A Warped Reality *ON HOLD*

Chapter 6

"GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS ALICCCCCCCE!!" Megan screams into the phone.

I flinch from the loud noise and sigh.

"It's Sunday," I say tiredly, yawning loudly. "At 6:30. You know I hate waking up early."

I hear her sigh on the other side in frustration.

"No silly," she says giggling. "Guess again!"

I groan and haul myself out of bed to go look at my calendar.

"It is February first," I reply after squinting in the dim light.

"YES! AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!" She yells.

I sigh again and flop back on my bed, face first and groan.

"Alicera? Aliceraaaaa," I hear her call from my phone.

I turn it on speaker and bury my face in my pillows again.

I grab my phone and set it next to me.

"I'm back," I say after a moment.

"Ok so it's February first," she begins.

"Figured that out," I say burying my face in my pillows.

"Well we gotta do our tradition!" She finishes.
I wait a moment hoping that somehow in her small mind she'll be able to figure out what she said. After a few seconds her side is still quiet.
I sigh and get up and bang my head against the wall.

"What was that- Ohhhhh," she says finally realizing her mistake. "Well every February first we go to the mall as soon as it opens and scavenge for men."

She giggles

I stare at my phone lying on the bed.

Did she seriously just call me to tell me that

"Come on its tradition," she says as though she can read my mind.

"Fine," I mutter just so I can avoid arguing.
"Yay!" She squeals. "See ya in an hour!
I shut off my phone and collapse on my bed.

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About an hour later, Megan pulls up in the driveway and honks her horn.

I grab my bag and my jacket and slowly walk out of the house.

When I finally get into Megan's car, she glares at me over her sunglasses.

"What?" I ask irritably.

"You take a long time and yet you only come looking like this," she gestures to my outfit.
I mean I guess I did only wear sweatpants and a flannel. I guess that's not really going for the 'man hunting' look.

I shrug my shoulders as she starts the car and backs out of my drive way.

When we arrive at the mall Megan looks at herself in the mirror one last time before jumping out of the car and walking towards the entrance. I sigh before reluctantly following her.

"I'm still wondering why I ever agreed to do this," I say loudly as we enter the huge mall.

She ignores my comment as we walk into the mall. It's weird walking into the mall that I know I must've known by heart not even a month ago, and now I don't recognize a single thing.

She drags me across the mall to the food court and walks across to a table in the corner. She sits me down in the chair then sits in her own chair. She pulls her sunglasses on top of her head and stares at me.

"What?" I ask after a moment of silence.

She shrugs, gets up and tells me to watch her stuff.

I lean back in my chair and open my phone and stare at the screen.

Megan and I must've had many memories here. If what she tells me is true than we must have been here a lot. It scares me that I am someone that I don't even know. That people know me better than I know myself. All my memories stolen so it's like static in my mind.
I've tried so hard to get my memories back but whenever I try I get a massive headache like my brain doesn't want me to remember anything.

I feel the hair on the back of my neck slowly rise. I awkwardly rub my neck trying to calm down.

Maybe I've been really paranoid lately but it seriously always feels like I'm being watched. I try to ignore it and just focus on praying that Megan would hurry up and come back. I bounce my leg anxiously scanning the area in front of of me to avoid looking behind me. I glance over at Megan and see someone I really don't want to see.

The blonde bitch.

And she's walking towards me.

Fast.

Without thinking I get up and walk away trying to look as casual as possible.

In my awkward walk run whilst glancing behind me, I run right into somebody.

"I'm so sorry," I say hurriedly making sure the women's ok.

"Alicera?" She asks.

Her face. I've seen her before. Her long black hair is pulled into a long French braid that goes down her back. Thick nerd glasses sit atop her nose. Her perfectly tan skin and sweatpants all seem nearly familiar.

Familiar.

I slowly walk away and then start running.
I don't know why or where I'm running to but all I know is that I need to get away.

In this frantic dash I realize that I don't want to remember. Remembering things scares me. Knowing people and feelings and everything just terrifies me.

I slow down a bit trying to rationalize my thoughts.

And then someone grabs my arm.

And the world turns black.

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Hello again!
I am very excited to announce that me and lexi_XD_26 are combining our stories!
Be prepared (hehe yeah be prepared. Anyone? No) for her characters to pop up in my stories and my characters to pop up in her story A is for Angels With Tears of Destruction.
And sorry for like disappearing on you I had writers block smh. :/
Next chapter: Alicera meets some new people.
-Dev