• (rought draft)

    Hello my name is Bliss Lapack, I’m a survivor.
    I lived in a world not many people were found of. A world full with hatred and darkness. The only thing that I ever wanted from that horid nightmare was to be free, somewhere that I feel like I fit in, and not in some rathole that reaks of human fleash. I waited 19 whole years to get the dream of all dreams, although it was a rough and very long journey, and many deaths tried to tear me away from freedom and light. I some how survived, proven myself more powerful then half the midless people in DarthParaee. This is my story a story of no good things to come. A story of how my friends were the reason for my existence, and how I will always rember them as heros that never die.


    5091, July 28th
    I walked along the sea wall trying to stay away from the shadows. True I might be 18 but no matter how much I try to tell myself nothing can hurt me from the shadows, I can’t seem to find myself touching them. I always get this weird feeling like someones watching me, waiting for me. That if I just happen to let my hand pass threw the greyness that ill be sucked in forever. I don’t want to be like the others in DarthParaee, evil, mindless souls…
    “Hey Blissy, whats up?” I didn’t jump at the name as I heard my soul mate call me his Blissy. I just simply smiled and braced myself for a bear hug. I was right like always Issac picked me up off my feet and twirled me around kissing the nap of my neck. My heart fluttered, god did I love this boy, just when I was scared out of my wits thinking that someone was stalking me from the shadows. My kinght In the Light comes along and makes all things seem brighter, much safer now.
    “Hey, Iz. I missed you, you skipped out on breakfast in the open hall this morning. The gaurds were looking for you.” As soon as I felt my feet hit the ground I wirled on him glaring, “I though something bad happened-“ he placed his pointer finger gently on my lips making my grin disapear as he sat there smiling at me with the same old smile that melts my very own heart.
    “Blissy you always think that something bad has happened to me when I miss out on something-“ my eyes softened making me look worried still, he seemed to notice as he hurried on talking, “I just happened to sleep in I was up all night looking at some old maps and books I found in the back of the library, that’s all.” His hand gently slide to the side of my face as he stroked my cheek gently. I gave him one of my famouse half smiles, we loved the library, exspeacily the back. We called it our secret spot, our Safe House, the most brightly light place in DP. The one place all the grownups seemed to avoid. We always joked around how it would one day help us plan our escape into the real world. Instead of going on about how much I was currious about his late night studying I continued on about the Dp Gaurds.
    “You know one day the Mahamaee’s are going to catch you skipping maditory meetings, like todays breakfast, and there going to suck your soul into the darkness like every other pointless being on this planet, right?” I wraped my arms around him and leaned up to kiss him before he could speak. I turned in his arms and started walking, knowing that he would fall me. I heard him chuckle.
    “Babe, are you really still scared that one day I’m going to end up like every other person here? Come on Blissy its me. The dark cant hurt me. Im to good for it.” I felt him smirking behind me.
    “I know, I know, you tell me the same thing EVERY day Iz, but to be honest… The dreams are becoming more vivid, more painful, and lately we’ve all been in them.” I couldn’t keep the depression ffrom my voice. I heard his feet stop moving as I turned and looked at him. He knew how scarry my dreams were, and why they were the main reason for me hating the dark. I looked at him as he just stared back at me not speeking, but with one simple jesture held up his tan muscular arm revealing a blue band with a gold charm on it. I nooded. The band was our groops way of always having each other with each other without realy being there. Issac, Tamra, her little brother Corry, Ray, and me.
    “I think we should call a meeting and talk about it.” I bit my lip, I knew that they all belived me when I told them there were places better, places far beyond this place, that was like heaven come true. They all belived me, they had no reason not to, because well simply my dreams told me things, like the future, not always correct because the future can change at anygive point in time. So I guess I get glimpses of things that could happen in the future. I proved this to my friends one day when I samed Corrys life. His mother took him to the market one day and he vanished for a whole week, when finally I received a dream and found him drained of all energy in a dark well. Ever since then I’ve been like some kind of leader to my friends. First Corry and Tamra, then Issac a couple weeks later, soon after that his friend Ray. We’ve been family ever since.
    “That is acually a good decision, I acually came to get you for a metting, about my discovery in the books. I already had Ray go get the others and go to our spot. They should be there by the time we get there. I’ll let you tell them your news, then when were all got a steady head on our shoulders again I’ll let you all in on some pretty good things.” He smiles gently taking my hand and leading me back the direction we just came from and towards the library, like I couldn’t make it there on my own. Although it wouldn’t be hard to find. Since it was the brightest building here.
    “Oh, we can also have Corry fill us in on what was said at todays meeting” I rushed after him. He glanced back at me, with a puzzled gaze. I blushed some and chukled.
    “Yeah, Tamra, Ray, and I were kinda worried… or I was really worried and they seemed to noticed so we all split up looking for you. I guess Ray found you first.” I smiled really big, “you know I worrie about you to much I just needed to be sure you were oky after my glimpses that all.” He smiled at me this time and laughed.
    “Go figure, I though I heard Ray mention your name when he came over, but I’m afraid I didn’t get the message to well, Ray always has a weakness for food.” We both laughed at that as we continued to walk the rest of the way to our spot. We continued to walk the rest of the way, but the erry feeling of eyes watching me from the shadows came back. I let my eyes wounder around noone was to be seen.
    5091, July 27th
    Bedroom Asleep. 4:00 p.m.
    The world was black and cold. Colder then it use to be. Darker then it use to be. I look around franticly for my friends, I cant see them but I hear breathing, all around me. I cup my handsover my mouth to stop myself from screaming and giving myself away. The darkness is alive. Its looking for me. I close my eyes shut as hard as I can wishing that I would wake up, stop seeing the nothing I see, stop hearing the things that wish to kill me. The noises stop. I slowly let my left eye peek around, it seems calmer, but im still here.
    Theres a far off scream, Tamra. My heart starts to panic as my motherly instincts kick in. I suck in a chest full of air and make a mad dash threw the darkness in the direction of the scream. Im glad im bearfooted, its easyer to fly. I burst out of the darkness and onto a street road. Im not quiet sure where I am but its not home. I look behind me. I was in a big tunnel. I quickly start running down the street letting my feet lead me. Running blind but yet not so blind. I feel like my feet now where there going, like im heading straight towards tamra but at the same time a trap. I run across the town square and into an abandoned market. I see her hunched over a weel. I walk closer somethings wrong. The airs not right. It smells bitter, like blood, fresh blood. I freeze in my tracks, my lungs and organs frozen to. Theres a masave gash on her back. Blood pouring out like a river. Her cold eyes look straight at me. Straight threw my soul. I start to cry, my sobs come fast and loud. I fall to the ground screaming.
    The suns slowly setting and the shadows are getting closer again. I lay covered in my sisters blood. Holding her lifeless body to me. Strocking her hair, telling her it will be alright. I know it wont. I keep telling myself its time to stop running. To face the darkness. To end the deaths. Something comes up threw my chest a sharp pain, I start coughing vilently then im gone. Back into the darkness.
    Im completely alone this time. No breating nothing, but me and my heart pounding. I slowly stretch my arms out, trying to find a wall or something. I feel nothing but a small breeze, its coming from behind me. I wounder if that the way out, and if so why I am facing the oppoaite direction. I clentch my fists and feel the dry cracking blood on them, I rember Tamra. I clentch my fists even harder. I turn and face the oposite of the breeze. I rembered how I vowed I wouldn’t run anymore, how id face the darkness and its evil. Take revenge from what its taken from me. I start at a slow jog. Ive always been a good runner. I rember always racing Ray my heart sunk. Was he near? I stopped and listened, still silence the darkness wasn’t here yet. I yell, I yell loud and hard. Ray,Ray where are you! I stop and listen so hard I hear small buzzing noises from my ear drums. Theres nothing. Mabe im to late. What if hes dead. Tears start to sting my eyes as I try not to break down again I have to keep looking for the other. I take a couple more steps the I hear his coughing not Ray but Corry. Hes close by. I softly call his name, but loud enough that he can hear.
    I hear him say my name hes to the right of me.. I get on my hand and knees ans search for him. I find his cold wet hand 3 feet from where I was standing. He still has a pulse. I ask him how hurt he is but all he says is, sister dead. I don’t want to tell him I know. I want to comfort him. Did he witness his sisters murder. Did he seek revenge. Did he fail. I go to craddle him but the erry feelings back there here who they are. Im about wrap my arms fully around him when hes yanked up off the ground by s big creature of the darkness. I hear his high pitched scream his cry for help. I swing my arms like a boxer. But I find nothing but air. I hear a loud snap and then a thunk. His body has hit the floor. Im shaking, are they coming for me now? I must see Corry. He could still be alive. I go to take a step forward and im gone.
    Im sitting on a park beench under the moon. I scream no over and over. Wanting to go back. Wanting to make sure Corry was oky, but I cant. Then I feel the warm sensation of someones hand on my shoulders. They start shaking me as I wipe my tears and look up. Rays telling me to snap out of it. That I’m safe and nothings here to hurt me. I lung into his arms, finding it a little bit akward, since Ray isnt usually the hugging type. But he holds me for a breif second then pulls away asking me whats wrong and where everyone has gone. All I rember is telling him that he would beed to sit down to hear all this. I don’t ever rember opening my mouth and telling him the horible things ive seen. All the blood, but before I even knew it he was wraping one arm around me as I start to cry again. He trys to comfort me by husshing me like u would a baby. He trys to tell me everything will be alright and that will find Issac and how he will be fine. I can hear the faulter in his voice, but I don’t tell him. I acually like being the one told everything will be alright for once. Its soothing. Ray gets up off the bench and I hold his hand to steady myself when im up on my feet.
    He tells me how Issac would be at the towns library, that that’s where we all planed to meet when we were seperated. I ask him over and over how he knows this and if hes for sure. He keeps telling me yes, and why I don’t rember this. I tell him I don’t rember anything. How I got here with everyone, where were at, whats chasing us, nothing. He looks a little concerned but I pull a fake smile and tell him lets just try to find the library in this town. I let him lead me this time. I never let anyone lead, but I think tonight it would be exceptinal. Not knowing whats going on is scarry. Then I rember that im in a glimps, and I gasp. Ray looks at me and I tell him that I don’t rember whats going on because I’m not really me, or hes not really him. I didn’t need to say anything more. He just mouths the words ‘glimpses,’ I nood.
    We stop in front of some danky building theres a blood trail leading up to the front door. My heart sinks into a black pit. Ray hugs me one last time, and tells me to stay here. That he will go look inside and call to me when is safe to come in. I go to pocrastinate but I cant find my words. My mind races with thoughs of Iz’s dead. I see Rays body disapear into a door of blackness. I know he wont be in there alone, but I cant seem to get my feet to move up the stairs and into the building to help. To warn him. To protect him. I fall to my knees. Ive stopped bleeding. My vision starts to blurr and I know im about to change scenes. I go to yell for Ray to hurry, to come with me. But I see a weird shaped figure in the doorway. I cant make out what it is. Then im gone
    “After that I woke up in my bead all sweatty and gasping for air.” I looked around at my friends frightful faces. Noone spoke. I was afraid they would all yell at me or start crying, honestly I couldn’t even imagine who would be the first to talk or what they would even say. I just sat there on the couch nibbling on my lower lip. Hopeing, praying someone would speak up soon. They all looked from me to each other and then back to me. Corry was the one who spoke first.
    “What do you mean. How could you not know more?” He wasn’t trying to be mean, call me out for being a bad leader. He was just concerned. And I could tell just by looking at his cloudy grey eyes. His sister Tamra wraped her arms around her 6 year old brother and pulled him to her.
    “Don’t be scared Corry, Bliss has told us about the future. We can avoid it now. Theres nothing to be worried about” His sister was lieing, everyone new it, but agreed with Tamra to ease her brothers mind. He was still young enough that he shouldn’t have to worry about the things we talk about. So I smiled and leaned over and pinched his cheek the same way I always do when I mean something.
    “Corry you and everyone else here knows that I would never let anything bad happen to you, or anyone else here, and your sister, well lets just say that shes stronger then my dream made her out to be.” I looked away from Corry and caught quick glimpses of everyone else in the room. We all shared the same look of we should talk in more detail after Corry has fallen asleep. I just nooded to everyone, and then back to Corry.
    “I’ll tell you what Corry. We’ll all sleep here tonight. Together. So we know that nothing can get us. In my dream we werent here in DarthParaee, we were all seperated, and it was dark everywhere.” His sister moved and layed Corry down on the green cusions layed out all over the floor. We all smiled at him. “Were in the brightest place in all of DP, and were all together. Nothing will be able to get threw out defences Corry, and plus your sister is right. My visions arent always correct. The future is constantly changing. All you have to do is change your mind and ur future does to. So im pretty sure if we all stick together things will work out for the better, oky?” I looked at him. His sleepy eyes beamed up at me as he shook his head yes, moving his hands up to rubb his eyes as he layed there with his head on the pillows. I looked at Tamra and put one fingure to my mouth, then placed my hands together and on the side of my face, trying to mimic sleeping. She mouthed the words oky very quietly so her brother wouldn’t know that we were all leaving the room.
    5091, uly 28th
    Library kitchen.