Chapter Three: Forgotten Memories
The room I awoke in today was stragely familiar. No one color dominated; instead, there was different colors everywhere. Posters covered the walls. I sat up. A green and purple down comforter covered my legs. I noticed that I was wearing jeans and a tee-shirt with holes in the back to make space for my wings. I looked down. The bedroom floor was far beneath me. 'Oh duh, I thought. I'm in a loft bed.' I slowly climbed down the ladder. The floor was covered in feathers that i had shed in my sleep. The rug beneath my feet wass fluffy and soft. I reached for the knob. As soon as I had turned the knob and opened the door, a girl entered the hall. She stood in the hall, staring at my arm. I followed her gaze. As I looked, I noticed a figure of an eye tatoo on my arm.
She softly said, "Hey mom? Mom? Come here please.... there's someone here! Come here...." A older lady walked up the stairs. Her face was so familiar.... The second she saw me, she froze. The lady said, "GET OUT OF HERE, YOU FREAK! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!"
'Why do they want me out if I don't even know how I got here?' I silenly wondered. The lady ran at me. She punched me square in the jaw. My head whipped around to the right. I fell to my knees. When I raised my head again, I felt my face grow hot. The lady backed down the stairs and almost fell backward. She suddenly rose into the air and slammed against the wall, close to the ceiling, and fell down into a chair below. The girl I saw before ran to her mother. She turned around and stared at me. She shoved me backward.
"Go away! Do you realize what you've done? Get out!"
I ran out the back door. I stood on the back porch. I heard a 'click' behind me. The girl had locked me out. She glared at me through the sliding glass door. I decided that this was my cue to leave. I walked though the backyard. The grass whipped in the wind and tickled my toes. I ran to the wooden fence and launched myself off. The wind beckoned me. I flew above a busy road, people looked up and pointed. I darted under a telephone line. Cars honked and swerved. I looked behind me and saw a few feathers come loose. The people below me scurried around to pick them up. This made me grin. I tilted my wings to the sky and barely missed a telephone pole beneath me. The birds that had been resting there flew off, starltled my my presence.All I could think of was how my own family didn't even want me. Tears streamed from my face and dropped to the streets below. A fire hydrant exploded beneath me. Tears streamed from my face. 'What is happening to me? Why do weird things happen when I...... feel?' I thought.
I averted my gaze downward. I saw a very large brown building below me. Nobody was outside. I noticed there was a football field in the back. I dedided that this seemed like a good place to land. As I flew between the field goal posts, I noticed people stopped on the track that went around the field, all staring at me. They were all in uniform. I hadn't noticed them before.
When I landed on the neatly cropped grass. The people that were on the track looked about my age. They all looked so familiar, as if I had seen them in a dream long ago. They started to whisper. A teacher ran across the field as she was talking in her walkie-talkie. Needless to say, I decided not to stick around. As I ran off the field, I heard her scream into her radio:"There's a girl here that looks dangerous! She's headed for the school! Go into a complete lockdown!"
I entered the school. As I walked down the halls, I noticed that people inside the classrooms were trying to hide from me, but somehow I knew they were there. I felt their color, I could hear their breathing. I turned a corner. There were lockers that lined this hall. I observed that one was open. On the door, there were pictures of me! Me without wings.
I took the magnet off one that showed me, my mother, the girl that shoved me out the back door, my father, and a girl that was tall with dark wavy hair. I put it in a plastic bag and put the bag in my pocket.
I noticed a trail of feathers that led up to where I was standing. 'I must be molting....better check that out.' I ran down the hallway, wings folded tight against my back. 'I need to get to the roof so I can get away!' I climbed some stairs, and ran down the halls. Doors that had previously been locked flung off their hinges behind me.
After running halfway across the school, I found a promising door. I opened it. Stairs led up to a metal door. I opened the final door. Beyond it was the roof. I spread my wings, ran as hard as I could, and lifted off.
I tilted my wings toward the football field to let them know that I was leaving. They didn't want me here, just like everyone else.
I flew until I was tired. The land had changed; all I could see below me was great big squares below me that looked like a giant patchwork quilt. I landed in a meadow. I sat down in a patch of very tall grass. I suddenly realized that I was very tired. I curled my wings around the parts of me that were exposed to the air, and drifted off.
When I awoke, I noticed that my face was resting on something hard. I sat up. It was a big leather-bound book. When I opened it, I noticed that the first page was a dark swirling mass. When I tried to touch it, my fingers went right through. It felt like warm water. A force on the other side pulled me through. I was suspended in a water-like fluid. I realized I needed to breathe. A light shone in front of me. I kicked my feet and flapped my wings in the fluid to gain more speed. I started to lose feeling in my arms, legs and wings. I was abou to drown when I finally got to the light. When I got through, I began to fall. City-scapes flashed in front of me. I looked below me. An ocean was below. I tried to flare my wings to stop my fall, but they wouldn't respond. When I hit the water, the impact knocked me out.