TAKEN
Prologue
Everyday people a number of people go missing. Some are never seen or heard from again. Then there are the fortunate ones, the ones who are found, some after hours, or days, weeks and even years. However always their lives are changed forever, never to be the same person they once been.
To be taken from everything you know, from everyone you love, from all you hold near and dear, have a very traumatizing effect on you. You're scared and feel alone, you're wondering if you'll live to see the next hour or day, much less everyone and everything you know. You're on edge constantly, your heart pounding, mind is working overtime, nerves are wreaking, hands are shaking, and breathing is shallow, all in fear.
It truly is a scary situation if one really thinks about it. And it's sad, because no one truly thinks about it until it's too late.
This story that I recite is a story of one person, a boy at age 14, a week shy of his 15th birthday, was taken. He was taken from his own bedroom, at night, without a trace, at all. He was one of the blessed ones on the other hand, returning after two years at age 17.
You'd think it would have been a happy reunion wouldn't you? A family's son and brother returned to them after two agonizing long years, back to where he belongs, with the people that cares about him, and loves him. It's the perfect happy ending, right?
Sorry to disappoint, my story doesn't go down that path. For it to go down that path, it wouldn't be a very good story now wouldn't? Also you'd have to have a very ordinary family, and believe be this family is far from ordinary.
The parents were the top research scientists in spectrology, the study of ghost, and their eldest daughter, she was a responsible adult before she turned 16, enough said. However the strangest of them was perhaps the boy himself, and this is before he was taken, but that will be explained soon enough.
An accident occurred, a terrible accident that keeps the boy from having a normal life, well as normal as one could have living with two ghost-obsessed parents, and one adult trapped in a teenager's body for an elder sister. The accident though horrible not life ending, sort of, kept the boy going strong. A fighter he was, but that will explain itself as the story progress.
However let me say this, that accident is part of what keeps him from reconnecting with his family, well that and amnesia will do it every time.
This is a story of a boy's life after he is taken from his family, makes a new one and is thrust back into his old one with no recollection of them. How he comes to terms with what he is and who he is, along with what happened when he was 14.