Another Life, JenniferNewman [short story to read .TXT] 📗

so me and Soph can show Parker some pics see you in a minute.” I said as I started walking towards the half open door and squeezing past my smiling mother.
“Sure Love. I’ll be in the kitchen if you three need anything.” I turned around and smiled at her before escaping up the stairs with Sophie and Parker on my tail.
When we finally climbed the many stairs that were in my house and reached my room I turned around to find two very confused faces behind me.
“Well if you are thinking of asking me what the hell just happened. Dream on!” I said before closing the door behind the others.
“Well at least we know for definite she’s back to normal. That I such a Rose this to say!” I turned round to see Parker nodding making me raise one of my thin eyebrows as if I had no idea what they were on about.
“Right so what the fuck was up with you?” Parker’s voice became louder as he came closer to me. Gathering me up in his arms I whispered.
“Am I really meant to answer that?” against his ‘look at the finger’ shirt. Well on any other occasion I would have worried about what my Mum would have thought of the shirt with a large middle finger pointing out at anyone who dared to look. Now I could not give a crap.
“Just don’t do that again okay?” his voice was soft and gentle making me feel safe and sleepy. As soon as I felt the unconsciousness coming through my body I started to panic this was the last thing I had felt before I had drifted off before. I pulled away from Parker and walked towards the bathroom where the sink is. When I enter again with the others just behind me I went straight over to the sink and started to splash water onto my face. Well what else am I meant to do to keep myself awake? I could hear the hustle of every foot step my Mum took down stairs. Her footsteps echoed around the tiled kitchen.
I took a deep breath and dried my face off with the towel next to me. The soft fabric brushed against my skin with the feel of comfort and familiarity.
“Rose.” I turned to look at Sophie who was leaning against the door frame with a worried taking over her features.
“Yeah?” I say transferring my weight from foot to foot as I looked over at her and Parker’s faces of concern.
“Your okay? I mean I can tell from the sarcasm that you remember us now but I mean……. You really could not remember us…… how is that even possible? Is your brother doing this?” I closed my eyes and just shook my head because to tell you the truth. I have no idea what was going on any more. Repeating and earlier thought my life is not my own anymore.
“Come on you better sit down.” Two strong hands were holding onto my arm and guiding me out of the room and over towards some place to sit down I guess.
When we were all sat back down in my over crowded room. Me flopped on the bed with a pillow over my head. Sophie sitting on the floor leaning against the bed eyes closed hand on her forehead. Parker leaning against a wall with his head tilted back staring at my ceiling like the answers were written up there somewhere.
The room was way too silent. An eerie silence that sent chills down my spine. It carried on for what felt like hours but really after looking at the clock from the side of the pillow I still held over my head it had only really been five six minutes. Well that sucks. This silence was really starting to get on my nerves!
“Okay so why the garden?” I ask taking the pillow away from my face and sitting up. The way the other two responded you would have thought I had shouted it right in their ears. So they were feeling the silence to.
Parker looked at me weirdly and I just rolled my eyes saying,
“After. You know the thing in the living room you said we should go out to the garden. Is there something significant about my garden?” I flopped back down on the bed pulling another pillow over my head then giving up and taking it back off and sitting up again with my legs pulled up to my chest like I do when I'm nervous. Sophie picked up on this straight away and sat on the bed to putting her arm around my shoulders to try and comfort me.
The lights in the room were starting to spin again and I ended up closing my eyes and leaning against Sophie’s shoulder in an attempted at staying awake.
“Well not really….. I guess it was the first thing that popped into my head.” I still did not raise my head or open my eyes to even bother to look at his expression. To take a guess it was probable one of confusion maybe a face of ‘can I really be bothered?’ but I really don’t know.
“Right.” I let go of my legs and started to stand up. Waves of dizziness started to pass though me like the wind on a really cold day. In fact I could feel a draft then and moved my head quickly over to my window. Sure enough it was half open or half closed ever way.
Crap! It downed on me then what that meant and I started to panic. Moving towards the door with my hands behind me. Not with Sophie and Parker here. Please.
“Crap” I whispered. Backed against the wall.
I felt two hands on my arm and squealed.
“Calm down Rose. It’s me okay. Nothing’s going to happen. Promise.” I looked up to where Parker’s face was hovering above mine and my breathing calm down. I took several deep breath before letting Parker pull me into his arms safe.
“See everything’s fine. It’s just a window.” I looked up at him and gave him my best ‘you are so evil’ look. Which of course made him laugh and then hide my face again against his shirt.
“Umm sorry you two but. You know there’s this sort of…. Well mist coming in from the window. Maybe you should take a look.” We both wiped our heads round to see the gray mist slowly making itself through the now wide open window.
“Just a window huh?” I jump as the cold start to settle in. Well crap.
“Yeah well that’s not a window. That is mist. Now can we please move out of this room before the mist gets any closer?!” parker started tugging on my arm to get out of the room but as soon as he opened the door we noticed that the mist was outside the room to.
“ROSE WHERE THE HELL IS THIS MIST COMING FROM?” crap! I heard my Mum yell from down stairs. Damndamndamndamn!
“I HAVE NO IDEA MUM!” was all I could think of to yell back.
“What the hell are we meant to do here?” I ask parker who looks like he is thinking way to hard. Well that’s really comforting!
“Parker quit it with the trying to act genius and let’s get out of this freaking house!” well that got his attention making him look up from the now covered ground and pulling me once again out of the room and down the hall. I managed to grab hold of Sophie’s arm before I was fully threw the room and pulled her with us.
“Wowkay Parker when I said get the hell out of this house I really did not mean at like one hundred miles per hour. Some of us don’t really have half a mile long legs!” I yelped as we made a bad turn down the stairs and Parker had to turn around and catch me before I fell completely.
“Not to mention Rose’s lake of balance. How bout we slow it down a notch huh?” Sophie put in since she herself was only just keeping up with her short legs.
“Right. Of course I was forgetting the little fact of short people when my brother is making mist through your house Rose.” Was that really his attempt at sarcasm? I looked up at him weirdly.
“What not all of us can do sarcasm.”I laughed and started stumbling down that stairs again. Ahhcrap. When we reached the ground I separated myself from the other two totally getting lost in the mist which was now all the way up to the ceiling.
“Mum? Which room are you in?” I yelled into the bottomless mist.
“Umm honey? I think I'm in the kitchen. Could be wrong though Hun!” I heard her faint replay at the same time I heard the other two saying,
“Rose where the hell are you? Get back her now!” have a feeling that was Parker. Wish he would stop freaking out I would be back in a second.
“One second really just wait there.” I said to well all free of them I think.
“Yes I am in the kitchen there’s the oven. Okay I'm by the table. I think this is the table…..” I guided my way though the mist covered hall and into the kitchen which was even more dense. I moved over to the table and grabbed onto what I hoped was my Mum hand.
“Mum that’s you right?” I asked the darkness.
“Yes Hun. Gosh why arte your hands to cold? Why are you not wearing gloves?” I laughed because really I hadn’t even noticed that my hands were cold until she said it and it was just typical Mum thing to ask why I wasn’t wearing gloves when the whole house was coved in a deep mist type thing.
We managed our way through the mist and out into the hall where I quickly found Parker standing by the door where the mist was thinner. I pulled my mum towards were parker was standing and we all escaped the house where Sophie already was.
Taking a deep breath I leaned against the fence that separating my house to the one next door. What the hell was up with this mist? It was driving me crazy I could barely see and I was outside for crying out loud.
I felt hands on my arms and whirled round thinking that I would just be Parker again instead I can face to face with Nothing. I looked around me but there really was nothing. I could still feel the hands on my arm though and this freaked me out. I pulled my arm away but the feeling just followed me. I started to panic when the hold tightened sending me straight into the fence harder resulting in me crumbling to the ground with a yelp.
I heard footsteps coming towards me and I backed up even more against the fence hoping that Cody just might not somehow see me. Stupidstupidstupid!
“Rose? Come on get up.” Sophie. I pushed her arm away from me. She should not be near me. Cody gets me he gets her too. I push away again and move away from the fence and towards where I think the road is. Big mistake.
I come in contact with something behind me and whip around to find yet again nothing. Well this mist was really starting to get on my last nerve! I could not even tell if there was someone there. For all I know it could have been my next door neighbors cat. Do they even have