Icouldn't open my eyes. I can't remember what happened to me what happened to me but there's searing pain all over my body. As if liquid fire is flowing in my veins.

I tried to think. What had happened to me? images of faces flooded my mind. my friends ,my family ,my love. Love?

  Now I remember, the boy I thought I loved had took me for hiking .But he drugged me .I could hear , and see everything around me but could do nothing . I couldn't even cry for help not that there was someone who could help me around there.

He dragged me to cliff I pleaded with my eyes. He laughed and said " you should n't have trust me Karen. " And he pushed me down.

I wanted to scream 'why did you do this to me '.Then I hit my head against something and everything went black with a burst of pain.

It's so unfair. I'm only 15 .I have so many dreams .And I'm dead already or am I? I always thought that after death there won't be any pain. But the exact opposite is happening there is nothing but pain.

I can hear something. It's not clear though. I opened my eyes, everything is white. Where am I? What is happening! I heard someone speaking in a whisper beside me. Then my eyelids got heavy and I slipped into darkness.. again...

There was nothing to do except think. So I did ; about my whole stupid life.

I was a good student , a nerd to be exact. I lived trying desperately to make others happy that I was rarely happy.

I suppose I was happy when I was really young like 4 or 5 but then my brother came. I got no attention or affection. People were like 'you are grown girl now, you should take care of yourself and your brother ' And I was like 'OK I'll do everything by myself 'and like 'wow I'm a big girl ' and so on for the first few weeks.

But then I realized that it sucks. I had to do my works on my own when all my classmates received help. I had to work twice as hard to be the best.

Then to make everything a 100 times worse my grandpa passed away.He was the only one who understood me. He could tell when I was in pain even if I had a smile plastered on my face. He was and is the most wonderful person I have met in my life. When he left me I didn't cry but my heart was torn apart. Nobody understood that . They said I was heartless.

That's when I realized that me and my family are like opposite poles.

I had no friends at school back. I wasn't much of a looker I was below average in terms of looks to be exact . I was that weirdo in the class. Someone who knew things most didn't. Someone who spends her time with a book.

Making friends with me meant being as far as you can from popular group . But they came to me when they need a hand on studies and stuff.

I actually started to make friends when I was in 4th grade or something. But I had drifted further away from my family.

I acted different in front of different people realizing that people like their type of person. But I couldn't be myself cuz deep inside I was a tomboy, a punk , a not so self-conscious girl and everyone likes sweet natured , cute and mature girls. It was driving me nuts.

That's when I got my golden opportunity. When I was in 5th grade I wrote a test and got admitted to a new school where you had to live in a hostel.

That was my ticket to freedom. I finally got to be the girl I was and make friends who liked me for who I am.

I got to enjoy almost 5 years . That's when he, Frank proposed to me. I thought it was a joke at first. But then I agreed. That must've been the worst mistake I made in my life. I took it for a serious relationship while he was going to kill me.

That totally sums it up. All I can say is **MY LIFE SUCKS** !

I opened my eyes and dragged myself into a sitting position. The world seems to go upside down.

" Raven you're awake! "

There was a blonde besides me. Who is she? And who is this Raven ? There's no one else besides the both of us. Did she mean me?

"umm.... Who are you? "

She looked shocked.

"Raven , don't you remember me? I'm your friend remember? Clarisse? "

Okay now I'm sure that she is mistook me for some one else.

"Clarisse I'm sorry but I'm not Raven .I'm Katherine . Katherine Hathor. "

She looked confused but just nodded and left the room . Something about her attitude told me that she isn't convinced . For all I know she thinks I'm nuts, because after a while I overheard her conversation with the doctor. She asked whether the poison affected my memories.

Maybe this 'Raven' character looks like me. But poisoned ? Did he poison me before throwing me down the cliff? If so why am I still alive?

I'm not sure that I'm not nuts. Everything is bizarre. May be I'm just dreaming . May be Huntley never tried to kill me ,all of it is some stupid dream.

Then someone - probably a nurse - shot something into my arm, and I blacked out.

" Hey look here " who's talking? I looked around me. There was a shadow......of a girl.. wait... No shadows of two girls . But there was no sign of anyone else.I must've imagined it. I'm standing... no floating...in a dark place... but the shadows are darker. I don't know how's there a shadow without light. or how I'm seeing it. It's all bizarre.

"This must be a dream"

I told myself. Unexpectedly I got a response. "yes this is a dream. "

"who are you? "

"who am I?... Now that isn't important, is it? At least not someone who doesn't know who she is ."

"I know who I am "

"you do? "a high pitched laugh echoed around me "Dear.. then why don't you do me a favor and explain it to me? "

I get a feeling that she is playing with me. But still what options do I have?

"I.. I.. I'm Katherine .Katherine Hathor. "

"Is that what you are calling yourself now? what about Raven? Raven Wynterbloom?"

"Ma'am I swear I'm Katherine. You're all mistaken... I'm not Raven. "

" I never make mistakes. "

"But.... you said I'm Raven........"

"Child I never said you are Raven. I was merely stating the fact that names doesn't actually matter. You are Katherine_ yes _but you are also Raven.."

"What? how can I be two people at once? "

"Child do you want me to continue explaining or not? "

"yes "

"Then stop interrupting. Now where was I?Ah

yes.. you are Katherine but the body which contained her soul is no more usable. So I supposed one could say Katherine is dead.. "

"I am dead??? "

"No you are not.Do you want me to continue?"

"yeah "

"so even though the body was destroyed , the soul ~ which is you~Chose another body which was also facing death ~ that's is Raven's ~ and continues to live . So now you have Raven's body. Any questions?"

This really feels like a science lecture.

"Yes does everyone get a second chance like this? Would this happen again if I die again? Were did the actual Raven go?..."

"One question at a time. So.. no not everyone gets a second chance. And as for your second question I'm really not sure. It will depend on time and purpose and my Master's mood.. "

"Your Master's mood? who's he? "

"That you shouldn't know. Now as for were actual Raven went you shouldn't know it either you would when you are there. Any other questions? "

"Why ' I 'did get a second chance ?"

"Because you had a.. thing that made you something else I can't say more about it but keep this in mind. Find that thing and you will get more answers. "

"How can I find it if I don't know what it is? "

"You had it before. It's one of a kind. And you will know when you see it. "

"where is it now?"

"That I don't know.Only you know where it was and depending on it the location may or may not have changed. Now remember no one else knows about this so act like Raven. Hope you make it. Bye "

"wait.. "

.........

"I have more questions "

.........

There wasn't a sound. Maybe whoever had spoken might have left by now.

Memories which must belong Raven flooded my mind

Raven had pale skin and her hair was jet black. One might think her eyes were black too but they were deep brown. One might also think that she got named after her appearance.

But she knew better it was because she had some other things that could be related to a raven ; bad luck , inauspicious , death.... in short almost everything bad .

Her mother had died giving birth to her. And her father hated her for it. He used to say she was bad luck. That's why he named her Raven

He used to say she was the spawn of the Devil but that was mostly because she looked nothing like her parents. Her mother was a blonde with blue eyes and her father had copper hair and luminous amber eyes .

Her brother , Blaise (who's elder to her by 4 years) used to tell her that he wasn't always like that. He had loved their mother a lot and losing her was really painful. But he was more considerate towards her brother.

He had blue eyes and copper hair . One could say that he was something of a looker .He was really nice too , even though they fought like cat and dog, Raven thought so too. But she'd never say it to his face.

Everyone except for her brother criticized her every move. So she stopped caring for what the others said. She loved music and used to spend a lot of time with a headset, shutting out the whole world.

But her worst misfortune happened on the day before her 9th birthday. Her brother wanting to give her a little something for her birthday forced their father to take him to a store. But they met with an accident and her father died on the day of her birthday. Her brother survived with some major injuries.

Everyone one except for him started to believe that she really is bad luck. She didn't care about that though. But it started to matter once they began to argue about who should take her in. No one wanted her. But they were ready to take in her brother. Her aunt Wynn took in her brother. He didn't want to leave her but it wasn't his choice to make. Raven was sent to a foster home.

She was bullied at first but then she learned to defend herself. She learned martial arts. And started to act cool. She dressed in an edgy -punk -goth mix. She was really tall and had intense eyes. All in all she looked somewhat intimidating .

She never cared about studies mostly because she didn't care. She spent her time listening to music and playing basketball ,and sometimes (secretly) chess.

Clarisse was her roommate since they were 12. She would refer to Raven as a friend but that was being nice Clarisse hated her.

Raven doesn't care about it. She (Raven) practically have zero to zero friends . They think she is bad luck. She doesn't care about it either

But she had made a lot of enemies time to time. One of the reasons for it is that she wasn't ready to do anything for the sake of popularity. The second thing is she always picked up fights and never lose them. Other thing was she didn't care what ever they said about her in social media unless it's very horrible in that case she would pick up a fight. But the main reason was her pride, she wasn't ready to low her head before anyone.

Except maybe her brother. The only person she cared about was him. He visited her on special occasions. He wanted to become her guardian after he turned 18 but she didn't want him to ruin his life for her. So she continued to live in the foster home.

That's when somebody else _Miranda and Tristan Vlad _decided to adopt her .They were super rich and that attracted more enemies. She wasn't sure why they chose 'her' of all people.

They were going to send her to another _ fancier _ school in a month. And then she got poisoned. She don't know when it happened or who did it. But she's definitely dead.