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"aaaaaaaaaaaaagggghh!!!"

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a deep cracking pain ran through my chest as a hot and sticky breath, rushed onto the nape of my neck

"Centaurea...my dear..hahaha...you have no heart.....its all mine...just mine..."

so dark..i was suffocating...

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I tried looking back only to be staring at a dark fuzzy mist

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"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrguuuhhhh!"

I launched off my living room couch clutching at my chest trying to breathe

"what kind of lunatic dream was that!

ugh just how much junk did i eat last night to have that kind of messed up dream!"

I kicked my platform knee highs across the room in a fit after almost tripping on them. I felt like i was out of my mind.

"oh shoot! i hope i didn't scuff em!" i quickly picked them up and inspected them.

"(sigh) oh jeez.. good thing these cost a lot. what a way to start the day...though doesn't change the fact I'm still trapped in this dang house."

It was the middle of winter and everyone was snowed in for days now. my parents went off to visit the fam and got snowed out so I'm all alone in the house and just pigged down on half the house supplies.

"Three days an no sign of the snow stopping..ugh..one more week on generator power and I'm going to be stuck in the cold anyway..."

"tch." pouting i bit into my lip and a thought ran through my head.

"I saved up! oh hecks yeah! I'm leaving this place before I'm completely snowed in!"

I rushed to my room and grabbed my old isle royales militia backpack.

"If I leave now I could totally make it for the evening plane out from the city over."

it's just 10 miles! thats not bad. hiking that much was a breeze...snow should be no different or so i thought...

"what was i thinking! this is torture!"

i trudged through the crunching snow as i started seeing patches or dead frozen grass and bushes.

"I must be getting close...i really should have packed lighter...i might as well have carried my whole bedroom with me...."

i sighed deeply as i fought off branches that kept whipping my cheeks .

I walked for what i thought roughly to be an hour or so.

"I feel soaked..and cold..all these layers..even my fuzzy combats aren't doing me anymore favors...my toes are freeeeeeeeee...ee..eezing!...brrr..."

I shook silently as I felt i was reaching my breaking point..

"okay...i should just go for it and rush forward screaming..someone should hear me right?"

I barreled through screaming like the scream painting i saw last year at the museum. my eyelids felt frozen shut as i hit something or someone hard.

it gave a loud grunt and rolled down with me off a small hillside.

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"My love. You should have kept your promise. I'll come back for whats mine eventually Centaurea..."

a gooey tongue licked my jaw as the figure turned an walked away

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"graaaaaaaaaah oh thats gross!!!"

I sprinted forward landing a punch on someone.

"ugh!.."

"oh no louis!"

gasped a seemingly familiar voice...

I opened my eyes to see a young guy laid out on the floor holding onto his shoulder with a grimace.

"oh sheeeeet! sorry sorry!"

i started apologizing as i realized i wasn't out in the snow anymore.

"oh please don't get up! louis may be hurt a bit but your condition seems far worse!"

the young girl said as she firmly as she could muster; pressed me back down onto a bed i had been tucked into.

my feet stung and my body almost all but seized up on me. I winced as i realized I really shouldn't have gotten up the way i did.

"ughhh...I'm sorry i hit you...luis was it?..."

I asked. He made a crumbled face at me as he said "it's louis...not luis... the emphasis is on the ou not the is..."

I twitched up my nose at him 'snob' i thought as i tried to make a apologetic looking smile...

"oh no do you need medicine for your stomach as well?.." the young girl said as she quickly got up to walk out of the room. 'does my face look strained jeeez!' "wait wait wait! hold up my stomach is fine...sure it's a little sore but I'm sore all over so its not much of a difference really..." i rushed out my words as i plopped to the floor landing hard. "haha ughhh...anywho forget that i just flopped over, but whats your name...?.."

she turned back.

all i could focus on was how her long curly hair flowing down her round pinkish cheeks

made her look so much like...

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me...omg she looks like me!

"okay! alright! am i dead or something? do i need glasses now or what? why the bloody mess of a brain do i have to be hallucinating this?!"

I curled and buried my head in my legs.

welp i soooo oh so still stuck in the snow...no way im conscious...too bad... I mean not like my parents were around much but still...I'll miss them...

"miss..mi.."

I wish I'd at least gone out with someone...anyone..just to see what it's like..too bad..no one liked my alt style....whyyyy was i the only kid in town we my esthetics(miiiissssss)

ugggghhhhhh

"Miss!"

"aaaack! jeez heart attack much!"

"I'm sorry for the outburst but you were not responding to either one of us."

she felt my forehead with the back of her hand and handed me some dark liquid in a small bowl.

"let's start over. my name is Centaurea velm cornflower. we louis and myself found you outside the estate soaked and freezing. I'm not sure how its possible for you to have encountered rain let alone snow out here in the mist of summer; and with no lakes near our property its rather odd. ("wait hold up") though I have been trying to summon you for weeks I didn't think this is how you would appear.."

she rambled so quickly i could hardly keep up with her concern let alone my current reality.

"I said wait up! like hold up! first off how is it we have the same name its creepy well except our last names but seriously! and WHAT DO YOU MEAN You SUMMONED me???!"

louis looked just about done with me and raised his arm is response to my hostility.

"oh heck no! you raise that hand at me and watch how you'll be finding teeth around this room for weeks!"

I said as i forcibly jumped off the bed past Centaurea eyes locked onto louis jawline.

Centaurea threw her body at me and held me back while scolding louis for the attempt of punishing me.

"Please miss Centaurea! i know it was wrong of me to have taken you from your world to mine but i needed your help! I want to live! i want to leave this place!"

she cried bitter tear as she held onto the nightgown i was placed into. i looked down at her and sighed. all in all suppressing my need to distort my face and twitch my nose up in disgust.

"Allright. I'll hear you out. if you don't mind doing me a favor and telling this jerk to leave." i gritted my teeth as louis looked like he wanted to start a fight. how a scrawny man could even think of scrapping with me tch.

Centaurea calmed louis down and sent him off all the while her tears yet to dry.

"So?" i said as i wretched back into the soft bed behind Centaurea. As she held onto her shoulders almost ashamed to have to speak.

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"you see.."