Longest Night Ever [Open]

[mia]

Mia had always had trouble sleeping, but it had increased lately. Dark figures lurked her sleep as soon as she closed her eyes, and she couldn't drive them away. She wondered what they meant but she was too scared to figure it out.

Mia squeezed her eyes shut and rolled over restlessly. She'd taken the habit of falling asleep under trees. Well...if fighting her nightmares and waking in the middle of the night screaming could be called sleeping. Which probably couldn't. She spent most nights staring blankly at the sky through the tree branches and trying to count the stars. It was awful.

She'd always thought it was somehow related to her guilt. It was something she couldn't let go of. She just couldn't. It was too hard to move on and forget something that had been her fault. Her family had urged her to move on on Axel's death, and it would have been a great advice if it hadn't been because she couldn't. It been her fault. He had been there to protect him and she had been unable to do the same thing.

A few minutes later the vampire couldn't take it anymore. Mia sat up straight and looked around boredly. It seemed like there was no one around, so she couldn't really strike up a conversation. It didn't matter though, because she didn't really talk to anyone. She avoided being around people, and people seemed to be used to it...that, or they ignored her because they thought her rude. Whichever of the two it was, it didn't matter. She rarely paid attention to people's opinions about her, so she didn't mind. After all, hadn't she chosen isolation? Hadn't she decided to stay away from anyone, hadn't she stopped believing in love? It had been her choice, so.

She simply stared around the rest of the forest, and after a few minutes she started humming to herself. She figured no one would mind.