Prologue For Book 2 of Roeth.
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in class, when she sat down, she was stiff, she stared in to space, and shivered in her seat. Would she be like this forever?
"What did you see?" Sabelle asked her.
"I…I…I-I-I-I…" she kept stuttering on the letter.
"What's did you see?" Sabelle repeated the question.
"Shadow…"
"A shadow," I repeated under my breath.
"A shadow?" Paige asked her, "What shadow? What did it do?"
"Whisper… louder… the whispers… it's dying…"
"Dying?" I asked.
She nodded.
"Xue, I know this is hard but please just say what you saw," said Paige, "please,"
"I… I… I saw a shadow… and it… whispered to me to come… it said that… p-p-perfection was just around the… corner… and then… it laughed but… only f-f-faintly as I… I… I fell to the ground… and that's all I… remember… and… and… there was a… rose… a b-b-b-black… rose…"
"Where was the shadow coming from?" I asked.
She mouthed the words but a few moments later we understood.
"From the door,"
"I say we go and check it out," said Sabelle. And from the look Paige and I shot her, and the way her plump face turned in to a frown and she almost regretted she had said that, Xue said we should, which seemed weird. Because she was all shaken and stuttering and not her usual self, always frightened and looking behind her and always jumpy, and yet… She encourage us to go back to that… thing.
"I think it's a ghost," said Paige.
"I never really thought ghosts were real," I said.
"I've never seen one so I can't really say," Sabelle replied, and she paced the nurse's room.
"Go," said Xue, "For s-s-s-s-some reason… we need… to go back there…"
"Um, are you sure?" I asked.
"Wait, hold up," said Paige, "Why do we need to go back? What's there? It could have been your imagination, someone fooling you, or you had a dream… anything…"
But from her voice, she didn't sound so definite, and I knew - so did Sabelle that she wasn't the only one that wasn't sure what to believe.
And now here we are, waiting for the last period of school to come, so that we can sneak out and go back to the door, this was crazy, but we had to find out what exactly was going on, one way or the other.
We walked round the corridors (Avoiding the abandoned one and saving the adventure for the last period,) and talked with eachother, went to the bathroom when Paige slipped and fell on to something yellow and sticky that covered her back.
I suddenly felt empty, I didn't feel alone, but I felt hollow, unsure of what to do exactly, just… numb, no emotion, no feeling. I felt light headed, the world was spinning but I was still moving, Paige was holding on to my right hand while Sabelle held on to my left.
If they hadn't held me, I would have fallen…
…Just like how Xue did.
Eventually we sat down on a bench and stared at everyone playing, we were on an odd four, maybe that's why we were stuck together, but I liked it that way. Better than some prep like Jacoba.
Sixth period went by in a breeze, we had maths, which was boring, and I was too scared of what awaited us down there to really think about this subject, or the numbers or the sums, or anything.
And then seventh period came along. I was dreading walking down the corridor, I knew what awaited for me there. But I wasn't going to tell Paige, Sabelle or Xue. This was to me.
I was going to suggest that we all forget about the plan and flee from harm's way, and not go down that corridor. But Paige insisted and I was ready to argue, but Sabelle interrupted us and told us to shut up, she said that I didn't have to go if I didn't want to.
My friends knew about my abandonment in that dreary gloomy room, how I cried, how I was scared. And how I almost died from No food or water for about a week.
So obviously they knew that if anything reminded me of my dark past, they'd immediately say that I didn't have to see it, or go to it. Whatever it was and depending on the situation.
But still, I felt like I needed to go, like I had to be there, I had to be a witness, I had to see this. This was all for Xue, I wasn't doing this for anyone else, I was her friend and I had to support her. And I had to support her especially now, when she most needed me, no matter how scared I was or how much I longed to run away and not look back and hide away from my fears.
In the class, everyone was sitting in groups talking, some screamed and ran around, others danced on the tables; it was always a riot when the teacher wasn't around and all four of us had to raise our voices quite high if we wanted to be heard, or make conversation.
Finally, Paige got up and said, "Well, we may as well go now, what are we waiting for?"
So me and Sabelle got up from out chairs and held on to Xue so she wouldn't collapse to the ground, she was still shaken and frightened, and then a thought rushed to my mind. I stopped walking and looked at Sabelle.
"What is it?" she asked after a moment.
"Shouldn't we wait until she recovers? I mean, it's not like that corridor is going to be demolished or anything,"
"Are you scared?" she asked suspiciously.
"Yes," I said confidently, "Scared for our friend,"
She glanced at Paige, who was biting her fingernails and had suddenly taken an interest in them.
"Well?" I snapped, "Are we going to wait a bit longer or keep going? We could make her suffer even more,"
"I don't know," she said, her eyes fixed on the ground; she looked up at Sabelle solemnly.
I darted my eyes to Sabelle, she didn't know what to do.
"Let's just go then," I said with a sigh when she didn't reply, "Forget what I said,"
And we walked on wordlessly.
Why were we making ourselves do this? Why didn't we just hide? What was keeping us back?
We walked along the corridors of the school, we got lost once but quickly found our way back, we were just about to turn a corner when Paige, leading the front back up against the walls and put a finger to her lips.
"What's the matter?" I hissed.
She mouthed the words, "Ms. Olive Landy," to me, and I understood, she'd catch us and put all four of us in the punishment closet, and Xue and Paige were terrified of the dark, although Paige didn't admit it, all of us knew it was true, but we tried not to say anything.
We darted for the door on the opposite wall. The bathroom.
We managed to get inside one stall, and agreed that Sabelle would talk and say she had a bad stomach ache, if Ms. Olive Landy heard us running or spotted us going through.
But nobody came, so we soon peeped out in to the bathroom.
No one there.
We stayed a while longer, leaning on the sinks or sitting on the floor, making sure the coast was clear.
"This is ridiculous," said Sabelle, panting, "We should have just paid attention to Roeth,"
Sabelle rarely called me by my, "Secret name," but when she did, it was on occasion.
"Well," said Paige, "We're not turning back now, so shut up,"
Xue sat huddle up with her left cheek leaning on the wall, she said nothing, only staring in to space, lost in time. Would she ever revive? Would she ever come back? I hoped so, I truly hoped so, she was my friend, and I feared for her.
We waited a few more minutes, then I got up and headed for the door.
I opened it a crack. Nobody there.
"I think she's gone,"
"Move," said Paige, "I'll go out and make sure, if she sees me, I'll rush back here and we all hide in the same stall, I'll talk this time. And say I've got a bad stomach, and that'll explain why I was running,"
"Good idea," I said simply and moved a few steps back to let Paige pass.
She came back a moment later and said, "She's gone,"
And we were on the m -
And we were on the move again.
We finally reached the corridor after a few minutes; it was even darker than when we last visited in some strange, twisted way.
I've had dreams of this, nightmares of being chased by this, I tried to block out the whispers but they kept coming back. Was Xue going through the same thing?
We walked down the corridor, no sounds, no echo, no voice, no whisper, no wind. No nothing.
We waited. Nothing happened.
Minutes passed by, my heart beat quickly inside my chest, my blood went cold and my fingers were so sensationless, I felt like a statue, just standing there… Never moving…
Then, a whisper came. Reciting what seemed to be a poem.
"All go except one,
Not all can have the fun,
One will see my full strong wrath,
But see the future and change their path,"
"What?" I asked, confused.
"I don't understand," said Paige.
"It's quite simple," said Sabelle, "All of us go, and one stays,"
We all looked at Xue, staring in to space, emotionless.
"Before you say 'no'," I said, "Think about it, what's worse, hurting two, or hurting one?"
"Well Mr. Shadow!" cried Paige, "I've got a poem for you!
All shall leave,
And never come back,
You shall grieve,
From our attack.
We applauded Paige for her clever poem.
We turned our backs and walked away. This whole thing was silly.
But I remember when I was six… The first dream I had of the shadow, where the house looked different, and it grew, and walked, chasing me in deathly black darkness.
And nobody could tell me what this dream meant. What message it gave or what it meant for my future.
I remember Felix's words echoing in my head, "When your hands are as big as mine, then will I tell you,"
My hands were getting bigger.
My body was growing.
The future is coming.
And I'm going to have to face the shadow someday.
As we walked away, I heard a whisper.
"Come alone…
…But not now… Later…"
The secrets that lay behind the door,
The fear the overwhelms you inside,
You wouldn't dare beg for more,
Although there is nothing you can hide,
The shadow whispers and haunts one still,
Go to its voice and answer it's calls,
You're obeying it withought a will,
Which causes you to go crazy and fall,
Keep away from the door,
And what hides behind,
The secrets are for later,
And keep that in mind. -
Wow,that was great,Roady.
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Whoa! Cool :)
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Thanks. =)
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