The Escape

on my face through an open window woke me up. It

an the room, stopping only w

ut the sound of the neighbors chatting, mowi

and I would have agreed had last night's even

t all that comes out is

irmation that la

my feet, only to groan and cling to the wa

forced me into was by ripping it off. The garment wa

very successful because the moment I caught a peek of red, I could

ng. And that came after I took the dre

out of the shower and looke

Her pale, lifeless cheeks were hollow. And her fi

that was simply the tip of

at I didn't want to in

l it took

or me to exit my restro

place them into both my duffel bag and backpack. My art tools, my

ng for five years, I was confident that the sizable amount of mon

d every rea

n had

arrived in the forest, I turned away from the clearing. I had discov

there, but once I did, I bought a bus tic

ost you 85 d

cle. The number 85? How about eight and five? My heart i

t, prices were nev

years in just twenty-four hours on two things. A bus fare and

I was worried I wouldn't have enough money to get here, and now that I was

me a hesitant smile. "Hear me, girl. I can te

ross my face. I had a difficult 24 hou

s too preoccupied observing everything around me. However, I had not encou

grabs the hundred dollar bill out of it, saying, "Thank you so much, It's Ou

s another car honks its

shouts from his window. It became so awful that I had to scurry out of the tin

s off and nearly collides with t

arrived, I had offici

treet with a sad heart, and when it drifts to m

n, who had still not picked up my calls, I hadn

numerous buildings all around me, I

ubtedly fa

g tall and commanding while throngs of people rushed past me, apparently un

ter receiving a sharp prod to the shoulder, and my

hen a further row of alp

didn't know where he lived, I looked through our virtual chat history to find a picture