It’s quiet…all I can hear are the sounds of the birds…animals jumping on brances. I sat by the tree motionless. I couldn’t say anything and I refuse to let myself process the thoughts that were running through my head. A feeling…on my chest and the color red everywhere I looked and then I closed my eyes.
It seemed like I was in darkness for an eternity,never moving but at the same time, always. I finally caught a glimpse of light. What was it? Why am I seeing it now after I’ve seen the dark for so long? Somehow I was able to walk towards it and I didn’t stop and soon I was in front of a glowing humanoid figure.
Who are you? It didn’t answer. I asked again but with some pissed off tone. It stayed quiet and then turned red. It grew in size and screamed at me with pure rage. Fear came over me. I ran to where ever it wasn’t. But it was too fast. Everywhere I turned it would appear in front of me and soon it was in my face. Suddenly I felt a pain in my chest. I had pierced me with it arms and somehow it’s face had became someone I knew, my 8 year old little brother charlie and soon his arms were pulled from my chest and were aimed at my face. Then darkness again.
My eyes opened.Im in a car,smoke everywhere.I can hear screaming in the background but that wasn’t what caught my main attention. Beside me, charlie, covered in that color red ,lifeless eyes with his head laying on my body…his head split open. I remember the terror and fear amd guilt all in that second. I couldn’t hamdle it. I got out of the broken car, manage to get myself to the tree that it was crashed against…and I focused on a different sound.
Months passed. Guilt was my enemy….no, I was my own enemy. My brother, poor charlie…I shouldn’t have never brought him with me. I just wanted to drive to that party and back. It seemed so simple. Have a little fun and then leave. But no, You can never have just a little fun when you have to take care of another human and I should have known that. Maybe then he’d be alive and I wouldn’t be tortured with guilt. It’s impossible to live with it you know. It’s been months but still it’s hard. They fixed up the area and everything. But you know what, I think I’m gonna go have a little fun again and then take a final ride…to the place where I stayed covered in the color red.