"No way we get to play Starfall!" My best friend exclaimed, while I rushed onto the site. "Let's go to the Kindergarten section." I decided, and when I clicked to head over there, I felt the weird feeling I had felt earlier, but this time it was stronger. Cleo and I started out with creating our characters, so I made myself, but then I thought that was too boring so I made Cailou, which I got bored of so I had to do something else.
And then it hit me: Baby Hazel! I scrambled to change my avatar into Baby Hazel, even catching a concerned glance from Cleo, but I didn't care. This was a totally reasonable response to this discovery. Although I quickly found a problem: You had to have a nose. In my memories, Baby Hazel didn't have a nose, and I wasn't willing to search up pictures of Baby Hazel to find the answer.
So I had Cleo help me find a way to not have a nose. Eventually, our plan worked, and I continued on my quest of making Baby Hazel. Even though my resources were limited, I tried my best to make Baby Hazel, and in my opinion, it turned out pretty good. Then I saw that there was a mode where you got to put on a costume. I was curious, as I didn't remember this being part of the site, so I went in, and I found a purple dress. It was perfect.
I then remembered a crucial part of the website: the library. I scanned the kindergarten section for the library to find something like it, but I couldn't find it. I felt some sort of dread well up inside me, some type of sadness... But then I realized there was another section. I clicked on the button to go to the grades 1, 2, and 3 section, and I scanned that for some sort of answer. I saw something promising, but there was also something else.
I clicked on the other button, and it wasn't the library. As soon as the sadness came back to me, I remembered the other section. I pressed the button so quick, you wouldn't have even known if I hadn't just told you. I felt so glad to be back! Wait... It wasn't the library. But I knew I was close. This place seemed so familiar.
I looked for the button I wanted, and I found it. I found the library. I clicked on the button to reveal the truth, and I was met with a sad one. It wasn't the same. At least, it wasn't what I remembered.
It looked so simple now. I remembered it, but I didn't, and I couldn't... The feeling was so strange. I had to leave because my eyes were starting to water and I was starting to sniff at the books in the library, knowing I had read them, but wondering if I really had.
I played some other games on Starfall, and most of them were pretty fun, but then the teacher made another announcement. "Okay, everybody, now we are moving on to Cool Math Games!"
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Unexplainable Nostalgia
PoetrySo this is a story about me going to school and it feeling like a fever dream while also feeling nostalgic. Nothing else to say, really. (Oh yeah, this is a human au, so I'm human in this.)