My breathing was heavy as I ran. My heart thumping in my ears.
BUMP BUMP, BUMP BUMP.
I sighed and leaned forward, my head almost reaching the ground. A hand slapped against my back. I jumped at least five feet in the air. As my eyes adjusted to the light of the morning sky I saw her. My best friend since third grade, Lily. Her long dark hair flowed over her shoulders like waterfalls of tar.
Her voice was high and sharp in my ears, "Renn! I missed you boo."
I cut her off and put my hand in front of her face, "Oh, girl. Too early. Too early." In my defense i had woken up ten minutes before I had to leave to catch the bus.
"Oh... right." Lily looked a bit hurt by what I said. I mean her voice is SUPER annoying, especially this early.
Four girls walked up behind Lily and pushed her out of the way to greet me.
"Rennie!" They all said in unison, "Ready for another great day of school."
"No..... I'm not. I'm not sure who is at this time of the morning." I put up my hood to hide my hair. I had bad bed head. These girls were the coolest people in school. I kind of had to be nice to them if I wanted to be "popular".
"O. M. G. Rennie you're hilarious. We could totally drive you to school, so you don't have to take that old smelly bus." A girl named Megan stepped forward speaking for the group. Before I could Megan cut in, "Good choice. Come on. My car is over here."
The other three girls grabbed me and dragged me. I tried my hardest to dig my feet into the ground and not move, but these girls were crazy strong. Or I was just super short and weak. The last thing I saw before being "kidnapped" was Lily. She started to step to help me, but she just hid back in her shell.
The girls threw me in the back of her convertible. They started driving and turning up their basic white girl music.
One girl turned to me and laughed, "How is it being Asian. Do you have bad eye sight because your eyes-"
Another girl cut her off, "Rebbecca! You can't just ask people that. That's being... the R word."
"Red?"
"No you dummy! Racist."
"Oh! Yeah... oops. Sorry Rennie." The girls just looked back to the road and screamed out their music.
I slowly got nervous as Megan cut the corners of the road quickly. My heart sank through the seat. I started to wonder how bad my injuries would be if I jumped out of the car. Maybe if i aimed for grass I wouldn't die... I'll take my chances. Before I had the chance to escape, another car rammed into the side of us. I felt my body go limp. We lost control of the car. We swerved off the road and rampaged through the forest. At least three of the people in the car were thrown out first. There was no driver. I jumped into the driver seat and struggled to reach for the peddles. The only people who were left were me and racist.
"Renn! Rennnn! If I die... this is all your fault. YOU FUCKING CHING-CHONG!" I almost wanted to ram into a tree because of what she said.
Tears filled my eyes as we collided with a tree. Racist was thrown from the car. She went through right through the windshield. I gripped the wheel so hard. I was thrown too. My body hit the ground and I started to roll. The wind blew over my skin. I had cuts from rocks and sticks. I sat up and looked around to see bright lights flashing around me. They weren't police lights. The lights were yellow, white, and orange.
I got to my knees and steadied myself on a tree. I brushed tears out of my eyes. Hair was in my face and over my eyes. The lights stopped flashing and I got an actual good look at the area.
I didn't see the car. All I saw was snow. It looked like a scene cut directly from a cheesy christmas movie. I shoved the palms of my hands into my eyes. When I moved my hands it was still the same.
"Ok... so I'm dead and I went to a snowy wonderland.... not so bad. At least I'm not in hell." I let out a sigh of relief. Then I realized what just happened, "WAIT! WHERE AM I??"
"I don't think you're dead dumbass... I mean I'm not dead.... I think...... yeah we aren't dead." A girl jumped down from a tree and leaned on my shoulder.
"Ummm... where am I? Where are we?" I brushed her hand off my shoulder and stepped away slowly.
"Well. We are in Elderidge. I'm Kaia Thomas by the way!" She laughed and just stepped closer to me.
I stepped away yet again, "Renn Yang. What is Elderidge....."
"Elderidge is here." Kaia looked me dead in the eyes and smiled.
"Ok......" I looked forward to see a giant stone temple. I guess that's where I need to go to get actual answers.
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