chapter one: who are you?

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     “Who are you?” I asked.
       “Dalal,” she answered.
       “Dalal, who?”
        “Dalal Yumi,” she sat at a table with two chairs, “And you are?”
     I came over to her and stared at her for a moment before sitting.
       “My name? My name is Ayane, Ayane Payne.” I took an item out of my bag.
      “What type of name is Ayane?”
      “Mine!” I was slightly offended.
       I tried hiding the item behind my back, but Dalal seemed to take notice.
      “What do you have?” Dalal questioned.
       “Candy...” I squeaked as I pulled the lollipop out.
       “Can I have some?” Taking some before I could respond.
      “No, it's mine,” I said taking the candy away from Dalal.
       “Geez, you're so mean,” Dalal said.
      “But—but, they're mine.” I grasped my hand towards candy.
       “Well can you at least share some with me?” Dalal asked.
       “Fine.” I pouted.
      “Thank you,” Dalal said happily.
     “Now, why am I here? I don't even know you.” I asked uneager to pull out the rest of my candy.
      “You're the one who first asked who I was, and I don't even know
why you're here either,” Dalal said munching on the candy.
      “If you don't remember what you're doing here, or why you're here, then think harder,” Dalal said as she stood up to throw the candy wrapper away in the trash.
  She then headed out a door but stopped to see that it was raining like cats and dogs outside the window.
      “I guess I'll have to wait for my big brother here,” Dalal said.
     “Where is here?” I swallowed my fears, but they came up again.
     “I dd-don't know.” Dalal stuttered as she realized the truth.
      “There's one door, and it leads into a raining abyss,” I muttered.
      “Well, we haven't explored yet.” Dalal searched for hope.
      “What do you mean?!? We are stuck in a small room with a table,
two chairs, and two beds. There is nothing here for us!” I screeched.
     “We just need to stay calm,” Dalal said trying to calm down but deep down she's obviously panicking.
    “How can you expect me to stay calm!?” I shouted loudly still panicking.
     “Look I'm panicking too. I forgot we were in a place where we don't know how we  ended up here!” Dalal said.
      “But my big brother Chris always say…….wait……….what happened
again? How did  I get separated from my brother again?” Dalal asked
herself.
     “What? Do you remember  something?” I asked.
    “Ahhhhh, I must've slipped and fell in a hole and hit my head before I lost my brother. What do I do?” Dalal said using both her hands and scratching it on her head roughly trying to remember more.
      “Wait…….if you fell in a hole then how, no wait, who brought you
in this place.  Not just you, but for me too.” I said.
    “Well, whoever it is we’ll know about shortly,” Dalal said pointing out the window where there was a dark figure walking closer to her and Ayane.  Dalal and I backed away from the door. I quickly grabbed something hard out of her bag ready to fight back. Dalal grabbed a chair and placed it in front of the door to make sure the door was stuck since the door didn't have a lock.
      “You ready?” I said.
     “Yeah,” Dalal said, she nodded her head at me then looked back at the door.
      “But what if it's not a bad guy?” Dalal asked.
     “Well, we’ll just have to see them ourselves,” I said.
We waited until they heard the doorknob turn. We took their stand and heard the door being roughly banged against. After a few hits on the door the door broke open and we started running at them, and hitting the figure, then he stood back up.  We took a couple of steps back just in case. Dalal's eyes widen and notice it was her brother, Chris.
      “What! Chris!? W-w-we thought you were a monster or something!”
Dalal yelled out to him surprised.
     “Wait… what!?” I shouted.
     “I so sorry, I'm truly sorry,” Dalal said apologizing.
      “It's fine, don't worry about it but it did hurt though. Just what was that? I was hit with something really hard like a ball.” He said rubbing his head.
      “Oh, you mean this,” I said showing Dalal’s brother the big lollipop that was about the shape of a ball.
     “What!? How do you even have that!?” Both Chris and Dalal said
shocked, more likely surprised.
      “Anyways big brother, why are we here? Why or how did you find us?” Dalal asked.
      “Well it started raining and I found you in a hole knocked out so I grabbed you out of the hole. I tried to look for cover so I found this place. I went out again to find help, but I ran into someone. I grabbed them and took them back to the shelter and luckily there were two beds. Then I went back out in the rain to call out  for help again.” He said explaining everything to Dalal.
      “WAIT A SECOND, WHY ME?!? Why'd you take me?” I screamed.
    “Uhh, no reason.” He mumbled.  I noticed something weird with his chin.
      “Are you okay? Your skin is coming off!” I stood there questioning what was going on here.  Is he even him? That's crazy talk, but… he doesn't seem normal. Has Dalal noticed?  I watched him patch it up like it was a sticker. I looked at Dalal and she had the same shocked look. Her dark raven black hair just falling over her face without a notice from her. We looked back at him.
“What's up, sis?” He asked…

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