This is a story I finished awhile ago and thought I should post it here. Hope you like it.
Se SouvenirA young, dark haired man walked into the old yellow farmhouse. He didn't even bother to close the door after him. He went straight through to the sofa and sat down with his head in his hands. He'd lost everything in the last few days, his lifeline to his past, his family and everything else was gone for good.
He remembered their last words to him vividly.
"Look in the attic right hand corner. You'll find a box open it and look inside. I'm sorry son but we were told not to show you. I love you, you'll be ok"
His father's last words to him. His mothers had simply been
"I love you. Find her"
Those words confused him. He knew what it meant somehow but he just couldn't remember why and they just kept going round and round his head. He slid off the sofa sobbing uncontrollably then he screamed to no one in particular.
"NO. WHY ME? JUST WHEN I STARTED TO GET TO KNOW THEM, TO REMEMBER. WHY? I HATE YOU" he collapsed again.
He ran out of the house as fast as he could and arrived at his friends place in two seconds. After knocking on the door it was opened by a short woman with short blonde hair and a man was standing behind her. They looked at him then pulled him into the house and set him on the sofa where he fell asleep.
It was two weeks before he went back to the yellow house. He had decided to come back and the blonde woman had come back with him to help sort things out.
"I have to go and find something" he said and she just nodded as he zipped upstairs into the attic.
He walked slowly almost shaking. He knelt down next to one of the boxes he had found and opened it slowly. It was full of photo albums. He could see three were in there with out moving anything. He took out the first one wonderingly and opened it. There was a blown up picture of him and his parents as well as another girl of about the same age as himself in the picture.
The two of them were sharing a small smile and unlike the others who arms' around each others shoulders his arm was around the girl's waist and her hand was on his. He turned another page and saw a picture of just the girl smiling out of the photo pointing behind the camera she had long raven hair and beautiful hazel eyes bright with laughter. She was quite small and skinny, he thought she was beautiful. In the next picture he saw himself with her again it was obviously taken a few minutes after the previous one.
He was swinging her round hands around her waist and she had her arms around his neck. A name came to him so clearly he almost saw it as well as a memory.
"Lana" he whispered.
It was like he was an observer in his own body.
The four of them had obviously just come back from a party and Chloe had her camera to take pictures of the youth's activity in Smallville as she put it..
The first picture was taken when Pete had a bucket of water and was about to pour it over her head Lana had pointed out in warning but Chloe hadn't noticed until after she took the picture. She had spun round and Pete was so surprised he froze so she poured it over his head.
They were laughing and he, he remembered, he had caught Lana round the waist lifting her up easily and twirled. She had shrieked at first then laughed at him and looked into his eyes they were about to kiss when they heard the noise of their friends leaving. It hadn't deterred him he just pulled her closer and kissed her fully. He was revelling in the feeling he got from that kiss when he put her down looking at her. The other two had gone off somewhere.
"Lana" he said quietly he could feel the nervousness again as if wasn't just a memory "Lana I need to tell you something"
"You have another power?" she asked interested so he must have told her the secret. He smiled and shook his head. "What?" she asked quietly and looked at him. He bent down and whispered in her ear.
"I love you" then looked into her eyes. There were tears in them. He could feel himself becoming scared and willed himself to calm down, so he could stay in the memory. She reached up, pulled his head down and kissed him. "Wow" he said after they broke apart. She laughed slightly.
"I love you too Clark" she whispered excitedly "For a long time"
He just had a manic grin on his face and she laughed again he picked her up and spun her round again. There was a camera flash and they looked over to see their two friends smiling at them.
He came back to himself and he dropped the album and fell back from his crouched position and crawled away. Memories seemed to be bombarding him from every side.
Helping his mother bake pastry. Watching as Lana fell over a bridge. His father shouting at him. His father hugging him tightly and asking him how he was. Pete shooting hoops with him and dancing as he won. Chloe getting excited about a story. Pain from green rocks when he was younger. The last and most vivid memory he had was walking towards Lana slowly then kissing her and her taking his shirt off. They stopped there and he sat frozen to the spot.
"I remember" he whispered then again louder "I remember" then he shouted it "I remember" There was a thud and he jumped as the woman came through the trapdoor. He jumped up and hugged her "Chlo I remember everything, everything Chloe"
"Clark that wonderful" she said and hugged him again. He let go her then picked up the photo album again looking at a picture of him Lana and his parents
"Chloe where is she?" he asked.
"Who?"
"Who? Who? Lana, where is Lana?" he turned to look at her "I need to see her"
"Clark" said Chloe gently "She moved away about six months after you disappeared. It was too hard for her but she wanted to be told the minute you were found but then we were told we couldn't tell you. She only gave her address to your Mum and she never told anyone. No one knows where she is Clark." He looked at her lost then collapsed onto his knees hugging the album to his chest.
Chloe was scared she had no idea what to do with him. It seemed like he couldn't move he wouldn't even respond to her. She ran downstairs and rang Pete told him what was going on then went upstairs again. Clark wasn't anywhere to be found neither were the albums. There was a note.
Dear Chloe and Pete,
You have been the best friends I could have asked for but I understand what my Mum and Dad meant now I have to find her, now. I remember everything I can't risk finding her in danger or something. I just can't. I'll ring when I find her I can remember how to use them now so it should be quicker. I will find her and bring her home.
I shouldn't be gone for too long. All I ask is that you look after the farm while I'm away there is some money to do that in the top drawer in the kitchen. You can buy help with that there should be enough money for that and make sure Mum and Dad aren't lonely in the cemetery. Tell them I'm doing what they wanted.
Love
Your friend
Clark.
Chloe dropped the letter and sat on the floor. Pete found her there when he came in and read the letter then just held her close.
TBC
Hope you like. Thank you for reading.