The illusion of Hope

an actual fork hanging out their flesh?!

My voice went numb from sheer disbelief and panic surged through me as I stared at the body of what used to be my friend once

Her skin was bluish and blackened, and her eyes just stared into nothingness, she was nothing but skin and bones, covered in the rags of what she wore the last time she came here with us

My sight moved downward and I stared at her arm gripping my foot

What couldve possibly happened-

Before I could finish thinking

*crack!*

”Aaaaaaghhhhh aggh! Ahh!! ”

*twist!* *crack!*

”Aghhh!!! Stop!! Stop!! Please!! No-! ”

I screamed in horror as an intensely sharp and stabbing pain surged into my foot

Faye was twisting and breaking my foot as if doing laundry on a Sunday afternoon!

I tried to push her away but her grip only tightened

I tried to break her hold by smacking her hands until I was gasping for air

*gasp* *gasp*

Tears started rolling down my cheeks as I couldn bear the unimaginable pain!

I tried to get away from her but it was useless when I realized I was being pulled by Faye!

I was twice the size of her!!

She wasn quick with her action, it was as if she realized that I am already defeated and have no other options but to submit

She wasn wrong either

I had little to no energy inside of me, the throbbing pain and the exhaustion were twisting my reasoning, and I could not see any ray of hope…

Fuck the ray of hope bullshit! I won die like this!

I pushed my arms towards the floor and suddenly a rush of adrenaline coursed through my veins and my anger toward Faye numbed my pain

I quickly stiffened my fist, and when the distance between her and me was only of few centimeters I raised my fists and struck her face as hard as I could!

*bam!* *bam!*

”Aaaahh!!!! ”

I screamed as I punched her!

*bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!*

Faye tried to move but I sat on her and started punching her faster!

*thud!*

Her head hit the floor! But I didn stop punching her even though my knuckles were already bruised and bleeding!

After a few minutes, Faye stopped struggling

Her cold hands fell to the ground

*thud!*

The adrenaline too in my body faded and I stopped punching her

And almost immediately tars rushed out of my eyes as I stared at the now unrecognizable face of Faye

”I didn mean for this Faye! Please forgive me! ”

*sob!* *huff* *huff*

”no…how can this be! ”

My chest felt heavy and I immediately got off of the body of Faye

”Ahh! ”

The stabbing pain was rushing back to me but I didn have the time to worry about myself

I looked at Faye, and suddenly my face started heating up and my chest felt like it was tightening

*blargh!*

I puked on the counter!

”Agh! ”

I groaned as the puke left a bitter aftertaste

I immediately turned on the tap on the sink which was right next to the counter

*gush!*

The water started flowing out from the tap and I hurriedly moved my mouth towards it

*spit!*

When I was finally done, I decided to take one last look at Faye

*blegh!*

I almost puked again! Her face was disfigured it was unrecognizable!

I…am sorry, Faye…

Tears started flowing down my face again as I remembered how good of friends we used to be!

The guilt of killing my friend was too much for me to handle

As I was finally ready to walk away from the corpse of Faye I decided to glance back at her one more time…

But…

I noticed something strange this time

I could see something glowing with green light right next to her head

Is it the same thing that I saw on her forehead before?!