Delusions

22

“Jane, survive!”

Instantly the tightly closed eyelids opened again. In the darkness of the bottom of the lake, he tried to untie the bonds that locked his tiny hands. Blood drops came out from his injured hand and were mixed into one with the cold lake water. The fear of death came back to haunt his head. In the midst of a domineering fear, he tried hard to fight to escape death.

Undeterred. Undeterred. Undeterred. After a long while finally the bond broke, her tiny hand slipped off with a wound adorning her wrist. One more bond. His feet felt so stiff. The ties on his legs are so tight. Tears slowly came out from her eyelids, mingling with the murky lake water. Shaking his hand trying to untie it. And succeed!

His hands and feet moved upwards. His hands felt very weak, yet he still moved them forcefully. Oho! His legs were so stiff, it seemed like his legs were cramping. With great effort he tried to swim upwards. Come on, a little more. The light above the lake illuminated his dark path. One, two, three, he made it to the surface of the lake.

The girl inhaled the air greedily, she tried to reach the land. With a trembling body his hands crawled carrying his weary body to the lips of the lake. His pale body was parched, and fell on the muddled ground. She ... survived?

"You haven't survived."

A voice echoed in the dimmer forest that looked lush. A black hooded figure came out from behind the tree. The girl squinted her eyes. Wh who? The figure walked closer to his weakly lying body, his eyes staring intently at the girl from behind his hood.

“You are naughty, you should have died in that lake with your friend!” Her voice sounded cold and intimidating, making the girl's body go numb.

The figure raised a hand as pale as a corpse from under his robe. His nails are pointed and black, his hands are as straight as a skull but covered in pale skin. A dagger clasped tightly in his fingers. It looks so sharp and dangerous. With great effort the girl tried to get up from her sleep. But somehow his body is stiff and cannot be moved.

The girl screamed in horror, as she looked at her blue body with numerous bruises and incisions adorning her skin. His body also felt rotten! Black blood shot out from the incision wound on his body, slowly the wound turned increasingly rotten, until some maggots came out from there.

“You should be dead .. but you don't believe. Ah, no need for pleasantries. I will soon make you go to the afterlife.” The figure laughed loudly, even so hard the girl felt her eardrum would break. But suddenly that horrible-sounding laughter came to a halt.

From behind his black hood, the figure grinned widely. He showed his teeth that looked sharp and horrible. The figure carried his dagger towards the girl's left chest. It was so painful, when you felt a sharp dagger piercing deeply into the skin of his chest and piercing his heart. His heart seemed to be forced, extremely painful.

Slowly red blood came out from the puncture wound, but it slowly turned a blackish-red color, and finally turned pitch-black. The girl widened her eyes as suddenly the air around her was thinning, thinning, and finally gone. The girl coughed until blood came out of her mouth. His heart was like a leak, it felt like he no longer knew how to breathe.

My eyes dimmed, the light of life seemed to disappear from his hazel iris. Looks like it's over. He died a second time. And this .. is very painful. His eyelids felt so heavy, so heavy, so heavy. Until finally closed in on the meeting. All ... has ended*.

“Jane Graciella, died from being stabbed by a grim reaper.” The figure again laughed loudly until his laughter filled the silence in the lush forest.

Sunlight came out of the open window. Its warm light shone on a person lying on a white bed. The eyes that radiated joy were still closed. Though this had already been two months, yet it seemed that person still wanted to stay in his dream realm. Look, even his skin was already so pale from never being exposed to the warm sunlight.

The tall man walked up to the bed with the white sheet. His big hand touched his cold, pale fingers gently. Slowly the touch turned into a tight grip. Those brown eyes are crooked. It seems there is no hope. But he cannot despair. His sleeping daughter will surely wake up.

“The sun has woken up from its sleep. Wake up baby, you'll see the world. Look at the sparrows dancing in their cages, wake up baby you will know there are two rainbows in space.” Every day, he sang the same song. Because he was so sure, his lover would soon return to the real world. But ... when?

The man dropped his head on the girl's hand. He closed his eyes which felt heavy. Maybe he should sleep. Slowly his consciousness was forced.

His fingers twitched suddenly. He tried to move his heavy hand, like he was crushed by something. His eyelids blinked slowly, he narrowed his eyes due to the piercing sunlight. Is this heaven? His eyes rolled out to every corner, and his attention was on his body which was attached to some unknown device.

“A-father.” The shadow of the face of a middle-aged man snuck into his head. Somehow her chest felt tight as that one word slid off her dry lips. Tears dripped from the corner of his eye.

The man scrunched his forehead as he felt something wriggling under his head. A little annoyed, the man raised his head. His eyes that had been half closed instantly instantly widened wide. The annoyance that had stopped by, disappeared instantly. Oh, my God, is this a dream? The girl has returned? The eyes were opened again.

“Ja-jane, are you aware?” exclaim the man with excitement. It was undeniable that happiness flooded his chest. Making his stomach wrapped around when suddenly a bunch of butterflies fluttering tickle his stomach.

“Tomy?” ask the girl in a clean manner. He remembered the moment when Tomy's face whimpered in pain when he was beaten by the killer.

“You remember me?” tomy asked in surprise who was replied to a nod by Jane.

“Thank God, I thought because of the car accident you became amnesiac.”

Jane froze, car accident? Has he not died twice. First because he drowned in the lake and second because his chest was pierced. But Jane just realized, how did she get back to life? Even now he was looking at Tomy who looked different.

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