Story: Depression (chapter 17)

Authors: ALLjapan

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Chapter 17

NO! I feel my feet as they run on the invisible surface my voice crackling and weak in the darkness. An oppressive force builds around me sucking the air from my lungs pressing down on me and my trembling body. Suddenly I am not running no more. The ground disappears from beneath me and I am falling. If I could breathe then I would have screamed. But all I could muster was a choking sound that was breathless and wailing like a siren muffled by stormy winds. Suddenly hands crude and chaffed reach out at me. "Delilah, DELILAH!"
I find my voice at last and let out a fear filled yowl; animalistic as is my jerked reaction to when the hands grasp my shoulders squeezing them mercilessly. "NO!"
"You're not strong enough." The voice slurs. "Hee, hee, hee! Delilah, oh! Delilah!" The voice taunts and laughs.
No, NO! Let go!! I kick my feet and struggle biting down on a hand.
"Augggggghhh!!!!! You little bitch!" The strong hands increase their pressure and I am suddenly shaken like a rag doll.
I scream and feel the world of ink shake and shudder all around me, and then I'm thrown down with force into the black epiphany as the voice growls a haughty laughter as I fall screaming in terror.

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"DELILAH!"
I gasp and choke in cool air as I try to rise. My back hits something and I panic. Where am I?! Hands, on my shoulders loosely holding me. Who?! Why?! Why me?! I let out a shout and struggle for a moment before the voice calling my name becomes familiar and the night before flashes behind my eyes as I recall where I am. And more importantly who I was with.
"I-Isabelle?" I'm panting and I look down at my…friend? I blush and allow myself to relax as Isabelle places her arms cautiously around my shoulders.
"Are you okay?"
"I-I guess…It was just a nightmare. I got a little lost." I blushed with what I hope Isabelle will take for as an embarrassed smile.
"What was it about this time?"
"I-I was falling. You know…those dreams where you're falling but you can't see where you're falling to? Or you fall off a cliff or something."
"Oh, yeah I've had a couple of those. One of them was just a little trip too, I was just walking along and I tripped over then woke up out of breath." Isabelle lets out a small laugh and squeezes my shoulders reassuringly. "Hmnn, nothing else then?"
I lay my head on Isabelles chest and close my eyes for a moment. "Nothing," I lie, "not that I can remember."
"Alright."
I feel Isabelle shift her weight for a moment and I shift with her rolling off her a little so that she had more room. I needed to ask her something and felt my stomach heave with nerves as I looked away from Isabelle looking along her neck to her collar bone instead. "He-hey Isabelle?"
"Yeah?" I hear her lazy reply as she begins to yawn.
"A-are, I mean last night," Isabelles yawn freezes and stops altogether in a hurry and I rush forward saying a little too loud (considering how close we were) "d-does that make us g-girlfriends now?" I close my eyes in embarrassment and bite down on my lower lip as I hide in the smoothness of Isabelle's neck.
"Well…uh, yeah. Only if that's what you want though. I mean, I only wanna do the best by you and stuff so umm, I mean I….and…"
If the circumstances were right; or if I were watching a movie I would either sneer or laugh at the blabbered and rather confused string of words in Isabelle's sentence that she had just spoken. But as it were it only made my face hotter and my head a mess just as jumbled as Isabelle's sentence. "I think…I can trust myself to be with you. I mean…I don't really know how to be someone's girlfriend and…I mean,"
"You want to take things slow?"
"Yeah….I mean I've never thought of anyone this way…I didn't even know that I had any preferences…" At the end of this sentence I look up to Isabelles eyes and smile a bit. "But I'm glad it's you I'm with Isabelle."
I see a blush spread and her eyes glow as Isabelle hugs me closer, "r-really?"
Leaning up I press my lips softly to Isabelles and roll her on her back as I bring a hand up to stroke her cheek. "Yes really. Definitely." I kiss her again and let out a little laugh as Isabelle smiles into the kiss.
"Thank-you Delilah."
"What for?"
"For not freaking out…I-I never thought that I would be able to be with you this way…I thought I was doomed to be in love with my best friend forever."
"Oh," I blush and my eyes leave Isabelles for a moment before I look back at her eyes and kiss her shortly again. "Then it is my pleasure Isabelle…I'm…I'm glad you let me kiss you last night." I feel my face flush and smile down at my…girlfriend. "Thank-you too."
"For letting down my defenses?"
I giggle a little, "yes."
"Then, you're welcome." Isabelle states as she gives me a little kiss. "So what do you wanna do the rest of the day?"
"I dunno…what do you usually do? Well, when you visit the dam that is."
"Hmmm, I have an idea…but we should have breakfast first, yeah?"
I hear Isabelle's tummy grumble…at the most hilarious moment. And we both erupt in laughter at the occurrence. "I think your stomach has decided that for us." I say as I pat her belly.
"Well it would seem so, yeah?" Isabelle reaches above her head and grins at me, "hey beautiful, ready to face the morning sun?"
I blush and nod my head before saying, "open her up!" Then the zip is pulled and the swag opened. Warm light bathes us along with a cool breeze as I sit up resting on Isabelles pelvis lifting the flap. "Good morning!" I say loudly to the bush land stretching up to the leafy sky above us.
"Good morning to you too." Isabelle smiles up at me placing her hands on my hips. I blush and smile down in return. "Hey…I just thought of something…"
"What's that?"
"Haven' we broken some kind of rule?"
"What rule's that?"
"We-well, don't people normally go on a date before having their first kiss?"
"And what about us is normal Lil? Hmmmm?"
"Well not much I guess." I say with a giggle as Isabelles hands stroke my sides. "But…I dunno…I guess I've always thought that it would be nice to go on a date like a normal person…you know?"
"Hm, I-I guess so?"
I shrug and am about to get up until Isabelle sits up and hugs me around my waist and searches my eyes for a moment.
"Isabelle?"
"Do you wanna go on a date with me then?"
"I-I…" flustered I close my eyes and feel my face heat up with embarrassment. "Where?"
Isabelle laughs and pulls me closer again tightening her grip a little. "You have to answer if you want to or not first."
"We-well I want to then. But where, when?" My god my face felt like fire. I leant forward breaking eye contact and snuggled into the nape of Isabelles neck brushing my lips softly against the available skin.
"I'll think during the day, tell you later okay?"
"Err I guess so..." I wonder what she's going to ask me?

[End notes:

this is a shorter chapter then usual and again i apologise that i kept these chapters from you all

it will be a while before the next update because i need to print out the entire story and do some editing and add some formal structure to the plot of the story

i wanna add a twist now that things are begining to look up for Delilah, i hope you guys can have patients

:)

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