My twenty-one years of life played in front of my eyes like a movie while I am stumbling down the stairs. Every bone, every part of my body is aching badly, and my vision is dancing. I am laying at the end of the stairs, I don’t know when I lost consciousness and when I got it back but now I am lying on the ground like a dead body without any movement in my body. I don’t know how much time had passed and I don’t remember anything clearly. My memory lane is pretty groggy due to the fall and my head is feeling like someone is hitting it with a hammer repeatedly.
There is no one around and there is darkness surrounding me. I tried to make a noise but I am unable to move my body. My body felt like it is lit on fire. Slowly I tried to move my body to reach my bag, I am pretty sure that my bag is lying somewhere near.
Suddenly, I felt like I am gonna puke and my breathing got erratic and my ribs and lungs felt like someone had punched them repeatedly. I lifted my body and crouched on my knees. The bile rose in my throat and I puked on the floor, the taste of the vomit is coppery and I know what that means, I vomited blood and it’s pretty serious. I need to call someone to help me. I don’t wanna die.
I started crawling on the floor searching for my bag. The blurriness is still there and my head is pounding, I don’t know how much I can take this. I can’t yell for help because there is no one in the office at this time. The security guard will be near the reception area on the ground floor, he can’t hear my yelling from this floor.
I searched for my bag around me and it felt like an eternity searching it. I saw a blinking light a few feet away from me and it is my phone and my bag. I leaped at it like a starved woman who got water for the first time. I opened my bag and took out my phone, it doesn’t have a battery-only 5% of the power left in it, I have to use it before it dies. There are a lot of missed calls and text messages and I know they are from my friends and it made me happy that they are worried about me.
I started crying hard thinking about the situation I am in and about my friends who are worried about me. Suddenly my phone started ringing and omer’s name flashed on the screen. Seeing his name I sobbed hard, I want him to come and save me as he saved me at the party. I want his arms to surround me and save me from everything. I want to hide in his arms forever. I want his fragrance to calm me and comfort me. I just want to surround myself with omer.
I sat on the floor sobbing and resting my back on the wall. I answered the phone which is ringing constantly, I whispered into the phone because I don’t have any energy left in my body.
” Hello! Omer!”.
Omer is frantic on the phone yelling” Hello! Scarlett! Thank God! You answered, where are you, and why are you not answering anyone’s calls. You are fine, right? Lilly, zay, Eli and I are calling you for the past two hours and you are not responding, where are you? I will come and get you.” Listening to omer’s concern I feel like my pain faded away. I just want him in front of me.
” o omer! He e lp,” I tried to talk loud but I felt like everything is spinning and I can’t focus properly.
” Scarlett! Where are you and why are you sounding like this, are you okay? Where are you? Tell me!” Omer asked sounding scared and I heard my friend’s frantic voices yelling in the background.
” oo off ii cc e I I am in office e” I answered and my eyelids felt heavy and I am losing my consciousness. My body is slouching down the ground and my phone slipped from my hand. I am hearing omer and others yellings from the phone.
Once again Iam surrounded by darkness, I am standing in a dark, dark alley, there is no light, not even the moon. I am pushed back to the day of the party.
I am wearing the same dress that I wore for the party, suddenly I heard footsteps and I turned around to see the same creepy guy from the party standing few feet away from me and he has a smirk on his face, and his eyes are glowing red like a devil.
I started feeling cornered and my breathing starts getting frantic and I am shivering, another figure joined him and the person is wearing a hoodie and baseball cap. I didn’t recognize the person immediately in my haze but when the person removed the baseball cap I recognized the person and she is the stalker. I can’t see her face properly due to my blurriness and the darkness.
They both had the same smirks and the same evil glint in their eyes. They are making their way towards me and I am glued to the ground and it felt like my body and mind decided to go on a flight mode. They are nearing me and I can’t seem to move from my place.
Suddenly, I brought back to the office running from the stalker. I am relieving everything again. It felt real. The pain, the fear. I started stumbling down the stairs and I saw the two figures standing on the top of the stairs watching me with smirks and the evil glint in their eyes.
I lost my consciousness once again.
When I got my consciousness I’m once again in the same dark alley. I don’t know what is real and what is imagination. My mind is playing tricks, relieving everything again and again. Making me lose my focus and sanity. once again I am being chased by the two figures. I am running from them, trying to reach somewhere I can not be caught by them.
The two figures are very close to me and I am out of breath and I am going to get caught by these creeps. No no, I can’t make that happen. I have to fight them. I have to save myself from them.
I ran without turning behind and I reached a cliff, when I turned around, the two creeps are behind me, coming forward trying to reach me. I am cornered once again. There is no way to escape. Suddenly, I am pushed off of the cliff and I am falling from the cliff. I hear voices of my friends and my family calling my name, trying to tell me to hold something to save myself but the voices are giving me a headache, there is so much noise and I am unable to concentrate on anything the only voice which reached me more is omer’s voice.
I don’t know I am still in my nightmare or in real. There is no way to save me from this valley. I am nearing the ground and I am going to die. Omer’s voice is now clearly being heard. He is telling me to stay awake but how can I when I am falling from the cliff and I just want to slip into the darkness, it is calling me to embrace it. The last word I heard before slipping into the darkness is my name called by omer.