THE ESCAPE

The Newspaper Boy

               Every day since I’ve lived with She the newsboy Z, has come by with more news. I always ask why he came by every day and I was told that Z brings news. Every day I come in the garden admiring the beauty Morning Sun on the dew of the flowers. Z would come by and say hello to me before he would drop She off some newspaper. My speaking was getting better so I could start a conversation with him but I was too scared and thought he was laugh at me for speaking so slow.
One day he handed me the newspaper and said “promise me you well read this paper” he spoke just like She did so I can understand. She must have told him that I'm still trying to get my speaking down.
I looked at him and smiled saying “I promise.”
He smiled back then turned around and got on his new motorbike I knew that it was new because it had that new glossy white color and he was always walking. After Z drove away I looked down at the paper full news and in article caught my eye it said “crime committed on August 10, 8235/  08447 witnesses said that there were three abductees and the police only contained two.” the article what on in more depth but it was too hard for me to read.
I went inside and asked She what August 10th, 8235- 08447 meant and She told me that August was the eighth month of the year and 08447 was the second the incident happened, 8235 was the year and 10 was the day. I didn't quite understand what She was saying, but I said okay and walked back to the garden to finish reading it. the day went on as usual and I learned new words and started talking faster.
The only thing different was my dream unlike my most recent dreams where meadows and streams ran everywhere this dream was dark and scary. The bright flaShes of light were faster than before and I heard voices and I tried to say hello but no one could hear me. Right as I seen someone who looked like me, I was getting shaken again and I wouldn't wake up. My dream just kept playing over and over as I was hearing She scream my name.
Finally when I woke up She was asleep by my bed and it was still dark but I couldn't go back to sleep. I got up and went into the kitchen and got a liquid I was given before. I turn back around to go back to my room and She was there.
“You had another bad dream” She said with a smile.
“I really wish I would've woken up” I said “it was scarier and I heard voices this time. I will so scared”
“I know,” She exclaimed, “you started shaking like crazy.” After She told me what I did in my sleep, I didn't want to go back to sleep.
“Well why don't you go back to sleep?” She asked.
“I'll go to sleep later” I told her.
After She went to sleep I couldn't even make my way back to my room. I felt that if I entered my room that horrid dream will come back to me. It felt like only minutes had passed before the Sun was rising and She was coming back to the kitchen.
“Hello Bea. You sure are up really early. How did you sleep” She asked
“I slept okay” I lied “no bad dreams” of course I had to lie. If I told her the truth She would get mad at me.
As I ate this weird tasting substance as She walked around the kitchen making a noise from her person. I couldn't tell what the noise was coming from and She didn't open the hole in her face.
She turned around and giggled when she seen the dazed look on my face “it's called humming”
“She, why is it called humming?” I asked.
“The noise happens from when your vocal chords vibrate” She told me.
After breakfast or morning meal as they now called it I went outside to sit in the garden like I usually do, but something was different Z was sitting on his motorbike waiting for me.
He looked at me and smiled, then handed me a helmet. “Take this it protects your head in case we take a shot.”
“Take a shot?” I asked
“Yeah. If we fall you won't get hurt so bad on your head.”
At first i couldn't get my helmet on until Z helped me. Once we got on the motorbike, I grabbed him around his stomach. I had no idea of where this knowledge of knowing what to do was coming from, but I didn’t care. I was so tired, so i layed my head on his back and closed my eyes. Before I knew it we were at a field full of daffodils. I got off the motorbike to take in the view.
“I've seen you staring at these in the garden all the time and this is where She puts all of her extra daffodil seeds. She told me all that happened. I hope that i can help you get your memory back. ” Z said as he smiled at me.
I looked out into the distance and seen all of the beautiful flowers turning their leaves towards the sun, in hopes of getting more sunlight. I turned around and ran to hug Z. Then like a freight train all of my memories came crashing into me.why now i thought. I wanted them to stop coming but they wouldn’t. Z hugged back with force. I stepped back from his arms reach and started crying. At first he was smiling, but when he seen me crying, his smile faded.
“What's wrong Bea?” he asked and began to hesitantly pat my back.
I couldn't get any words out when i looked at him. I need to get out of here i thought, so i ran. I ran to the house where She was. I burst through the door and ran to my room. Many times that day She and Z knocked on my door and tried to talk to me. How could I tell them that I was the other abductee and that I destroyed someone's chance at living. I couldn't tell them that they would hate me, then kick me out so I could get killed myself.
I remembered seeing in the newspaper article that those who killed the man got killed also. More tears came out of my eyes as the memory of the night came to me. The other abductees were my brother's. I grabbed my comfort object that she gave me and cried into it. It wasn't long before I was asleep. In my dream I seen my brother's and I walking. I had no idea where we were going but we were walking. Some guy guy kept coming up to us and tried to take me with him. The guy began to punch my brother's, and every time he did he got closer to me. I looked around and seen some locals come out to see what was going on. I loomed back at my brother's and seen jack push the man on the floor.
The man hit the back of his head on the curb, instantly killing him. Jack picked me up and started running. We made it to the forest and mark told jack to put me down and lead the cops away from me. He went to put me down, but tripped and dropped me. I hit my head on a rock and everything went black.
I started crying, why am i alive and they are dead. They don't deserve to be dead. The pain was no longer bearable so i screamed. I screamed for my brother's and screamed for the release. She and Z came running into my room to see me crying. She didn't know what to do so she sat there hugging me.