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It was pretty easy. To get lost.
Typically, not in Mystic Falls though. The town wasn't big enough to get lost in. The woods around it though? That was a whole kind of different story. But we are not talking about the kind of lost you get when you are in a forest. No. We are talking about the kind of lost you get when you are reading a book. Being lost in your head, being lost in a story so intense it just catches you. Being so lost, that you forget all about your surroundings. You can't hear, you can't smell, and you can't even see. Except the words you are reading of course. But even they are not registered properly. No. Reading had a whole different meaning. It was a movie or scenes playing in your head. Visualizing the words. Making you feel.
Elodie usually had no issue with getting lost in a book. Today though she simply couldn't. She tried, and I mean she really did try to get pulled into the pages and to get lost in the words, but it was of no use. A long sigh left her lips as she closed her eyes and put the book down next to her. Her head would not stop thinking and she hated every second of it. She desperately wanted to stop thinking. To stop remembering what had happened. But she just couldn't.
A high whine next to her got her opening her eyes again. Pale blue eyes stared right up at her. Her dogs head resting on her shins watching her closely. Yeah, he was worried about her. She simply wasn't herself since yesterday. Pain latched itself into her chest at the reminder. Into her heart again. And she suppressed the urge to cry some more. She wasn't even sure the pain had left to begin with. But it came crawling back again and again and again and guess. Again. She was so tired. Elodie didn't sleep one-bit last night and if her eyes closed, she was awoken again with a cry on her lips. She didn't even want to imagine how Tyler and her mom felt. But she knew.
Yesterday changed everything for the family. For the town. For her.
And it was just the beginning.