User blog:Roseann Shadowflame/LMBW story Pt. 2

Chapter 2.

"Rooooose..."

An eery voice, like a ghost, hidden in time and space itself, it's voice spread across timelines. A second for them, a millenia for us.

"Roooooooooose..."

Longer, drawling, tugging me away to the dark realm of whence it came. Trying to pull me into the darkness... trying to hurt me... trying to lure me into the shadow...

"ROOOOOOOOSEEEEE......."

Louder, and louder, it's getting closer. Like a drumbeat, closer and closer and closer, ever nearer and never stopping, never, ever stopping, never... trying to take me away into the dark...

Will I ever escape? Will I ever escape? Hands, tugging me forward. Hands that I could not see, hands that I could not feel, yet hands that were so clearly there. Please, please, someone, I-I don't know where I am! H-help m-me!

'''"ROSE, WARNING 1!" '''

"AHHHHHHHH I'M AWAKE I'M AWAKE!" My hands were immediately up by my head, while I had the look of You-just-woke-me-up-and-now-you're-a-dead-man on my face. "What's so important that you needed to wake me up from my sweet dream of conquering the earth with my awesome knitting powers?!"

In front of me, black hair drooping into his face, my friend, Sherman, stood, with a relatively smug look on his face.

"Nice to see you too," he replied, as smugly as I had suspected he would, turning to sit down on the futon beside me. He pushed his glasses back up his nose, crossed his arms, and leaned back. "How have you been?"

I mumbled something that I would normally have gotten banned for, but luckily it was quiet enough (unless that sharp look sent my way from Obi meant anything) that nobody heard. "Fine. Planning world domination is hard though, especially if you have allergies. I've been sneezing up stuff that may have come from the very depths of my-"

Ihaveawii, who had been listening in, put his hands up at his ears and said, fear evident in his voice, "TMI. TMI. TMI."

I rolled my eyes, then quickly grinned evilly. "The world shall be mine! Muhahahahaha! Also, how was that anime dream of yours, S-"

As I was about to finish my completely embarrassing sentence, the doors were thrown open and hit the wall with a loud (And rather annoying) "BANG" That kinda sounded like the banhammer when people stamped the tag onto spammers or whatever. Hmm.

"Guys, something strange has come up!" The person who had ran in, that I had indentified as Sarah (she came back from her vacation early...), put her hand against the door, panting heavily, all the while trying to construct a sentence that went something like iff third thiaum bought northiv.

"I was visiting another social area while I was in another city, and they were saying something about a guy called Norvik talking about coming here soon. What do you think it is?"

Drew, who had been sitting quietly in the back for some time now, typing away on a computer, lifted his head and pushed his hair out of his eyes. "How far?"

Sarah slowly shut the door behind her and sat down beside Sherman, saying slowly, "About three hundred miles, so not too close. But still, I only heard about that a day after he had been there, and then came back here at a relatively normal pace."

I, who was actually quite fond of the idea of meeting Norvik, grinned and said, "Oooh, so you think he might be here?! I wanna meet 'im!"

Sarah turned and looked at me, mortified expression making me want to burst out laughing, though I kept it in. "Why on earth would you want to meet someone like him? You know how many rules he's broken, how many bad things he's done!"

"Meeting a crime boss would be fun."

"Rose, how can you say that?!"

I slowly looked down, fumbling nervously with my fingers. "Well, have you ever wanted to do something even though you know it was wrong, and you didn't want to do wrong, but you wanted to do it at the same time? I-I just feel so oppressed, knowing that people think me immature and stupid and not funny... I just want to sorta smack it in their faces, though I know that their opinion of me will only lesson. I just... I just..." unwanted tears began to form in my eyes. Why this, why now? Why?

Sarah's mortified look turned to one of sadness and sympathy, as she slowly nodded her head. "I've felt that before, Rose, you're not alone." A few other heads in the room nodded, and I looked up slowly, sniffing.

"Well, that's nice to know... 'cause it's not like that at all."