Ariana Emerald
The Mate Pull
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Ariana was only 12 when her 16 yr old sister Abbilyn disappeared. All she kept hearing from her parents is that her sister ran away.
Ariana was a loner, kept to herself and stayed in her room too much. She hadn't really known her sister well, seeing as their age difference was too big of gap for Abbilyn to even speak to her.
To Ariana, things didn't change at home, her parents were always going out and leaving her behind on her own. No big difference as her sister was always out too.
About a month after Abbilyn had disappeared, she was home alone when she heard a noise coming from Abbilyn's room. She quickly and silently, tiptoed to her sister's room and peeked inside.
Inside she saw her sister and a guy quickly packing up the rest of Abbilyn's belongings. She tiptoed back to her room, closed her door and locked it before hiding in the dark corner of her closet.
Her sister had looked almost drugged, her actions jerky, the guy was tattooed all up his arms and she could see them up his chest as well. They honestly scared her as he'd growled at her sister, who growled right back.
She pulled the closet door closed, then hid in the dark corner with the spiders probably. She covered her face as she heard them outside her bedroom door. She chanted in her mind don't see me, don't see me, don't see me as the lock to her room was broken, hearing the door knob falling to the floor.
Then the closet door was opened suddenly. Ariana kept chanting in her head don't see me, don't see me, her face hidden from sight as no light came into this corner of her closet.
She covered her ears as she heard growls from both and she thought good heaven they were so high on drugs, they were acting like wild animals.
They both ransacked her room as she heard her belongings being thrown against the wall, books being torn apart, pages flying through the air as she peeked. Heard them laughing wildly as they threw her books at her window, breaking it as they hit and the glass shattered.
When they left her room, she stayed in her closet chanting in her head don't see me, don't see me. She heard crashing downstairs, laughing, and the breaking of windows as she heard the glass shattering and things falling to the ground outside from her own now broken window.
When she smelled fire, she scrambled out of her closet as she heard a car door slam and a car race away, them both laughing all the while.
She looked at the devastation, grabbed her bag and shoved some clothes inside. Then ran to the end of the hallway to gasp and choke as flames licked up the stairway walls.
She rushed back to her room then into Abbilyn's room and closed the door, then stuffed the clothes left scattered under the door. She went to the already opened window and screamed fire, help. She huffed and threw her bag out the window to the ground, then climbed out on the roof.
She screamed again and again, but with no success. No signs of neighbors were even home, the houses all dark. She moved to the end of the house as black smoke was billowing up from the downstairs broken windows.
She finally screamed as she flung herself off the roof as flames shot up to the roof, making her take the dangerous leap of faith. She grabbed the small tree top and held on tight as it swayed but she was too heavy for it.
She wrapped her legs around it and held on for dear life, chanting don't break, don't break. But it soon snapped and she screamed as she dropped through the smaller branches, snapping them to only hit the larger ones on the way down.
