Free Shadows in the Dark by Hunter England

started to form in the palm of
his hands, slowly growing in size.
“Woah...” I said. Luke opened his eyes, and lost all focus.
“Holy... look at this! ” His muscles tensed and the flow of glow and spark in his
arm started to speed up. The ball of electricity shot from his hand
and went high up into the sky.
“Umm...” I said as the ball disappeared. But it didn’t stay
unnoticed. All of a sudden, a gigantic explosion of electricity
shot out in the darkness of the sky. It made the stars seem to
disappear. Luke fell to the ground in shock, staring up at the big,
blue explosion. I stood there, watching it as it evaporated in the
sky.
    “ That... was amazing.” I heard
Luke say. He started laughing hysterically, jumping up and down.
Then faint sirens started to come from the distance.
“Yeah,” I said, sort of smiling with amazement. “But it was also
noticeable.” Luke and I disappeared in the trees, but I didn’t care
about the cops. I wasn’t alone anymore.
     
     
    After the longest time of being
scared and lonely, I had someone with me. Someone who was like me.
I found someone else. Someone else... that was special.
     
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    Karen
    I stood at the street light, looking at my house
as it sat there in the dark. Even down the street, I could see my
room’s window, along with my parent’s. That house held my life. It
held all of my memories. They may not be good, but a memory is a
memory, and a memory stays with you forever.
I watched it for one last second, then turned around, planning to
never see it again. That may have just been a dream, but leaving
felt so right. So unbelievably right. I wasn’t meant for that
house. I wasn’t meant for this world. Leaving would lead me to a
better world. To a better life. No matter what that life is, it’s
bound to be better than this one.
The sound of the asphalt crunching under my feet took my mind
somewhere else. It kind of took my mind off of things. As I walked
in the dark of night alone, the crunch soothed me in a weird way.
Everything around me seemed to just become unnoticeable. But I
liked it. I let it happen.
I had no clue where I was going, or where I’d end up. But walking
in the night, all alone, leaving to anywhere was one of the best
feelings that I’ve ever felt in my whole, lonely life. I felt...
alive again.
I stopped at a streetlight that was about a mile or so from my
house. I didn’t see a car pass me on the way there. I didn’t notice
it at the time. I just sat there at the streetlight, looking into
the bulb that lit up the streets. In it I saw life. In it I saw an
answer. The light would lead the way.
    I looked down the street and saw
more streetlights aligned with each other. Even though it was a
hunch, I didn’t disagree with doing it. After a while, I sat up and
started following the street lights, not caring where it’d take
me.
    I kept on walking, even after I
saw the sun come up about two or three hours later. My legs started
to hurt and they wanted to rest. But I wouldn’t let it happen. I
felt the need to keep going.
You don’t have to be smart to know why leaving was so easy for me.
I didn’t have friends. My parents didn’t care about me. I was a
nobody. No one knew I even existed, and whoever did wanted me dead.
So leaving seemed like the greatest thing I’d ever done.
Eventually, after walking for so long, I ended up walking out of
the city lines. Up until that point, it was all neighborhood. It
was kind of cool to see the transition go from neighborhood to all
highway. The change was, you could say, interesting.
    People would give me funny looks
as I walked down the highway all by myself at the crack of dawn.
But I didn’t let it bother me. I knew what would happen if I did.
All of the cars would “somehow” end up floating in mid-air with
people freaking out inside of them.
    I stayed on the highway for a good
hour