The Phantom Arising(Watty's 2018)

Chapter Six

I sat up and looked out my open window. The sun was just coming up in the distance. I had always gotten up when the sun came up and fallen asleep when the sun went down, even as a baby. My parents had taken me to a doctor when I was younger, but they hadn't been able to figure out the cause for my odd sleeping patterns.

However, when the doctors had been looking at scans of my brain, they had found a growth. They had studied and examined it, but had determined that us was not cancerous. Which was super weird. No documented brain growths has even been identified as not cancerous. The doctors decided not to remove the growth, but I had to visit a brain specialist every other week to make sure it didn't develop to be cancerous.

I climbed out of bed and walked over to my closet. It was a little chilly this morning but was supposed to warm up a lot this afternoon. I grabbed a blue semi casual blue jean blue shirt and a black, leather overcoat, and black jeans.

I walked down the stairs, grabbed my tennis shoes. I sat down at the table to put them on and grabbed an apple for breakfast. Sighing, I pulled out my phone to see what was going on with the world. Pretty much just the Mars landing.

The next time I glanced up at the clock, I was late for the bus. I grabbed by backpack from by the door and hurried down the driveway and across the street, just in time.

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When I got to school, I dropped my stuff at my locker and went to check in with my homeroom teacher. Mr. Curry dismissed me and I headed to the conference room next to the library.

I walked into the conference room and realized I was last one there. Oh well. I jogged to the front of the room and started my speech. I was trying to get the student council to vote in favor of getting rid of sexist dress code rules. We had plenty of them.

After several minutes of discussion with the members of student council, it became apparent that my idea would pass, which was great, but only barely, which was extremely frustrating.

As I tried to convince some of the other members to agree, I began to shiver violently and feel my headache with repressed memories.

I collapsed to the floor, morning and shivering. Everyone rushed toward me to make sure I was okay; someone yelling about the school nurse, but I was too absorbed in my head to properly hear what they were saying.

Images of running, afraid, through the woods at night. Sitting around a table with two adults, laughing. And many, many others.

I was so focused on the images in my head that I didn't notice the school nurse come in, or someone taking my phone and stepping outside of the room to call my parents, or even my parents showing up.

I was so extremely absorbed that the next thing I knew, I was in the hospital, severely drugged and glad the splitting headache was gone. I saw one last image, a strange insignia burn into my brain before my eyes slipped closed.

A/N This is the last character to be introduced in our story, his name is Amory. Stay tuned for more chapters!!