A Trip Inside My Head

3

I woke up to a breathtakingly stunning dawn, I was never a fan of the sun but I got carried away with the beautiful view, maybe it was that hit I got in the head- oh shit!! I'm not even on drugs or anything, I remember what happened last night I'm not hallucinating, wait am I dead and this is like a cassette my brain is playing to fool me?

Enough overthinking and let me stand up and see if I can walk, I don't think I broke any bones, I used to do it on purpose when I was younger seeing my parents playing with Rose the whole time, that stupid little spoiled brat doesn't even know what a scratch is but amidst all this mess I still hope they never get to a point where they start treating her like me.

I took my phone to check if I got a "hello Alexia, where have you been? are you okay?" text, but then I remembered my phone is as dead as my heart and I have no idea where I am, it looks so different from when I fell, it was dark at the time and all I could see around me was trees, now it looks like a village how could I walk this long!? Ugh, maybe if I start humming some of my favorite songs it will help me keep on walking until I find a car or ask someone for a phone, I don't even memorize any numbers in my head, and if I call 911 saying I'm Christopher Sanchez's daughter they won't believe me.

I walked out of what seemed like a shabby abandoned backyard, the houses nearby are already celebrating Halloween dammit they're all ramshackle colored in dark brown, I'll just go and see if there's anyone around who can help me get back to my town, after all I'd rather fight with my parents all day than starve to death in a place like this, at least if I die in my bed my cat will eat me.

Walking through the village I started to hear some whispers, I can't locate them I'm too tired but they're not far, so I just decided to yell around and see what happens, life is too short to stay stuck in this place or in my head since I'm not sure of anything at this rate.

"Hello? People of uh the dark village?" this was a bad idea from the beginning

"Is anybody here?" of course they are, playing hide and seek.

"Can someone hel-"

"That language you're speaking" a deep voice came from the little house in my left corner

"We stopped speaking it about a decade ago."

"I speak 7 languages including Arabic and Hebrew, try me" dammit I can't miss a chance to argue

"What are you talking about?" he seemed surprised

"You don't speak those too? You're accent isn't that bad though and you can clearly understand what I'm saying so; C A N  Y O U  H E L P  M E  G E T  O U T  O F  T H I S  P U R G E  V I L L A G E?" I wasn't even being sarcastic, it's so similar to that place from the movie "The Purge" and the old man was wearing something like goat skin and looking at me like he saw some weirdo alien.

Two mid-aged ladies stepped out of the same place and one of them intervened;

"The young lady is lost"

"Oh wow, finally someone who understood what I've been saying this whole time! How come I've never seen you around?!" shut the fuck up you horny bitch and get us out of here, now is not a good time to flirt around!

"I'm not sure what you mean by 'around' you seem very lost and from the way you're dressing I can't tell which clan you're from, it's the first time I see something like this"

"Something??? Have you ever heard of Versace!?" I argued again

"Some boys were out hunting and found you unconscious in the woods, they carried you here and left you to take a rest"

Another two or three people showed up from the other house until I was surrounded by dozens of zombies look-alikes who were whispering some weird language I never heard before, the old man who I assume is a Mayor or something like that invited me over to eat, I admit that I'm so stubborn but I don't have any more energy to argue on an empty stomach.

The furniture is obviously from the 60's and some of it is broken I couldn't help but ask the lady;

"Hey- was there a hurricane around here lately or any other kind of a natural disaster? I see everything broken and the houses are hardly standing..." I just fucked things up, you have every right to poison my food.

She let out a sigh before speaking;
"We had a 'misunderstanding' with the other clans before our Queen made an arrangement, it took a while to finally live in truce so we just started building our homes again"

"Your Queen? Holy shit lady, holy fucking fucked up shiiitt!!! Am I in England? It's like 10 hours by plane you've got to be freaking kidding me!!"

"This is-"

"No no no! Is this a metaphor thing where you call your superior a Queen?"

"Calm down please-" the old man walked in before she finished what she was saying

"We can't figure out where you came from, and I have no power to help you so we suggest you meet with our Queen, we already sent her a letter and the army must be on the way here, our Queen is a person who deals with everyone's problems as her own she surely will help you"

"Army? Duuude!! San Francisco is less than an hour away from here, just call the police and give them my father's name!" he might deny knowing me but I'm still his daughter after all.

"I don't understand half of the things you say, in other words we will do the necessary to help you" he said while the weird mute lady was approaching me from the back, I pushed her tryna run away but I felt three or four hands holding me I kept thrusting everyone around me until I couldn't move anymore, the old witch injected me and I think this is the end, at least I'll die fighting.