Applying extra lip gloss to keep her lips soft in that winter season, she zipped her buttoned coat and tied her boots. She checked her appearance in her car's mirror before getting inside her car. She buckled her seat belts when she remembered she had classes tonight.
~ ๐๐ฉ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฉ! ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ช ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ? ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ช ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ.~
She smiles inwardly.
~๐๐ช๐ฏ๐จ! ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ! ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ.....~
"I will skip today's class, I'm not coming to School today" the setting sun was taking Lian's transparency.
"Lian, is everything alright ? Why will you skip ?" Akari asked.
"Why?.... actually I don't have a reason but I'm not coming" Ye Lian adjusted the bluetooth earphone, "just do me a favor Akari, send me today's notes."
"Sure, I will send you everything but take care, I will be meeting you tomorrow at school."
"Yeah, now I shall hang up" She picked up speed on the accelerator, "because I'm driving to the dorm. Bye!" she hung up.
The setting sun, the orange sky, the fresh evening air through her car window felt so great, but she felt something wrong in her surroundings, her chest hurted badly, something was going to be wrong!
Her dorm, the special house where she lived or may be where she hid from daylight and from the sun was pretty far from her school, and in the midst of the forests.
"~๐๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ค๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ต ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ข๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ข ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฃ๐ช๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ~" ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐จ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐บ.
The weather was getting colder as the night fell, Lian decided to take the short-cut to her home. But she had never taken that road before. She only remembered when once aunt Sila drove her through this path, so it won't be such a trouble to take that road to reach home.
Lian drove her car to the short-cut road to her home, there were no road lights there and neither any house nor any humans. The more she drove ahead, the more dense forests were that were visible to her.
She stepped on the brake and stopped the car, it was so dark in that forest, that she cannot even predict which way to go. It was so terrifying to think that if she got stuck in that forest for a whole night, or even months, no one would know where she was, maybe she would never be able to find her!
~๐๐ฉ ๐ฏ๐ฐ! ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ด.~ ๐๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง.
"Hiss....hush....hiss"
~๐๐ถ๐ฉ? ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ'๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ? ๐๐ต'๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ช๐ง ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ. ๐'๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ.~
"Whoosh!" huh? She catches someone running among the bushes through her corner of eye. She guessed she was hallucinating.
Lian got frightened. She clutched the steering wheel tightly.
She closed all the car windows and locked the doors, for a moment she just bowed down my head on the steering and she could hear the gushing sound in the bushes, the crickets were singing out there, the sound of beetles flapping their wings, the sound of flapping wings of huge birds, the....
~๐๐ข๐ช๐ต! ๐ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ณ๐ฅ?~ her eyes went wide in fear.
She started the engine without any second thoughts and stepped on the accelerator. She took the car as far as she could, with the highest speed. She just didn't know where she was heading, her fear got the best of her and the only thought that was rushing her adrenaline was that she needed to get out of there in order to survive.
~๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ! ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ!~ her phone's light glowed up.
Lian drove with her left hand while she checked what was with her phone. Her phone had no network and the battery was about to die was all she could see. She tossed her phone on the side seat and continued to drive.
~๐๐ช๐ฏ๐จ...๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ....๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐จ๐จ!~
She stopped the car to see who had called her when there was no network in this forest. Her phone showed it was her aunt Sila and her phone has a network. That meant she was close to her home. She sighed thinking that she will be able to reach home.
"Hello? aunt Sila?" she picked up the call.
"Dear child! Where are you? I had tried calling you numerous times and everytime your number was unreachable!" Lian could hear panic was gushing through her aunt.
"Aunt don't worry, I'm fine and....~๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ! ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ!~" her phone's battery was finally dead.
~๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐บ ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ฑ! ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ? ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ~
Lian closed her eyes. She was tired, she was afraid, lonely and helpless. She bowed down her head again on the steering wheel and tried to recollect her thoughts.
~๐๐ธ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ...๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฉ!~ she heard the rustling sound of wind and tree leaves, she shivered and had goosebumps even if the car windows were closed.
~๐๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ...๐ฌ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ...๐๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ!~ she could even hear footsteps on dried leaves but could not figure out if it was a human or an animal.
She opened her eyes, started the car again and drove as far as she could go, as fast as the car could go. Lian was scared to death, she was trembling with fear.
She was not brave enough to see what was coming behind her, she was just driving as far as she could go that night.
Her focus was on the road, her hands were trembling on the steering wheel while a cold shiver ran down though her spine giving her goosebumps.
She gave her full strength in driving faster until she was out of energy and stamina.
Out of nowhere, in the middle of the forest, the car headlights showed the danger sign board ahead! Lian tried to stop the car by pressing the brakes, but it seemed there was a brake failure.
Lian had no wish to die, she didn't even know that this short-cut road would lead her to death. Lian's car crossed the danger sign, she clutched the steering wheel as if it was any kind of ultimate weapon for surviving, She leaned back to her seat, tightened her seat belt and closed her eyes because she knew...
She knew that she would die!
***CRASH !!***
The car's tire bumped into something that she was unaware of but then Lian's car moved forward with a very high speed and in a blink of an eye, the car was flying?
Lian's car was falling into a river from the mountain! She unbuckled her seat belt to jump from the car, but it was too late!
The car along with Lian both fell into the river.
~ ๐๐ฎ ๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ? ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ? ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐? ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฆ? ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ต ? ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ? ๐๐ฎ ๐ ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ? ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ช๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ ? ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ช ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ? ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ'๐ด ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ?~
Lian was still unconscious to think or feel about her surroundings.