Freed

II

Kristin vociferously jerked up sweating profusely. She was gelatinous with fatique,It had come Into her head spontaneously. Her body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly,but its translucency.

She felt as if she had been racing a marathon, she was simply knackered, the pain was unbearable her head violently pounded, her eyes were achy and almost popping out of its socket. Her mouth felt like sandpaper, it was really dry and sore.

She placed her right hand on her fore head rubbing it recurrently,if rubbing ones head could obliterate pain,she would have been freed.

The now drenched sheet fell to below her torso ,

'Sheet? What sheet?!!" Her instinct cried,the last she remembered was almost being knocked down by a vehicle, the rest was history.

She heard a soft grunt-like sound before her and looked up as her eyes adjusted to the dimly lighted room,and let out an astonished gasp with a scream. She wasn't alone someone was in the room with her, a man although she couldn't define his face but she could see the his gleaning eyes,dark,drowning,mesmerizing eyes ogling at her or rather her chest.

She let out another deafening scream as she looked at her chest,it was nude,stark nude. Instinctively grabbing the sheets to cover her naked breast,she scooted back on the bed as far away from him as she could without rising.

"Its alright, miss"

"Don't come near me!!!" She cried shimmying back even farther, her eyes wide with startled alarm. She tried to think logically but the only thing registering with her was sheer panic and the fact that she was stark naked.

"Would you please stop that?, I'm not even near you" he snapped.

Kristina realized then that he hadn't moved, that he hadn't really done anything that could be seen as endangering. He was wearing a navy blue jeans and a grey plaid T-shirts. He might not be making a single move but he was very hard looking, too masculine and good looking. Her mind and imagination were running wild,Kristina thought.

But it was hard to think right when she was naked between, between his sheets. She tried to assess him aga, he was tall, broad and muscled ,the grey T-shirts hugged his suavely trimmed shoulders, making anyone who looked take another lasting look. His black hair was neatly combed to the back and his features were strong and hard,lean and angular with a broad mouth,full lips,wide set shrewd eyes and a long straight nose.

"Are you alright?" He said

"I'm not alright, I'm confused, miserable and ....naked" she barked in frustration.

"What am I doing here,in your bed and naked and who the heck are you??!!" She barked again.

"Calm down miss____" he said softly standing up.

"I said don't come any closer, or else I'll___"

"Or else you'll what?" He said coming to stand before her.

"I'll scream, I'll scream so loud that the neighbours will hear"

"And what if there are no neighbours to rescue you?" He said grinning rakishly.

"I'll .......push you and run out" she stuttered shimmying farther into the bed.

"Naked?" He laughed and added "I'll really love to watch you run"

"Gosh!! Who are you and what do you want from me??!!"

" Well, I was trying to explain things to you, but maybe you're the one who ought to tell me, miss____"

"Tell you what?"

"Your name, for starters"

" you didn't know?" She demanded

"If I knew it, I wouldn't be asking "

"Well you act as if you know everything else!!" She accused him.

"What is it?" He said his eyes locked with hers.

"Kristina, Kristina will" she said

" can I call you Kristina? "

"No I'd prefer Miss Will"

"Okay, Miss Will, where were you racing to last night that you almost got run over?, you should really be extra cautious and not flippant!!"

Kristina stared at him and it seems a strong wind of realization hit her and then a flashback of what happened the previous night came to her.

She offhandedly released the sheets she had been holding unto protectively, gripping her now violently pounding head.

She was seeing things, hearingthings. the death scene, the unkempt room,her mother's room,her mother violently gripping her shoulders shaking her and shouting hateful words at her.

Kristina let out a deafening scream and fell to the bed with a loud thud, like being tossed. She could see her mother looming over her, then on the floor in the pool of her own blood, Kristina couldn't stop shrieking.

She could feel someone holding her

"Miss Will, miss will, Kristina are you okay?!!"

She wanted to tell him to leave her alone , tell him where to go to, but she couldn't mouth a word. She could barely breathe, her throat tighter.

She felt arms around her again, warming her,soothing her,she liked the feeling wanted to be held like that forever.

Suddenly she couldn't feel again it was as if she was being thrown into a pit of endless blackness.

"Kristina!!!!"she heard his voice again, it was fading, this time she wanted to answer, wanted to feel his arms again desperately. But the blackness was sipping into her until she was finally engulfed in total darkness.