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Chapter Three: A Wrong turn for the best?

As Ella walked down the road, The sun was half-way out of sight and would be gone in less than a half a hour.
“Stupid road...” Ella grumbled to herself. “Why the hell is this taking to long?” Ella remembered a time when she was 6 and had lost her way in the woods with her good friend Senna Silver-stein. Senna had cried the whole time while Ella was tracing any sign of man mad objects. They had been stuck in the woods a whole two days until Ella had found a barb-wire fence and followed it all the way back to Senna’s neighbors house. Of course, it was not like Ella was so heroic or cool for doing so, She was the one who had gotten them lost in the first place. Ever sense then, Ella figured she could get herself out of anything. And so far, it had been true... Until now of course.
The sun was now totally gone. Only shadows remained and the moon had started to rise.
“Oh s**t!” Ella cursed. “Why the hell is this happening?!?! And why now?!?!” Ella cursed herself for not getting on the bus earlier. She always cursed herself for doing stupid things. But about 8 months ago she stopped. Why? Because it was a wast of breath. She had done nothing but stupid things. Committing suicidal, breaking things for no reason, doing the exact opposite of whatever someone wanted her to do and just plain old stupid stuff.
Ella came to stop. “Holly mother of @&#%!!!” Ella screamed in shock. The road came stop about ten yards in front of her. It was so dark Ella hadn’t seen it earlier. Ella looked at the broken road, it was like it was still going but it was cracking and falling apart. Like a cheese cracker when you stomp on it.
“Now what?” Ella said starting to look over her shoulders almost scared. “Should I go back?” But that was out the question. It was so dark now, that if a big white wall was right in front of her, she would run into it no problem. So, Ella started walking down the broken up road. with every step it got more crackly and unstable.
After about 100 paces, Ella was under some tall trees and long weeds. “eek!” Ella screeched when she found some sort of bug crawling through her hair. Swatting a it fiercely, Ella seemed to get it out and started panting and shifting her eyes more violently.
A patch of bushes to Ella’s left started to shake.
“Who’s there!?!?” Ella chirped. “Come on out!!!” Ella shouted as a little rat ran from those same bushes to the next patch. “Oh” Ella said “Just a... Rat.” But she was not really sure, it was dark, the sun was totally gone and all the light she had was the full moon (and even though it was a full moon, it was a cloudy night and the moon seemed to be hiding.)
Time was moving fast now, what would her mother be doing at that time? would she have forgotten, or calling the police? Did it matter? It was obvious that no-one could have known where she was. obviously. Once Ella passed all the tall trees, she found herself in a clearing full of little white flowers. There were no thorns here like the forest, and there was nothing blocking the moon from shining its brightest. It was simply beautiful.
“Oh-My-God!!!” Ella gasped. “This is so beautiful!” Her jaw dropped to her chin and her eyes widened. It was breath taking, wonderfully amazing. It was like she had never seen such a sight, never known this kind of place could be here - in the “s**t whole she lived in” as she would say.
Walking into the clearing, Ella started singing a song. She did not know why but she did. And she did not stop. At first it was a mellow humming but now it was a total song.

Full moon sways
Gently in the night of one fine day
On my way
Looking for a moment with my dear
Full moon waves
Slowly on the surface of the water
You were there
Smiling in my arms for all those years
What a fool
How could i let you go?
I never knew, It would turn out this way
Maybe i was supposed to be gone in your place-

The song went on for more than a half hour while Ella was wondering around the clearing.
“Full- Moon sways... Gently in the night of one fine- day.” She sang the lost first words. It was a good feeling. Even if it was sad or depressing, it made her feel better. But no matter what she could sing or see that was amazing, could stop her from crying this time... Could not keep her from feeling someone that was about to go terribly wrong, or was it Terribly Right?
A swift wind rustled the tree’s around the clearing where Ella was. It was so strong, all the tree’s leafs began flouting in mid air, twirling and spinning out of control. “wow” Ella said eyes shifting from one leaf to another. “This is so-” the word seemed to escape her mouth.
“Beautiful?” a voice from behind Ella said. But this voice, was so calm and wonderful, like you would want to here it over and over again and again like your favorite song. It was a voice, that KILLED Ella to hear. A voice to pure and graceful, it was a song in its own way.
To be continued....