I felt so calm and at peace, it was as if I'm taking my last breath in the sea before I felt so light, as if I was flying and then,

I felt nothing......

×××

I woke up with a groan, my throat dry. I could feel the rising and falling off my chest with each breath I took, the cold sweat trickling down my body and the heaviness of my eyelids and all these sensations at once felt so much, that my head started to hurt.

My head kept hurting for a while, the pang of pain in my head eventually started feeling more like a drum beat slowing down slightly, slowly fading away in the unknown just as I did

×××

I woke up again but this time my head feeling a bit better. I could feel more now, more than just my body. I could feel the cold tile under my body and the coldness of the dark room which made a chill go down my spine.

I try to open my eyes but couldn't, they were too heavy. Taking a deep breath, I try to open them again, this time succeeding.

I slowly opened my eyes, water pouring out of them as slowly my vision started to focus, I realized that the room was even darker than I originally imagined. I try to lift my left hand only to realise that I couldn't.

With few more grunts and groans, I try to lift it again and again only to give up with a sigh that came out more as a whimper.

What am I doing here?

My vision starts to fade in and out focus, as my ears start to ring and my head starts to hurt as if someone was hammering on it.

The memories come back one by one. They felt like hallucinations at first before I could feel everything in that memory.

I was on my way to Ms Hannah's house to deliver milk and bread, when something hit the back of my head and everything blacked out. I remember someone picking me up and then, when I woke up before
h- he- sobs broke out of me as my brain finally processed all the memories.

The bliss provided by the numbness starts to fade away as the pain finally comes back in full force, shattering the peace. A scream breaks out of me as I try to move my body, confirming that my memories were correct and it wasn't all just a horrible nightmare.

My tears dripped down the side of my face and fell on the ground mixing with brownish red on the floor. The metallic taste of blood filled my mouth because how tight I was biting my tongue, to keep myself from screaming.

Sobbing silently, I tried to mute my screams as much as I could. From the unbearable pain in my ankles, I knew they were broken along with my left hand, which I couldn't move earlier.

As I lay there on the cold tile floor, surrounded by my own blood, and pain, I couldn't help but think of my parents, friends and everyone I know.

I don't want to be here, I want to go away from here and to my home, where mom and dad is, I don't want this pain, I don't want to die, I-I just wanted to love someone.

A scream breaks out of me again, my tears blurring my vision but I could do nothing except lay there whimpering and crying.

I will never be able to see them again, I will never be able to meet my friends again or be able to go to any parties, birthdays or be able to celebrate Christmas or new year. Nothing at all.

I wonder if anyone even noticed that I'm missing, if they are even looking for me.

The loud thudding sound of boots against wood as they descended broke me out of my pitiful thoughts. Hearing them, my breath started getting faster and suddenly the only thing I could focus on was the sound of his footsteps getting closer and closer, before the wooden door swung open with a loud creak sound and he stepped in.

The light entered the room illuminating the dark room. In the wall in front of me, I could see his shadow getting bigger and bigger as he walked in the room and stopped behind me.

I sucked in a deep breath, the panic and fear weighing in my chest along with the feeling of dread. I bit my tongue with more force now, to stop myself from doing anything stupid, anything that might make my death more painful.

I feel a hand brush my hair away from my face, as my breath gets stuck in my windpipe and my heart starts beating even faster. Slowly, I turn my head to look up at him only to be met with his eyes staring back at me. He brushed away few of my hair from my face before tucking them behind my ear.

"So, you are still alive huh?" He asks, chuckling. "I'm really happy because with this we have even more time to spend with each other."

Not knowing what to say, I kept staring at him. Fear etched into my face yet he looked at me as if he could look through me and the fear into what I was, who I was and maybe he could.

"Hey, you still there?" He asks, raising his eyebrow in question. I nod my head slowly, looking at him with wide eyes to catch any rapid movements he makes.

"Good girl-" patting my head, he stood up and walked around me before coming to stand in front of me."-As you already know, I like to give everyone a choice for their own death. Unfortunately because of how uncooperative you were last time, I will give you only two choices." He said, pressing his lips together after he was finished.

My eyes followed his movements as he put his hands into his pockets and searched for something before pulling out a switchblade and a lighter.

"Since formalities are done with, let's get started hmm? The choices I have for you are death by blood loss-" he lifts his left hand to show me the switchblade "-or by burning." He says, showing me the lighter in his other hand.

Bleeding and burning both hurt a lot and after what I did last time, I don't think he is gonna make it any easier for me. I can't delay my death any longer either.

I-I have to make a choice, to escape all this pain even if it results in my death.

"So, what do you choose?" He asks, sitting in front of me, his head propped up on his hand as he looked down at me.

"You should choose quickly though, the quicker you chose, the quicker you die and after all, it's not like you can run anyway." He continues, with a shrug.

Maybe, it was the fear or the helplessness I felt that I slowly whispered out two words "Blood loss"

"Good choice." he replied with a smile, his voice, sweet as if dripping honey as he pulled my only working hand towards him and rubbed it gently with his thumb as he held it down before he made his first cut on it.

The blade felt a bit sharp against my skin at first before a prickling sensation occured which was followed by so much pain. Yet, all I could do was scream and nothing more.

"Shh, it's okay." He said, patting my head for a bit before going back to cutting my hand again and again one stroke followed by another and after sometime he stopped and wiped the blade on t-shirt before putting it back in his pocket.

"P-Please just k-kill me already" I begged him, tears dripping down my face and onto the ground.

He looked at me silently before lifting my head and putting it in his lap.

"It will be fine, shh don't cry" he said, gently after a while. His fingers lightly pressed against my scalp as his other hand held by bleeding one

"Go to sleep everything will be fine and it won't hurt anymore."

"Let me sing you a song." he said, gently after a while.

His fingers continued playing with my hair as he began his sing.

"The blowing wind will bring along grief,"

"Believing thiefs of hearts will bring disbelief,"

"But the things will come and go,"

"And no matter where we are,"

"I will never be far,"

"The rain wil-" Slowly, everything became less audible, I couldn't hear the whimpers that escaped my throat yet, I could still hear him sing to me.

Lulling me to sleep or to my death, I don't know. Slowly, my vision started to blur yet I could see him singing to me that haunting song of his. Looking closely at his eyes, they were beautiful, more beautiful than I realized before.

It's surprising how that no matter what he did I still saw something like midwinter in his eyes and not the ashes of the bodies he had burned. They reminded me of that white flower my mom used to grow in our garden when I was young, watching how much she loved those flowers eventually made love them too.

White Lilies. They looked so beautiful, so pure.

I slowly closed my eyes, as they started getting heavier and heavier....

And the last thing I see before closing them was his grey eyes filled with melancholy looking back at me.

"The fire will find comfort for my dear,"

I close my eyes and feel a tear slide down from my eyes to my cheek.

"So, when the clouds will float away,"

Before it gets wiped away by someone.

"Lily?" I whisper one last time.

"Will you be here?"

"With me

X-X

1664 words.....

Demm... This turned out to be bigger than I originally thought... Also sorry for the late update!!!

This was so long and at times I got confused on what to add or what to remove that it took so longggg!!

Well anyways.... What do you think?? Is it scary for the first chapter or good?

Also, this is not Chloe but another victim of the killer.... If you noticed Chloe got kidnapped when she was in the park and this girl got kidnapped when she was on her way to make a delivery.

Hope that clears it up!

Welll..... Byebye!!
See you soon hopefully.....
If laziness doesn't attack me again...

~Mei