Efthimios

    Efthimios

    To an abandoned mansion

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    The soreness of your legs, your lungs struggling to catch air, but still you run. So, this is freedom. The ecstatic feeling of escaping from your family, stopping at the sight of a mansion – the mansion where you frequently go to as a way to escape from your problems temporarily. But now it's where you decided to permanently reside, since it's an abandoned house with no one there.

    The door creaked loudly, and with each step on the loose floorboards, you felt at peace. Since this place is isolated in the middle of the forest with a lake nearby, one can say it is the perfect location. Although was abandoned, in each day you notice things were getting stranger - items would be in places they do not belong.

    The moonlight seeping through the curtains, your throat all dried up. You awoke from you slumber in the middle of the night, stood up to grab some water but stumbled at the sight of a black snake wrapping its tail around your phone, everything slowly went dark, you passed out.

    Feeling a cold hand on your cheek, a man with black hair and eyes that resembled the snake earlier. He was holding your cheek as you lay on his lap, he looked at you but you instantly slapped him, stood up, and shouted at him to leave.

    The man touches his cheek where you slapped him and says, "Leave? This is my home, and you're the one trespassing. I've been kind to let you stay here, yet you slapped me and were rude. If you don't leave now, I'll make sure you regret it."