Slaves of Yesterday

The Awakening

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     My eyes snapped open and the thoughts came pouring in. Except there were only a few...Thoughts, I mean. I realized then that I was floating in an odd liquid substance. Yet, I was breathing. Inhaling slowly, exhaling slower. Slower...and slower...
     I snapped back into reality. Everything just seemed okay right now. Everything seemed peaceful. Everything isn't always as it seems.
     My brain forced my sleepy head to turn and look slowly to the right. A girl in a hospital gown. It looked like she was banging on a hatch above her. She had a violent look in her stony silver eyes.
     To the left now, ever so slowly...ever so quietly...Two girls. Sleeping peacefully...Or was it one girl? Am I delusional? Insane, even? Or, were these two girls twins? Perhaps. I couldn't see either of the girls eyes, but they each had long brown hair.
     There was no one else here, but...Is that what my brain says? Or is what my eyes tell me the truth? A shadow. Walking. A shape outlined in florescent lights. A girl? A boy?
     Am I male or female? Actually, who am I to begin with? My name...I don't know. I was starting to get the feeling that the grey eyed girl had a good idea with banging on the roof.
     Then suddenly my senses were overloaded. Light, my eyes burned. Hands grasping my arms, they hurt horribly. The scent of medicine, my nose started running. Thick and salty tears dripped into the corners of my mouth and down my chin. Down to make spots that dotted my hospital gown. Do men wear hospital gowns?
     Voices, my ears throbbed. Thump..."-us to do it now?"...Thump..."-perform the operation on th-"...Thump..."-risks are worth it, Sa-"...Thump...Thump...Thump...
     Then, something was inserted into my bicep and everything became blurry. The voices and pounding faded. The scents disappeared. Everything disappeared.
     In a way, I wanted to be back in the water. In another way, I wanted to be free. It turns out that I'd be getting both my wishes.