***
I stood there in the middle of nowhere as the cold snow was landing on my face and piercing it's cold claws onto my pale skin.
Unable to move, I blankly stared at the cloudy sky and avoiding looking at what left of the body on the snow.

I felt the warm tears slowly sliding down my flushed cheeks and blurring my vision in order to stop me from seeing it, but the image was still clear in my mind and the pain was unbearable.

I clenched my teeth in order to not cry out and kept on sobbing as I looked up the blurry sky. I betrayed her, I promised her that I would never let anything happen to her and that I would be always by her side.
I clenched my fists and felt the nails burying in and leaving deep painful marks on the soft skin of my palm.

I fed her lies. I sobbed harder as those words harshly hurt me. I collapsed down on the ground as my knees were betraying me, and I sorrowfully covered my swollen eyes with my palms in order to stop the tears from falling down any farther.

I didn't deserve her in the first place, that's the god's punishment for me. I thought bitterly and a wicked laugh escaped my mouth.

I lay down and let the snowy ground embrace me with it's cold arms.

I want to return her, I want to show her that I  can still be the one who protects her. The thoughts swirled in my mind as I closed my eyes and drifted into a merciless sleep on the freezing ground. It's my last wish, let me one last time prove myself to her.

***

"Jammy? Hey Jammy wake up" I opened my eyes a bit sleepily and saw Anna standing above me smiling widely.
"Jammy seriously, get up, today is our anniversary, did you forget already?" She started pouting and a small smile was carved on my lips. Of course I didn't forget, how can I forget the day I met this angel? Anna was the brightest person I ever knew, she was the opposite of me, the gloomy me.

She always smiled, laughed and did anything she ever wanted, not worrying of what other's opinions, that was her biggest charm.

She would always turn to me smiling while her long wavy blonde hair followed her in the air as it swung and got messed up on her face.
She would look silly, but it didn't bother her, she would just start laughing carelessly.

Her sky blue eyes would always shine every time she smiles with so much joy, she was the biggest blessing I ever got in my life.
"Jammy!", Anna threw a pillow at me,
"lets go, get ready."

She left the room while stomping heavily, trying to show how much she was angry, it was yet another childish act of hers. I snickered and got up from the bed.

After a while I heard Anna calling me from the kitchen that was across the hallway. But as I tried to call back to her I was unable to say anything, my voice was gone, and so did the sunlight in the room.

It got darker suddenly, as if it was the eclipse, but I had a very bad feeling about it.
I have to protect Anna, I must to. The thought swirled around as I panicked and ran to the kitchen.

A loud scream pierced the silence in the dark house.
I felt my heart strongly pounding against my ribs and the adrenaline flowing harshly through my veins with the blood.

Anna! I tried to yell out miserably but instead I only helplessly moved my lips with no sound coming out.

I rushed in the kitchen, and there she was.
Something huge held her with one arm and with the other covering her mouth.

She helplessly looked at me as her blue eyes shed tears, she tried to wriggle out but instead got squashed in the huge hand tighter.

The anger flowed in my blood with a rush of heat, I won't let anyone touch her, at least not when I am here.
I leaped forward and was about to punch the creature as the ground beneath me was crumbling.

I tried to jump aside, but every time I stepped on a safe ground it would crumple underneath my feet, until I had no longer where to step nor anything to hold onto.

I was falling down into the dark pit which seemed to be without a bottom, a black hole of darkness that pulled me into it's cold embrace.
Anna, her blue eyes widely looking at me with fear. I couldn't protect you, but I won't give up either. A tear escaped my eye and so did other that followed it until my vision got so blurred that I no longer saw her clearly.

I fell deeper and deeper into the darkness, I'm not sure for how long, I lost count after Anna was out of my view, and so was the dim light.
Once I finally crashed on the ground I saw Anna's smiling face.

***

I took a sharp breath with hurt my lungs like a million of needles passing through and started miserably coughing out.

As I stopped, I opened my teary eyes and wasn't much surprised to the darkness that surrounded me. I slowly got up into a sitting position as I pushed myself off the cold ground and wiped the tears away.

I have just had a terrible dream, I thought and bitterly laughed.
"Anna, why am I sleeping on the floor? What time is it now?" I mumbled as I tried to find the bed frame helplessly and did not hear any reply from her.

"Anna, I cannot see anything," I said louder and after no reply once again I decided that she is probably sleeping deeply.

I got up and found the nearest wall to hold onto and walked across it as I blindly tried to find the light switch. But instead of it I felt the rough wall dye crumbling against my palms and falling down with a light thud.

I have a bad feeling that it's not our house,
Then where am I?
I felt something was wrong, but I didn't understand what exactly.

Where is Anna?

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