I did not wake up the next day.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ53SUWaarRh
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSJiZvRPdL
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcme7U2R9b5
For a very long time, I was dragged beneath a heavy veil of senselessness. A wintry breath whispered across my limbs, easing the numbness on my skin. In the darkness of my coma, I heard only my own sharp inhalations; deep, sporadic. Echoes of distant visions blurred my mind, drowning me in its icy embrace. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVksCbSAYFq
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjhNeuGSGp
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1FXdCL57O
They were as cold as frost. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2RB8wa1EnY
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSBHl8EXxa
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNGQ1P1Pa0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxyUAvplBK
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8pWE0hlEc
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVMSOpJEfd
I remember standing in the backyard of my house. The last whisps of faint summer wind brushing against distant trees. I remember the cobalt blue of the sky. Ushering a tranquility as deep as the evening ocean. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡagmOAF3TdZ
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡINf5LDoZ9E
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PDDFlpwGl
I recall staring at my own shadow, trying to hide the countless wounds that I knew I would never forget. A smoky sky grumbled coldly above me, bringing forth a state of numbness.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡonlvdaqR0f
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpMnYLBVAGT
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxVOfh9730
In the distance, a lone light from a cigarette shone, its smoke trailing the wind. Then, long, slow exhales twined through the air, accompanied by hoarse breathing. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVrEc8Cy5P
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3OtRFcHJ5
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqyG62bjhg
I don't really know when the nightmare truly began.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIkUCTGAgI
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0savTAH28p
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LHepBoETM
Perhaps it was when I heard the resonance of that cold, embittered laugh, one that seemed to twist through my flesh and into the inner heart. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu0AFjQCJHx
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCB56Nghgnf
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCvg0j1X0nl
Perhaps it was when I heard her screams. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgcLPQOxy58
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbjC4kcgNGb
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiiPhpDUNVv
I felt terror, like the dreadful Arctic cold, sear me like blistering fire. They crippled my body, etching and coiling deep within my chest. At that time, I still wasn't used to this kind of fear. I remember convincing myself that everything would be fine, although I knew that wasn't true. My mother never screams. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXveABKiPC
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNaW8MndXv5
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXMNuLnYR7
The next thing I knew, I was rushing desperately towards the front door of the house. It was bolted shut. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptaXeJHgt5
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPeAbWNIUh
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ89JPRzWYZ3
My body was drenched in cold sweat. I would never forget stumbling around the locked house, crying out my mother's name. Dread melted and thawed within my heart with every step. When I finally lurched in from the back entrance, scanning the dark interiors of the household, everything had become strangely quiet again. It was almost if I had imagined those screams.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfcCO6rYzl
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZRpBur4Nz
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2synn58hdB
A sudden, bitter feeling gushed to my heart. The living room was drenched in a murky gloom, one that seemed to replace the air of normality previously prowling in its expanse. Something was bizarre about the house, making me instantly nauseous. I scanned all intersections of the living room, yet nothing was amiss.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ZCW4SIwad
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjl8KAa3sve
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4fjYN2AoQ
And then I turned to my mother's bedroom. And I see---147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlZYctSeYuo
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jAEIqGcC1
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpK8TxilQT
Crimson. Writhing across the grey carpet. It was a familiar shade, almost too familiar... I closed my eyes, tried to convince myself that it was just paint, paint I used to create illusions of----147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8wTCJsCDVG
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGUMTIokI9s
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdYI0uzyau
Blood.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡetzAroydYk
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡivTta2mcSU
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmJbsRFb8f
It was a dimly illuminated room. My mother was curled up by the bedside, shivering. Blood spurted wildly across her hair, threatening to spill across the apron she wore across her chest. As I entered, she looked up, her eyes entrapped with a look almost devoid of feeling. It was the same feeling that punctured my mind now; paralyzing, drowning, suffocating me. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Oq3tw05KW
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwzMoKE5jXF
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaKewkuXvcH
Nothing.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdsr62dldw
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMvuRb6XPs
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDFwWrF8Fp0
Her arms reached towards me unsteadily, her fingers involuntarily grasped mine, as she benumbed me with that similar unfeeling gaze. I knew that look. It was the remnant of an empty shell, one crippled raw by terror and hopelessness. My heart raced as she slowly touched her tender lips to my cheek.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCGjWcv9hl
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvo4TGvtff
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG2tJjjI4Jx
"What happened?" I urged, terror creeping upon me again at the ghastly sight of blood. She didn't reply to my urgent cries, and only brought me closer towards her, until we were in a stiff embrace. I trembled at her warm touch. I was so close that I could smell the fiery scent of her blood. It was creeping down her own soaked clothes, and dripping onto mine.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPvY154OWB
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFEk8bYJ2n
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNByOjK3JgQ
"Lily," she whispered feebly, clutching me against her chest, "just tell me one thing. Promise me that you'll be silent about this. Please." She embraced me tighter, and an acidic premonition rushed to my heart. I wiped the tears streaming down her cheeks, as she attempted to draw out those last, despairing words. "Get away from here, Lily, and tell no one."147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSHINt1rV6
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8hCtmrVMuC
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYX3z7d6hB
I gazed, perplexed, at her curled composure before me. She suddenly seemed so strange and distant. It was almost as if she had left me. I wanted to reach out and touch her, but something held me back.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjB0spHPcTj
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡop5qCTpWFO
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ25yUDUayzP
I endeavoured to protest, but she only shook her head, terror scintillating in the deep ocean blue of her eyes. "Go," She whispered."When they come, just say that I've killed myself. You can do that, can't you?" 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTCeD2Fl7Z
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEH4pCDlPG
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbwlmvQdv5M
I remember staring fixedly at the growing cascades of blood, immobilized by shock and desperation. The curtains in the room were drawn; my surroundings were blanketed in gloom. It was so dark I could almost convince myself that the gory lines feathering across the blotched carpet could've been nothing but paint. Nothing but an illusion.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLkzEQSw3R
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8e4eZdyZNe
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWB9nJLyzH
The next thing I knew, my mother was quivering in an excruciating, breathless state. Her lips were trembling rhythmically, yet I could tell she was trying to say something beneath her breath. But before she could finish, a terrible spasm constricted her mouth, and at last, a lonesome tear slithered out from her eye. I was able to make out the final sentence she whispered, although it was stifled in pain.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZdMLVFMmJ
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6QlUaa3X9V
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9HLkBWXty
"I... I love you, Lily."147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMjk7dRFaU
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvSDDU9ZT6
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTecLzbYQRR
After that, everything ended quickly. The spasm that clenched her body died away, and her tremulous breathing drained into silence. I was sitting cross-legged on the floor, facing away from my mother, yet I could envision everything that had happened. Her painful, despairing struggle, which soon ceased into ice-cold lifelessness. I was scared to look back at her figure one last time. Outside, the ambience of wind and growing rain thrummed against the roof of the house, indifferent to the tragedy that had just left a blotch in my heart.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByr7SqFuWd
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKVM8WjhN5
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxR9KJdJlFj
Very soon, after my mother's tragic death, I heard ear-splitting sirens resonating outside the house. I recall standing in the backyard with my father, gazing coldly at the sun that was now shrouded by dark, intimidating clouds. At the rain that now pummeled down a smoke-grey sky, like all the tears sealed inside me. My father's eyes were drenched in sombre darkness, yet I could interpret a hue of bitter insanity clouded behind his stony expression. I ignored his dazed look, and buried myself in the dreary shadow of the clouds. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNGHX3nbufB
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpvi6cd15kG
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjv5BBnuAD
It was only at the last moment that I registered my glistening apparel, now snaked and doused with crimson blood. My mother's blood. A voice inside me screamed and mocked and hissed, as though rising from the ashes and attempting to swallow me whole.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd4vxUmWm2t
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhttQtlflF2
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbEAeUAwcqF
You left her there to die.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJzmL3jYakd
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjldj7XR8HQ
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjIjN6ZqG6w
You killed her.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAB6eEEmSp
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXneySzfKND
147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZ2dm1zhHi
I feared that it was true.
ns 15.158.61.6da2
