Glow of Conundrum

Chapter 4: Remember

So many thoughts swirled in her mind. She wanted to ask him all of them, but instead she asked,

"What is really happening to me? Who really are you!?" She suddenly became fearful when she noticed a look of recognition cross his face. "Is this really my world?"

The black haired man slowly smiled.

Suddenly she remembered him saying something like that in her world.

He glanced at the man that appeared to be holding her by the arm as he led her out of the store and started running.

They ran until they reached the park. After getting seated on a bench, they quickly exchanged looks. After staring into each other's eyes for a few moments, the black haired man started talking.

"You've finally woken up. You're really awake."

She nodded in confusion. She didn't know how to react anymore.

"How did you end up here?" He continued to question.

"What do you mean?"

"This isn't your world. This isn't anywhere close to where you're from either."

As he said those words, something flashed before her eyes. Suddenly a memory came flooding through her head. Memories. Of course, she thought to herself as she struggled to piece together the words that the man before her said while staring into the distance. She closed her eyes, trying desperately to try and remember it. It was hard. She tried to focus on what he was saying but her thoughts were scattered across her entire brain.

Images. Voices. Words. The man was right.

"I can see everything yet, I still can't remember anything at all," She managed to get out.

She opened her eyes once again and looked at the man before her. She blinked a few times.'

She was confused. Then again, there was nothing to be confused about after all. It was all true. This was her new world. This was her life. She had experienced all this before after all, and she had lived it all. However, this wasn't a dream. As she looked into his eyes again, something else caught her eye.

Something that seemed to catch fire inside her heart. Something she knew wasn't possible but somehow found it hard not to believe it was possible.

Maybe it had just taken her brain too long to figure it all out. Maybe she couldn't figure out why everything felt so unreal right now, why everything felt like it couldn't possibly be real. Maybe it wasn't real, that she's not in her own body. Maybe all of this was just a nightmare. Maybe she should wake up from this, wake up right now so that she wouldn't end up becoming dust. She felt like she couldn't breathe at this very moment. He stared at the man's green sharp eyes and her vision started to get blurry again.

She found herself back at her apartment. Perhaps this was all a part of her subconscious. But she didn't know. She was confused and afraid as hell, and she knew that she had to figure it all out before she ended up losing it, before she started losing herself, like she had so miserably done so many times before. She needed answers more than anything else in the whole world right now.