• Chapter 8

    Somewhere in the forest

    "ANNELISE!" Annelise quickened her pace as she heard the sound of her name. They were catching up to her quickly. Annelise kept running quickly through the forest. Rough branches and twigs marking her skin. She had escaped from the hospital around what seemed like years ago. Riley had finally left her side to go get a cup of coffee so he could stay awake watching her the rest of the night. As soon as he had left Annelise had looked to the clock on the wall that read 3:00 A.M. She got up from the bed quickly,pulling away from the machines that were attached to her. She made a small sound of discomfort as the needle was pulled out of her arm when she got up. She looked around the small hospital room and quickly found a bag of clothes that Riley had brought for when she was supposed to go home the following day. She put on the dark blue sweatshirt and jeans plus the converse. She looked out the room door and saw a nurse coming down the hall. She shut the door softly the click of the door shutting fully barely audible. Annelise went to the window instead. Lucky for her she was in a small hospital that only had one floor. She opened the window slowly and stepped out. She closed it after she was fully out of the room and looked around. To her left was the parking lot and to her right was a large forest. She decided to go right,for if she went left she might see someone that would notice her. She didn't knoow why she was running away,but she knew she had to. She smiled to herself as she realized that the Void had been weak yet again and she had gotten through easily to her own body. She started running toward the forest and only looked back when she heard the scream of her name. That had been around 30 minutes ago and here she was still running for her life. Her breath was coming hard and her legs felt like they would collapse any minute. One of her legs gave away and she fell to the ground. "Ow.."She whimpered and started to stand up again. She heard voices and footsteps behind her and turned to look. A flashlight was shined in her face and her eyes narrowed. They had found her. She had spent all that time running just to be found. "Annelise!"She heard along with a sigh of relief from a very familiar voice. The voice had been holding that flashlight,so she couldn't see their face. The flashlight was turned away from Annelise's face and she could finally make out the figure. It was a small,petite looking girl. She was Annelise's age with short dark brown hair and brown eyes. Her name was Lauren and Annelise knew she was Riley's twin sister. "You really need to stop hurting my brother like that,"Lauren said she put her hands on her hips. Annelise couldn't help but smile. She knew she was in safe hands.


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