The Girl Everybody Forgot
By Raekitty13
Disclaimer: Sigh… We've been through this before! I AM NOT J.K. ROWLING!
Author's Notes: I must thank Luna32, Gwen Gamgee and SkittleFREAK for reading my story. You guys are the best and I'm glad you liked it. You guys ROCK! The BOLD lettering besides the titles are said in "Cat Speak" or meows.
Chapter Two- What the… Frogs?!
The rest of the night all I was able to do was toss and turn. Sleep never came. At least it never came for me. All the other girls in my dorm fell asleep shortly after my night terror.
I was left all alone to defend myself from the dark. It was really creepy. I kept feeling it's dark fingers reaching out for me. I fell into a fitful sleep. This was a normal routine.
Over the next couple of days I began to get less and less sleep. I would wake up every night with only the atmosphere of something dark and dangerous clinging to me. The girls were really beginning to get scared.
"Cali," Yasmine said on the fourth night. "We need to do something to help you. I can't stand this any longer."
Jasmine, Alley, and Haley all nodded in agreement.
"What can you do to help bring back my memory that the Orphan Mistress hasn't tried?" I asked.
"I'm not sure." Yasmine admitted. "But something has to be done. Or else you past is going to eat you alive!"
I nodded. "All of the psychologists so far have said I've been through a major trauma."
"What was the reason they said they couldn't find your parents?" Kelsey asked.
Kelsey was the newest to our room. She had just been added two nights ago. She was the only one of us not accustom to my night terrors. She also hadn't heard the whole story. All of the other girls had been here when I arrived. Not Kelsey.
"They simply couldn't find them. No one would claim me. After a while they finally assumed that my parents had died, and I had witnessed it. The cause for my amnesia. I had been so traumatized by the brutal death of my parents that I had no memories of my life."
"The weird part was that nobody had died in the area around our orphanage. At least no where near enough for a three year old to walk." Haley had taken over my story telling for me. "So they think she could have been left behind by her parents."
"But that doesn't explain why she would have lost her memory!" Kelsey argued.
I nodded. "Exactly. But I have no clue what happened to me. I have nightmares every now and then. I think they're memories. But the more I try to remember the more I seem to forget. The more I concentrate, the more the memories slip between my fingers."
"I'm sorry." Kelsey said.
"What about you?" Jasmine asked warily. "Why are you here?"
"My parents were arrested for bank robbery." She said with a wiry smile.
"Why are you smiling?" Alley asked.
"Because, my parents weren't the bank robbers. They were the ones trying to stop the bank robbers. But nobody would believe them." Kelsey replied.
"Why not?" I asked.
There was an odd glint in Kelsey's eyes. "I can't tell you, or else someone might come after you."
"You mean your parents work for the Ministry and got arrested?" Yasmine asked.
Kelsey stared at Yasmine for a while. Suddenly she burst, "How did you know?"
I didn't believe her for an instant. She answered way too late, plus, her facial expression wasn't that of surprise. It was more like she was laughing at Yasmine's idea. I kind of felt insulted, but didn't say anything. Some people have to lie to hide pain.
"I have an idea to help you." Haley said.
"What," I asked, hoping it involved some sort of sleeping pills.
"Think of something happy before you go to sleep." She said.
I felt disappointed, but I didn't want her to know that. "I'll give it a try, Hay."
She smiled. "Great."
"Cali! You're little friends are back!" Called the Orphanage Mistress.
"Coming, Ma'am." I called to her, to the girls I said; "Maybe it's Blaze!"
"Yay!" Everyone but Kelsey cheered.
"Do you think you could get more from him about your past?" Jasmine asked excitedly.
"I'm confused." Kelsey stated. "Who's Blaze?"
"Blaze is one of Cali's cat friends…"
I left while Haley began to explain to Kelsey how I could speak to cats. Like Jasmine suggested, what if Blaze would tell me more about my past? In either case it would be worth my while to tell him about my night terrors. He always seemed to like hearing about them.
Opening the back door I saw a large, orange cat sitting on the last porch step. He was cleaning his fur, waiting for me to bring him a treat.
Pulling out a piece of bacon from breakfast, I threw my arms around him, "Blaze!"
"Hello, Cali." He purred.
"I haven't seen you for so long!" I replied, speaking in meows.
"It's been a while, that's for sure." He replied head butting my chin lovingly. "Do you know why I am here today, Cali?"
I thought about it for a while. Today was August twelfth. As far as I could remember nothing special was today. "No."
"Tomorrow is a special day, Cali."
"How so?""Tomorrow is your eleventh birthday." He replied.
"Really?" I asked excited. "How do you know my birthday is August thirteenth?"
"I remembered the other day that when I first led you hear, you told me that all you knew was that your birthday was August the thirteenth."
"Did I say anything else, Blaze?" I asked.
"Nothing of importance. For the most part you were sobbing."
"Oh," I said sadly.
"Don't be sad." He meowed softly. "Your memories will return to you in time."
He rubbed up against my leg.
"Blaze, why did you tell me about this just now?""What? About your birthday?"
"Yes."
"I just remembered." When he noticed that I didn't believe him he added mysteriously, "Something should come in the post for you tomorrow, Cali."
"Say what?" I demanded a little confused.
"Something important should come in the po-"Suddenly Blaze bristled.
"What is it?" I asked, switching back to English.
"I'm what most call Animal Control." Replied a young man with terrible scratches up and down his arm as he threw a net over Blaze. "I'm glad you were able to keep him sitting for so long. Normally he always slips through my fingers."
"Blaze!" I said. "You can't take him. He's my cat."
"This is an orphanage, you're not allowed to have pets." He replied with a horrid smile. "It's against health codes. Nice try, thought."
"No! He's mine!" I cried. "You can't take him."
"Watch me." He replied.
I closed my eyes and screamed at the top of my lungs. Then I felt something fall onto my head.
Looking up I saw another something falling towards me. I screamed again.
That's when I noticed that the things falling weren't falling, and that they were frogs. They had leapt out of the weeds behind me and were now charging the Animal Control Man.
I screamed again, "You can't take him!"
The frogs continued to charge the man. He looked really scared at first because his back was turned from me and the oddly acting frogs. He literaly had no clue what had hit him, and what was still hitting him.
Turning around his eyes widened even larger. "What the… FROGS?! Ahhhhh!"
I must have looked dumb founded.
"How did you know I was afraid of FROGS?" He demanded. "Ahhh! For this I'll make sure to put this creature to sleep as soon as- AHHH!"
I tried to kick the man, but he ran away from me and the crazed frogs. He reached the van before me.
"Cali, if you want answers, you have to take the important information coming for you thorugh the post tomorrow, seriously." Blaze said.
I didn't get to ask him what he meant nor say good bye. The mad man afraid of the frogs drove off at a neck breaking speed. Away from me, taking my only link to my past.
"BLAZE!" I howled.
Of course there was no answer.
Author's Notes: I'm sorry it has taken me so long to update, I have lots of stories and A LOT of homework. Please don't get mad at me for not updating as soon as you would like. Although, if I knew more people liked this story, I might update it more often… I'll leave that up to you of how you get your point across though.