Chapter 4: Memories Of The Past.
After the white-blue light had gone, Gary opened his eyes to see what had just happened. As he opened his eyes, he was taken aback about what he saw.
They were in a forest or a place with a lot of trees. It was breathe taking and beautiful. The sun light only just made its way through the leaves of the trees above him. Gary thought for a second and realized that the place seemed a bit familiar to him, but he didn't know why.
He looked around and saw that his signals had gone. There were no signals around him. He looked around to look for the girl who had brought him here. He wanted an explanation for how they got there.
He found her sitting on a tree that had fallen. She refused to look up at him and the knife was no longer in her hand.
"Where… where are we? There's… there's no signals. Where are the signals?" Gary asked the girl who was still sitting, not looking at him. "And you're not suppose to touch me! I don't like to be touched!" he said, a little angry, almost looking at her, but quickly looked away.
"I'm sorry about that Gary. It was the only thing I could think of. But this was the only place I could think of that your friend couldn't track you. I also thought that maybe you might remember this place?" She said, looking up at the boy that stood in front of her. Gary quickly looked around again.
Yes; this place was familiar, but how? Gary thought to himself.
Gary turned back to the girl and asked, "Who are you? How…how did you know my name? I…I didn't tell you my name, so how do you know it?" he said, leaning forward a little and was playing with his blue sweatband that was on his left wrist, snapping it and fiddling around with it.
The girl smiled at the distant memories that only she could remember. Then a look of regret and sadness came on her face at the thought of a few memories that she had.
"You… you didn't answer my question! Who are you and how do you know my name?" Gary asked again, he wanted to know how this girl knew his name.
The girl looked up sympathetically at him.
"Gary, the reason that I know your name is because we were friends before. And I know that you don't remember my, because I made you forget. I made you forget everything about me, for your own good. I had hurt you Gary and I couldn't live with myself knowing I could have done it again. We shared all of our secrets and never lied to one another. Well; you couldn't at that time anyway." The girl giggled a bit in the memories that she held from her past. "I'm sorry Gary, for what I did to you. I never wanted to hurt you." The girl said, now walking towards Gary but held herself back a little.
He needed his space. He always needed his space. He never liked anyone being in his space; otherwise he gets really agitated, angry and he panics. She thought to herself, remembering what he was like as a child. She didn't want him to get worried.
"Ok, but… but you have only answered one of my questions." Gary said, wanting to know more about her.
The girl took a deep breath and started to answer his questions.
"My name is Lucy, Lucy Jones. We were best friends since we were 5 years old. We always stood up for one another at school, because of the bullies. When we went to high school, it got worse, the bulling. And they picked on you more because of what you did with your hands. Flicking through the signals that you told me about. The shapes, the colors, people's lives all around you. You said that they comforted you, your signals. Don't you remember that?" Lucy asked, the now confused looking boy in front of her. He looked so innocent, she thought. How could I have ever hurt him like that?
Gary just looked at her. "I don't remember you, but… but I do know this place. It seems familiar somehow." He said, looking around the forest again.
"You remember this place?" Lucy said with a smile on her face, glad that he remembered something of their past together.
"This was a place where we went away from the bullies and also the signals to get some peace. You were always happy up here. Only we knew about this place, because you found it Gary, you found this place. You found it because you were trying to get away from the signals, and this was the only place that had no signals. The only place for you to have peace." Lucy said, trying to help him remember the memories that were lost from him, because of her.
"I remember this place but… but I still don't know you. I don't remember you." He said looking at Lucy again. Lucy walked slowly towards him again, and he didn't even move away this time, which eased Lucy's mind for a bit, knowing that he was comfortable with her being that close.
The last hope that she had was now gone. He didn't remember her.
Was this good or bad? She thought. Is this good for him to not remember me?
She then remembered the other people in the alleyway with her and Gary.
"Gary, who were those people that were with you, in that alleyway? The one's that were following me." Lucy asked wanting to know who they were.
"They…they are my friends. We were trying to help you because Dr. Rosen said that we should help other Alphas to understand their abilities better." He said, not looking at Lucy in the eye.
"So… they weren't trying to hurt me? But the other men, the one's with guns, who were they, and why were they trying to kill me?" Lucy asked, now wanting to know what it was that she was getting herself into.
"I…I don't know. Maybe Dr. Rosen might now. We should ask him. We should go back." Gary said trying to figure out which way he was suppose to go.
"Wait, what did you say? You… you said something. You said the word 'Alphas'. What does that mean?" Lucy asked, raising an eyebrow slightly.
"Yeah, Alphas. That's what Dr. Rosen calls us. People with special abilities. People like me and people like you." He said looking back around at Lucy.
"Ok, fine. I think it's about time I should tack you back." Lucy said and then reached for Gary's hand.
Gary saw her move her hand towards him and moved away slightly so she couldn't touch him.
"I told you, I don't like being touched." He said sharply at her.
"Gary, I need to hold your hand so I can take you back to Dr. Rosen." She said softly at him. "It's the only way I can take you back. Unless you want to walk back, do you?" she said playfully to him.
Gary thought about it for a second and decided to hold Lucy's hand.
As he touched her hand, the white-blue light came back.
Gary closed his eyes and held his breath again, waiting. Seconds later they were gone again.