Tuesday, March 20, 2007

My story!

Okay, so I decided I am going to post Dark Past. Hope you like it, here's chapter 1! Chapter 1 “Freak! Loser! Wicca!” The voices echoed as Laina lost consciousness for the fifth time that week. The three girls stared down at her, admiring their work. A teacher looked over at the girls and started to walk towards them. “Hey, Whitney! There’s a teacher coming! We’d better get out of here!” one of them said. The girls kicked her again and ran off laughing. The teacher walked up to Laina and looked after the girls, trying to make out who they were. He shook his head and picked Laina up, carrying her into the school. “Diana, it happened again,” he said to the nurse. He laid Laina down on a bench and turned to her. “We need to do something about this!” “I know. But as long as Laina is too afraid to tell us who the girls are, there’s nothing we can do,” Diana replied. “I’m going to go talk to the principle,” he replied. “Maybe she can do something.” “Okay Ben, I’ll take care of Laina’s injuries,” Diana said. Ben nodded and left. Diana turned to Laina and winced. She had already broken her finger and sprained her ankle when the girls pushed her off the jungle gym a week ago. Now her lip was split and bleeding and her ankle was swolen again. Diana got some ice and put it on Laina’s ankle to try and reduce the swelling. Laina stirred and opened her eyes. She winced and tried to sit up. “Owww! “ she exclaimed. She swung her legs over the edge of the bench and tried to stand up, but only succeeded in losing her balance and falling back onto it. “Laina, are you okay?” Diana asked. Laina nodded. “I need to talk to you about those girls,” she said. She turned to Laina. “Please, tell me who they are.” “I can’t...” Laina said nervously. Diana sat down on the bench next to her. “If you don’t tell us who is doing this to you, we can’t stop them. Please tell me,” she said. Laina sighed and nodded. She held up three fingers and said “Whitney, Ronni, and Anna. It’s those three.” Diana was surprised. She had named three of the best students in the school, well known for being kind and smart. “I will take care of them. Shall I call someone to take you home?” asked Diana. Laina shook her head. “No, I can walk home on my own. I’ll be fine,” she replied. “Please be careful,” Diana said, putting a hand on Laina’s shoulder. Laina nodded and smiled. She stood up and winced at putting weight on her injured ankle. “I’m fine,” she said in reply to Diana’s worried look. Smiling again, she walked out the door. Diana looked out after her, worried. * * * Laina turned down a side street. She was almost home now and she started to relax. It looked like for once she’d get home without any mishaps. Footsteps resounded behind her. As Laina quickened her pace, the footsteps quickened as well. It was getting dark now, and Laina could no longer make out shadows. Shoot! she thought to herself. My mom’s going to be mad. I’m not supposed to be out after dark... It was already almost five o’clock, and since it was December, it got dark at four thirty. The sky had turned a shade of dark blue, but there was no moon. A street lamp flickered and went out, making the street even darker than it already was. Laina shivered as a cold wind blew. The footsteps had stopped and she relaxed again. A figure stepped out from behind a tree. Laina hit her and fell to the ground. She couldn’t see who it was and didn’t have time to wonder because two other people grabbed her. The one standing in front of her lit a lighter. The flickering light revealed her face. Ronni, Laina thought. I should have known... Ronni grabbed a lock of Laina’s hair and held it over the flame. Laina stood her ground defiantly. Let’s see how confident you really are,” Anna said, smirking. She waved the lighter in front of Laina’s eyebrows, singeing them and then lit the lock of hair Ronni had been holding on fire. Laina squeezed her eyes shut and tried to ignore the pain on her face. When the girls realized they weren’t going to get a response out of her, Whitney grabbed one of her hands and held it in the flame. She cried out in pain. Ronni threw her to the ground and kicked her sprained ankle. Whitney walked up to Laina’s right hand and stomped on her broken finger. Laina screamed as a terrible pain tore through her finger. A dog barked and lights flickered to life. Laughing, the girls kicked her once more and walked off. One of Laina’s neighbors ran up to her and helped her stand. Blood ran down her face from cuts on her eyebrow and lips. Her broken finger hung limp and bloody. Silent tears streamed down her face. “T-thank you, Ms. Swift,” Laina said through the tears. Ms. Swift smiled, then her expression hardened. They made their way into her house and she sat Laina down with her leg up. “I need to call your mom, let her know you are here,” Ms. Swift said. Laina nodded. “Here, put this ice on your ankle and finger,” she said. Still sobbing, Laina shook her head. “I can’t... move,” Laina said. Ms. Swift gently placed the ice on her ankle and finger. “I’m going to call your mom to come get you,” she said. Laina nodded and winced. The rest of the night was a painful blur. Laina’s mom came, then an ambulance. She was taken to the emergency room and put in Intensive Care. “She got a fractured rib, severe burns on her hand, a few fractured ankle bones, and the finger that was already broken is, for lack of any other way to say it, mashed to a pulp,” the ER doctor informed Laina’s mother. “She’ll need surgery to put the bones back the way they belong, and then after that we’ll need to keep her here for at least a week or to to make sure she is healing properly. “How is she now?” her mom asked worriedly. “She’s sleeping soundly. She’s stable, so there’s nothing to worry about for now,” he replied. She nodded. “You should go home and get some rest. It’s three in the morning.” “Yeah, you’re right. It won’t do her or me any good to worry like this,” she said and thanking the doctor she left.

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