Your World, My World

Chapter 3: Kokoro

Your World, My World

Chapter 3: Kokoro

His words spin around my head, like a moth dazed by a light, with no hope for escape. Nothing he just said could be real. Sure, it made sense , but how could I possibly be a program?

I sit there, under his never-ending gaze, lifeless. My whole body is just frozen to the bed, trapped under Len's breathe. His face is only inches away from the tip of my small nose.

I can see it in his eyes that he is not and will not lie to me, that I really am born a program. That the man he killed was my "Master", and he killed me over and over because there was always something to be wrong within me. A sneaky virus slithering inside me, always messing something up. Master wanted to make me perfect, so he would kill my soul until he got what he wished for. He wanted to kill me this time because he didn't program my own name into my system.

And Len was watching.

Every time Master would push the red button, I would vanish into small dots of light floating into the air, then completely disappear. Of course it would hurt me, light is hot. Extremely hot. It would burn everything that was left of me before starting over completely again and again.

But Len couldn't take it anymore; couldn't take seeing me scream until my last breath. So he stopped it all. Stopped my screaming, my pleading, my tears, all of it. He stopped after seeing me die eighteen times before. The only way to stop Master was to end his decisions completely, and the only way to do that was end his desperate life. Len grabbed a nearby dagger that was used for cutting thick wire and stabbed him from behind, then turned off the buzzing. Master tried to escape the boy by running off. Running down one of the millions of hallways, only to meet his slow end.

Len pushes Master's head repeatedly into the wall, forming a large gash in the middle of his bloody head. Then breaking the weak sheetrock into pieces as it finally gives in and tumbles down; and Master, finally, tumbling down along with it.

I can still see the fear haunting Len's blue gaze. His cold breathe still hitting my drained cheeks. All I can do is believe him. I am so drawn into his sky blue eyes that I feel weak. Useless.

My eyes slowly close as I give him a slight nod. He pushes himself up from above me and walks over to the towering window. He places his hands behind his back and gives out a shaky sigh, closing his eyes softly.

We sit there frozen for a few minutes. Him by the window, me in the bed. I finally give in and cannot take the silence any longer. I lift myself up from the quiet bed and slap my feet onto to cold tile floor. My feet barely making any sound as I walk over to Len and stand beside him. My gaze focuses on what lays on the other side of the clear window.

There's nothing much to look at besides a handful of descending trees in the far distance and a grassy plain. "You still haven't answered what you put into me," I say as quietly as I can, but still making it loud enough for him to hear me.

He opens his eyes again, avoiding my presence as he clearly says, "Getting rid of any tracking devices they might of planted inside of us. The medicine is supposed to eat anything that relates to that matter."

"Are you a program too?"

"Yeah, we all are here."

"How many of us are there?"

He turns so he is facing me. "To many, Miku... to many."

He swiftly turns his back to me and walks out of the door, leaving the small crack between the wooden door and the hallway glow in a white light that dances onto the floor below.