LOGINRose Miller, a 20-year-old, traveling to find a place to live away from everyone she ever knew after her parents died during a global pandemic. She stumbled upon an unknown place full of mystery and dark secrets. Her blackout episodes grew after she meets a stranger named David. The mystery starts to unravel as she becomes acquainted with David and his friends. She needs to listen to the voice in her head to save herself from the danger that awaits her.
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ストレッチャーに載せられ、救急車へ運ばれる私は、腹部を襲う激しい痛みに、不安はますます募っていく。スマホの画面に付いた血の跡に構う余裕もなく、発信音を聞きながら、視界が少しずつ滲んでいく……足の間を伝わる生温い感覚、止めどなく流れているであろう体内から排出される血。それと対比して私の体温は下がって行く。救急車の中の医療スタッフの切迫した声が響く。
プツ……
電話が繋がった。
「……用件は?」
スマホから聞こえて来る冷たい声。夫の久遠湊の声だ。その声は落ち着き払っていて、私とは少しでも言葉を交わしたくないという感情がその声のトーンで読み取れる。
「湊……大変なの……私、血が、出て……赤ちゃんが……」
一瞬の静寂。答えが返って来ないその数秒は私にとって何よりも長く感じた。
「血……? 赤ちゃん?」
湊の声は“私が何を言っているのか全く分からない”といった雰囲気だ。そして大きな溜息が聞こえ、湊が冷たく言う。
「同じ手口を何度使うつもりだ?」
スマホの向こうからガヤガヤと声がしている。
「俺は忙しいんだ、君も知っているだろう? 君の芝居に付き合っている暇は無いんだよ」
私は涙を流しながら言う。
「違うの……本当に……!」
そこまで言って痛みが走る。言葉が切れてしまう。それでも伝えなくちゃいけないと思い、言う。
「今、救急車で……運んで貰ってて……」
その時だった。
「湊さん、誰と話してるの?」
スマホの向こうから女性の声がする。柔らかく甘えた口調、そしてその声の主を私は知っている。その声を聞いた瞬間、思わず息を呑み、心臓が強く跳ねる。
柔らかく甘えた口調、そしてその声……まさか、彼女……?
―——そんなはず、ない……
「くるみ……何でも無いんだ。大丈夫」
湊の言葉は重い一撃のように、私がずっと目を背けてきた予感を容赦なく裏づけた。
――くるみ……やはり、彼女だった。我が家の家政婦の娘の名前。
(湊は今、彼女と一緒に居る……どうして彼女と一緒に居るの?)
「ねぇ、湊さん、一緒に検査結果を聞きに行ってくれない?」
甘えるような声でそういう彼女に湊がふわっと笑うのがスマホ越しでも分かる。“何でも無いんだ”その一言を聞いただけでも分かる。私と話す時と彼女と話す時の声のトーンやその態度の違い。あんなに優しい声で話す湊は、私はもう何年も見ていない。
(でも、どうして……?湊は今……なぜ彼女と一緒にいるの?)
その疑問が、頭の中でグルグル回る。鼓動が激しくなり、息が苦しい。流産の危機に瀕しているから、鼓動が激しいのだと自分に言い聞かせる。私は震える体で息を吸い込み、血のついたスマホを握り締め、何度となく浮かんでは消える同じ質問を言葉にする。
「湊……何でくるみと……どうして……」
直後、スマホの向こうでアナウンスが流れる。
「愛沢くるみさん、妊婦検診でお待ちの愛沢さん、診察室三番へどうぞ~」
それが聞こえて来た次の瞬間にはプツッと通話が切れ、ツーツーツーと冷たい電子音が響いていた。
妊婦検診――
その言葉が私の心を引き裂く。
乾いた笑いが込み上げて来る。笑っている筈なのに涙が溢れて止まらない。もう手に力が入らなかった。手からスマホが滑り落ち、救急車の床にスマホが乾いた音を立てて、転がった。
(……そうだったのね)
両脚の間に温かい感触が伝わり、体内の血液は止めどなく流れ出す。それに反して私の体温は少しずつ下がっていく。
なんて、滑稽なんだろう。
私が流産の危機に瀕している時。
私の夫は他の女の妊婦検診に付き添っている。
しかもその女は、私の家の家政婦の娘だ。
「久遠さん、点滴をしますよ」
医療スタッフがそう言い、私の腕に針を刺す。痛い筈のその感覚を私はもう無くしていた。
乾いた笑いが込み上げる。すぐに痛みが走って笑っていられなくなる。手が冷たくなっていき、感覚が無くなっていく。医師である自分でもこの状態が良くない事は分かっている。
(きっと、もう、ダメ、なのよね……)
意識が朦朧とする中で、私はもう二度と目覚めたくない、と心から思った。
I wished that he was okay because I knew that I wanted to see him again and there was a lot on my mind that I needed to ask him. I reached for my pillow, as I pulled it there was that same book from which I have read in my blackout, it held all the secrets of what is about to happen, it already helped me enough before. I hoped that I will find something in it as I quickly reached for it. Then it crossed my mind, maybe he left it here on purpose. Maybe he wants me to search for the answers that are troubling me. I opened the rusty old book and a cold wind came in through the small caged window that was high up on the wall and, it blew one of the torches that were lit on the wall. The shadows grew darker and the light got dimmer, just enough left so I could read off of the book.I turn the pages and my eyes caught a figure of a woman that looked like me, with exact features and everything. It seemed like someone drew the portrait and stick it in the book similar to a bookmark. I
I ran to the kitchen looking for my mum. "Mum look, I drew a picture," I said and inhaled the lovely smell of cookies that were baking in the oven. "Honey, that's lovely you are such an artist. Yes you are" she said as she cuddles me and we giggled like little girls."Oh, who is that is it your friend?" "Yes, he is my best friend. We play together and I am scared at night, he always tells me that there is no Monster under the bed and I always seem to believe him. He keeps me safe." She looked worried, she asked me "Oh! So, he is like your imaginary friend." "No mum. He is not imaginary, he is my best friend. My mum looked at my dad and they exchanged a concerned look."Dad... Look, dad?" My voice echoed and then diminishes as everything faded away. I tossed and turn until I saw pale-skinned people walking towards me. Their decaying flesh gleamed under the red moonlight. I could smell the toxic fragrance that was in the air. I heard a Roar that
He was wearing a dark cloak and underneath it a well-embellished tunic. The fog started to clear as I moved towards him. The same feeling rushed over me which I feel during my blackouts."You're, you're the king aren't you?" I stuttered when I realized that I have been led on. The whole ground was illuminated by the moonlight as the clouds moved away from it. All the people that I saw in my blackout were standing there; some were European, Nordic, and many other ethnicities. A loud howl came from the people that were standing there and some of them started to turn just like how Britney did when I saw her outside the motel. Their entire body started to shift and became a lot taller and broader than a human, it started to slouch and the bones were popping and lengthening through the skin, they were transforming into a Werewolf. "You tricked me, how did you do that?" I screamed in frustration and disappointment as the howling and bone snapping keeps scaring me from a distanc
I was paralyzed with fear and fretfulness. I am up against someone whom I don't know, why do I have to fight him? What is my place in this situation? I have to save myself I can't just give up. I thought of running away in the morning when they will arrive to take me wherever they are going to take me, but how can I escape a place that is protected by magic and these people have power over me they are stronger and more than me. They are some kind of Superhuman I don't know for sure what they are. I bow down my head and tears went down my face I was so tired and exasperated with everything. I don't know what I am going to do. I'm alone in this. I went back into the darkness and found myself in a garden. I was lying on the damp grass under the beautiful night sky. Flickering stars danced exquisitely as the moon gleams gracefully. The woody oaken smell wrapped around me like a warm hug in cold chilly weather. The owl is hooting in a distance, it felt like the calm before the stor
As I watch them leave I saw that the hall was empty and there was no one outside too, so I went outside and look for the vehicles behind the motel but there was none. So I assume that everyone is out. I thought to myself that I will explore the place and look for the signs as the voice in m
"Rose… you're here" the voice echoed.I was standing still looking up the zigzag staircase that leads to the top floor where the voice came from, my eyes opened wide in shock and my mouth went dry with fear, I saw the most demonic distorted faces with long shadowy bodies. They were
There was a big window on the right side of my bed that opened in the stairway of the motel. I draw those off-white velvet curtains for privacy before going to the shower. I was so relieved to finally have a room for myself and a nice hot shower after traveling for days, barely sleeping on public
I search on the Internet about the blood moon it stated that the blood moon is in two days from now. Besides that, I couldn't find anything except for the basic facts about the lunar eclipse that I already know. I put down my phone, paced back and forth thinking about what I'm missing. I need to
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