My Life
Lost Memories ~ 4 years old
I woke up in a hospital, maybe it was a laboratory, I could not tell. It seemed like the first day of my life. I remembered nothing. But somehow, I knew how to talk. I knew how to walk, I knew how to eat, I knew how to survive.
When I woke up from my slumber I looked around the room. There was another bed, opposite mine. A window with a view of some form of facility, and a drawer at one side of each bed.
I jumped down from my bed and opened the drawer. I found a mirror and looked into it. I saw myself, for what I believe was the first time in my life. I saw a child in the mirror. Her face, tear stained and her head, bandaged. I looked at her ears, they, too, were bandaged.
She was beautiful. Large, grey eyes, the short tufts of reddish brown hair sticking out of the bandage and flowing down her neck, a sharp nose, her quivering, thin lips.I put down the mirror and looked down at my body. I was wearing what I thought was a pink hospital gown. It had, what i assumed was a nametag, with the initials, "E.W" on it. There was a band on my right wrist, it bore the numbers "72". I looked at my tail, it was sticking out from a hole in my gown, light brown and furry.
I then walked to the other bed. There was a another child in it, a boy. He looked a little older than me. His head was unbandaged, but his upper body and 1 arm was. He had electric blue hair and his ears were furry and black, save the white tips. He had a tail similar to mine, light brown and furry. And he too, was crying in his sleep. His nametag said "F.W". He was wearing a blue gown and his wrist band was printed with the numbers "64".
I reached out to touch him, but then, a searing pain attacked me in the head. It was as if a thousand wooden stakes were being pounded into my skull. I put my hands to my head, praying it would stop but I could not take it and I screamed. In pain I saw the boy wake up. His deep brown eyes staring straight into my grey ones.
The door behind us burst open and I saw a man and a woman in white coats come in, the man had a syringe filled with an orange liquid in his hand. I backed up into the boy's bed in fear. They were advancing towards me, I screamed. Not because of the pain, but because I was afraid of what they were about to do to me. The lady grabbed me in her arms, trying to hush me, saying comforting words like "Hush.. don't worry, Em... We're not going to hurt you.. shh.. stop screaming, be a good girl.." I looked up at her and saw kind eyes. "Mo..mother.." I whispered, hearing my own voice for the first time, I was getting drowsy. Those words sounded so foreign to me. After all, I never had parents. The last thing I saw before I passed out was the empty syringe being pulled out of me and the last words I heard were, "Don't worry, Em, we won't hurt you, not now, at least."
In my drug induced slumber I kept hearing the word "Em" playing in my head. I supposed that was my name, since it was what the lady called me. Em..Em..Em.. I kept hearing a voice. A kind, consoling voice of a woman. Then I heard a man's voice, gentle and sweet. I saw 2 figures. I called out the same foreign words in my dream. "Mother!" "Father!" "Mommy!" "Daddy!". And for a second, I almost heard my name. "Come back here baby, come to mommy Em-" The voice stopped dead in mid speech. The image in my dream was then replaced by a fire. Which slowly burnt into little dying embers. "Em...ber..." I said in the dream. I reached out to touch the flames. "Em..ber.." I said again, letting the flames lick my fingers. "My name... its Ember.." I told myself in the dream.
I woke up finding myself in an alley. I looked around and saw the same blue haired boy as back in the facility. His clothes were stained with a red liquid. So was mine. "Blood.." I realised and i started to scream but the boy covered my mouth. "Quiet! They might hear you!" he whispered. I nodded and he took his hand awak. "Wh-Why ar-re we covered in blood? Where are we? Who are you?" I asked, my voice shaky with fear. He got up and looked around the corner to make sure we were alone, then he started talking.
"We are covered in my blood. They shot me when I was escaping with you, I already froze the wound so its okay now. We are in an alleyway in the city, far away from the facility."
"Why did you run from the facility? With me? Wasn't it safe there?" I questioned.
"Are you crazy? That place? Safe? Don't you remember the experiments they did on us? The drugs they injected us with? The blood they took from us? I had to get us away from there! They were going to kill us if we didn't run away!"
"But why take me? Who are you? Who am I to you?" I questioned further. The boy looked at me with disbelief, then he realised something. I saw it in his eyes, the epiphany.
"Of course, you must have had amnesia from the last test.. They were dropping bolders on your head. I think you are my sister, I don't remember anything from before I went to the facility. My name is Frost. But I have only heard them call you 'Em' so.."
"My name is Ember," I said firmly.
"Oh! Okay. So anyway I had to get us both out of the facility, you're the only kin i know. Oh I am six years old now, and you're four."
"Okay.." I said, "What..Why did they hurt us?.. Why didn't those.. those doctors.. why were they different from us? Without furry ears.. and a.. tail?" I explored, looking down. I did not hear a reply. I looked up at Frost. His eyes were wide with horror, looking at something, behind me. I looked back.
There was a short and plump man behind me. He had a cane, black with a wooden handle, in the shape of a howling wolf. He wore a jacket and long pants. He had greying brown hair, and a kind face. Hazel eyes, sharp nose, thin lips, double chin. Wrinkles and crowsfeet adorn the eyes and temples. I looked at his cane. The beautifully carved handle, and on his hand, a scar. Cut deep.. What I thought was a tail of something more, hidden underneath his sleeve.
Something burned inside me. Overwhelming pain. My head was pounding, about to faint, I struggled to stay awake, but slowly, the darkness consumed me, my vision faded to black..
"EMBER!!"
Saturday, December 15, 2007
thats my life__
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