Page 244 of Nobody's Girl

I close my eyes even harder and put my hands over my ears. The sound of the flames bursting into the air can still be heard.

They’ve killed him!

There is no way I can turn around and witness this. It’s obvious they’re about to kill my Ally, and most likely I’m next. Thunder booms, and a strange screech rings in the air, yet I cannot make myself look.

“Eden!” Ally screams.

Why did she sound so surprised?

I turn around, my eyes still closed. It takes everything in me to open them and look at my Ally. Her pole is moving towards the fire. She’s looking up and she seems unafraid.

It must be some powerful drugs they gave them both!

I hope they give me some before they do whatever horrible act they’re bound to do to me, so I don’t freak out.

I place my palm on the glass, wishing I could touch her just one more time and hold her in my arms once before they take her from me forever.

Please let there be a heaven where I’ll see her again as soon as they take my life. Please let God be real!

Across the sea of red-robed people kneeling and chanting, my Ally looks at me. Her eyes glisten with tears as she shouts out to me, “Kyle, don’t worry. I’ll be okay. I’ll be back for you. Please don’t worry.”

She’s delusional and I have to watch her go into the flames. I must bear witness to her execution. If I do manage to escape, I must be able to get justice for this horrible crime.

“I love you,” I yell, but I doubt she can hear me through this glass.

“I love you too, Kyle,” she shouts back. “I’ll be back to get you.”

The bottom drops out from underneath her small feet. Her hands must have been released, because her arms dart out and turn in the air as if she’s trying her best to fly instead of fall into the red-orange flames.

My heart stops beating as her body disappears into the pit of fire. “Ally,” I find myself screaming over and over again as I pound on the glass.

She’s gone! Gone forever!

My body and brain go numb as I fall to my knees. Tears fill my eyes and my breath catches in my throat.

I can’t quit staring at the flames, praying she’ll come out of them unharmed. Though, even in my current state, I know it can’t happen.

Something dark, and large rises from the flames, moving slowly up. I wipe my eyes to clear the tears which blur my vision. Standing back up, I watch as long, black wings unfurl just above the flames. The thing emerges, flying straight up. A shriek breaks the night air.

‘It’s me, Kyle,’ I hear Ally’s voice in my head.

It can’t be! I’ve gone insane!

‘You haven’t gone insane, Kyle. It’s really me,’ her voice fills my mind again.

I hope they take my life quickly. I’m going crazy fast.

‘You’re not going crazy. This is real. Watch, I’m about to fly right by the glass container you’re in. Look at my eyes as I pass you and you’ll see it’s really me,’ the Ally voice says in my head.

I guess if I have to be crazy and hear voices in my head, hers is not an unpleasant one.

‘Simply not an unpleasant one, Kyle? I expected you to like my voice much better than that. Here I come,’ her voice tells me.

Suddenly the sound of beating wings pound against the glass walls of my prison. Faster than I can see, something huge passes by me. “If that was you, I didn’t get to see much. You went too fast,” I say out loud, and now I feel really crazy.

‘I know. This flying stuff is new to me, remember. I’ll come back by. They’re about to let you out anyway. You have a special place in this society, Kyle.’

Speaking out loud again, I say, “And just what would that be, voice in my head?”