I'm Not What You Think

Intro

I couldn't breathe, I felt like I was suffocating as smoke engulfed me and flames surrounded me. In the distance, I could see this house on fire that seemed to be getting further and further away.

Wooden stick figures were hanging everywhere in the fields as if they were bodies on wooden poles.

Panic rose in my throat where it was too dry to scream, sweat covered my whole body, and tears fell from my eyes and down my cheeks.

I realized I was gonna die and no one would be there to help me. I wondered if they'd even care. I was worthless to most and a sinner to things no one knew about me.

Was this my punishment ? Was I doomed to die this way and alone but I wasn't alone. Another girl was beside me hanging from a pole just as I was. Her tears and screams of pain just as bad as mine were only hers were from emotional pain while mine seemed physical. My whole body ached.

I wanted to help the girl beside me. She seemed so hopeless and beautiful but too young to die. I wanted to assure her but how could I when I couldn't even help myself.

The man who did this to us stood there laughing at her. According to her, they both were in love but he mocked that love to her right before telling her she would die soon.

I thought to myself how could someone be so cold to someone. This world was cruel but this man was heartless. Even after he told her she meant nothing to him, the girl still pleaded and confessed her love until finally the man motioned for someone to shut her, this woman came up to her with a smirk on her face as she placed a piece of material in the girls mouth.

I watched as he beckoned two men forward who each carried torches lit with fire. One came toward me and the other went toward her. I watched in horror as they lit the hay connecting to our wooden poles and it started blazing with fire and smoke.

We were truly going to die but I didn't want to. I wanted more in life. I wasn't finished living yet.

I began to struggle with the ropes that bound my hands above my head and I noticed the other girl doing the same as she looked at me , I rocked my body against the pole and she did the same.

Finally , I noticed hers were freed but I continued to struggle with mine. The girl was on her way to help me when suddenly the pole started to fall taking me with it.

I prepared myself for the fall trying to protect myself as the wooden beam went falling, the girl was there with a stick with fire on it and held it to the rope that bound me making it burn and releasing my hands.

Before I could say thank her, the girl took off running toward the burning house. Was she going after the man or the house I wondered?

I noticed screams of agony in the distance and black figures running at men and it looked to me as if they were being ripped apart. In a panic, I tried to make a run for it but my foot got stuck in the rope that had bound me before sending me stumbling backwards to the cold ground.

I looked up in a panic to see a figure riding toward me, clearing my eyes, I realized it wasn't a figure but some type of beast.

Fear seized me as I struggled to break free and run. "Why me?" I screamed. "Why was this happening to me?"

I managed to get my foot untangled and glanced up to see what looked like a wolf looking straight at me with concern and confusion in his eyes but also anger as I struggled to force myself to get up and run.

I got up ignoring all the pain in my body and took off running . Looking back I watched as the beast or whatever it was leaped at me knockingme on the ground on my stomach.

I felt his claws dig in my hips as I was being turned over to face it. On instinct I put my arms over my face as a scream escaped my mouth. I felt my body shaking and screamed as I woke up.