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I couldn’t slow down; they’d just have to deal.
Phone! I needed my phone. I had to call Cal…
My hand scrambled for my bra. Not there. I’d moved it to my pocket.
I dodged around another group of people. I was not paying attention to the next open area. I just ran, anything to get away from Ian.
I needed my phone, dammit. I searched my pockets quickly. My fingers tugged it from its hiding spot as I ran past a set of black panels hanging in the darkened opening. Getting away from Ian, finding a way to get back around to where Cal and Dan were…
My safety was so close, yet I was helpless to get to it.
I bumped into a wall, cursed.
If the dry ice fog that swirled up from my feet wasn’t bad enough, I knew without a doubt that I’d made a huge mistake. My eyes came up from my phone. I realized then that in my rush to escape one nightmare, I’d put myself into another.
There were hundreds of reflections before me; my reflection and that of a clown somewhere in this place that stared back at me made my stomach clench.
How had I come in? The wall was the only reason I’d stopped.
I turned, looking for a doorway. They were everywhere. I had no idea how to get out of here. Could I even get back out? Shit.
I hadn’t been paying attention to where I was running. Fucking great job, Kara!
I pulled myself from the panic circling through me to look down at my cell. “Call for help, don’t freak out yet,” I chided myself and hurried to call Cal.
His name was a beacon in the fog.
Literally.
The sound of his voice had the tears I’d been fighting since I was attacked falling down my cheeks.
“Cal!” My voice broke and echoed around me. I was pushed aside by a group of kids going through the fun house. Or were they coming back out? No, these dreadful things only went one way…or so I though. Dammit! I didn’t even know if I was coming or going anymore.
I tried to follow them, but the panic churned in me seeing that damn clown; its smiling face followed my every step. I pressed myself up against the closest wall.
Too many shadows and reflections moving at once.
“Kara, what’s wrong? Where are you?”
“He…he’s here…”
“Where are you, baby?”
The loud noises of rides, people laughing, machines going off filled my ears. It was becoming too much. They seemed to echo through the phone’s speaker. I turned in a circle, my hand roaming the glass around me, to the point of making myself dizzy.
I should have never come out today. If I were inside my house, surrounded by men ready to protect me, this wouldn’t have happened.
“Kara? Talk to me.”
“Where is she?” Dan. He sounded angry and worried.
I was worried too. Freaking the hell out in the middle of a mirrored hallway. Could I follow it and get out? I looked at the wall before me and whimpered as my snot-covered-face reflection filled my vision.
“I…”
“Give me that phone. Kara,” Dan’s voice filled my ear, “Where are you? Tell us now!”
“Dan…”
