Forgotten

FORGOTTEN

Dad has been acting weird recently he has been staring at Kristina and I like we are crazy. He picks at his food and has these weird conversations. I asked him if he was alright one day and he shrieked in horror as if he had never seen a human talk before him. An hour later Kristina tried but all he did was grumble "go away you loathesome impostors" we were confused but we ended up agreeing that he was having a bad week.

2 weeks later I sat down at the couch watching TV on a very low sound when I heard it, a gun shot. I jump up with fright and I go to check on my family. I run to my sisters room she too had jostled awake with fright. 'Let's go check on Dad' I say 'mmmm.. That would be good C'mon Leena let's go upstairs' she says. We walk up the stairs holding hands 'Dad...' I say unsteadily. I hear a muffled scream by that time I had broken free of my sisters grasp and I had ran up the stairs, I pushed the door open and saw my father holding a gun up to his victim he had a deadly gaze in his eyes.

'Help... Me' the girl pleaded I ran to her aid, I got to the material holding her hands together when I felt searing pain in my leg. I cried in agony but I had to help this girl. I got her hands free and she started removing her other bounds, Dad had raised the gun again but he didn't have it on the girl, he had it on me. My leg still caning in pain I stand up on one leg and I can still see the barrel of the gun pointing at me. 'Run!' I yelled at my sister and the helpless girl. 'But-' 'Go!' I scream louder this time, urging them to get out of here. With tears in her eyes my sister ran dragging the girl behind her. 'C'mon Dad... Just put the gun down' I say with pleading urgency 'Your not my daughter!' He yelled I could still hear my sister crying in the hall. 'Yes I am-' I was cut short when I felt a searing pain through my stomach I look down and see a bullet with blood leaking down the sides. I clasp my stomach and fall to the ground in pain then everything went black.

I woke up and saw a white roof and my sisters worried face next to me 'Kristina..' I mumble 'Leena your awake!' She says joyfully hugging me carefully, I look at my stomach and see stitches from that painful memory. 'What was wrong with Dad?' I ask 'he was diagnosed with Capgras Syndrome, it's where you believe your family has been replaced by imposters' she says with a sigh. 'Oh' was the only thing I could say.

A week later I returned home with Kristina, luckily Kristina was old enough to look after me. The house was exactly how we left it with the TV blaring and the blood on the stairs. Dad has been taken to jail for attempted murder, I lift up my shirt and look at my stitches so every time I look at the scar it brings memories of the painful sight.

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