My eyes open slowly. I can feel pain on my head, but otherwise nothing is wrong. It's like Juniper never knocked me out. But I can tell its not true the moment she leans her head over me.

" She's awa - "

before she gets a chance to finish her sentence, I sit up and immediately grab her in a wrestlers hold. Still holding Juniper in one hand, I look around my new surroundings. What I thought was a jail cell is actually a car, and there is rain rain pouring and lighting flashing outside. I can only see the siluette of the driver.

" Where am I? "

I ask the flailing Juniper, who had been stubbornly waving around her little fists all this time. She makes a mfffffff sound, telling me I'd covered her mouth. I loosen my grip, and she sits back, eyeing me warily.

" Don't do that again, "

she growls. Then she said,

" In a car, as you can see. "

" Really? Gee, I didn't know that. "

I roll my eyes.

" Fine! Where in the middle of no-where, heading to- "

" Girls! "

the driver calls out. It's my mum! The fact almost sends my head spinning again.

" Mum, what are we doing here? "

she just shakes her head and keeps driving. I notice she's driving so fast, any police man with any common sense would arrest her on the spot. So we really were in the middle of no-where...

Suddenly, I see a shape, a fluttering form, almost bash I to the car. But my mum must have seen it, too, because she gasps and swerves to avoid it. We lose I in the storm.

" What was that? "

But mum, instead of answering, mutters:

" Just another mile. Please, please, please, just let me get there. Just let us get there. "

I didn't know where ' there ' was, but I found myself leaning forward in my seat, wanting us to arrive. The dark shape had really freaked me out.

" Juniper, where exactly-? "

I say, but then, our car explodes.

I feel the feeling of weightlessness, cold rain and the impending sense of doom as we fly through the air. Then I crash onto something and realize that the car hadn't exploded. But lightning had made a large crater in the roof, at the same time as throwing us off-course into a ditch. I peel my forehead of the seat in front and mutter " Ow. " Then I look over at Juniper. She has a deep gash on her leg, and her forehead is oozing green - wait, green blood? That can't be right. I look again. Yes, there is definitely green blood, coming both from her leg and her head. Weird.

" Hailey! Get out, now, and run! There is a farm house over the hill. Somewhat close to the farmhouse will be a pine tree. There will be something glittery on it. Run past it, it is the property line. Then get help as soon as possible. Run! Go! "

shrieks mother hyrestically as she pulls with all her might on the door handle. It breaks off.

" GO! "

she yells again. I sit stubbornly in my seat.

" I'm not going any where without you two."

I say. She looks at me like I'm mad. Come to think of it, I probably am.

Instead of saving my self, I grabbed the door handle, managed to open the door, and dragged out Juniper. Then I ran around the other side of the car to help mum. I pulled on the door until it broke, then grabbed mum and got her to help me carry my friend. She was surprisingly light, but I still wouldn't have gotten far if mum didn't help. Together, we dragged her up the hill, and kept going. I saw the pine tree my mum had been talking about, and the farmhouse. But that was still a whole he yard away. And then I heard the snarl. And it's coming from right behind me.