A woman shudders awake, dying moonlight illuminating the cold sweat sticking her dark drown hair to her forehead. She goes and makes a coffee and stares out of the window.
cut to the morning and she is in formal business attire preparing for the day, she calls upstairs and her young son comes down. As they leave she looks down at a picture on the side of herself, her son, and a man (audience presumes it was her husband/ child's father).
After dropping son off to school she walks back to car and sees a man in a car across the street in a suit and dark sunglasses. She shrugs it off and presumes he must be a father of one of the schoolchildren. Later on that day she is walking to work in a crowded street, as she crosses the road she sees the same man adjacent to a grocery stall watching her as she walks. She quickens her pace and decides on reporting the suspicious man after work.
She finishes up in the office and says her goodbyes, walks out and down the corridor to the elevators. As the doors slide shut she sees the same man with the glasses at the end of the corridor. She swallows her heart and mashes the ground floor button. She rushes out of the building towards her car where she see's the man waiting for her so she decides to run. Kicking off her high heels she panics down the street trying to get her bearings. She was trying to get to her sons school on foot but as she frantically looked back the man was no longer there.
That was the school she was sure of it, it couldn't have been a couple of hundred feet away, but then he arrived. She cried an exhausted cry of desperation, running around the school to the back entrance instead. Shouting her sons name she ran towards the door with the blue frame that would lead her to his classroom. As she burst through it was dark, she turned back to the light but the man was there, in the doorway.
She reeled back whimpering with fear, backing up into the corner she hid her face in her arms and in her scared silence, she heard her husbands voice "come back to me". That is all she heard as the man approached, over and over again. Until she opened her eyes. She was looking at a tired tear soaked face with unsightly stubble but she knew that face, it was the one from the picture. she looked down for a second, she couldn't feel her legs or arms. The man looked up from his feet both hands holding one of hers and saw she was awake. Shouting through tears he called for a doctor and kept telling her he couldn't believe she was awake.
The doctor comes in and explains while he checks her sensory functions, that she had been in a car accident with her family, she looked across and asked, suddenly realising, where her son was. The answer came in the husbands face, "he passed away after the crash" the doctor said.
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