"We have met once again…"
I heard the voice, but I paid it no attention.
My mind was scattered, drowned in endless chaos, as I searched frantically for my brother.
"Ryan… where are you?"
I screamed his name over and over, my voice's echo fading around me.
I turned my head in every direction, ran, stopped, then ran again, as if my feet were moving on their own. I searched everywhere my eyes could reach… but there was no one.
I finally stopped, my breaths broken, and I felt a suffocating weight settle in my chest.
I lowered my head slowly, and felt tears gather in my eyes before they poured down.
"After I thought I had finally returned to you… here I am, completely alone."
The words left my mouth in a trembling voice, barely audible. I truly believed that everything would turn out fine.
"I thought everything would be okay… that what happened was nothing more than a long nightmare, a bad dream, and that I would wake up from it. But where did you go, Ryan?"
