The Ninth Continent: Hazel Green
He halted instantly, then slowly let out a devilish smirk under his mask. “Don’t act all innocent around me”, he gradually raised his head until he locked his peculiar eyes into her oblivious ones and continued, “we both know who you really are."
“That’s where you’re wrong Jacob”, she said, pulling out a midget handgun from the pocket of her blue, badged jacket. Aiming with both hands at the masked man’s head she said in an angry and pain-stricken voice. “I came here to start over. To be free from the burden of the past. But you’ve made my life a living hell already, and you’ve been here how long?”, she rhetorically asked. “I was doing so well, so well…”, she said stealing a glance at the sky and the little ray of light from the sun it allowed through and continued, “..until you came here and destroyed everything I worked so hard for”
“Which is?”
“My peace” she screamed. “I left all those burdens, and all those mistakes behind, only for you to come here and pull me back into that darkness. But no more”, she said with an expression of strong disagreement, shaking her head. “I promise you” she said cocking the gun “It ends today."
Shelby Claire and Malcolm Lautner are runaway lovers who decided to start from scratch after a torrid start to life. For a while, this actually worked. However, five years into their ‘perfect world’, ghosts of their past return to take revenge. Secrets are unveiled, and true nature’s are discovered. They most now choose to either confront the demons of their past, or die with them.
Promise_John · Fantasy
