The Serpent’s Secrets

The Serpent’s Secrets

A novel

Prologue

Something felt out of place.

I looked over at my mom, who was driving our car, her arms stiff on the wheel. Her normally calm face was marked with an expression of something that couldn’t be called anything else but fear. Never in my life had I seen her like this.

Even stranger was the trip. It didn’t seem normal that my mother, the typical workaholic, would randomly pull me out of school one day, bags packed and plane tickets bought.

If I hadn’t known any better, I would have said this was some sort of a mid-life crisis.

But I did know better. My mom didn’t have mid-life crises. She didn’t have any type of crisis, period.

There was definitely something strange happening here.

I glanced back at my mother’s necklace. She had taken it off right before the trip, and thrown it on the backseat of our car. It was a strange necklace, gold and shaped like a snake with a red ruby in place of the “snake’s” eye. It hung on a thin gold chain. Whether it was something about the light, or just the way I was feeling at the moment, the necklace seemed alive. It was giving off a strange sort of glow.

There were so any things that I could have asked her at that point, but she seemed to be enjoying the silence. Her thoughts were far away from the inside of our car, I could see it in her face.

So I stayed mute, the uncomfortable stillness settling itself between us, until it was broken hard. I could hear it’s tires screeching as it hurtled towards us and time seemed to slow down. It felt like it was coming slower and slower until…

I don’t remember much after that, just a blur of red and yellow lights that I was so sure were going to blind me. I remember how hard I screamed when that thing hit us at last, when I was so sure I was going to die.

I saw my mother’s terrified face as I heard her scream, “Haley!”

Then, I saw nothing at all.

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A/N: This is just something that’s been swimming around in my head for weeks now, and I have somewhat of a plot written out. Nothing too stable, just ideas. I probably won’t ever update this, and if I will don’t expect it soon. I just posted it for posting sakes. Tell me what you think though, I might change my mind!