The Savior Rises by Christopher C. Payne

Author:Christopher C. Payne [Payne, Christopher C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JournalStone Publishing
Published: 2012-06-26T10:19:07+00:00

It isn’t Possible

Stefani stretched her arms and yawned as she clutched her pillow. She was so sore. Her entire body felt like it had been through a meat grinder. What happened to her? Even her legs felt achy, like softening Jell-O, and she had not been running in….

“What the hell?” she said out loud as she sat up in bed. “What the hell is going on?” she asked to nobody specific.

Stefani sat in her bedroom. The sun shone through her window, and it was morning. She was in her bed, in her bedroom. It was like having déjà vu, again. Hadn’t she just gone through this a couple of days ago, or yesterday? Jesus, what day was it?

She looked at her arms and could see scratches stretching all the way across her hands. She had bruises on her elbows, and her legs were actually turning purple in a couple of spots. Why was she in her bed? Didn’t she fall? Wasn’t she chained in some kind of dungeon? Hadn’t she just been to Europe?

She heard voices outside. They sounded like her roommates. She jumped out of bed and threw open her door. Staci and Lori sat at the breakfast table eating bowls of cereal.

“Good morning, sleepy head,” Lori said.

Stefani ignored her.

“How the heck did I get here?” she screamed at Staci. “Answer me or I swear to God, I’ll break your neck.”

Staci looked at her, scooting her chair back as she sat and stared. “I don’t know what you mean,” she stammered. “I don’t know what you mean, I don’t know. You were out yesterday, and you came home after I went to sleep. Stefani, are you ok?”

Stefani picked up one side of the table with both hands and launched it into the air. It hit the countertop, spraying cereal and broken glass across the sink and on to the floor below. Lori sat in her seat, staring with her mouth wide open. She didn’t understand what had just occurred.

“Really, I don’t know. I swear to God I don’t know. Stefani, what’s wrong? Are you in trouble?”

Staci kept letting meaningless dribble fall from her mouth as if she had no control of her speech.

Stefani didn’t know what to do. She ran back into her room and slammed the door, locking it from the inside. She jumped on her bed and wrapped her arms around her completely intact Raggedy Ann doll. It looked the same as it had for the last several years. Dirty and worn, but its head was snuggly attached to its body. It just stared at her as though she were insane.

Stefani flipped on the TV. There were four days left until her birthday. The days continued to tick away, but how were they ticking away. Where was she? How was she sitting in her bed? What happened to Matt? Was he dead? Wasn’t Staci part of this charade?

Stefani curled up in a ball and cried. She didn’t know what to do. She didn’t have anyone. She was on her own, caught in this twisted world where nothing seemed to work anymore.

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