I opened my eyes but swiftly shut them again when as soon as the bright light hit my eyes I had a wave of dizziness.
'Okay, 1…2…3.' This time I opened my eyes slowly to let the light filter in.
I was in my room again, with the lights on and the window above my head was ajar, letting a gentle, cool breeze drift in.
'Soooo, Ah've been in here for about forty-eight hours an' Ah've fainted/ been knocked unconscious oooh abou' four times. Ah just hope Ah don' ge' an overdose. They are scientists though, so that shouldn't happen, but is that a good thing or a bad thing? * Sigh *'
I lay there for about five minutes, merely staring at the white wall in front of me. I wasn't thinking about anything, simply staring.
I suddenly realized I had a very urgent need to pee. Come to think about it, the last time I did go was about …2…days ago. Now that's plain weird. My eyes widened when I then remembered (or not remembered) that I hadn't been told where the toilets were!
'Aw jeez! Wha' am Ah gonna do? Run around 'till Ah see a toilet icon?'
I walked out and began to walk quickly around the corridor. There wasn't anything there apart from the stairs, but instead of going up the stairs, I walked back and then into the dining hall. There wasn't anyone there either so I kept on going to then walk through the opposite doors. I think I had been there before but I wasn't exactly sure. On the right of me was another staircase, and in front of me was a door with a toilet icon on it. I was about to go through when I glanced at the icon again. That's when I noticed what it really was.
The girl's toilets.
'Am Ah really that desperate? Wha' happens if someone's awready in there?' That's when I noticed that there was an additional door just past the other staircase. 'The toilets are normally pre''y close to each other, so hopefully, it can be through there? I mused.
I walked through and I'm glad to say that there, were the boys toilets. I walked in and did my business.
As I was washing my hands, I suddenly felt like I had this need to look up into the mirror in front of me. Which I did. As I looked at my reflection, nothing seemed to be different.
My hair was as short as always, spiky and brown. My face was pretty much the same, apart from that it was a bit paler than before. That was probably because of the food or maybe even the drugs that kept on being pumped into me. I smiled into the mirror, wondering what made me want to look up. As soon as I smiled though, my face faulted. 'What the heck was that?' I leaned up closer to the mirror to see if I could see what I thought I had seen. I stared at myself for about thirty seconds, which is surprisingly long if your waiting for something. I didn't see it. I frowned. And that's when I saw it again. That flash, that sudden change in tint. What I had seen was that something had changed. It wasn't anything that obvious. Like I said, it was only a flash, so if someone did see and looked again, they wouldn't see it.
It was my eyes.
Normally my eyes are clear as day or crystal. They're blue . . .but after this it seemed weird. What I had seen was a flash of purple float into my eyes. Float isn't the right word, and neither is flash. I guess what I has seen was a flicker of purple before it disappeared again. The thing was, was that it was exactly the same colour and shade of the stuff in the drip, the drip which I had seen in the nurses room before I was knocked out for a second time.
I blinked. 'Maybe it's just the drip circulating 'round ma body? Bu' tha' shouldn' happen. Should it? Ye' again, it goes righ' over ma head.'
Suddenly feeling sick, I tore my eyes away from the reflective glass. It wasn't the ill kind of sick though, it was like a feeling in my gut that said something wasn't right. Well, that's obvious anyway, hello? I've got weird telepathic powers! I can't believe the government ordered this to happen!
Unexpectedly, images flashed into my mind. What happened when they first kidnapped me, when I first woke up, my thoughts on the building, everything. I realized that some things were random while others were meant to happen. Me getting "picked" up, that was random. Me getting the drug, that was meant to happen. One of my thoughts stuck with me, how the windows would probably be tinted on one side and clear on the other. Why would they do that? What's the point of hiding?
Unless . . .
Unless, the government didn't know about this. Like I thought before, I was just some random kid off the street. I gasped with my revelation.
"This . . .experiment . . .it's no' warranted by the government." I whispered. But like the saying goes, what a person doesn't know, can't hurt them. I couldn't exactly go and write them a letter could I? If I tried to somehow do that, I'd be found out and suffer the consequences.
"Doctor thought u were pretty smart for your age. Guess he was right."
Whirling around I saw it was Adam. Jeez! Could they stop sneaking up on me like that!
"Doctor says there's someone here to see you."
"To see me? Bu' Ah though' no-one knew Ah was here, 'part from the guys awready in here?
"Well, there are some people who know of you existence outside of these walls." After that, he walked out and I started out after him without a word. We both knew the threat he would make if I didn't, so there was no point in saying it. I then briefly wondered how he knew I was there but shrugged it off and followed him.
* * *
We ended up in a large room with only Doctor and only one other person in it. She had a black suit on and black hair tied up in a ponytail. She was sitting behind a desk put randomly in the middle of the room. There was also a chair in front of the desk.
Adam abruptly turned around and left the room and I had an urge to follow him but I was being motioned towards the chair by Doctor. I sat down and looked at my hands.
"Doctor has informed me about your development. Would you care to show me?" that wasn't a request, that was a polite way of telling me to do it and she knew it.
I looked up, unsure if I would be able to control my power.
"On you?"
"Well who else can you see?" was her sarcastic (but "polite") reply.
My eyes flickered to Doctor, who was standing next to the desk. She noticed this and sighed. "Yes, on me."
Unsure on what to do nest I started to stare at her forehead. Then as if I had done this before in a past life and suddenly remembered how to, I closed my eyes and imagined there was a line of light connecting our foreheads together. In a flash I was hearing her thoughts.
--What a waste of time, I cant believe they sent me to do this, it's a fools errand. How can they take the word of a delusional doctor? There is no way that this boy, this Charlie, could develop psychic powers just from an injection. It's impossible! --
With a lot of effort I started to dictate what she was thinking. It was pretty hard when your trying to say something and keep track of the rest of the thoughts so you can say that about two seconds later.
"How did you do that?"
"How did you do that? . . .huh? Oops, sorry, Ah go' a li''le confused." I said sheepishly.
She turned around and said to Doctor, "Am I that predictable? That you were to tell the boy what I was going to think?"
Before, I would have said something along the lines of, "Hey! "The boy" has a name ya know!" but now, if I were to do that. . .instead, I stayed silent and let Doctor answer for me.
"No! How about a second opinion and let him read your mind again?"
This time she was more reluctant but turned back to me and nodded.
Once again, I closed my eyes and imagined the line of light.
--Purple monkey dishwasher. --
Startled, I opened my eyes at the totally random thought.
"Eh? Um, purple monkey dishwasher."
This time the lady stared at me like I had grown another head right in front of her. "I need to go now and tell my supervisor" with that, she stood up and left the room.
Looking back at that now, I would never have known what would happen next.
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Something is wrong when I upload my chapters. It won't do the paragraphing right or the italics. Anyway, tell me, should I let Charlie stay in there for the next chapter or should I skip a few years . . . uh, did I say years? Um…so! To my reviewers!
Wingcanine: did someone mention test? Let's see . . . I've got, a Spanish speaking test on Monday 28th, a geography test on Thursday, I have to write a CV, I have an art essay to give in on Friday, so don't say test! There is a new person coming in but I don't know if to have her come in, in the next chapter or a later one. What do you think? Let Charlie "develop" or meet this new one?
Dudems: Don't worry if you review late, just as long as you do!
DID: Whew. Finally finished.
Charlie: I'm just glad you didn't make me go in the girl's toilets.
DID: As if I'd do a thing like that!
Charlie: yeees, of course you wouldn't do that! * Rolls eyes *
DID: So, what do you think? Should you meet this new person in the next chapter or what?
Charlie: Whatever just as long as I don't spend something like years in there!
DID: yeees.
Charlie: huh?
DID: ^__^ nuthin!
Charlie: K??? So what took you so long with this update?
DID: Weeeell, it was my birthday! And I watched pirates of the Caribbean again and I got the sound track for it and I got £105! Which is $178.5 if you're American . . .I think.
Charlie: what's the point of saying that?
DID: * keeps on going * and I got the new Golden Sun! I just completed it this morning/last night. O_o I just checked my playtime and I saved it at exactly 33 hours of playtime.
Charlie: Hello? * Waves hand in front of DID's face * we're supposed to be talking about Beyblades, not a sunrise!
DID: :( . . .
Charlie: uh . . .what did I say?
DID: If . . .you . . . say . . . anything . . . like . . .that . . .again . . .I will personally make sure something very very bad'll happen! Golden Sun is one of best RPG games ever! After things like Final Fantasy, of course.
Charlie: * mutter * now why is she talking about dreams that she's had?
DID: * growls *
Charlie: * Sweatdrops * um…aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! * runs off *
DID: Get back here! * runs after him *
Charlie: please review 'coz I don't wanna dieeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
DID: Come back here!!! Oh, and, if you guys don't mind, could you give me some hints on what to do in my next skit?