hi, guys, sorry it's been a while since I last posted anything. Anyway here is the seventh chapter of Forever, this is the actiony bit that I was talking about before. It still needs a bit of work to make it more fast paced and eerie, but at least the idea is there.

Enjoy


Jennifer

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oh, and thanks for looking, any comments, even the soul destroying ones are appreciated

   It was a long walk back to my apartment. It was a walk that led me past take-away after take-away. Usually after a night out I'd stop off and get a kebab, something about beer makes you hungry for some kind of greasy food. I decided that I'd walked enough and headed for my local takeout and ordered my usual and then a bit extra because I was starving. I ate as I walked, getting most of the sauce from the kebab all over my jacket. I wasn't paying too much attention to where I was going when I ended up on the wrong street.

    As usual with my luck, it was the street that people avoided at this time a night. I ambled on down the road, sure that it was going to lead onto the main street. It didn't. I made my way back and tried the next road across and down. I must have walked down them all. I was getting confused now. It was getting harder to tell exactly where I was, everywhere looked the same.
   There weren't even any buildings that I could pick out as landmarks to mark out where I was, I was completely lost- I wasn't lost, I was just a street away from the main square. I was sure of it.
   There was a loud crashing noise that came from in front of me, it was the way I was headed and just my luck, it was one of those dark unlit corners. I took as much time as I could to try to make sure that whatever it was had passed so I didn't have to use the $200 worth of Karate classes I'd been dragged to as a kid.
    A second noise came, this time from behind me. I quickened my pace and didn't look back. I couldn't really hear any footsteps, but I got that feeling in the back of my neck and down my back that tells you that someone is behind you. It could have just been the beer messing with my head. I shook off my instincts and continued on my path.
  The feeling on the back of my neck stopped as I stepped over into the light of a street lamp. From there I could see where I was going. I headed down foolishly into the dark again; it was the only rote to get onto the main square. I had that uneasy feeling again. I pulled up the collar of my jacket and puffed up my shoulders to make myself look bigger. When I got to the end of the road, thinking that I would have a straight road to the main square I was met with a dead end.

This confused me, I was sure I had a clear view of traffic from there. The only way that I could see was straight down a narrow street. I was going to try one more way then ask for directions if it didn't lead to the main street.
   I decided to try a road that had houses. That would have been the smarter thing to do in the first place I guess. I walked down the street, checking to see for anywhere that was open so I could ask for directions. I wasn't paying a huge amount of attention when I slammed into something. I barely had time to look when whoever it was had completely disappeared. I looked all around me, but there was just me in the street. I was starting to become creeped out so I walked as quickly as I could to get out of there. I practically ran to the next street. I saw a pair of eyes flash out from the dark at me, I heard a yelp and then scraping, I had nowhere else to go but where it came from.
   I heard somebody scream and out of pure instinct, I ran to where it was coming from to find somebody grabbing a girl by the throat. I couldn't see, it was so dark I can't be sure, but there was something not quite right about the guy that had her in a chokehold. I decided that it was just my eyes and I ran and landed a punch to the guy's chest, sending him sprawling to the ground. She slumped to the ground as soon as he let go of her and I ran to her. All I could see were her eyes staring down the empty street.
   I glanced around me and looked to see I the guy was still on the ground so I had time to call the cops. When I turned around the guy had gone, the place was deserted and I figured that the guy was a fast runner, I had a clear view of the area and I didn't even see him move. The thing was that I punched the guy out; he should have been down for the count. I looked back to where the girl was, she was getting up, she didn't look hurt but I took out my phone just in case. I took off my jacket and placed it over her shoulders.

   "Do you have anybody I can call?" I asked. She looked up at me and I almost fell back. It was Alsyn from before, only now her skin was drained of its colour and she looked as though she had seen a ghost. She stared at me for a while before she spoke. She shook her head, snapping out of the trance she seemed to be in she gave me back my jacket and seemed to be looking past me.

   "No, no don't I-" Before she could even finish a car came swerving to the side of me and I had to dive out of the way to avoid being hit. The passenger side door flew open and she scrambled up and got in.
   I just had time to cast a glance at who was inside. There was the blonde girl and the dark haired girl from before with a guy I didn't recognise in the back seat. I didn't see who was driving before the car took off at high speed and I was left alone and completely dumbfounded.



Jennifer Scally 26/06/08....took me long enough lol