Chapter 3
“Beth. Beth!” Sera shouted.
I opened my eyes to see Sera over me. “Are you okay?” she asked.
I didn't answer. I only lifted my head and looked around. We were sitting in the car, which was parked outside of a small shop connected to other buildings. Each of which looked decade and old, I also notice the chipped sidewalk and road. I read the shop's sign, “Andy’s Guns”. I looked at Sera. “What happened?” I asked.
She gave a nervous look. “Well, umm." Sera cautiously chose her words. "You were screaming in your sleep, so I pulled over, and woke you up."
I stared at her. “What? Why was I screaming in my sleep?” To Sera, I sounded accusing; however I was really asking myself, though it came out in a yell.
She shrugged. "I guess you had a nightmare."
I gave a slight nod not really listening to her. "Where are we?"
She smiled. “We are officially in 'Silent Hill'"
She was giggling and I just sighed. Looking out the window I realized that the streets were completely empty, and that the car was completely surrounded by a ghostly mist. “Why is it so foggy?” I said.
“Well, this is a ghost town, and all ghost towns are foggy. It just means there are monsters out there.”
I gave her a confused look. Sera giggled. “I’m just pulling your leg. Its probably fog from Toluca lake.”
The moment she said that I wanted to say ‘grow a fucking brain, you dumb-ass’ but I didn’t. Instead I said nothing.
“Maybe we should find someone to talk with,” Sera suggested.
I nodded. ”Yeah, maybe there will be someone farther in town. Start the car.”
I saw an embarrassed look on Sera’s face. “Ummm…the car kinda won’t start.”
She placed her hand on the back of her head, and giggled cautiously. I gave her my world famous ‘I am going to kill you’ stare. Sera quickly opened the door and jumped out of the car. “S-Sitting around like this won’t help brings us close to finding Alex. Let’s go find someone!” she suggested.
I lifted my eyes from her and exited the car. Sera was already ahead of me. “Hurry up, slow poke!” she shouted.
“I’m coming.” I said in an annoyed voice.
We must have been walking for around ten minutes, and still saw no-one. “Where is everyone?” I murmured.
I made a step and then quickly dropped onto the ground. It seemed that my legs just couldn't hold me up. “Beth! What is it?” Sera asked.
I grunted in pain. “Ow… I’m not sure.”
My legs just began to sting with horrifying suffering. It was strange since only a moment ago I wasn't in pain. She lifted up my pant legs, and revealed my wounded flesh. “What happened?” Sera gasped.
My legs were nothing but bloody pulps. The sight of my gory legs made me tremble and feel nauseous. My skin was all torn up, as if someone had cut me up with barbed wire. It was so strange, out of no where my legs began to hurt. The visions of my dream came into mind. Of the monster in the kitchen, and me trying to get away; however I refused to think I got hurt from a dream. “S-Sera what did you do to me?”
The preppy girl stumbled backwards. “What! I didn’t do anything! You were just sleeping in my car and then you started to scream!”
“Then explain how my legs got all cut up!” I shouted.
The girl whimpered. “H-how could you think I would ever do a thing like this?”
She turned around and ran down the street. I watched her fade away into the mist. “Stupid girl,” I muttered in disgust.
Sera had foolishly ran away deeper into the city alone. In fact without thinking, she had left my wounded self all alone. I tried to heave myself up, however with the injuries I had received it was impossible. Instead of trying to get up again, I just lied my back down against the sidewalk. “Alex is the only one who ever understood me.”
Yelling at Sera made me remember a fight I had with my sister.
[i]“Shut up!” I yelled.
My older sister stood her ground, while I continued to shout at her. “Why do you always have to put your fucking nose in my business! Its like you’re trying to get me to yell at you!” I stopped to listen to her answer.
Alex closed her eyes and breathed, trying to reframe from making our fight worse. Then she reopened them, having a small smile on her face, and doing her best to be calm. “Because I worry about you.”
“So you say! All I see is a pathetic girl with no life of her own. Go bother your friends…Oh, I forgot you don’t have any!”
What I had said, it was just like pouring salt on all of her open wounds. Making her cry out with agonizing suffering. Alex stepped back, her eyes wide opened. She was clearly shocked. “ Beth, please don’t say things you don’t mean.”
I slapped her. “Are you going to cry? You disgusting pig.”
I spat the last words out. Alex placed her hand on her cheek. She looked away from me. I could sense her sadness. “If I am the one who’s supposed to cry, then why are you crying?”
I now realized that small cool drops were spilling out from my green eyes. Alex grabbed a tissue from her pocket and dried the tears from my face. I didn't say anything. “There’s nothing that can ever happen, that will make me hate you.” Her voice was soft and I believed everything she said.
We pulled into a hug. Alex held me gently, as if I was a fragile wilting flower, while I squeezed her tightly. “I’m sorry.” I sobbed.
More tears were gushing from my eyes, and my sister comfortingly answered. “It's okay.”
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I began to laugh. “I can’t even remember what the fight was about.”
Lie.
I was lying to myself again. The fight had been about me planning to do something bad. It was about me planning to…“Beth!”
I lifted my head up. It was Sera. She was carrying a box. “I came back with some sheets I found.”
She began to tear them up into strips and tied them around my legs. As she continued to work I began to feel somewhat guilty for the way I treated her. “I don’t think you did it. If you had I would have woken up while you were doing it.” I spoke more to myself than to Sera.
She didn’t look at me, but she did have a small smile on her face. “Can you stand?”
I tried to put weight onto my legs, but I began to wobble. Sera grabbed me before I could fall. “I am fine.” I motioned her to back away from me.
This time I was able to stand on my own. A moment passed, and I exhaled a breath. “Thank goodness!” Sera cheered.
She patted me hard on the back, making me whelp in pain. “OW! Sera,” I moaned.
“Oops,” She said with a frown, “I didn’t mean to.”
“Whatever,” I said.
A low-pitched growling noise surrounded us. “What was that?” Sera whispered.
“A dog.” I tried to stay calm; however my heart was already pounding loudly.
Dogs, I hated them so much. All they reminded me of was he, my monstrous stepfather. I remember once when he actually made one of his dogs attack me. “Beth, what should we do?” Sera whispered.
I realized now that she was trembling with fear, was she afraid of dogs too? I thought for a moment, of course anyone would be afraid of a dog that was going to eat them.
A quiet padding sound crept closer to us. The thick fog covered any visible traces of what lay ahead of us. However, the strange creature soon exited the thick blanket of the mist and its beastly form became as clear as day before us. Its body was covered in a thin layer of old decaying bandages, that hardly did anything; since its dark blood seeped through making its fur a rusty brown color. It had no eyes, only empty sockets with rotten flesh inside. Huge disgusting boils covered almost all of its festering face.
“Oh my god.” I whispered.
Whatever this thing was, it is now only a monstrosity of nature. The barbaric fiend encircled us, trying to find an opening for an attack. Sera stood between the dog and me, making sure it couldn’t get close. The mutated monster crept closer to us, and was now only a few feet away. I could now hear its struggled breathing. How was this thing able to stay alive? The deformed canine exposed its teeth and snarled louder. I felt Sera trembling. She quickly reached into her pocket and pulled out a small container of pepper spray. Aiming it at the beast’s eye sockets, she sprayed. The dog yelped as the liquid seeped into its wounds. As the dog shook its head from side to side, one of its boils popped opened, and green slime oozed out. Sera grabbed my arm and began to run. “Come one, we need to get to my car!” She yelled.
I ran along side her, while she still had a grip around my wrist. I could hear the sound of the dog chasing us; however now I noticed more footsteps. I was too focused on running to feel anything else, except for my pounding heart and Sera's sweaty hand. We finally reached the car, and the sounds of howling soon alerted us to the coming danger. Sera tried to start the car a few times, but with every try a disappointing rumble from the car was the only thing that happened. After she tried that, Sera opened the car’s glove box and took out a small handgun. I gave her a somewhat shocked look. “You know how to use a gun?”
She nodded. “My mom said that I should know, just in case.”
I began to feel thankful that she had a gun, especially when the sounds of distant howling seemed to come closer. Sera exited the car and stood besides me. “We need to get to somewhere safe.” I thought aloud.
We both looked around. “Hey! That door! It’s open,” Sera announced.
We walked over to it. The old gun shop was a brick building with a large window in the front. The door was broken, and most of the glass it was made of was shattered and scattered across the floor. Sera looked around. “They are coming. Hurry and get inside and hide.” She whispered to me.
She shoved me inside and walked out. “What are you doing?” I asked.
Sera didn’t look at me. “If we both go inside they’ll find us both. I’ll go and lead them away from you.”
Her voice was trembling, and her body was shaking. She was so terrified, so why was she trying to do something heroic?
“Don’t be stupid.” I wanted to say, but I stayed quiet.
A part of me wanted her to leave, to lead the monsters away, to get caught and to be eaten alive. However, another part of me didn’t want to be left alone. “Its ok, I promise. I’ll come back.” Once she finished that sentence she ran away into the mist.
I looked around in the shop and saw a counter, so I hid behind it. Listening, I could hear the sounds of the dogs running after Sera, and the loud roar of a gunshot.
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I didn't notice that. I will use 'however' less. About the 'I', I have been trying hard to not use it very much. v_v
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