Thunder

Chapter 1: Too Slow

Chapter 1:

Veronica

20:35 August 12th 2018,

I'm running. I have no idea where but I'm running fast, away from him. I can hear the blood dripping on the floor as I sprint. I can't take it anymore, it hurts too much. I need to stop but if I do I'll die. But if I don't I'll probably die as well.

A loud ringing pains my ears making me drop to the floor, I try to cover my ears with my hands to make the pain stop but it doesn't work. That's when I realize he caught me. I was too slow.

6 months earlier

"No! You can't do that, that's unfair." I cry out.

"It is fair, you just can't handle being a loser." Natalie states, throwing her hands in the air with joy.

This is now the second time she won a game of Uno, the card game, and I haven't won once tonight.

Austin sighs and leans back on the corner of the sofa, looking exhausted. "Well I had enough of this game anyways."

Natalie and I chuckle; we had just introduced this game to Austin a few weeks ago since the both of us played Uno since we were in secondary school so he's quite new to this game.

"Yeah, me too, I don't want to play this anymore." I copy Austin's moves and lie down on sofa, knackered from playing card games.

"That's because you guys are losers, I'm getting a drink." Natalie cheerfully says, jumping up from the sofa and to the kitchen.

Natalie has always been the quirky one, the one ready to jump up and do crazy things, and since she's my best friend, I've started to be just like her.

I shout out to her to get me a drink as well but I don't think she heard me and anyways there's probably no drinks left since every time she comes around, which is every day, she drinks them all.

"Ronnie," Austin grabs my attention, sounding very serious.

"This doesn't sound very good." I joke around because when things get serious I tend to turn things into a joke.

"It's not a bad thing, "He reassures me and continues to explain. "I'm just wondering if the birthday gift I have in mind for Natalie is good or not."

I shake my head, "Austin I have gotten many wonderful gifts from you over the years, I think the gift you're getting for your girlfriend is going to be amazing." I tell him, noticing how tense he's getting over this.

"Ronnie you don't even know what the gift is yet." He whispers even though I am certain that Natalie won't hear us.

"But you're good at getting gifts for people and she would love anything you would get her, you know that."

He nods in response and just in time, Natalie comes back in the living room with a drink in hand.

I give her a disappointing look as she didn't get me my drink even though I knew that she didn't hear me. "What?" She asks me, frowning.

"I asked you for a drink." I simply answer, pretending to be hurt by it.

Her frown turns into a smile and she responds, "There wasn't any left." I knew it.

After watching a film, Austin offered to take Natalie home so I was left all alone. This wasn't new to me, almost every night I was left alone in this big house, I rarely get to see my dad, Greg, since he's always at the company, working. But eventually I got used to this cycle of being alone, though it doesn't mean that I don't mind it because I do, all the time.

It's weird because I will feel lonely but I knew I wasn't. I mean I have my two best friends, Natalie and Austin, I have my dad and of course I have my Labrador, Bailey. I guess I'm not lonely now that I think about it.