Fear (noun): an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.
Nora was the sister of Maggie and Beth Greene, her memory was lost when her school bus flipped over. That was the star...
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Nora was now fifteen years old, and still slowly recovering her memory. The doctor gave her a notebook to document when she sees a memory, and after every month he reads them to see the progress she's making. Nora was sitting in her bedroom writing another journal entry about the dream she had, or as the doctor calls it; memory remembering.
As Nora was finishing the last of her entry Bailey came rushing into the room with Enid, and slamming the door shut. Both of them leaned against the door breathing heavily.
"What are you guys doing?"
Bailey jumped at the sound of Nora's voice. "Hiding from Ron, but I think he saw us."
Nora closed her journal, and put it in her memory box. She looked at the trinkets she's got from the runs people would get her. Finally, she put the lid on, and slide it under her bed. Nora stood up and brushed the dust off her pants.
She made her out of the door, and down the stairs. She passed the kitchen when her mother called her. Nora turned around to peak her head around the corner.
"Do you mind telling Jessie to come to dinner tonight, and make sure to add that everyone is invited. Oh, and pick up some applesauce."
Nora nodded with a smile, and turned around when a knock was heard from the hallway. Nora went to opened the door and Jessie appeared.
"Oh, hello. I was just going to look for you. Mom's in the kitchen."
Nora went out, and shut the door behind her. She made her way to the pantry to pick up what her mother asked her to pick up. Nora saw Deanna talking to Aaron, he was one of the people who recruit other people from above these walls. She thought it was quite interesting, and she wanted to go so badly.
Once she saw that Deanna left, and Aaron was standing there getting his backpack ready she casually walked up there.
Aaron looked up from his backpack, and smiled at the girl. "Hey Nora."
"Hi."
There was an awkward silence that fell upon the two of them. Nora decided to not be her shy self, and break it.
"I came to ask you if I could come with you."
Aaron looked at the her with his eyebrows. "I don't think your mother will be too fond of that."
Nora laughed a little, and shrugged her shoulders. "I'm sure she won't be, but I need to get out of here. Please, let me come."
Aaron sighed, and agreed with the young girl. Nora smiled and waited at the gate, but she scared to leave. She'll never tell anyone this, but sometimes she leaves the walls with Enid.
"Are you ready, Nora."
Nora hesitated for a moment- more like over thinking the possibilities that could happen out there, yet she nodded her head yes.
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Nora was watching the fields pass by them as they were driving down the road. Nora didn't get to come out often, nor did her parents want to.
"Do you think we'll find anyone?"
"I think I found a group a couple days back, and get this; they have a boy your age."
Nora rolled her eyes. "Just because I don't talk to many people doesn't mean I don't have friends."
"Actually–it kind of does."
"Oh haha."
There was a moment of silence, and it happens a lot between them. Bailey is the one to talk to everyone, and everything, and its kind of weird when she talks to the posters on her wall.
"How's the memory remembering?"
"It's going really well actually. But the weird thing is that I keep seeing a blonde haired girl, and brown haired girl. The both of them keep popping up in most of my dreams of remembering."
The blonde girl and brown haired girl were taking a very much younger Nora to the toy store to pick out dress up dolls. In every dream the both of them would pop up, and Nora didn't know anyone with blonde hair.
Aaron took a quick glance at the younger girl, "Maybe its telling the future. You could be a fortune teller!"
"It couldn't because I'm much younger than I am now. I haven't told my parents because they are very touchy when I bring up something I remember. Sometimes I get the feeling that they don't want me to remember."
"Don't get that feeling. I bet they care, and you should try and talk to them."
Nora didn't respond, and put her head against the window. She thought about what Aaron said, should she talk to them? She's scared that they won't tell her the honest truth about her past.
The car finally took a stop in the middle of a bunch of fields with nothing around them. The both of them got out of the car, and started to walk down the rest of the road.
"Why are we walking?"
"We don't want to scare them, so we'll come in casually. I don't think coming in a car is casual."
"Mhmm–it could be."
Nora laughed at how she could turn a serious situation to a not-so-serious situation. Nora doesn't like when there is tension, it makes her feel awkward. Bailey says, "Tension is tension, let it happen."
Like she knew what that meant, she can barely remember how to measure the diameter of a circle.
They continued to walk down the road in the silence that seemed to haunt them. Aaron took a turn to start walking in the fields that were along the woods.
Aaron saw two people sitting on a log talking. He slowed down, and stopped Nora. He told her to keep calm and act casual, so she took a deep breathe and walked with Aaron to the people.
"Hello I'm Aaron, and this Nora. We mean you no harm."
The brown haired girl looked at Nora with a shocked expression, "Nora? It's you."
