ALEXANDRIA'S P.O.V
One Week.
The days seemed to fly by and still no sign of my parents; of my heritage.
I never felt this type of loneliness before. I knew that I hated the thought of finding anything about myself in the past, but now I wanted to know what kind of parents I could have then. I wanted to know a lot of things and so far, there was no clue that could show any proof that they were alive nor any evidence that they even existed.
I felt so alone.
Just like that, that I didn't even notice my birthday was tomorrow until I saw the necklace around my neck while staring at the mirror. Usually, my adopted family, celebrated the day they have found me on their doorsteps as my birthday and I couldn't even be happier; for me, that was also the day my life turned upside down but it wasn't my real birthdate.
The day I celebrated my birthday was when Eric's Parents found me on their doorsteps; into the world with no real parents to guide me, but now I didn't feel sad at all for I knew that they may have a reason. I just didn't know what kind of reason it was or if it was reasonable enough for them to let me go.
The life in the new home was great. I met new friends, new people who were kind enough to come talk to me and welcome me in the community, besides Spade and I were getting closer than what I thought was possible. He was sweet but he had some anger issues, same with the people around me like Marissa, Michael, and the others; mostly the largest population of the town. They were like bi-polar; mad at first then would start laughing out of nowhere.
They were fun to be around, but there was that 'caution' beeping at the back of my mind; alerting me to be wary of my surroundings.
Some of the students from school suddenly walked out of class because of emergency. Now that I thought about it, they would either leave out of anger or in a group ad if they were going in a meeting of some sort.
But that was impossible, because everyone was a part of the whole school. Unless of course, I was just butting my nose into some people's lives.
"Alexandria..?" A voice uttered that snapped me out of my daze.
I blinked a few times only to see a clear view of Spade's face. His eyes stared into mine with nothing but confusion and concern. He was the only one who kept on calling me by my first name and it sure as heck sent pleasure through my whole body.
"Yes?" I mumbled.
"You keep on staring at the space as if something is bugging you, is there something wrong?" He asked.
I sent him a sweet smile. "Everything is fine. I'm just thinking about what will happen when I go back to home."
His eyes widened, making the deep blue orbs look so shocked, disappointed, and pained with yearning. "You're leaving?"
I forced a smile once again but failed, "yeah...."
"Oh..." He responded while he looked down.
I but my lower lip. "Don't worry. It still depends on what will happen," I reasoned, trying to lift his bad mood. I wanted to bite my lip so hard to let blood oozed out for saying such a thing. Why did I even tell him that? I was giving him false hopes for nothing.
"So, you have a chance of staying here then," he mumbled in a deep thought after a moment of silence.
"Maybe," I breathed and quickly pecked his cheek, "bye."
Before he could even look up, I was already out of his car and was running towards my house. My cheeks reddened as I remembered what I just did.
I was such a sneaky little doe for doing that.
I couldn't help but smile as soon as I opened the door and refused to look back, not wanting him to feel smugged of what I had done and to see my flushed face.
As I closed the door behind me, my breath hitched in my throat as I tried not to squeal because of delight. I was like a love-struck girl who had just been noticed by her crush.
Oh God, what was happening to me? I thought to myself and shook my head with a small smile. I took my lazy butt off the way and walked up the stairs to reach my bedroom and see if I could sleep well.
Hopefully, he wouldn't feel so bad tomorrow and leave me. It would make me lose it, I thought and flopped down on my bed with a troubled sigh.
I kissed him, I thought and smiled even though it was only on his cheeks.
Slowly, my eyes fluttered close ad I drifted off to sleep; wishing and hoping that something better would happen tomorrow.
11:48
I blinked a few times as I felt a bad gnawing in the pit of my stomach. I groggily stood up from the bed and gently saw myself walking out of the house, my eyes half-closed because of wanting to go back and sleep once again but my feet were leading me through the woods, far far from the village.
I didn't know what happened next but my feet stopped on its own as my half-awake mind kept screaming for my other mind to wake up. My body was tired and worn out from walking so far; and it only wanted one thing and that was to go back to sleep. So I curled up into a ball and let sleep took me once more on my dreamland.
12:02
My eyes snapped open when I felt something clawing its way out of my body. My mind was full of unknown questions while my body felt like as if it was being ripped apart. My eyes blurred as tears cascaded down to my cheeks, my body shook as I kept myself from screaming.
No more!! I whimpered.
What's happening to me? It hurts. It freaking hurts!
Anyone, someone, please help. I gasped as my back arched because of pain.
No more, I begged.
Make it stop. Please, help me!
My lips parted but no words nor scream came out. My legs were being separated from my thighs, my arms were being pulled back and my stomach felt like as if it was being punched a million times.
It hurts so bad that I almost wished for death to come and take me; that's how painful it was and that's how scary it was.
This pain was the worst thing I had ever felt in my whole life. I would do anything just to stop this pain; this excruciating pain that knocked the breath out of my system.
Please, please no more.
I thrashed back and forth feeling the door towards hell opened. Tears cascaded down my eyes, my back arched in pain, and my chapped lips parted without anything to say.
No more. I can't take it anymore, please end it.
My eyes widened as another streak of pain knocked me out of two seconds' pause.
My arms stretched above my head, my body convulsed because of pain, and my breathing had gone labored. I felt like dying – scratch that – I was dying. All I wanted to do was go back home and feel my family's hug and warmth one more time; hear the sweet hum of lullaby that Althea sings to put me to sleep.
My eyes widened once again.
"Aaaaahhhhhh!!!!!" I screamed as I closed my eyes, while thrashing back and forth on the ground.
Please stop. Please. I kept chanting in my head but nothing would help me ease the pain I was feeling at the moment.
This felt like hell, I thought as I landed on my stomach. I took a deep breath to keep myself calm while opening my eyes slowly.
Before I could fully open them, another hate streaking pain forced its way out of my body leaving me breathless. I saw black dots in my vision and almost hope for death to come but nothing could stop it thus causing pain to find its way to me.
With one last scream, I fell heap on the grass and felt my body weakening because of the amount of pain that enveloped my body. I took deep breaths to steady my beating heart.
What just happened?
When I thought that everything was already done, another pain stabbed me in my back that made me cry out in horror. My face felt like as though the skin was being ripped apart. Fresh tears flowed down from my eyes as I tried to stop myself from shrieking.
When the last horror was done, I could still feel my body shaking in fear and my breathing becoming short gasps. I closed my eyes and felt as though I would pass out any moment.
I tried to stand up using my trembling legs and savored the feeling. A low groan left my lips when I felt my knees buckling beneath me. A tear slid down that I felt like cursing. My body trembled as I tried to wipe the tear that fell down but before I could even wipe the stray tear, my eyes opened and stared at a huge white paw that had long sharp claws inches away from my face.
What the...?