Starting Over

Lost? part 1

  I wake up cold and confused, when I open my eyes all I can see is a blur of colors and lights. Where am I? How did I get here? I think to myself as I rub my arms trying to warm up. I look up to see stars lighting up the dark black sky I can't tell if it's night or early morning yet. I start to get my vision back but when I do, I hear someone's footsteps coming closer and closer, getting louder and louder. What do I do? Run? Stay? Hide? I look around to see where I am, I don't recognize anything, I see an open spot to run, should I go for it? I hear the footsteps getting louder and louder, until they stop, I can't hear anything but a bunch of cars, driving, honking, people yelling, talking, I look up to see that I'm in a city, But how? What city am I in? Where in this strange city am I? A hand touches my shoulder as I am frantically trying to find where I am, I don't look back I just bolt.
  I think I'm far enough, I sit down in a big field of grass with little trees, out of breath, breathing hard, still worried about the person that touched my shoulder. I see a bench not too far from where I sit, I look around, no one in site, I get up, walk over to the bench and sit down.
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  I wake up to someone touching me, trying to wake me up I think. I jump up without thinking or even seeing who it is, "hey it's okay, sit down I'm a police officer, there's no need to be scared" the man tells me.
  I see that it's now morning and the sun is barely coming up, I do as the man says and sit down on the bench I accidentally fell asleep on last night.
  "I'm going to ask you a couple of questions, but I need your help and answer them ok?" The cop asks me, but I don't say anything to him, all I do is nod.
"What's your name?" He asks me. "Carter, what's your's?" I ask him after answering his question.
He takes out a notepad and starts writing something down.
"What are you writing?" I ask worried because I don't know if I can trust him, yes he might be a police officer but I still don't know him.
"Your name" he looks at me with a strange look on his face.
"How old are you?" He asks. "Umm, I think I'm 15" I say confused. "You think?" "Ya I can't really remember much" I tell him
"Okay, where do you live?" He asks me another question I can't answer. "I don't know" I tell him, even though he should've understood when I said 'I can't remember much'.
"Do you know where you are?" He asks with hope in his eyes. "No, where am I?" I ask.
"You're in New York." He tells me. I look around rapidly trying to see if I can recognize anything but, I can't, Why not? Why am I here?
  I look back at the cop "You never told me your name" I tell him with a smile in my eyes but not on my face. "Oh sorry, It's Mike" he tells me with a small smile on his face. "You need to come with me" "Where?" I ask him with wide eyes and confusion. "We need to go to the station where I work, is that ok" He asks me as if I have a choice but I know I don't. "Why?" "So maybe we can find out more about you, or where your from" He tells me with the 'I know you're not telling me everything' tone. "Can I sit in the front?" I ask. "Yes you can" he replies with a smile, he seems nice, but can I trust him?
  We drive for what I think is about 5 minutes, the entire time I'm staring out the window looking around at everything we pass by trying to remember, anything, everything, until Mike gets a phone call, the contact name is Jace.
Mike answers the phone "Are you still coming to my performance, I'm on in 10?" Jace asks Mike in a harsh tone. "Ya I'll be there" "hurry, bye" Jace says quickly. "lo-" Mike was cut off when the other end of the phone hung up.
"Sorry that was my son" Mike apologizes. "It's okay, what's going on?" I ask. "My son Jace is in the talent show tonight at his school, but the big deal is that there's going to be sponsors there watching" Mike tells me excitedly. "What's he play?" I ask. "Piano." "What kind of sponsors?" I ask curiously. "All different kinds, collage, music programs, music camps," He says with hope. "Cool" I say as the last word before we pull into the police station parking lot. "Let's go" Mike tells me, I get out of the car and follow Mike into the station, and to his desk.
"How are we going to find anything out here?" I ask. "I can hopefully find where you live or where you're from with my computer" He explains to me. "Can't you just do that on a normal computer?" I ask. "No, because normal computers don't have the police files" He tells as if I'm in the system. "What about you sons performance?" I tell him because I think he forgot. "Oh shit!" He yells and everyone else in the station looks up at him. "Do you want to go?" "Umm, but I don't even know your son" I tell him. "Oh well, let's go" he says rushing out the door to the car and we leave the station.
We find a seat Behind to these two women and two kids, the kids look alike for being a girl and a boy.
"Hey Athena" Mike says to one of the women sitting in front of us. She's really pretty, she has blond hair, I think I saw blue eyes, and she's wearing a really pretty red dress. "Where have you been?" she yells with a whisper at Mike. "Sorry I had things to do, at the station" Mike tells her. "Who is this?" She asks looking at me, then at Mike. "This is Carder" Mike introduces me, but all I do is wave. Mike leans down closer to her "I tell you about it later" he whispers in her ear, I'm guessing he didn't want me to hear that.
The curtains on the stage are drawn, and everyone stands up and starts clapping. I think this is Mike's son because when he called Mike he said he was on in ten, but we took longer than ten minutes to get here.
Once we all sit down he begins to play his song, its beautiful, he really is a good pianist. I start looking around it really is a beautiful school he goes to, well the parts I've seen, I wish I could go here, but I know I can't, I don't even know where I live or who my parents are.
I go back to focus on the performance when everyone is standing and clapping. I do as everyone else, once we sit back down some person comes on the stage. "That was our last performer of the night, please exit out the two side doors, or if you child was a performer then you can walk around to back stage, Drive safe and have a good night" he says then we all stand up and start clapping again.
"Come on Carder, lets go congratulate Jace" Mike says while standing making an arm motion for me, "just follow Athena"
We all start walking towards the stage, even the two kids that were sitting by Athena, and the other women, who is the other women? And the two kids?
Athena goes up to Jace and gives him a big hug, "you did great up there" She tells him. Once she lets go of him he goes straight over to Mike, "Hey your mom's right you did great" He tells Jace. "Thanks, guys I was really nervous" Jace says with a huge smile on his face. Mike walks over to Athena "hey can we talk?" he asks her in a whisper voice. "Yeah, let's go outside" she whispers back.
I'm not very far away from them but from what I can tell they are not very good at whispering.
"Hey, I'm going outside, but I'll be back in just a minute just stay here with the other kids and talk a little, ok." Mike says to me then walks out with Athena.
I walk over back to the spot where we were sitting, and I sit back down, I look up and lay my head back on the red comfy chair I am sitting in.
"Hey, I'm Mia, what's your name" The girl that was with Athena asks as she sits next to me. I don't answer her right away, I look over at her she has blond hair, brown eyes, and a blue flower belly shirt on with blue capris to match.
"Hi I'm Carder" I say still looking at her "I like your outfit. "Thanks, I just threw it together this morning" she says looking at my outfit "I like your shorts"
I'm not actually wearing much, all I have on is a black cami and jean shorts with blue and purple gemstones by the pockets.
"Thanks" I say as I rub my jeans. "Are you new, I've never seen you around school?" Mia asks "Um, not that I know of" I tell her. "What do you mean?" She asks me confused. "I mean I don't know if I'm new or if I'm even going to go to your school" I tell her as I look down embarrassed.
She is really confused I can tell, but so am I, I barely know where I am, let alone who I'm with, I don't know how I got here, or where I'm going to sleep tonight, or if Mike will keep trying to help me or stop, am I lost? And if I am can I be found? Who are my parents? Where am I from? How did I get here? I think about all this so fast, All I remember is Mia shouting 'help', as I hit my head on the chair in front of me, and then the floor.

AUTHORS NOTE

This chapter is pretty long sorry, and in the future my chapters might not be this long FYI. And heads up I'm really bad at updating but I will try my best to update as much as possible, and school will be starting for me in a few weeks so updating will probably be slow sorry. I have the second chapter already written so you wont have to wait. PLEASE stick with me.