Chapter 10

My heart literally stopped working.  For what seemed like an eternity, I was frozen in one spot.  I heard nothing, saw nothing, felt nothing.  It was as if a huge dark blanket had been thrown over my mind, and it had shut it down completely.  I was in limbo and it was so peaceful I wanted to stay there forever and ever.  In this safe place, nothing seemed to matter anymore.  I didn’t care about anything as long as I wasn’t thinking about anything! 

Then, the peacefulness disappeared. 

The sounds of the night returned to me and it was like being hit by a cricket bat as they tore into my head.  The banging of my heart against my chest, my breath as my lungs sucked in air, the twinkling sound of glass...

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