Dark Days by Di-Di Lewis (fb2 epub reader .TXT) 📕

that,” I said heartlessly, her eyes widened in fear, “and I bet you don’t believe me.”
“I believe you, please don’t kill me. I’ll stop it, I promise.” She swore.
I still didn’t trust her, but I was going to have to. “OK, you are safe, for now, at least. You’d better not try anything, and if you do, you’re dead.”
“Can you go now?” she asked politely, her voice choking.
“Fine, but only because you asked and didn’t demand it of me,” I said, walking out the door. I jumped, and didn’t go back down. I traveled back to my room, Kandy waiting there like the wonderful friend that she is.
I ran up an hugged her, I didn’t let her go, she wrapped her tender arms around me and started crying. Then I pulled back, my hands on her shoulders, “What’s wrong? You’re crying.”
“You’re leaving, that’s why I’m crying,” she weeped, wiping the tears from her face.
“Why would I be leaving?” I asked her.
“She let you go, didn’t she?” she asked me, “I mean, that’s why she called you down there right?”
“No, she just called me down there supposedly to use up my energy. Why would she release me?”
“She told me that when she called you on your fourteenth week that you would be released, that you would be let go, that she would let you…” I cut her off.
“How would you know that? Why would you know that?” I accused her.
“I just know things, OK, it’s not my fault that that witch tells me everything,” she quickly covered her mouth, “oops, I shouldn’t have said that, should I?”
“Wait a second, if she tells you everything, then you should know where my brother is, do you? I’m not asking you, tell me if you know where my brother is.” I demanded.
“I-I’m sorry, but I don’t know where your brother is, I don’t know where James is, I’m sorry.”
“You don’t mean it, I know you’re lying, you’ve been lying to me this whole time!” her eyes widened, she was scared, as she will always be, as she always has been, she knew something like this was going to happen.
“What’s happening to you? Why are you doing this?” she asked, voice shaking. Her face grew pale, along with the rest of her, her hair fell straight down, her eyes widened, her lips thinned, she started changing, shrinking, growing wrinkly. I started backing away from her, she was creeping me out, what else had she been keeping from me? What else has she been hiding? Most importantly, why? Why has she been hiding these things from me?
She looked at me, “I’m sorry, I really am… I didn’t mean to hurt anyone.” Her eyes, her deep, blue, sad eyes, just looking at me, sorry, saying sorry, there was no way that I couldn’t forgive her for what she had done.
I slowly shook my head, how could she do that to me, she was wrong to do such a thing. I backed away from her. “I have to go, I’m sorry, but I have to go, I’m going to find my brother. Stay here, and don’t follow me. I mean it Kandy, don’t follow me.”
She sat down, her eyes filling with tears, “Don’t do this to me, please, why are you making me stay here when you get to go on an exciting adventure? You promised me, you promised that you would get us both out, don’t leave me here Arianna.” She called out as I closed the red hot door behind me. The tears were already coming, I had to leave her, she lied to me. She wasn’t as good a friend as I had hoped she’d be, she was a lot worse. I had promised her that I would take her with me when I had found a way out of this horrid place, and I was not one to break my promises. Shakily I sat down, it was worthless, I couldn’t stop anything, and I couldn’t take anything back, I couldn’t do anything. The tears had started, they were streaming down my face, I couldn’t hold them in any longer. Everything that I know has been taken away, it started with the planet on which I was born, then my brother, then the only one person that I had trusted, life sucks, and there’s no doubt about it.
I sat there for quite some time, crying, I couldn’t stand the thought of what had happened, but I had to. I stood up, slowly, and started walking back, back to where I had left Kandy, and when I got there, she was gone. “Kandy!” I called out, where could she have gone. I looked around, the room was completely destroyed, the furniture was burned and thrown askew, there were piles of ashes everywhere. The bookshelves were thrown down, the pages of the books shredded. The place that Kandy was before I left was the only place that was as before, the rug was still a vibrant red, there were no ashes there, and, for some reason, there was white there as well. I knelt down, touched the rug with the middle and pointer fingers of my right hand, and the red substance was on my fingers as well as the carpet. Then I realized that what was on my fingers and on the floor was the blood and bones of my dead friend Kandy. I cried, there was nothing else to do, my friend was dead, and it was my fault.
“Arianna?” I heard, I looked over to where the voice had come from, it was at the top of the stairs, “Arianna, you’re here! I can’t believe you came back for me.”
I ran up the rickety steps, and gave my friend a hug, “I promised I wouldn’t leave you. Umm, if you’re here, then who’s blood is that sitting in the middle of the floor downstairs?”
She shook her head, her dark brown curls bouncing, “That’s no-one, I just put fake blood there so that when the witch came by she would think that you had died. Well, it worked, it seems as if she’s worked her horrible magic.”
“Let’s go, we need to hurry and get out of this wretched place,” I stated, “Let’s go.”
We hurried down the steps and out the door, we ran and ran, Kandy started to slow down, then she stopped, “Wait, do you even know where you’re going?” I shook my head, all I knew is that if we kept heading in one direction without stopping we would eventually find our way to the border of this horrible place. When we got to the border we would just continue following it till we found the exit, then we would leave and find my brother.
“How about we go and get your brother first?” she asked, I nodded my head, then she said, “I know where the creep is keeping him.”
“You do?” I asked in complete shock, where was she keeping all this knowledge, her brain must be absolutely loaded by now, “Let’s go get him.”
“How about we take a break for a few minutes before we go and rescue your brother?” she whined.
“OK, we can rest for a few minutes,” I said sympathetically, “but only for a few minutes.”
She smiled at me, a smile of relief, and plumped herself down on what looked like a rock. I smiled and sat down next to her, I couldn’t let her sit there alone, so I decided then, that I wouldn’t let her out of my sight until we were both safe, away from that horrible woman. We sat there, silent, it was really strange, then I stood up, “Let’s go, I think we’ve wasted enough time already, my brother’s suffered enough, and we don’t need to make him suffer any longer.”
I started walking back the way that we’d come, but I was stopped, something was rising up out of the ground, something solid and blood red. I kept walking, but when I got there I stopped, I reached out my hand, and it passed through real easily, but when I pulled it back I couldn’t. I looked up, there was a hand sticking out of this thing, I pushed my arm farther in, until it was at my elbow, the hand came that much farther out. Then I was sucked into the wall of a blood red substance. I heard a loud thump as something outside hit the ground. It was dark, and there was no way of knowing where I had come from, so I didn’t know where the sound was coming from, just that it was all around me, and I couldn’t see anything. I reached toward my feet, I couldn’t feel them, but yet, I knew that they were there. Why couldn’t I feel anything, why did I have to be so stupid and put my hand in an unknown substance? Whoever said that curiosity killed the cat is absolutely right, curiosity killed the cat, and in this case, I was the cat. I was curious, and now I’m somewhere that was not pleasant at all. It was horrible, there was darkness, and no light whatsoever.
What’s wrong with me? Why do I have to be such an idiot? I looked in what direction that I though was up and I saw a very small, very bright light. I started heading in that direction, the light was growing bigger as I grew nearer. Then the light was huge. I looked out of the light, I saw the ground where I had stood just moments before. My brother was lying across the ground, unconscious. I reached my hand out, but it stopped just before my hand could leave the darkness. A single tear rolled down my cheek. “James!” I screamed. He looked up, feeling around the ground, he looked in the direction where I was, he was squinting, as if he’d been in a dark place for a long time. He reached forward and into the darkness, I grabbed his hand, and I was back in the light, out of the darkness, back with my brother and my friend.
He wrapped his arms around me, we sat there, then Kandy came, “Arianna, are you OK? You just passed out.”
I nodded my head, suddenly having a major migraine. I reached up and put my head in my hands, and I slowly stood up. “W-w-what just happened?” I asked, baffled.
“You just fainted, you reached into a wall, and you fell, you were pulled into the wall and someone fell from the sky, a boy. The boy’s gone now, you would have liked him, he was really cute. Well, you’re here now, and we have to go get your brother now.” I shook my head, I pointed behind me, there was something there, well, at least there was something there, but when I turned around, he was gone, there was nothing there anymore. “What’s there?” she asked me. I just shook my head, I didn’t want to say anything, there was no point in speaking now. We continued walking, Kandy in the lead, we didn’t stop, we just kept walking.
“Hey Arianna,” she whispered.
“What,” I said stubbornly, “what do you want?”
“You want to know what my mother called me? Before the witch took me?