Chapter 15 Fear

• Fear, absolute fear was the only emotion Jayden felt as she watched her eighteen-year-old cousin vanish from her sight. She didn't even realize that she was screaming for the fallen girl, or that she had raced toward the edge of the cliff until she was leaning over the dirt searching for any sign of her best friend. Tear-filled hazel eyes scanned the expanse of the forest's canopy below for signs of life.
• There was none, nothing but the missing rock that had given out when the eighteen-year-old redhead had turned towards safety. Not a single clue as to where she could be for, she had disappeared behind that horribly dense canopy. Jayden's heart clenched in her chest, unable to breathe as she continued screaming. Her throat became raw at the harsh sound and her voice cracked under the pressure, but the older woman could not seem to stop.
• The cries of the six-year-old girl behind her were drowned out by the terror-filled cry of her own. The darkness of the canopy below that cliff seemed to go on forever and the pain that followed the fear nearly choked the girl. She eventually attracted the attention of both her Aunt Jean and her cousin Isaac. They came racing toward her with the same urgency she had when the redhead had tumbled off the cliff.