Quick note: I'm so sorry I have not updated recently. Actually its been about 6-7 months. Maybe more. But I have had personal problems to deal with. Anyway here is chapter 5 and I really hope you enjoy.
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Queensland, Australia.
A sigh gives way from my mouth. We actually made it. I look out the window only to see a wide spread of ocean; it was beautiful. I have never seen anything like it. "Clarissa, where are we going?" I ask her.
"To Queensland, it's beautiful there, you'll see." Clarissa replied.
"Isn't that near from the Great Barrier Reef?" My heart started pounding with excitement. It has always been my dream to swim there!
"Yes, yes it is." She looked at me. I looked at her. Her eyes were bright blue. And her hair jet black. The daylight made her skin glow. I have only just noticed how beautiful she is.
"What is going to happen now Clarissa?"
"Well... I don't know, I suppose we will have to find somewhere to live, and then we will have to change our names and get sorted in jobs and school." School? I have heard of that on television. "I think you will like school, E. You will learn lots of things you never knew before." Then it hit me. I would have to change my name. It will no longer be Project E45.
2 hours later.
I looked through the helicopter window. I could see birds flying above in the sky, circling the us. I could see dolphins and whales below in the ocean. Then I could see land. "Are we in Queensland Clarissa?" I ask curiously. She looks in my direction and smiles.
"Yep!" My face glows with happiness. It's hard to think I will no longer be a prisoner in a lab; but a citizen in the real world. We flew over a patch of grass in the middle of nowhere, where no one can see us, then Clarissa steadily lowered the helicopter. The winged machine landed with a thump. Clearly Clarissa didn't have much experience with a helicopter. I wearily stepped out of the helicopter and suddenly my feet were engulfed by overgrown grass. It was damp and moist, but felt incredible. I had a massive urge to roll around in the mass of grass, but I knew this would be a waste of time. I will have plenty of time mucking about once we have everything sorted. The only thing now is that i have no idea where we go from now...
"Clarissa, I've been thinking about names for us." I say. "Won't we have to change our names? I've been thinking about it a lot on our journey and I thought about the name Annie. You know, like from that movie?"
"E... I've got something better." Clarissa starts off. She shuffles over to the helicopter and pulls out a bag. She shoves her hand in the bag and draws out a file. A file? "How about your real name?"
"What? I don't have a real name, Clarissa." What could she mean? My real name? "I was born in the lab, my mother died giving birth to me..."
"They didn't tell you everything... neither did I" Clarissa's face turned blue. "Yes, your mother died, but not giving birth to you. They shot her in the head. I'm so sorry E. I couldn't save her. But she made me promise one thing. That one day I will tell you the name she gave to you, and that I would give you this note..." My face turned a different color than Clarissa's. I felt something inside of me that I haven't felt in a long time. Anger. And lots of it. My face turned red. And then I felt a massive stab in my heart. I didn't kill her. They did. I'm not mad at Clarissa. I understood. And the fact that she has kept this note the whole time. And this enormous secret and hid it from Doctor Ainsley, that made me more grateful for what she has done. To my mother and I. I put my hand out towards Clarissa as if I was begging for money. She placed the note in my hand. It was crumpled but well looked after. I open it and start to read.
Meriel,
If you're reading this then Clarissa has kept her promise. There is so much you need to know but I am afraid I cannot tell you everything since my time is limited.
As you know, Meriel, you are special. You have gifts beyond logic. Your father was a professor in Marine Biology. He found a cell in a plant, in the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean that could change its entire molecular structure. But of course he modified it. He made it so it didn't have to change the molecular structure, but still possessed the same properties. And he planted it in you before you even had a brain.
In the ultra-scan a few months later, he found that you were growing at an enhanced rate. He took bloods from me and found that my oxygen levels had increased, that was something to do with you. He admitted me into a specialized hospital; so I thought.
It was a lab deep underground in the middle of nowhere. He said this was for the best. They wanted to dissect me and take you out. But they couldn't. They actually could not pierce through my skin. It was like I had a force field around me, and I did. You. I knew when you were born they would no longer need me, so I want you to know. I love you Meriel! I always have. Don't ever forget that. And even though I'm gone, I'm still here with you.
Mom.
By the time I reached the bottom of the letter, I was drowning in my own tears. My mother wrote this, with her bare hands. And right now this is the closest I'm going to get to her. Somehow I managed to speak.
"Meriel." It has a nice ring to it. "I like it. Meriel it is." Clarissa gave me a huge hug but that was cut short by police sirens chanting at us from a mile away. "We have to go Clarissa, they're on to us!" I exclaimed. We both ran into the woodlands and just kept running. I didn't even notice how much my feet hurt until we stopped. I had blood running around my feet from where the brambles have punctured them.
I look around to see that we had entered a spacious part of the wood. There was a perfect circle on the ground. There were no tree's in this circle, neither grass. Just dry mud. "What is this place?" I ask Clarissa.
"I don't know E. But it looks like the perfect place for now. Quickly get some wood and place it in the center of the circle." She instructs. "We need to make a fire, It's getting pretty dark out."