Newborn

Ch.4

Warning: Dubious Consent

Ch.4

Why am I in the hallway? I thought. I guess I'll go back to bed with Teddy. But when I open the door, bright sunlight pours through the windows. When my eyes adjust I realize I'm back at when I was watching Teddy play with the others. But I see myself. Am I dreaming? I walk in and see the complete joy on my face. Wait a minute. If I'm seeing this.. Then..

"How do you like our home?"

I turn around and Edward was standing in the doorway again. It's the exact same thing as before. He comes over and we talk about his dead friend. It's the exact same until he begins to touch my face.

"Same nose. Same cheekbones. Same hair color. Same ears. Same hands. Very similar build. Same...mouth. Eyes..."

Seeing it as an observer, I notice the fear in my face and longing in his. I'm not sure if I'm scarred of the longing or just him. He leans closer and breathes, closing his eyes as before. But it seems longer and longer before he speaks about how that friend and I are nothing alike.

It gets so long that the other me closes my eyes and sighs. He opened them and the finger that was on my lips leaves and I opened my eyes in confusion. He put his hands on both sides on my face and shakes his head in a confused fashion. The other self stares at him like he does me before time freezes. It freezes as my hand comes up to his right wrist.

Only second before it unfreezes before I realize what he is about to do. Time unfreezes an he kisses my other self. I just let him, confused and actually worried.

"What did you just do?" I asked him.

Yeah, I think, you have a girlfriend.

"You have a girlfriend."

"I-I know."

"Then why-"

"I-I don't know."

After a fearful and shocking silence I watch him shake his head and he stands to leave my other self. But my other self still has hold of his wrist.

"Don't just run away like that. Come here."

"Ok." He said shakily before rejoining me.

"Do you know why you just kissed me?"

He keeps shaking his foot and trying to find a way out of it.

"I love you!" He finally blurts out.

I stand appalled and my other self looks ready to punch him. But then I grab him and kiss him again.

No! What are you doing Harry you stupid git!! My mind screams. I see myself shakily crunching my fingers through his hair. His arms wrapped around me and I see us press our bodies together. The other selves skin turns red. Although I am horrified.

As we fall backward, as I hear one of us laughing, the scene changes to a long row of hospital beds. I walk to the end of the row to find a man very similar to myself, laying in the bed. His eyes are closed and he is breathing very shallow. His eyes leak tears. His skin is pale minus his his red forehead, nose, and cheeks. He is gaunt and skinny. His arms are bones covered in skin as well as his legs and feet. Blood specks are visible on his parted mouth. He is sweating and his matted black hair is sticking to his forehead.

I hear quick footsteps behind me and I turn around to see a fearful and red eyed Edward. He wears a hospital robe like the man. His shirt at the neck is stained in dried blood. He leans at the mans side. The eyes of the man open to reveal emerald green irises. They are bloodshot and veins have popped in them. They turn to him. Weakly the man smiles.