Try To Escape Chapter 1

My feet hit the pavement hard and fast. Behind me, I heard hard panting. He was chasing me, all because someone had shoved me into him at the market.

The minute we had collided, he had come up behind me and growled into my ear, "You'd better be good where I'm going to take you, brat," and reached out to snatch my wrist. Before I knew it, my feet were carrying me down an alley, out to the street, and down toward the only safe haven: my hideout.

I used that hideout for everything. Whenever I was running away from something, or someone, I'd go there. No one was ever able to catch me there. It was like a force field would go up, propelling anything that came near and kept it invisible to everyone except me.

I rounded a corner and leaped into the hole that led to my get away. Once inside, I peeked out the window.

"Come out, you stupid brat! What are you afraid of? I ain't going to hurt you," he leered.

"Yea, right," I mutter. All he wanted was to hurt me. That's all they ever want. Slowly, I creep to the other side, the side that leads into my backyard. Crawling out, I spot my loyal cat peeking at me from behind the bushes.

"Hey there, Tiger," I snuggle him close to me and carry him into my house.

"Serena! Is that you?" My room mate, Christine comes into the living room, headphones hanging around her neck, hard rock music blaring from them.

Tiger's ears pulled back and he started hissing at them and sprang at Christine's shoulder. Laughing, she turned quickly to the side and caught him in her arms. Petting him, she buried her face into his neck.

"You playful thing. One day, you're going to regret it,you little rascal," she giggled, letting him free.

Laughing, I went over to the couch and flipped on the t.v. set. She wandered into her own room for a bit, before emerging once again, looking worried.

"Serena? I just noticed...why does your hair look so chaotic?"

"Uhm," I hesitate. She always is so overprotective of me, "You see, this guy started chasing me and-"

"Again?! Serena! You have to be more careful!" she exploded, instantly blaming me for whatever had happened.

"It wasn't my fault! Some idiot pushed me into the guy, and he over-reacted about it. That's all," I defend myself. Sighing, I turn off the screen, head into my room and close the door. I was too tired to deal with her, let alone to watch t.v. What I needed was a good night's sleep.

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The next morning, I awake from a weird dream. All I could remember was huge wings embracing me while a warmth surrounded my lips. Licking them, I could still taste the sweetness of whoever left that wonderful flavor on them.

Sitting up, I tried to remember more. All that appeared was feathery wings and appealing lips. Hm, why would that come up?

Getting up, I wandered into the kitchen to grab some orange juice and noticed a note sitting on the counter.

Serena,

I'm going to work a bit early. Grab yourself anything to eat. Be safe!

Your caring friend,

Christine...xoxoxo

Poor Christine. Having a danger magnet as a best friend. Leaning against the counter, I remembered another piece of my dream.

Deep blue eyes gazing at me with such warmth and tenderness, you'd think me, and whoever was looking at me like that, were lovers.

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kaitlyn wrote a review · Sat Dec 18, 2021 5:11 am

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night(whichever one it is in your part of the world),

Hi! I'm here to leave a quick review!!

First Impression: This is a pretty nice moment here I think. You've managed to create a nice little bit of extra tension there to really hook the readers before providing a pretty nice introduction there to this story here. Its a pretty good chapter one I think.

Anyway let's get right to it,

My feet hit the pavement hard and fast. Behind me, I heard hard panting. He was chasing me, all because someone had shoved me into him at the market.

The minute we had collided, he had come up behind me and growled into my ear, "You'd better be good where I'm going to take you, brat," and reached out to snatch my wrist. Before I knew it, my feet were carrying me down an alley, out to the street, and down toward the only safe haven: my hideout.

I used that hideout for everything. Whenever I was running away from something, or someone, I'd go there. No one was ever able to catch me there. It was like a force field would go up, propelling anything that came near and kept it invisible to everyone except me.

I rounded a corner and leaped into the hole that led to my get away. Once inside, I peeked out the window.


Okay...well this is quite an interesting scene to start things off with. I don't believe I've seen too many such situations used at the start of stories before so this is quite unique too I think. The description of the chase was also fairly well done I think. You managed to build a decent amount of suspense I think.

"Come out, you stupid brat! What are you afraid of? I ain't going to hurt you," he leered.

"Yea, right," I mutter. All he wanted was to hurt me. That's all they ever want. Slowly, I creep to the other side, the side that leads into my backyard. Crawling out, I spot my loyal cat peeking at me from behind the bushes.

"Hey there, Tiger," I snuggle him close to me and carry him into my house.

"Serena! Is that you?" My room mate, Christine comes into the living room, headphones hanging around her neck, hard rock music blaring from them.

Tiger's ears pulled back and he started hissing at them and sprang at Christine's shoulder. Laughing, she turned quickly to the side and caught him in her arms. Petting him, she buried her face into his neck.

"You playful thing. One day, you're going to regret it,you little rascal," she giggled, letting him free.


Hmm, well that's a cute little moment there with the cat before we have this nice little greeting here. It seems these two have been roommates for some time now, they clearly seem to know each other fairly well and this is a nice little dynamic that you're introducing here.

Laughing, I went over to the couch and flipped on the t.v. set. She wandered into her own room for a bit, before emerging once again, looking worried.

"Serena? I just noticed...why does your hair look so chaotic?"

"Uhm," I hesitate. She always is so overprotective of me, "You see, this guy started chasing me and-"

"Again?! Serena! You have to be more careful!" she exploded, instantly blaming me for whatever had happened.

"It wasn't my fault! Some idiot pushed me into the guy, and he over-reacted about it. That's all," I defend myself. Sighing, I turn off the screen, head into my room and close the door. I was too tired to deal with her, let alone to watch t.v. What I needed was a good night's sleep.


Well...that's a good way to really showcase that these two are certainly pretty good friends and they seem to care for each other quite a bit. Its a pretty good introduction to what I assume are going to be the two main characters of this story here.

The next morning, I awake from a weird dream. All I could remember was huge wings embracing me while a warmth surrounded my lips. Licking them, I could still taste the sweetness of whoever left that wonderful flavor on them.

Sitting up, I tried to remember more. All that appeared was feathery wings and appealing lips. Hm, why would that come up?

Getting up, I wandered into the kitchen to grab some orange juice and noticed a note sitting on the counter.

Poor Christine. Having a danger magnet as a best friend. Leaning against the counter, I remembered another piece of my dream.

Deep blue eyes gazing at me with such warmth and tenderness, you'd think me, and whoever was looking at me like that, were lovers.


Well this is quite something here. I'm positive that this isn't simple a random dream that means nothing. There's gotta be something more here and that specific detail that our protagonist felt compelled to mention at the end seems like its going to be especially important here. Definitely ending on a lot of mystery this one.

Aaaaand that's it for this one.

Overall: Overall, I think this is off to a pretty nice start here. I think this has most of the essentials that you could want from a first chapter here and its certainly interesting enough that it makes us want to read a second chapter.

As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.

Stay Safe
Harry

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thank you :) I edited it and I think it looks better. I appreciate the time you took to edit this.

Hey :)
Truth here for a review!

First off... The verb tenses is changing are changing quite a bit in there... red= present, blue= past

My feet #FF0000 ">hit the pavement hard and fast. Behind me, I #000080 ">heard hard panting. He was chasing me, all because someone had shoved me into him at the market.

#000080 ">
The minute we had collided, he had come up behind me and growled into my ear, "You'd better be good where I'm going to take you, brat," and reached out to snatch my wrist. Before I knew it, my feet were carrying me down an alley, out to the street, and down toward the only safe haven: my hideout.
This here should be past, even if you decide to stay in present, because it is talking about the past.

I #FF0000 ">use that hideout for everything. Whenever #FF0000 ">I'm running away from something, or someone, I#000080 ">'d go there. No one #FF0000 ">is ever able to catch me there. It#FF0000 ">'s like a force field would go up, propelling anything that came near and #FF0000 ">keeps it invisible to everyone except me.

I #000080 ">rounded a corner and #000080 ">leaped into the hole that led to my get away. Once inside, I #FF0000 ">peek out the window.

See how it's switching back and forth? It is a common mistake with writers nowadays because we always do the mistake when we talk but it should either be all in present -when you are talking about present and past when talking about the past- or all past tense, like she is retelling the story.

Nitpicks...
Laughing, I went over to the couch and flipped on the t.v. set. She wandered into her own room for a bit#008000 ">, comma before emerging once again, looking worried.


Uhm," I hesitate. She always is so #008000 ">overprotective over #008000 ">of me#008000 ">, comma "You see, this guy started chasing me and-"

'Overprotective' should be written like this, into one word.

Sighing, I turn off the screen and #008000 ">, comma head into my room and close the door.


Licking them, I could still taste the sweetness of #008000 ">whoever left that wonderful flavor on them.


Deep blue eyes gazing at me with such warmth and tenderness, you'd think me, and #008000 ">whoever was looking at me like that, were lovers.

Wow, she remembers a lot... wish I could remember my dreams.

Alright, that is all :)
Overall, this looks very promising. The plot looks intriguing and the characters also :) Beside the verb tenses, there is close to no mistakes, which is great. Keep on writing this!

-Truth-



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