Waking Up In Eartenia

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      I BLINK, watching as a young boy clung onto a woman who is panicking due to him crying

The young boy had messy blonde hair, reaching to his nape and hiding both his ears. He has dark forest green orbs filled with innocence that is currently swelling with tears. He has the skin of a pale porcelain, the color of light tan that is close to porcelain. His arms and legs are slim, malnourished if I may say. He wears a worn out white shirt and a oversize short that reaches below his knee

The woman on the other hand has a neat brown hair tied to a messy bun, her brown eyes are covered by her trimmed eyeglasses. She wears a brown worn out dress with a white aproan

Who are they?

I silently contemplated the situation while watching them. The boy who was laying beside me earlier was crying in rivers of tears. Why? Well...

"Who...who the heck are you?"

The young boy furrowed his brown eyebrows with a frown forming on his face, filled with confusion

"Al? Are you sleep talking?" He silently mumbles as he leans closer to my face

"I am not" I grumbled as I furrowed my eyebrows then sat up, watching as the young boy followed my movements

"Then... Are you playing pretend again? Did you hit your head too hard when you fell down the tree?"

I blink owlishly "What?"

There was a moment of silence, and before I knew it, the young boy started screaming and sobbing

"A-ALLIA LOST HER MEMORY! AND ITS BECAUSE OF ME! WAAAHHHHH!!!" I jump from his volume and watch in amusement as he stood up and ran away

I trailed my eyes toward the direction he is heading, only to see a large wooden building that kinda looks hunted if it weren't for the vines and flowers that clung to the wooden wall

I stood up with confusion, a frown evident on my face as I followed the young boy with familiarity in my veins

Then I saw a woman running out of the building, seemingly alarmed at the young boy's cries

She tries to calm him down, but I could see that she is having a hard time

And that is what happens

I snapped out of my thoughts when I catch a sight of multiple children inside the building, their face full of confusion as they trail their eyes to the situation

It does not take a genius to figure out what this place is

...an orphanage

"Al! Will you please help me?! He mostly listens to you! And can you please stop pretending?! You have been pranking poor Akio!" The woman spoke in apprehension with just one breath

Your lungs are healthy, woman

I just stood there confused at who is this 'Al' or 'Allia' person. It was until he used her hand to gesture to me

I blinked but slowly went towards them with a small frown

"Me?" I pointed at myself

She furrowed her eyebrows and nodded in distress as she held 'Akio' towards me

The moment the boy landed his eyes on me, he immediately came crushing into my body like I am some kind of a ball pit

"Oof-"

"I'm so sorry Al! You lost your memory because of me! If I should not have thrown my slippers, you would not have climbed the tree and got it for me!" He cries, burying his face into the crooked of my neck