My heart is beating. Fast.

I opened my eyes trying to focus, but everything seemed fuzzy. Though, outside the pouring rain that is banging on my window like a crazy drum tune wasn't helping me feel any better. I don't know why I just woke up with no sweat on the bed or any unease feelings, however, I have a beating heart. Which is beating fast? Weird. Also for some reason I couldn't get up either, I wonder why?

It took a while for my eyes to focus; now I can see clearly. So the answer to my ‘why I couldn't get up’ question I did my best to raise my head up to take a good look at the rest of my body. Good Lord, my head hurts so much. What I saw was that I was covered in bandages. Yet I wasn’t worried.

I am just lying there in my dry clean bed.

Then I had a thought, is this actually my bed? Even bigger question is this even my room? So I looked around to get a sense of my surrounding. Agh, I can't make anything out, but what caught my eye was a dim light from a table lamp that softly illuminated a picture frame; which is on a night table next to the bed.

In the picture frame there was a picture of crowd. A crowd ... of... Teenagers. They all seemed to be around my age, how old am I? 16? 17? My heart stopped for a moment. That is truly frightening, not knowing your own age. Something about this picture left me in questions. Each person has their face crossed off with a red marker except one. Why is that? And who would’ve left it here? Was it supposed to mean anything to me? These questions just kept floating in my head. I looked at picture again; I don't recognize anybody in the picture yet some of them seem familiar.

As I am lying in bed I am trying to remember just one of them, somehow all I could recall is that I was injured by a dark malicious cloud and collapsed. Someone was behind me while we were running, screaming, trying to tell me something then is surrounded by the cloud and disappeared.

I also remembered having terrible scars and a promise, I don't know what, which needs to be fulfilled. Now I know how I got these bandages. Nonetheless what was the promise that I made and to whom/who are these people in the picture? Was I friends or acquainted with any of them?

Agh, why? Why don't I remember anything else? I looked back at night table. Not far from the picture frame was a clock which read 3:45 am. 3 hours and 45 minutes since I slept. What the? How and why is that relevant? And why do I care about how long i slept? What shocked me the most is that I wasn’t feeling anything; like it is totally irrelevant?

I am just clam, dead calm, just peaceful, and just still. *Sign*

Right now I am too tired to think with broken memories that I don't know I had, a pounding heartbeat without any emotion tied to it and a lot of unanswered questions in my mind, I just have force myself to sleep. I will figure it out in the morning. Before I fully closed my eyes and drifted away, there was a sudden THUD!! Outside my room which terrifyingly woke me up.

What in the world just happened out there?

I started to fear that there was some kind of fight that is happening outside, what if it is? If so than someone got them self in a world of pain because that Thud was loud. But then again what if this is some kind of major heist which if it is; I am unable to defend myself. I laid quiet trying to listen and pick up anything that will give me a clue to what is happening outside.

It took me a few moments, but soon I heard chatters and murmurs and it coming towards the direction of my room. It sound like a man having a panic attack, and five, six other people are doing their best to calm him down. Something about his voice sounds familiar. As they started to move closer towards my room the voices became clear; just then they entered my room and the man sounds really angry but I am not afraid. Let them come.

I listened carefully and what I heard reawaken my haunted past. That man; he is someone’s father. I don’t know who’s. I listened carefully to what he said, “It is all her fault, Mona is gone because of her. If she didn't suggested to go there then my daughter will still be here, ALL of them should've been still be here and still be safe. IT... IS... ALL... HER... FAULT"

Suggest? Stay? Alive? What the hell is he talking about? Suddenly I remembered what happened, wait a minute Mona. The picture frame, all of the teens whose face was crossed off, these people went with me to investigate the palace from my dreams; I am the only one who was able to come back, alive.

The only one whose face isn't marked by a red cross is mine and the girl above me on my left. That is Mona. She is my best friend in the whole world.

I remember now Mona took my place so that I can get help. If I don't get back soon they will be lost forever. Otherwise, if I marry him, the one who took all of them, then they will be free, He gave me a time limit; the clock is ticking. no,NO,NO!! I don't have much time!

I gathered all my might yelled as loud as my weak voice could “I am so sorry it's not my fault. It is his; it is all because of him.”