The cool, night air of thanksgiving fluttered its way past Jasper's face, her hair whipping behind her as she ran. She didn't know what she was running from and didn't even know if running was the right choice. Jasper only knew that her running could be the difference between her dying with no one close enough to hear her scream, and her making it to the next sunrise.

It seemed that only moments before she was leaving her parent's house. Her Father and Mother waved to her from their second-story balcony, the warmest smiles she could expect from people who she hadn't seen since she had left for college four years before.

But now she was running faster and longer than she ever had. She had never needed to run since she was learning to be a teacher abroad.

"Stop running. You can be with us and live if you only stop running." The wind seemed to whisper to her over and over again.

But she knew that what was being heard was just a wish that wouldn't come true. A small fraction of unsteadiness was growing the longer she ran. She was growing with a feeling of unease and still, her body could only take so much before she would inevitably collapse from exerting her body too much.

Jasper's body finally broke down as the running became too much for her aching muscles to handle.

Each huff of her breath only made her more desperate for air as she tried to regain balance and get away from whatever it was that was chasing her.

She had finally found her footing when a force shoved her down and she could see what had been frantically gaining on her for the past few minutes. It was a man who's skin was like that of an old withered sheet of paper. His hair was graying and signs of hard work bent his back and hands. In one of his hands, he held a knife.

It was the knife she had seen time and time again on her porch around Halloween. She looked into eyes that can only be what the burning skies in hell would look like. Blue, bright, beautiful, and merciless. She looked into those eyes, and they looked back knowingly what was about to happen.

"Father," Jasper heaved. "Father, please. You...You don't have to do this."

A single tear fell from the face she had loved for so many years.

"If I don't do this...Then you're going to leave me."Her father said quietly"You worked so hard to get a scholarship to get into the school you wanted. But when you told me tonight that you were going to leave, I knew I couldn't let you. If you want so badly to leave, "He croaked, "Then I'll just have to make it so you can never think of leaving me again. You can be my precious little gem for the rest of my life."

And with that, he swung down, and a scream pierced the night--

*Pffffffft*Jasper's car went.

She could see her parent's house from here. Just down the street and the first on the right side. But what was that she just saw. She didn't know but she did know that she was heading straight to the airport and on the first flight to where her newest ambition would take off. Down the street she went, making a right turn and she just kept going.

She would never go back to that place again.

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Hi guys! I know that not very many people will click on thins and the few who do are wondering why I would write something so dark as a father stabbing his daughter. I really don't know why I wrote this either. I was just sitting and my head was full to the brim, so I just came on here and wrote until I couldn't think of anything more too write. This just happened to be where my head was at at the time.

Anyways, thank-you for taking the time too read this short story that I came up with! It's nice to know that my thoughts can be shared with the world, but if you have anything to say about this story, in the words of Deadpool "Be gentle with me." because this is the first story that I've written and finished so I'm not to good at this. But it was fun to write so, either way, I'm happy.

Once again, thank-you for taking the time to read my story!