S T I G M A

001| Where everything starts

I was surrounded by darkness, the garbage in the ground made it stinks like hell. I felt dizzy and nauseous.

I tried to stand up while I was holding onto the wall behind me, I felt that everything around me was moving, I tried to hold onto the wall once more but I tripped over a bottle making me fall face down to the ground.

I fell in a dull sound, my head had bounced as it hit the ground, I did not move an inch, the pain in my neck and head makes the dizziness and nausea increase.

There were voices, i tried to look around to see if it was not just my imagination, they were getting closer to where I was. I could hear someone talking on the phone.

"Someone... Just someone, i have never ask for something, let just someone find me now". I wish in my thoughts.

In front of me a group of people were walking, and then I saw someone talking in the phone. I tried to move, but I couldn't even stan up. I look around once more.

"They are still there, I can do it!! I just need to move a little bit". I was trying so hard to not to make a single dangerous move, but it was now or never.

My legs were in the same position of when I fall, i tried to move then so I could make it more faster. I look to the front, it was left a few more metters to lose then out of my vision.

I grip my teeth, with my arms I took all the strength in them to make pressure into the ground to stand, I made it so fast that all I could hear after was the cracking of my neck and the intense pain.

I couldn't talk, it was as if my mouth was sealed. Not even a cry of pain came out of my mouth, my body felt heavy and sore. I couldn't get up anymore, my eyes were looking at the bag of trash that was nearby me. My vision was getting blurred and my breathing got heavy.

"So this is how it going to end?". I couldn't think of anything more than that "Am I going to die here?".

...

Mother was walking around with a worried face in her self, she was biting her nails, she did it every time something bad worried her.

"Mom". I called her

She looks back to where I was, she stop moving around the little house, but still biting her nails.

"Honey, go to sleep, mama is going to take care of something, all right?". She got nearby me and gives me a sweet night kiss "Go back to the room my dear".

She waited until I entered the room, she didn't take the gaze off even when I was closing the door behind me. But I know it wasn't something so simple.

I knew from the start that she wasn't going to be okay if I left her alone, I knew she wouldn't make it all lone.

...

I heard someone talking, i could feel the cold and a soft material under me. There were a sound, it was like a bip. I opened my eyes, but the sudden amount of light made me close them abruptly. I put my left hand on top of my eyes, while a groan came out of my mouth.

"You are awake". I heard a male voice

I took of my hand and look in front of me, there was a man wearing a white robe, while holding some documents in his hands. I was in an hospital.

"How did I ended up here?". I suddenly ask.

"There were a family that bring you here, there are still outside". He came closer "let me check you a little". I nodded

He place a cold metal on my chest and then, place it on my back, with a flashlight, he check my eyes while making me look from one corner to another.

"You are in a better state now". his face was serious, almost as if he had bad news to give me. "By any chance do you have a family who can take care of you?". He ask.

I denied.

"I don't". I keep quiet

He put his hands in his pockets, then just dragged a small chair and sat next to the stretcher.

"How old are you? We dont have any information of you". He look through the documents.

"I'm around 17,18, I guess". I reply

"Your name?". He start to write in the paper.

I keep quiet for a while.

"Kim, Kim Vante".