Chelsea Grace groaned as she reached for her phone on the bedside table failing. Her head throbbed  with pain as the memories of last night flooded in.

She looked down at the cuts marking her arms, and flashed back to the  deserted road which had ditches every few metres, she kept running as the moon shined brightly lighting up her path.

Looking around she saw nothing but miles and miles of field stretching across the horizon. But she was very much aware of the bridge behind her hanging above a few hundred metre fall. And the person standing on it.

'Stop. ' She shook herself out of the memory and tried forgetting all about it but secrets have a way of seeping out from the cracks of the wall we build around them.

'I don't want to think about it again. '
They are not enslaved to our mind but to nature.

And as nature would have it she wasn't the only girl who saw the horrifying view, but there were two more girls oblivious of each other.

Chelsea decided to cut school today and stayed in her bed and tried to sleep without having another nightmare.
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Unlike Chelsea, Emerald decided to go to school and face yet another horror.
Walking through the halls she kept her head hung low and avoided everyone and everything coming in her way.

She saw the classroom door just few steps ahead of her and had thought she was safe until she heard a voice behind her.

'Andrea! Wait up. ' Oh no! It was her teammate on soccer team, the one she was the captain of. She turned around.

'Hi, what's up? ' she meekly replied.

'You tell me, you don't look so good. '

Indeed she didn't with hair disheaved and dark circles under her eye as she couldn't sleep all night, well as much as was left of it.

'Nothing just worried about the match on a Thursday. '

On Thursday her team was going to compete against the team of another high school. But she was not worried about the match, she knew they were going to win not to sound cocky but her team  was of the best teams in the state and the other weren't much of a competition.

'Chill, we got the cat in the bag. ' The team mate reassured with a skeptical look on her face. She had never seen Emerald worried so much over a match. She looked like sh*t.

'Its going to be easy. ' she reassured again.

Hearing those words pulled Emerald back to that night.

'It would be easy. ' she heard a low voice ahead of her as she walked on the grassy fields towards a silhouette standing on the bridge.

'Hey! ' she heard her voice call out or maybe it was her teammate. But the silhouette turned around and her face shone in the moonlight and her light brown hair or they were golden it was not clear to her whipped around widely.

'Help me...' She heard her whisper.

She started moving towards her but somebody jumped out from the shadows and gripped her.

She fought to free herself but the person was strong. The person, a guy hit her across the head and the girl froze for a moment, Andrea started walking forward and girl started struggling this time harder.....but a sound made them both stop. The guy had pulled out a gun and was pointing it towards the sky. A gunshot was sounded.

The sound shook Emerald out of her thoughts, the bell was ringing, it was the bell, she tried to calm herself down.

And entered the class. It started and passed. One by one all her classes passed with each reminding her of the gunshot.
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Andrea stared at the girl sitting in front of her in the adjacent row from her usual seat in the back as she practically jumped out of her seat hearing the sound of the bell, no,not due to joy but surprise. The bell ringing never surprises her as she stares at the clock throughout the class and knows exactly when it would ring.

She kept looking at her as she bended down to pick something from the ground and Andrea got a view of her face. Emerald.....it couldn't be. What could be she doing there?

She remembered last night when she hid behind the bushes staring at the girl on the bridge, her face was visible due to moonlight, Andrea has seen the same face walking in the same hallways as she did. And on the grass near the bridge she saw her ..... Emerald with a look she couldn't quite read.

Thinking about those memories was like a movie with no pause button it kept playing in her head, the girl was suddenly attacked on by a guy and minutes later he pulled out a gun and a shot was fired. Everything stopped for a moment and then it started again, the girl tried to free her hand from the guy, at the same time she tried to catch the gun.

Andrea felt the need to do something but before she could think of something, Emerald started backing away, If Andrea was smart she would have done the same instead she stood there, it was as if her feet were no longer in her control. She just stood watching.

The fight, the horror and in a blink of an eye the girl fell off the bridge, Andrea saw her falling, it was as if in slow motion, one feet on the bridge and her other dangling in air, her hands flaying around. And then Andrea heard the girl's last word before she fell.

'No.....' maybe she just said this or something else Andrea couldn't quite catch.

Somebody tapped on her shoulder.

' The class is over. ' It was her friend Gina. ' Let's go! ' Gina exclaimed throwing her hands in the air.

Andrea looked around the almost empty classroom and got up, picking up her bag she left the room.
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A week later.
  
A week had passed but the memory was still fresh in Chelsea mind. She had tried everything to forget but it was stuck like a glue.

' What am I going to do? 'Chelsea questioned herself aloud.

And something just clicked.
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Maybe it was just the heat of the moment or desperation she decided to go to the place, the dreaded place, again.

She got in her car and started it. After driving through familiar lanes she reached the highway which lead to the bridge. The place where she saw the girl fall, where she was pushed of onto the face of her death.

She had never been near the bridge before that night. Nobody else haven't either probably in a long time. It was a deserted place in the outskirts of town. There are probably wild animals there, or ghosts, her mind rummaged on, or gangs ......or serial killers. Thinking of the last word her breath hitched, her mind just stopped for a moment. The car skidded and got off the road on the grass surrounding the unpaved road.

Hearing the screeching, Chelsea was forced back into reality. She tightened her fingers around the steering wheel and tried to get the car under control but failing to do so, she turned right ending up in a ditch pulling out of it and turning the wheel left she scratched a rock, another right and a tree stood before her with open arms. She applied the breaks and stopped her car embracing her and the car's doom.

Getting out of the car, she started walking on the grass, the grass blades were short some places and large at other almost reaching above her knees. On her left the the patch of land had grass reaching as high as her shoulders. On her right the deserted road stretched ahead. Up front she could see the bridge, she didn't even realize it was so close.

Even on that night she didn't know where she was going, she raced on the road till she was near the bridge then something asked her to stop, maybe there was a scream she doesn't quite remember.

As she neared the bridge, she saw
Somebody standing over it, there's a girl.

'Is it her? It can't be. Are there really ghosts around here. ' she thought aloud.

The girl turned around. She didn't look like the girl she saw before on that bridge. She walked to her and the girl kept staring her way.

It's Emerald.

' What the hell are you doing all the way over here? ' Chelsea called out.

'Me? Speak for yourself. ' Emerald said as Chelsea stopped before her.

'I don't know. ' Chelsea answered truthfully.

'What...?' Emerald started to question her for the weird behavior but stopped mid track. It looked as if she was in deep thought. Then asked out...

'Who are you again? '

Chelsea waiting for some words of wisdom after watching her thinking so hard face palmed at her question.

'I'm Chelsea. ' she said.

Seeing the look of confusion on Andrea's face she continued,

' I cheer for your team....? '

' So you are a fan? '

' No, Idiot I'm the cheer captain. '

' OK, sheesh...' Just when Chelsea thought Andrea finally understood, Andrea opened her mouth again.

'No need for the sarcasm. '

' you f*cking piece of.......'

'Hey! That's no way to talk to your idol. '

' No idol of my mine can fail to recognize sarcasm. '

' Huh?'

'I'm captain of our high school cheer team. '

'Oh, why didn't you say so..'

' I'm gonna push you off the.....'

'Bridge?'

Both stopped at that. The tape of the memory replaying again in their mind.

'Were you here when?'

'We all were. ' a voice came from behind.
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I hoped you liked the story so far. I know there are lots of error Ill go back and try to edit as soon as possible.  Till then vote and Comment to let me know what you think.

Love ya,
Grey⛓
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