Did I really just slip? Or was I pushed? |
How did I get here? I blinked. I breathed. And I wondered. What really happened? I need an explanation to my predicament. Care to explain? I looked up at the sky. The heavy raindrops temporarily blurred my vision every few seconds. Just moments ago, I'd been up in my two-story Victorian. Now I'm here. Thunder boomed so loud my chest shook with it, along with every flimsy bone in my body. I was taken back to the inside of my home. Coincidentally, my lights flickered off with the rumbling of the thunder. I was about to light a candle when I heard a soft creek in the house. It's an old house, I reminded myself. A really old house. I took a deep breath as my therapist suggested. You have the tendancy to scare yourself. Just take a deep breath and relax. I went to the kitchen to grab another candle, when I sworn I heard the muffled sound of footsteps. That's it! I needed to prove to myself that I was imagining things like I always did. I hurried up the steps and stopped at the top. What if there is someone up here? How many are there? What would I do? No, stop it! You're doing it again! Knock it off, just go! I bursted through the door. I felt dumb for two reasons. I hadn't thought to bring a candle and, even though, there was a big window facing towards the west, there wasn't much light. Secondly, I've been afraid for nothing. I took a look around the room and let out a sigh of relief. Empty, completely empty. I moved to the window and looked down. The window was floor to ceiling, and always gave me a sudden rush of vertigo whenever I dared to look. I turned around too quickly and slipped. My whole line of vision suddenly turned black. My clenched fists hit the glass first and I felt the floor come out from under me. As I fell through the air, I desparately flung my arms out to grab hold of something, anything. A decade had passed and I was still falling, although, it only could've been a few seconds. When I finally hit the ground my breath had been knocked out of me and, once again, my vision was filled with a black void. When I finally came to, I was drenched, covered in mud, and the right side of my head was cut and bleeding. I didn't have the strengh to sit up so I just layed there. Slowly, I felt the pain cease to a numb existence. My memory started to reboot and I suddenly realized one thing: there's no way I slipped. I slowly regained my balance. I had to know what happened. Right here, right now. |