Chapter 2: Melissa the Crazy
Have I mentioned that I hate walking? Yeah I have and I am sure I am boring you by saying it again. The funny this is that you are not even real. I am talking to the air, yet I ask you questions. Sometimes you are my mother, usually went I am mad. However at the moment I am not mad. Just bored, tired, and confused.
It had been a day since the lion incident, and I still cannot for the life of me (literally) figure it out... I mean in all reality I should be dead. Yet here I am walking along this dusty road to what I hope is civilization. Well hopefully, I have not idea which was I should go. So when I reached the cross roads I went to the right. I don't know it sounded like a good direction to go.
Back to the lion. I've been thinking about it. There is no way that it was a dream that I was inside the lions head. I was. I know I was, call me crazy but I was looking out of the lions eyes at me.
How? That is the real question I mean how I was able to go inside the lions head.
I have been going over the memory for some time knows. I looked at the lion at first and nothing. Only when I looked into its eyes did I go into its head.
And the weird thing is once I was inside it I was the lion.
This is weird for I was also myself I was also me, but I was the lion as well...
And the weirdest is that I convinced me (the lion me that is) not to eat the human me. My human brain was stronger than that of the lion.
The thing is I want to try it out again. But there have been no subjects to try it on. I have been walking down this road for a day and a half and I have not seen a living soul.
But I need to try it again I need to!
Hey what it that?
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It was a house.
Yeah I house. At first I was wary to enter it. There might have been someone living there! They would call the police and there was no way I was going to live with a foster family. No way in hell.
So I stood outside they house for a while debating weather to go in, or not. Finally curiosity got the better of me and I went to the door. I knocked. No answer. I tried again. Nothing.
"Cool." I muttered pushing open the door. The house was empty. And dusty. I sneezed when I walked in dust filling my nose.
Walking around me noticed that the house could not have been abandon for very long. Maybe and couple months at most. (You would think I would have put two and two together...)
I walked to the bathroom. The shack had not had a mirror only a sink and a shower. This bathroom did. I looked different.
Three months can do that to you I suppose. I was ditty and muddy but my hair was pinned back so it could have been worse. I glanced at the eyes. Then looked away, thinking of the lion.
"Maybe," I said aloud "maybe if I look at my eyes it will happen again...."
For five minutes I stood there not looking. Then I looked I had to.
At first nothing happened. I was still looking at myself in the mirror.
"I guess nothing changed...."
"I guess nothing changed..."
"Oh my god!"
"Oh my god!"
I ripped my eyes away. I had been in my head twice! At once! I looked around. Nothing was different. Everything was the same as it had been. But I was shaken.
Okay so how about I look in thinking of one thing and the when I looking at my eyes I will try to change my mind.
I thought. "I LOVE the color green!" totally true. Then I looked into the mirror.
I saw myself. But in a way I was looking at myself twice...
"I love green!" I thought. Then I switched
"I hate green."
"No I love green."
"No I don't I never liked the color." it was the me in the mirror talking, or the me that was looking into me.
"Your right green is a terrible color...." I tore my eyes away.
I rubbed my eyes then looked around. I felt strange, it was as though a piece of me was totally different from before. Then I saw it, the green shower curtain.
I hate the color green... yet I knew that I did not, but in my memory I had always hated green and I still did. I hated green. But I knew I didn't...
But I did. I hated that color; it made me want to be sick. But why? I knew I loved green; I always had… hadn't I? No I didn't. Thought-out all my life I had hated green. But this was not true...
I glanced quickly back at the mirror.
I had hypnotized myself!
Cool…
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I left the bathroom, and that is when I heard it, a thud, coming from the floor above.
For a moment I was in shock, what on earth could be living here? But then I realized that it would have been easy for any creature to sneak into this house. There most likely had been tons of food in the house that any mouse or creature could have eaten.
You think I should leave? Wait a moment I can hypnotize things… if that is what you call it…
The power surged through me, I could hypnotize things! I had a power that no one else did!
Take that mom! If I ever see you again I am totally making you do whatever I tell you two!
But then does it work on other people? So far I had only really tried it on a lion and well myself. And maybe I had never actually hypnotized myself…
But I know I did… wait did I?
It was to confusing so instead of worrying about it I walked up the creaking stairs.
There where five doors. The first two I opened where merely closets, with nothing of much interest. But the next door I found something much more interesting.
It was a large bed room, nothing very appealing in the room. It had obviously belonged to a girl about age fifteen, maybe sixteen. The walls where blue, and there was a matching bed spread. An oak color dresser was over flowing with clothes. A large window was open and sitting on the windowsill was a cat.
It was the cutest little cat I had ever seen. Calico colored with big brown eyes. It purred when it saw me and I could not help but walk in and pet it.
The cat was skinny.
"How are you still alive, kitty? No one has lived in this house for quite a while." I asked the cat which was rubbing its head against my hand.
That's when I saw it. Bones. Mice bones. Ewwwwww. The kitten had been living off mice for who knows how long!
"Really kitty that it nasty. Have a cracker…" Okay so I felt bad for the poor thing okay! It was just a little kitty!
So I dug though my bag and pulled out a cracker.
The way the cat devoured it was shocking. The cracker was gone within a second.
"Impressing…" I muttered
Okay so I'm sorry but I had not talking to another living creature in months. I am sure you would have talked to the kitty.
"Do you have a name?" I asked the cat petting its head.
The cat purred again and meowed.
"No? Well let's look around this room and see what we know about whoever lived here…"
So I got up and looked around the room. Hey don't yell at me, no one lived here. Well not that had been here in a couple days. I noticed that this was the only room that did not have a thick layer of dust covering it. Weird right?
It did not take me long to discover who had lived in the room.
The girls name was Melissa Shay. It said so on the diary that was under the girl's pillow.
At first I thought about putting it back. I would have hated it if someone had read my diary. But curiously got the better of me and I opened the book.
The first couple pages, pages 1 through 53 to be exact had nothing interesting in it. She talked about how She was not doing very good being home schooled. She talked about how she and her older brother had gotten into an argument and so on. It was on page 62 that it finally got interesting. The hand writing was shaky and smudged with tears.
Want to know what it said? Well here it is…
I am freaking out! I don't know what to do! It was so weird! Okay calm down Melissa, you are fine; you are fine… okay want to know what happened? Okay ill tell you! But you already know as you are me, but I need to write down what happened…
So there I was sitting at Lunch. Mom was telling Dad all about work. David had just gone upstairs to do his work. He has been home from college for about a week know. Anyway there we where all eating lunch and they where gone!
Mom and Dad just vanished just as mom was saying how Mrs. McFadden had had her baby. And then they where gone. I screamed. I don't remember much after that but I ran upstairs looking for David hoping he would tell me it was all a joke. He was gone too…
My worst nightmare has come true! I am all alone! I HATE being alone! It is the worst thing ever!! I have no idea what to do! I have been crying for an hour! What am I going to do without David, Mom and Dad! I'm only fourteen! I can't take care of myself!
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's what it said. I sorry but I could not help but laugh when I heard that she 'could not take care of herself' I have been doing that since I was four years old. That's when I learned how to use the microwave.
Anyway I flipped through a couple more pages. With each page the entrees became more insane. Everything was written in caps and she wrote with a very shaky hand. Some pages only had one word. But most talked about she only friend. Tuffs. I quickly deduced that this was the cat. For she talked about feeding Tuffs, so she would not vanished like Mom and Dad.
But with each Page the writing became more crazy and scatted around the page. It was clear that Melissa had gone insane with being alone. The Last entry looked like this
alone
long. need food. want mommy.
tomarrow birthday, me turinging oldey
want to home go. Tuffs is eating miicess. I need fod but nothing realy left. mom said that on bithday we would go flordia
mom not hear, no floria
I want out., ,mmm I canot tak aymore. I hate this. david told me that I was strong
no strong. me dieing going crazy----
wamt out! Tuffs does not come near anymore. she me hates. . no kno y I need food
You can tell she had gone a bit insane. This was the last entry in the journal. There was nothing else left. Blank pages filled the rest of the book.
Briefly I wondered what happened to Melissa. She had obviously had been in no condition to leave the house. But then where was she? Obviously not in Florida for her birthday.
I wonder what happened to her parents. Had they really vanished? That's not possible?
Then again neither is me hypnotizing myself…
Did you like it? in case you did not understand Melissa turned 15 the next day and vanished leaving her Tuffs the cat behind. I hope you liked this chapter! I did!!
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