BEYOND US

"RINA" Cindy shouted her name, her voice reverberating in Rina's ears causing her to shout. Once again she could feel the pulsing of her heart as it beat so fast in her chest that she felt it could break out anytime. She could feel the migraine that hurt so bad she couldn't think and could feel the taste of blood in her mouth from the bite she had given her own tongue. She heard Cindy shout again but she couldn't make out the words this time. Instead she heard her own toneless begging even though she had no idea to who or what, they were sound of crashes, of things breaking but she couldn't be sure what was breaking or why it was or who was breaking them. Then she felt things holding her, holding her hands and legs and then she started to fight, the sound of her begging had become a shout, her eyes that could only see darkness, feeling the tentacles of whatever monster was holding her trying to drag her down Trying to subdue her but she wouldn't let it, she couldn't. Instead she bit and clawed at it, trying to release her legs from its hold and swinging it. But then she already knew that she was defeated when she felt an isolated pain on her arm that was held by the monster. And she knew it was over because after that isolated pain came weakness and with it, drowsiness. she felt the monster carry her, then she entered the darkness willingly. **** "...you said that the last time, doctor McCray, you said after the drugs that this won't happen again. What in God's name is the meaning of this?" she woke up to the sound of her dad's whispered shout. He was right behind her door, her eyes opened to look at the ceiling of her room, to the four stars that were set to point towards the north, south, east and west part of her room. She had asked for it to be like this, her bed placed right in the center. She looked at this for a long time before staring out the window of her room to the sky, to the clear bright sky, her lips lifted up in what could be called a smile if there had been any expression on her face. Bright days were fine, mostly fine to people that lived here, they were mostly happy because this means she wouldn't act crazy except on few occasions like today but days when the sky was cloudy, anything could happen. Once it was decided, on one particularly bad winter season, that since she loved clear skies, her window could be painted into a bright sky and with the help of technology, made to look like one, this had happened without her agreement and when she had found out, hell had risen to swallow the whole house whole. But now, looking at the pretty young girl looking out of the window, there was no sense of the mad woman she could turn into. "Ryn??" she heard her dad call her softly as he stepped into her room and she turned her face to stare at him. He smiled but she could see the caution in it, he stepped tentatively into her room as if he was afraid of a misstep. She was already used to this behavior, so she turned her eyes back to the window again. "Fine weather we're having today, right?" he asked but she didn't answer like he knew she wouldn't. "Doctor McCray said the drugs you took were not as effective as he thought they would be so he is going to come up with another way..." She didn't say anything, her eyes still staring at the window expressionles