear city of Seattle anymore. I was in the country? No, a forest. Is that water moving? Then I heard voices, at least I thought I had. I was alone in a forest, wondering how in the hell I had gotten there. And I was scared out of my freakin' mind.
I looked down at myself, to evaluate what happened after I was bitten. I felt around my body, my arms, legs, bodice. Nothing felt broken or wrong, actually I felt perfectly fine. That's when I realized what I was wearing. Not my little black dress and black flats. But my favorite jeans, my Washington Academy hoodie, my Vans shoes, and my winter coat, which I thought odd since it was the end of August. Looking up at the sky it was overcast, the sun barely coming out of the clouds, but I didn't feel cold nor did I feel hot, I didn't feel anything. I took a deep breath, realizing for the first time I was holding my breath, or really actually breathing at all. My eyes widened in fear, but instead of breaking down in fear, I felt around in my pockets searching for my cell phone and car keys. I first pulled out my keys. "Like, those will help me! I've got no car, or even road!" I hissed to myself. Then I found it. "Aha!" I pulled out my lime green cell, sliding it open. Looking at it I realized I had no service at all. I snarled at it, and shoved it back in my pocket same with my keys. Wait! Did I just snarl? I never snarl, I didn't even know I could! I just shook my head, shaking the odd thought out of my head.
I turned around in a circle, taking in my full surroundings. All I saw were trees and a clearing. I turned back to my original position and stood stock-still listening to the quiet. That's when I heard it. The voices. Yes! They were voices! Instinctively I followed the voices. My pace. I walked fast. I felt as if I was gliding. I wasn't walking at a human pace, but faster, like something else. I slowed to a normal pace, a human pace, but it was too slow, I wasn't getting anywhere. I sped up. The voices were growing clearer, louder. So I sped up more. The clearer and closer the voices came I sped up more until I was flat out running through the clearing into the forest of trees. That's when I realized something horrifying I didn't need to stop and breathe, I wasn't even panting. I was never an all star runner, I was always the slowest and panting about ten minutes into a run. Now, here I am running for who knows how long and how fast and not even needing to stop and catch my breath. I hadn't even fallen yet or tripped over a root. And the trees, I didn't even run into one, it was as if they moved for me, or I instinctively knew where to move to avoid them. Running through the trees their voices were distinct, as if they were talking to me. There were several voices, 10, to be exact and I noticed as I got closer the sound of one heartbeat. Is that a heartbeat? And why is there only one? When there are 10 people talking?! Then there was a clearing, I slowed to human pace. In the middle of this clearing surrounded by trees was a huge house.