With every running step little splashes of last night's rain hit the back of her calves. She couldn't help but to imagine someone watching her and thinking to themselves "That girl is kicking ass." She was up to 10 miles a morning and it was a tough terrain. Her heels touched the ground with every beat of her music. It was still dark because she was all about the early morning run, seeing her own breath and feeling a little tense, it was her favorite. By the time she reached her halfway point the sun was usually rising, there was nothing more beautiful and more dreamy than the sun rise after a run.
Distracted by the weird tree that looked like something innapropriate suddenly she crashed, her face crashed into the asphalt. The right side of her face was numb. She rolled over on her back staring at the starry sky. Warm wetness dripped down her face. Grateful for the shock protecting her from the pain that she knew would be coming shortly as she wiped her face that was dripping with hot blood.
"Great," she moaned as she tried to sit up without mixing her brains and fainting. Taking a deep breath she rolled on her stomach and pushed herself up onto her knees. Droplets of blood fell into the puddle in between her knees.
A groan came from a mouth that wasn't her own. She glanced behind her. A limp soaked body lay behind her. She was sure it was a murder victim and then she remembered it made a noise. Murder victim, not yet! She crawled next to the lump of human that looked to be a male kind.
"Oh my god, are you dead? Please don't be dead."
She hovered her hand above his mouth. She felt his warm breath on her hand. For a moment she felt a little creepy noticing his oddly long eyelashes and wondered what color his eyes were underneath the lids. Wishful thinking leads to definite happenings. His eyelids open to reveal a blue and green eye.
"Alive!"
The male lump of human turned into a very strong man and shoved her away with a great force.She landed hard on her bottom. She was sure her tail bone was broken, another numbnessshe'd have to deal with later.
"Hey!" she crawled next to him not so close for the fear of being shoved across the street again,"I'm not going to hurt you. I'm like five times smaller then you!"
"Where am I?"
"On the side of the road. Up Big Creek Canyon. Why are you up here? What happened?"
He started breathing hard and looked around frantically. He grabbed her shirt that was soaked with sweat, rain, and now blood.
"I don't know, help me."
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