#Chapter 82: Karin

“Look, I think she’s waking up.”

“Shhh!”

My brain slowly comes back online, with a few false starts as I go in and out of darkness.

My eyes are closed. I smell grass and mud. The side of my face feels damp. It’s pressed up against something hard. I hear the sound of water and a bird chirping.

I open my eyes. The world is still spinning. I try to sit up, but I can’t. My hands and feet are tied.

“Just stay there,” a voice says.

Maybe my emotions are muted, but the sound of that voice still puts a knot in my stomach.

Cherry. She’s going to kill me.

I inhale sharply. It’s one thing to die. It’s another to know that this bitch won. I struggle against Duct tape I’m tied up with.

“Cut that out,” a male voice says.

“Let me up,” I say. “I want to see you both.”

“Let’s just sit her up,” the man says, obviously to Cherry. “If you promise to sit there and don’t move.”

“Fine,” says Cherry.

He lifts me up so that I’m in a sitting position. I can see where we are now - in an enclosed, wooded area n