Run

All of a sudden, Samantha felt like the rug was pulled out from under her feet. 

She did not know what was happening and she had no idea what she had to do to make it stop. 

Both Elizabeth and John had already left their quiet corner and returned to the heart of the party, but Samantha was rooted in the same place; she could not move at all. 

'Arrested... I am going to get arrested... But why? How? What did I do?'

Frustration and delusion were clouding her mind and she struggled to wrestle with a relentless wave of unsettling feelings. Perhaps it was not true after all? Maybe it was just a cruel joke? It had to be!

She could not believe that there was something to arrest her for and yet, at the same time, she could not deny that the list of her wrongdoings was practically endless. 

'I can't do this... I can't let this happen to me! Why does it have to be me?'