I see stars for a moment, and I cry out as he slams me into the wall again. The people watching jeer at me, yell things like “Kill her!” and “Make her pay!”
I really hope they're joking.
After the first five slams, I stop crying out. I feel the blood on my temple, streaming down my face and down my neck.
So I come up with a killer (Hey, that’s foreshadowing!) idea.
I act like I’m dead. (I told you it was foreshadowing.) I stiffen up, and mentally lower my temperature.
I shut my eyes and hold my breath, which I can do for a really long time.
And the poor sucker bought it.
He lets go of me, and I collapse.
She comes over and slaps him roughly.
“You let her go!”
“She’s dead, Alexa!”
“How can she be dead if she’s stumbling away?”
During this, I am trying to run-the best I can with a head injury and a tiny body-to the principal, where I can get my head patched up and get Queen Backstabber in an alternate school.
But she spotted me.
I start sprinting as Brayden tries to grab me, but I keep flitting away, like a little annoying gnat.
I have only 10 feet, and then I can stop losing blood.
Ten feet.
Nine feet. He’s coming closer.
Eight feet.
Seven feet. He made a grab for my ankle, but I don’t fall.
Six feet.
Five feet.
Four feet.
Three feet. He tackles me and I hit the ground like a stone.
He slaps my temple, right on the bleeding cut, and I scream out. But here’s the weird part.
He starts to shudder. I scream again, but something is not the same.
There is a feeling of something new. Something dark.
I scream louder, harder, and it hurts so bad that I know I won’t have a voice for a week.
He drops like a stone, and so do all the groupies. But Alexa and a few others still stand.
“Well done, my dear Vissy. You might be one of us.”
“No. I’ll never be like you.” I didn't know what she meant.
“No? Okay. Just heal your wounds. The blood ruins your complexion, and all I want is to see you at diMort.”
She snaps. “Go.”
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Something Dark
FantasyVisiniri ("Vissy") Dakovsha has been taunted all her life. But when she is thrust into a world that tells her she is a specializer in dream magic, she goes from the bottom of the pack to alpha female. Love, chaos and revenge will be found in Somethi...
