Animalistic Shriek

Anne

I couldn’t breathe!

I couldn’t see properly!

It was as if a dead weight was placed on top of me, making it impossible to get air in.

‘What the heck is going on?!’

I inhaled all the air I could gather in my lungs when I felt relief from the heaviness on my body.

The light entering my eyes was harsh. I had to squint to see properly. My vision was blurry, but I could make out men in uniform surrounding me and lifting a bag of stone off of me.

‘Was there an explosion?’ I thought, feeling myself being lifted off the floor into a sitting position.

I must have passed out from the explosion.

“Ma’am, ma’am! Are you alright?” I heard one of the uniformed men ask me.

“Yeah, I’m fine. What happened?” I asked, still squinting to see properly.

“He knocked you off when he blocked you,” the man said with a glint of pity in his eyes.

I creased my brows to understand what he was yapping about.

‘Who knocked who off?’

That was when it hit me.

“Vincent…” I started confused, “Vincent! Vi