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The echoes of violence outside fill the shed I’ve been stuck
in these last few weeks. It started with gunshots, few and far between but no screams.
The gun shots stopped when someone yelled. From there I would hear more muffled
yells, the occasional explosion and a car crash. It’s chaos out there, but all
seems to be growing closer. I might be able to understand what they’re shouting
if they get closer. I don’t know who’s fighting but I say a silent prayer that
they kill the entire Marson family.
I had given up hope
on anyone coming to save me, or even finding me right when I started
hallucinating, but now seems to be my chance to go free, if only someone can
hear me. I shout and scream with energy I didn’t know I had left. Soon there’s
banging outside the shed door. The moment of freedom is in front of me.
Destiny, a SWAT team sent by Elias, the army sent by my mother, or my father
and his old gun toting buddies. Who came to save me?
The banging
continues. I hear shouting about the lock and not having a key. If it was
someone with the Marson Family they would have a key. I’m really going to be
saved. I’ve waited for this moment, endured, and finally the moment is in front
of me. The banging stops and I’m blinded by the light outside shining in.
“Couldn’t leave without finishing you off,” I recognize Cathy’s
voice.
“Let me go.”
“No, things have gone bad here, and you need to be taken
care of before I move on. They want you alive, but I can’t have you telling
people about me.”
Cathy produces a knife, and almost as if it were in slow
motion she plunges it into my chest. When the blade stops, she pushes forward
with her entire bodyweight. I don’t even feel the pain, I can’t fight back, the
shock freezes me. She could stop there but pulls the blade down my abdomen. The
only thought running through my head is when the pain will kick in. I open my
mouth to scream and nothing comes out. The world around me goes silent, this
isn’t another of her illusions. This is real, I know instantly. I thought I
accepted my death, but here I am not accepting it, trying to fight the void. Fight
the darkness at the edge of my vision. Don’t let it win. Blink it away.
I open my eyes to the ceiling. Destiny staring over me.
“You came for me,” I try to speak the words but it feels
like my mouth is full of some liquid.
Destiny responds with tears in her eyes. I can’t understand,
the tears drop on my face, and I can’t even feel them. She looks remorseful.
“It’s not your fault,” I try to speak again but I can’t hear
myself.
I try to reach her face, but the darkness takes me again.
Kaluga smiles and I open my eyes again. She’s speaking now, but I can’t make
out the words. Probably wants me to stay with her. I’m trying, I am.
I open my eyes to Destiny, drinking blood from my stomach. I
try pushing her away but I can’t seem to move my body anymore.
A burning sensation across my abdomen brings me back from
the darkness. No longer shaking hands with Kaluga.
“San nan san mwen. San nan san mwen. San nan san mwen,” I
can hear her now.
“Hey, I love you,” she ignores me.
“San nan san mwen. San nan san mwen. San nan san mwen.”
She jams her bloodied
wrist into my mouth, I can’t push it away. The taste of blood has become all
too common in my life. Hers is different, sweeter, warm, fresh blood. Not a
good taste. But nothing like before.
“San nan san mwen. San nan san mwen. San nan san mwen,”
those words again.
She grips my mouth and forces more of her blood down my
throat. Tilting my head when I can’t swallow.
“Fun mi ni agbara lati pa awon ota mi,” new words.
“I’m trying to tell you I love you,” I can’t hear my own
words.
“Fun mi ni agbara lati pa awon ota mi,” I still hear what
she’s chanting.
She uses blood to draw some symbols over me. Last rights? I
guess, but I’d rather hear her say she loves me. I can’t blink away the
darkness anymore.
“San nan san mwen. Fun mi ni agbara lati pa awon ota mi,”
yeah whatever you say.
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