Chatter was surrounding me as I casually walked on the pavement, the incoherent talking taking tones of boredom, excitement, and the occasional exaggerated disappointment. I stuffed my hands into the pockets of my red sweater as my female friend's voice-Bethany-slowly became part of the background noise, my mind completely empty of any thought while my eyes are focused on a lone cloud above.

When Bethany's voice seemed to end in a question, I hummed out my agreement, not caring if that was the correct answer or not. I felt a push on my right shoulder and managed to catch my balance by using my right foot. Turning on my left heel, I faced my friend with slightly widened eyes and raised eyebrows.

"What?" I questioned with an underline of annoyance. With a huff through her nose, she pointed a finger to a small pathway located between two buildings. "You're walking the wrong way." I hummed in confusion while scrunching my eyebrows together, "What do you mean?" I asked. Casting a glance at the path I was taking, I said, "This is the way to the movie theater."

She had a slight look of surprise in her brown eyes. Bethany blinked once before shaking her head, her brown locks swinging side to side from her ponytail. She gave a short frustrated sigh. "I thought you were listening." She turned on her heel and started to walk towards the alleyway. "I'm taking a short cut, you following or not?" She voiced out as she walked deeper into the small path, not stopping or turning to me.

I took a few steps forward and peeked into the alleyway. It wasn't too small, enough to fit three people side by side, and the only thing in it was a large dumpster.

Seeing no noticeable signs of danger, I shrugged my shoulders and sped off towards Bethany. A few steps in her direction and I suddenly felt the childish urge to pass by her, as if I was in a race. Reacting to the playful spark, I dashed by her surprised figure with a half smile on my face. I heard her familiar giggling behind me as soon as she figured out what I was doing. Soon, the clack of her boots echoed in the alleyway as she ran behind me.

I passed by the dumpster-god, is the smell horrid-but that was as far as I could have gotten.

An unclean man jumped out from behind the dumpster just as soon as I was four feet away from it. I made the mistake of stopping right in front of him, and I paid for that simple error by receiving a blow directly to the trachea with a rusted metal pole. A crack sounded out inside my head.

In the last few seconds I could hear and see-the sense if touch no longer active-, I saw the blue sky with the small lone cloud, now even smaller as the winds were spreading it to become slightly transparent. The beginnings of a scream was behind me, screeching and loud pitched, but it was cut out in the middle as the cloud finally disappeared, my senses deciding that they can no longer serve me.

Goddammit, can someone tell me what the hell is going on?! Nothing but gurgles escaped my throat as my eyes were blinded by the fluorescent lights above, my attempts to say something falling on deaf ears. The people in white kept on moving around, their rubber gloves grabbing at my slime soaked limbs as I squirmed around to avoid them.

Hey, don't touch me! A whining groan sounded out as they closed their fingers around my arms and legs. I shivered against the cold gloves, the A.C. in the room not making it any better as it teasingly blew on my exposed figure. One of the people dressed in white brought out a silver pair of scissors from a tray a small distance away. It brought the clippers closer to my body, pulling the thin metal blades apart as I tensed up.

I tried to keep all fear from changing the expression on my face, although my stomach couldn't help but churn as my eyes landed on a fleshy tube protruding from my belly. Out of my peripheral vision, I saw the scissors getting closer towards the tube, but I ignored it as I followed where the tube was connected to.

It was connected to a...

Oh God...

They cut the tube with one snip before clamping it closed with tools I can't name. My eyes were as wide as they could be when I averted them from in between thin legs to tired unfocused orbs. They suddenly snapped into focus once the female realized she had my attention. Her black wavy hair was sticking to her forehead and cheeks as she gave a small smile, her light caramel eyes twinkling with happiness under the artificial light.

The way she was looking at me managed to calm some of the panic pulsing through my body. A small bubble of shy delight formed in my throat, my body flushing a soft red as she gave her full attention at me.

Even if her stare didn't contain any malice, it was still embarrassing to have her pay her focus on me and me only.

We were having a little moment. A moment where any negative emotion was banished from our minds and replaced with a calming happiness. I wouldn't say that it felt right-since she was staring at me in all of my naked glory-, but I felt like I wanted to grin or giggle. I wanted to show at least a tiny sign that indicated that I was slightly elated.

A gloved hand smacked my backside and I screamed at how wrong that felt.

Okay, moment ruined...

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