"Wake up Karie!"
I half dream half awake, reply:
"One second, mom."
I slowly crawled down the mattress, putting on my old socks. My room is quite messy, but I never intended to clean it. My foot stepped on the thick "Advanced Maths" book that I had to finish last night to hand to the teacher, but I ignored it.
Looking at myself in the mirror, I couldn't help but sigh. In the mirror, a girl looks like 15 years old even though she is 18. The girl has turquoise hair and blue eyes. Beautiful but she has a sad past. Her father left when she was 2 years old to follow another woman, her mother had to take care of everything in the house. But at least they still have a pretty stable life.
"Hurry up, Karie!!"
"I'm coming," I answered. I tied my hair and walked out of my messy room. My mother stood right in front of me. "What's wrong? Breakfast is starting to get cold!"
"I'm just getting ready," I mumbled.
"Hurry up, you're late for school!"
I don't care much about school, because there are many students who bully and avoid me. And even if I tried to get used to them, the teachers would openly hate me. Just look at their faces when I enter the school. I was like an unsolicited gift sent to school. To other people, they will feel very bad about it, but not me. Since the scoreboard was already bad, I didn't try to salvage it. I used to skip school to wander the cemetery. I loved the wildness of the cemetery, the feeling of someone watching me from behind, the cold wind blowing under my feet, and the unexplained fires burning in the night, it makes me both scared and excited.
As usual, I wandered the cemetery. I was sitting on my favorite gravestone until I saw a bat fly by. The bat is quite strange. It is a black bat but its face and upturned ears are white. It's smaller than any normal bat I've ever seen and... it has fangs. The fangs are long, making me think it was a rat at first. I don't know if I was dizzy or not, but I could see blood on its teeth. I stared at it for a minute as it continued to circle the air. Suddenly, it flew towards me and a sharp sound resounded. I painfully searched for the bat. Where...?
I fainted.
When I woke up, I found myself in the hospital. My hand is still plugged into the transfusion tube. Why did I need a blood transfusion? I tried to ask some of the nurses nearby, and I was told that I was found in the graveyard. The nurse answered me in a dull voice, expressing her distaste for her reluctant patient. I know it, she didn't even look at me, but I didn't care. I hurriedly dressed and returned home.
"Mom!" I shouted.
But no one answered. I searched for her for over an hour. I also asked the neighbors. Nobody knows. It's almost evening and she still hasn't come back. "Something must have happened." I thought. But I still couldn't figure out what that is.
I still waited for her. I sat on the sofa until well past midnight. I heard a loud crack in the street. And then, I heard a man shouting something:
- What are you doing?? What if the police know this??
The police?? What did the man do? Why is he afraid of the police?
I wanted to know whose is the man was talking to, but I was too scared to do that. So I sat still, trying to hear everything he said.
"Hurry up!! Let's get out of here!"
He even mumbled some words that I didn't understand. All I is know that, when he finished, a red light flashed in the windows, and the room went quiet again as if nothing had happened.
I waited five minutes to make sure he was gone, and finally, I peeked out the window. The man had gone.
