Chapter 1
Cathy didn't know what to do. She was sitting in a shelter, both her brain and body numb. She felt like she was going into shock. She listened to the familiar hustle-bustle of noise in the surrounding streets. She felt the voices echoing around her as if it was happening all over again.
Vaguely, she heard someone calling out to her, but she was too far in her memories to actually process what they were saying. She realised they might be saying something important, and snapped back for a second, before being drowned in the acknowledgement that they weren't talking to her. All her life she had wished to have superpowers, to be invisible, but now she felt what it was like, she wished to go back to normal, to not have her father announced missing on a business trip, to have a home, to have friends.
She knew something was up when she felt the distinct feeling of a slap on the face, followed by shouting. It all went black.
When she woke up, she thought she saw a figure floating above her, but it disappeared as soon as she blinked. The room she was in was blindingly white, and she made out a person.
The person, who she recognised as a woman, asked her in a pleasant tone how she felt.
Cathy realised the pain in her chest was not physical, but heartache, homesickness, terrible pain, as her heart ached for everything she had lost.
The woman repeated her question, and this time Cathy pointed to her heart. The woman understood, somehow and asked if she would like her to leave. Cathy only had the strength to nod, before she fell asleep again.
The next, time she woke up, she was in a dream. She saw a 17-something boy and a girl with blond hair and striking grey eyes. The boy turned around, and yelled something to the girl in a foreign language. She was surprised to realise she understood it, and vaguely remembered a lesson a million years ago, though only yesterday, on ancient Greek.
Her teacher, Mr Brunner, an old man in a wheelchair, had said to the class that it was crucial to their lives, though, as she thought back on that moment, it had been like he was only speaking to her.
She noticed that the boy, had heard something, and pulled out something from his pocket. He called out to the girl, pointing in my direction. She realised that they were pointing to her and panicked.
She waved her hands to show she was friendly, but they just looked confused, and dreamy. They snapped out of it. She hid behind a tree, as she noticed she was next to a really nice strawberry farm, and a load of cabins.
She blinked and closed her eyes, and when she opened them, she was in the hospital once again.
She sat up, taking a good look at her surroundings.
She was in a white room, with another empty bed, and many cabinets, and a single chair on the other side of the room.