Forgotten Shores

3.

~SCREAM~

Someone cutting my thigh couldn't have been as bad as this.

I'm running. Like I did before.

But this time I'm running to danger.

I could stay behind...

After all, no one ever meant anything to me.

James?

Well I got over him.

My parents?

They're probably dead.

But it's Alice. She means everything to me at this stage. Even though she doesn't know who she is. I do.

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Both of us reach there.

The spot from where the screams made our hearts ache.

'' Ariel? " I hear a voice from behind and I turn

Alice.

"You remember...." I said.

And I start moving closer.

But then.

"Alina?" another similar voice from behind me.

I turn around and it's.....

Alice.

"Alina?" I ask James.

"The name we gave to you." he said.

"But I have a name," I said. Considering this as my first doubt and not two alice's'

"The others found Alina comfortable" he said.

I realized this isn't worth an argument and decided to focus on another problem

"Alina. I know this name of yours. She's a deception. We need to be careful." the one on the right says.

And I turn towards Alice 2.

"Ariel. Please help. I don't know what's going on. Who's that. And what's James doing?!" the first one asks.

I'm in Crisis.

'Ariel!'

One shouts.

'Alina!' the other

I don't know who's the real one, both seem to be the same.

"Who are you?" I ask randomly

"Alice" the one on the left says/

"Alex" the one on the right says.

I turn to James.

"They're....they're different but still the same" He says.

"what?" I ask

"Alex called you Alina, that means she's the one from the warehouse."

James is confusing me even more but I realize its got some meaning to it.

"Alice called you Ariel.... She has the memory."

"She's fake!" both of them tell at the same time.

I keep looking at each one and it makes me feel worse.

I can't realize a friend! What kind of a person am I?

things weren't worse enough when the next thing happened.

Both of them now have guns in their hand.

"Where did you get that from?" I ask

"It was just there... in my jacket's pocket" they say that together, again. 

"Ariel, I'll make it easier!"

She lifts the gun up, pointing at Alex

"I'll not give you the chance!" Alex shouts and lifts her gun up

Fear's given me the deadliest kiss.

a friend with memory and a friend who actually sounds real.

Just then something clicks my mind and I check my pocket

GUN

i lift it up but I don't know who is fake.

"Ariel! You know who the real Alice is. Trust yourself." James says

-BANG- -BANG-

Life's taken the worst decision. Destiny's plans did work

Alice is on the floor

Alex is too

"What just happened?" Mardon says as he now stands next to the body of Alice.

"And who is that?"

"same people?"

"Alice shot Alex, Alina shot Alice" James words pierce through my heart, tears have also betrayed me.

*CLAPS*

And I turn back to see that person

Anger gushes up faster than the adrenaline which did when I shot

and I charge at the figure

her*

"It's ok darling, Anger will kill you too"

Madam Caesy says.

"You skunk, you crooked witch! You're responsible!" i shout at her as saliva dresses her face.

"Darling, darling darling. To kill is to commit a crime, you killed, not me"

her words jolt and i shiver

i move away from her and turn away from the others as i see them come, Im not worthy of showing my face

"Repentance. It's a remarkable trait of humans, another thing to study about." She says

"For ages, humans have killed and repented. But darling you need to realize the good."

She says.

"What do you mean?" I ask as tears envelope my sight.

"You didn't know who to save, you'll never know who was the right one."

It confuses me and I can feel something, an intuition maybe. But it's a nightmare and i cant see another one within one.

"What?" I ask her again to reconfirm

"Deceptions, darling"

"Welcome to Deceptions."

Fear doesn't need to stay. There's nothing to think about now.

"What?" James asks.

"Survival can't be easy for anyone of you. Especially when you're confused about your own self. Humans are miserable. They can't find the right them. Think about all of you. You all might not be real or vice versa. But the game is to see whether you exist. "

"Call me Madame X, and yes if you meet another me then call her Madame Y. and the real one. Well I'll just say. WELCOME TO THE GAME OF DECEPTIONS."

"May the wittiest survive"

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