Damn that was good. I had no trouble picturing your chase through the woods. Your imagery was mostly very good, I will say I think you had one awkward simile at the beginning: "The pain from the branches cutting into my bare legs has long faded into the back of my mind like the music at a party that you don’t hear anymore after a while."

A great image, but I think you could possibly write the sentence a different way to make is sound less awkward. Perhaps: "The pain from the branches biting into my bare legs has long faded to the same place that background music at a party does." Or something like that.

It's been my experience (as a reader) that metaphors are more powerful than similies so you may want to look over your similies and see if they could be better as a metaphor. They may not be, but it can never hurt to check.

Please don't take this feedback negatively. I love your writing Silke and will be sending you your next assignment soon.