I lay in the snow, slowly sinking in a bit, the snow outlining my whole body, my fingers shaking and my hair outspread around me, not to mention my lips a cold light blue colour and my eyes big and round, but the original color of them dulled from my lack of sleep and more in general.
The snow storms lightly falling and decorating me and my friends as we all lay there in the middle of the snow under a withered tree that's offering us no protection. The snow flurries that are falling around us are beautiful, no two snowflakes the same, just spinning and glittering in the process.
I take a breath out, watching my cold breath mix with the frozen air once it leaves the safety of my mouth. I turn my head ever so slightly to gaze upon Kelsey body and face that is close to mine, her hair is outspread, no longer in two pigtails and her lips blue are blue too, eyes big and dulled, fingers barely moving and she's decorated by snowflakes along the layer of her clothing.
I look a few steps away from us at Avery and Cloud. They are in the same position as us, decorated by snow flurries, but are so much further gone than me and Kelsey.
Their skin is silver and their lips bright blue, eyes closed, but their chests rising and fallen every few seconds to indicate their last fleeting seconds upon them.
Were all going to die out here. It won't be much longer and then we can just all drift away into the frozen oblivion of the cold together.
"V-Valerie..." Kelsey whispers next to me, trying to roll over and lean on my shoulder. We grasp each-others hand, fingers locking, but shaking still from the cold. She rests her head on my shoulder.
"T-the t-temperature is d-dropping."
"I-I know. It's dark out too and I-I don't know why. Why did this have to be w-where we e-ended up?"
"At l-least were together."
"Y-yes, we are.
"Valerie, I-I know y-you think were not friends, b-but I wanted you to know that I consider you a friend and I look up to you too. You're a role model for s-so many p-people.
A highlighter in the darkness."
"You think that of me?"
"I-I do."
"I've been jealous of you, Kelsey. It's hard t-to explain out here, but I want you to know that I d-don't hate you.
It's going to be over for us soon and w-we can drift away into oblivion's together, friend."
"W-what? I-I don't understand..."
"I'm in love with Louis."
She doesn't answer me. "Kelsey!" I cry out, seeing her eyes drop closed.
"Kelsey! Wake u-up, please!" I manage to cry again, unable to move from the cold to try and wake her up again. I feel tears run down my cheeks.
Her chest is falling and rising only now. It won't be much longer for me now. I lean my head slightly next to hers, just staring up at the snow falling. The aurora is out, it's beautiful.
You can can see a single moon and it has a silver outline around it, but the center a faded black. It's all truly beautiful this world, but also deadly.
I don't want us to die here, I don't want to die here, but there's nothing I can do and no one's out here, but us.
No one's going to be able save us either. Not even a good. So much for Kiki.
It's time I accepted my fate and I breathe out one final breath and let my eye lids close feeling the snow flurry land upon them, gently. I feel myself drifting away to be ready to let my soul depart from my body and this world, but without knowing why. I snap and try one last minute ditch attempt to survive and I cry out out for anyone, someone to help us.
Anyone, someone to help me, eyes still closed. I don't give up ever and fight to the end so maybe that is why...
"Help, somebody help us, please! Were going to die out here and it's cold! Two of my friends have been out for hours and Kelsey just fell asleep! I'm the last one left!
"Valerie Woods!"
My eyes snap open, all my senses being flooded. I see a bright white light above me and a blue butterfly is floating there.
"It's okay, reach for me."
I try to move my arm to raise it, but it feels stiff and I can't. Sitting up is also impossible.
"You can do this, Valerie. I know you can, you're stronger than you realize. You gave up once so don't make the same mistake twice in giving up!"
"W-who are you?" I ask.
The voice doesn't respond and then I feel light-headed, weight-less. I see I managed to raise my arm up to extend it towards the butterfly, but I realize my arm is ghostly and my real arm is still stuck beside my body.
"Valerie, come to me, please! You know me! Don't give up, there is morr than meets the eye here!" The voice begs. I grit my teeth and manage to touch the edge of the butterfly's wings. They're soft and the light explodes, the butterfly apart of it.
As I lay there, breathing differently, I feel like I can breathe easily, like my powers are flowing through
I see the world around me glitch out slightly by fading or pulsing and there is coloured crack-like shapes.
I see my friends are fading in and out with the world. Then it hits me. I gulp. Multiple outcomes. For some reason I'm shifting between the possible realities of this world.
If I'm hopping, how do I stop? If I manage to stay in one, what happens to me? I don't know enough about this and fate changing, our destiny's, is it noticeable to my friends or just to me?!
Then I hear a cracking sound and the world halts from changing.
"You're looking a little cold right there, Sprout."
No... "S-Sebastian! I choke out and my chest heaving in pain to see him standing there, wrapped up in a purple coat, but his blurry.
"Are you doing this?" I ask.
"Doing what?" He responds puzzled. Either his lying and playing dumb or he must not be affected by what I'm going through, but how? He and his wife are so superior to me...
He chuckles, smirking at me. "K-Kelsey! Help her! S-she's out, she passed out!" I cry, blinking back tears to see Kelsey has re-appeared.
I see him nod and I see Rain appears wrapped up in a white coat and approaches Kelsey, placing her arm behind her back, bringing her into a sitting position and pulls out a coat for her from nowhere, then wraps a scarf around her neck and slides a beanie over her flyaway, loose blonde hair.
She then walks out of sight with her.
"W-where are you taking her?!" I choke out, but Sebastian just smirks at me, saying nothing and I see they have back-up. I didn't see them with back-up earlier. Ricky carries Cloud and Paige carries Avery.
"Are they alive?" I beg, straining.
"Their pulse is low, breathing shallow, but they're alive." Paige answers.
Sebastian fobs her off with a hand signal. I watch as he bends down on his knee close to me and brings his hand out, stroking and playing with my raven hair, messing it up a bit for a few seconds. His eyes looking longingly, but he says nothing.
I turn my head away from him, but his hand firmly grips the side of my chin, forcing me to look at him again and he folds his arms to rest on his knees. I spit at him and he wipes it off with his sleeve, only slight annoyance on his race
"You are not in the position to be making demands, Valerie. Let me tell you something. I always win."
I watch him reach into his coat pocket and he pulls something out. A sharp needle and it's full with a pale pink liquid and rests it on his lap.
"Now let me tell you something, Sprout. I could just leave you out here in this snow storm. Your body is not going to last much longer and just take your friends and my family back to the community alone without you or I could inject you, knocking you out so you are 'co-operative' back with your Friends to the community.
What's it gonna be?"
I grit my teeth, thinking it over. Do I want to die out here, standing up for what I believe in or give in and live to see another day?
"W-what will y-you do to m-me if I come back with y-you?"
"Don't know. Say yes and find out."
"But how will I know if you will keep your word?"
"I guess you'll just have to find out, Valerie. You can say, 'no' if you don't trust me or trust me and find out if I keep my word. It's your choice, Sprout.*
I blink tears away from my eyes and I see him stand up away from me. "You're taking too long to choose. I hope your 'happy and content' with your decision." He says walking away to get back on his snow mobile and placing the needle away.
"W-wait!" I cry out, willing myself to move through the thick, cold layer of snow that I fall onto my stomach, crawling on all fours towards him. He climbs off his snow mobile, clapping his hands.
"There we go! Just what I wanted to see. Now you are playing MY game. You're a natural and perfect for other plans too! You have a fighting spirit despite thinking you don't possess one."
He leans down to me, roughly pulling me onto my feet, but then pushes me down that I fall flat on my back in the snow again. "Do you want us to put her in the back of the truck with the rest?" I hear Ricky ask, walking over to Sebastian.
"Nah, this one's mine. Lock it up and move out." He says and Ricky nods, leaving.
"Well, Valerie. It's time to find out if I keep my word." He says, walking over and roughly gripping my arm, pulling my sleeve up that my arm is exposed and presses the needle down, then pulls it out.
I feel him pull my sleeve down and lift me up. This could be worse... He could have sedated me and left me in the snow and I feel him place me on the front of his snow mobile and he takes a seat behind me, placing his arms on either side of me to grip the handle bars of the snow mobile. There is a lack of space between us.
"Keep your legs up while I drive." I hear him caution or should I say, 'order' and I place them on the space available where you put your feet. It's cold and he hasn't given me a coat or anything like they gave Kelsey or the rest of my friends.
I feel the snow mobile start up and we start driving, snow flying everywhere as we take off back towards, 'home".
They should have just thrown me in with my friends, but I guess they wanted me to suffer a bit and so that Sebastian could keep a close, personal eye on me. Creep.
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