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"Is she awake?"
Their intrigued voices lingered in the silence of the room. I lay there, my senses still numb apart from my hearing.
"She's been practically unconscious for 13 years, Andrew, what makes you think it will take her 5 minutes to rise?" said a sterner voice. I heard footsteps back away, and more come closer.
"Pass the awakening drug," it continued, "On the left."
Of course, I couldn't feel it touch me. I couldn't taste. But as it reached my brain, an icy, unpleasent shot sparked up my body. I fell into an uncomfortable oblivion and could hear no more.
I'd been in this state all 13 years of my lonley life, since birth. I was locked away, forced into a lurid cell for the rest of my life, all senses taken away from me but my hearing. Everyday was torture; not being able to feel, smell, say, or taste anything for more than a decade. I had never seen what I looked like, never seen the world. My life was not important, and painful. I would pray that they would let me out of here. They never did. Until today.
A stern woman visited one day, demanding to see me. This didn't lighten my spirit's - I was literally a zoo exhibit for scientists, they visited all the time. She didn't say anything for a long time, I heard her steady breathing creep around me as she stepped rhythmically around me.
"Let her go." she said bluntly, "She hasn't done anything wrong. It was her father."
Silence filled the room, I held my breath. Nobody had ever, ever mentioned the reason I was trapped here. My father? My dad? What could he have possibly done?
Whether the liked it or not, the woman forced me out. And, today, they were trying to wake me up.
"She's concious again," a young man's voice announced, close to my face, "Can she see us yet?"
No, I thought to myself.
"Wait," the woman spoke softly, "Wait - and we'll turn her lights on."
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The Day They Turned The Lights On
Teen FictionImagine a world where you lived your life in the dark, not being able to see a thing, feel a thing, smell a thing, taste a thing. All you had were your sense of hearing, until your 13th birthday, when they let you out of your cell, and let you see t...
