[ ✔ ] ᴄᴀʀᴏᴜsᴇʟ - ʟᴊ

Chapter 38

           Something didn't feel right. Of course it isn't. Jack wasn't a murderer. He promised me that he would protect me. Wouldn't he? I mean, I trusted him. I know what he was like. He wouldn't let anybody down. I waited. There were no hiccups. I guess I was right after all. 

'But.. am I able to give Jack up?' I asked myself.

I hiccuped. Some times I think my hiccups are a person, deciding what's right and what's not by hiccuping. I knew what I had to do. I turned around and ran in the opposite direction. Perhaps if I run the opposite direction I came from, it might lead back to the mansion. I ran and ran and ran. Suddenly I spotted a big empty spot across the clearing. 

'I'm here!' I squealed in my head, running faster.

As I ran faster, I saw that there was no mansion in the empty spot. It was just.. plain empty. I blinked again. Still, there was no mansion. Just emptiness about. I dropped to my knees, panting. 

'Where is it?' I asked myself.

"Jack!" I yelled. Nothing answered me except for the echoes of my voice around the forest. 

There was no sound. No one here. No jack. The tears are about to come. One by one, tears started falling. First, falling slowly, and then rapidly falling heavily like a waterfall.

"Jack!!" I yelled louder, desperate between tears.

"I'm sorry.." I yelled softly.

"I'm sorry.."