Triggered by Michael Evans

Author:Michael Evans [Evans, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Boundless Press
Published: 2018-09-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

It didn’t take a long time of running until my fingers turned bright red and my face felt numb and raw with the constant barrage of the icy wind and thick, freezing air. I had no idea where I was going, except that I was running down the road in the complete opposite direction that I had walked in with Hunter just hours earlier.

The darkness above suffocated my vision, and my lungs felt like acid was being poured on them from the ferocious cold. All of the physical pain was the perfect distraction from the scar on my mind that continued to be ripped open brutally.

My frenzied dash away from the madness inside that quaint, seaside cottage still did not permit me to escape the emotions that were spiraling out of control into the pit of darkness within me.

I wish someone could tell me how to make this end. I suddenly stopped running, the sounds of the waves softly crashing against the shore bringing a bit of sanity to my mind. I looked down at my hands, which were shaking madly, and at my fingers, which were swollen red and numb, and could start to feel the pain begin to overwhelm me.

It wasn’t the physical pain that overwhelmed me; the bitter pounding of the wind against my face and the feeling of an icicle enveloping my body paled in comparison to the anguish caused by life digging its claws into me once again.

I can get through this. I have gotten through so much, this is nothing. I shuffled off the road, letting the dead grass crunch beneath my feet. The night had transformed from a light, airy twilight to a thick, suffocating blackness that dragged down my eyelids as I tried to see the edge of the shoreline up ahead. I had the crazy thought for one fleeting moment that I would jump into the waves and see where this world would carry me next. I wanted the salt to seep into my pores and cleanse me of the misery, and open my senses up to the light I knew must lie somewhere in this world.

However, the only thing that my eyes opened up to was the obnoxiously bright, blinding light of the lighthouse that stood at the edge of an island in the ocean a few hundred yards away. I couldn’t discern the color or any physical features of the lighthouse, but it was apparent that the lighthouse was small and its light a puny flicker attempting to break through the night.

I stood motionless until the light had made another revolution to cast a heavenly glow upon the dark waters, and illuminate the large rocks of granite that lined the shoreline. I can sleep here. The thought crossed my mind and my body didn’t even question it. I immediately began moving towards the field of rocks that covered the soft, sandy beach of the little alcove, which was surrounded by abandoned homes and darkness.

Instead of feeling the pain of my mother threatening to kill me, I decided to take a break from the mental distress.

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