Anomalous (REWRITING)

Chapter 2

I shuffled across the sidewalk, hugging my arms and cursing myself for not bringing a jacket. It must have been 35 degrees out. School was the usual for me. Boring.

The dead leaves coming from the big oak tree floated across the street, in one jagged line, swirling around in a trailing pattern.

The thought kept coming back, even after I try and shoo it away. Fifteen years old. It said. Tomorrow is the day I turn fifteen years old. I will take my test, most likely fail it, and be sent away from my family forever.

I looked down to the ground at my old faded shoes. I will most likely, never see my family again. I will be forgotten forever from their memories. Literally. If somebody fails a test, all the memories are wiped. Every place we’ve ever gone, every conversation I’ve ever had with them, every laugh and every smile I gave them, poof, gone. That thought stuck with me like somebody had gone inside my head and kept whispering.

They won’t remember you, they will be gone. Like a deleted word document. It will be all gone, never to be seen again.

At that moment, my emotions struck out. Like a bolt of lightning. I broke down on the side of the rode and sobbed like a newborn baby. Why do I have to be the person I am? Why did I have to be born in this time period? In history, we just finished learning about the earlier centuries. That was a time that there was no bellicose, or Celestia. There weren’t two different regions, there were 7 continents. 7 continents, 196 countries, 248,752 countries, 7 billion people.

There are only 10,000 people in Celestia.

There are only 25,000 people in Bellicose.

Life must have been much easier, less pressurizing to be a good person.

Everybody had a different personality.

The world was so much more different 1,911 years ago.

And now I have to leave them.

After a few minutes, I decided I couldn’t lie on the sidewalk forever, so I kept walking back to the house.

When I walked in the door my mother was sitting on a chair reading.

“How was your day?” Her smile faded when she saw my face.

“Fine,” I said covering up my eyes that turned as red as a vampire’s

“Why are you crying?” She asked putting her book down.

“I’m fine,” I assured her.

My mother stood up and walked over to me. Great, now she’s gonna make me tell her and she’ll tell me the good old don’t worry Charlotte everything is going to be fine. But how the heck would that make me feel better, that doesn’t change the fact that all my family’s memories of me were going to be wiped.

“Everything is going to be fine, you have nothing to worry about.”

Ah hah. Told you.

I rolled my eyes as she hugged me and I walked upstairs to my room. I got out my diary, (bet you didn’t expect that!) and wrote.

June 20, 3007

Dear Diary,

Tomorrow is my birthday; I will be 15 and have to take the test to see it I get to stay in Celestia. If I fail, my parents will be forgotten of every memory I ever had with them and I must move to Bellicose. I will turn into someone who can’t stay a day away from doing anything wrong. I’m scared.

With lots of love and kisses,

Charlotte Mackenzie Bryce

 I closed the diary and hugged it close. This has been my prized possession since I was four and I would write once a week. Well, it used to be everyday but I could never keep up.

As the day went on, I was getting more and more nervous about tomorrow. Evan, my brother, was being driven crazy at dinner because I couldn’t stop shaking my fork, causing it to hit my plate making an annoying ping sound. Finally, as I was doing my homework, I decided to relax.

“In…” I said breathing slowly. “Out”

I got my mind taken off of the subject by getting out my sketchpad and turning up the music to its loudest, drawing random things on the notebook paper.

But while sleeping, instead of letting my problems go free,

I had to face them.

I dreamed that I was taking my test. My mother and father were standing right next to me, telling me exactly what to do. But instead of using her choices, I chose the exact opposite. When it was over, the man giving me my test stood in front of me, telling me how badly I had failed.

Then my dream changed.

I was standing in a white room. White walls, white floors, no furniture.

My mother and father were standing in front of me.

They were telling me how much they had missed me. Then a flash of light filled the room.

Immediately after, my mom said to me blankly.

“I don’t know you.”

I tried telling them it was me but they still both had a confused look on their face.

Those were the worst words I could ever here.

I don’t know you.

A/N

Hey Hey Hey everybody! hows life?

I should be in school today but my throat was hurting so I convinced her to feel bad and let me skip so I can be with my fellow writers(;

Leave comments and suggestions for the cast for Charlotte, nobody else though because there arn't any other main charactors that come yet. I plan on having the guy protaginist come in around the 4th or 5th chaprer.

But in the mean time...

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