Don't Blink

Chapter five

"The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, and all we ever have is now"
-Bill Cosby

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Mayla groaned as she opened her eyes.
What happened?
She sat up slowly, confused by her surroundings.
Everywhere around her was white.
The floor was an opal-looking white, the colours pink, blue, gold and green appearing and disappearing.
The sky was white; no clouds, no roof.
Mayla has lost all sense of direction.
'Am I in heaven?' Mayla thought.
And then she looked around and noticed people walking around.
Mayla immediately stood up walking to some people.
"Hey! Could you tell me where-"
The man she was taking to turned around and they both gasped.
The man was pale.
The clothes, hair, skin everything.
Like something stucked the life out of them but stopped half-way.
And there eyes had black clouds around them.
Like makeup was rubbed all around their eye.
But was liquid-like and was moving around their eyes.
And their eye colour was a white-silver.
Mayla stumbled back in shook, bumping into someone else.
"I'm so sorry" Mayla said, standing up normally.
"It's o-" the female paused and widen her eyes, running off.
"Mummy, what's wrong with that lady?" A little girl asked, pulling on the mother's arm "She seems bright"
"Hush sweetheart and move along now" the mother said, glaring at Mayla.
Mayla looked at her hands with confusion.
'What is going on?' She though in her head.
She could fill the panic fill her body as she finally remembered what happened.

It was her 18th birthday.
Everything was going fine.
The talk with her great grandmother.
The argument with her father and the betrayal from her best friend.
Running into the office.
Having photographs taken of her.
Her blinking in one and she blacked out.
"Hey are you okay?"
Mayla turned sharply to a young man around her age.
He was around her height.
He had a dusty white-brown hair with really pale skin, silver eyes and the black surrounding his eyes.
There was something about his eyes that attracted Mayla, even though they look the same as everyone else's around here.
But his outfit made her speechless.
He was wearing a very short sleeved, dark green cloth jacket covers him to his knees and is almost completely buttoned up at the top left side. The sleeves of his jacket are wide and reach down to well above his wrists, they're decorated with several thread linings from top to bottom. The jacket has a deep v-neck which reveals part of the off-white shirt.His pants are simple and wide and reach down to his soft leather shoes.
Like he popped out of a story book.
Which confused Mayla even more.
"What-"
"Calm down, everything will be okay" he mustered, his black loop lip piercing moving as he spoke "Take a deep breath"
Mayla took a deep breath.
"Now, who are you and how did you get here?" He asked.
"I...I don't know" Mayla whispered "Am I dead? I have to be dead!"
The guy chuckled.
"You're not dead...yet" he said, and the grabbed Mayla's arm "Come, follow me"
"Wait, what do you mean not dead yet?" Mayla yelled as he pulled her away at lighting speed.

Mayla felt like she was flying gracefully.
She laughed and smiled,making Lucas chuckle.
Mayla looked around and noticed people are still staring at her with wonder and confusion.
Some even with fear,
She tired to ignore the stares by the people and then got distracted when she looked at her arm and was marvelled at what the difference between the colours of their skin.
Mayla's skin was her rich natural caramel and his was a white-like look.
"Hurry up" he said, "We need to go and meet with mistress"
"Mistress?" Mayla asked, "Wait, hold on!"
"No, we need to-"
Mayla ripped her arm out of his and crossed her arms as he stopped and turned to her with an annoyed face.
"I want answers" Mayla said "Like how did I get here? Why am I here? How can I get home? Home- oh god, they think I'm dead and the last thing I told them is I hoped they died, oh god!"
"Calm down" the guy said "All of your answers will be revealed when we get to the safe house"
He grabbed her arm again and tried to pull her but she stayed put.
"At lest tell me your name and where I am" Mayla pleaded.
The guy noticed her distress and confused state and sighed.
"My name is Lucas and you're in Reflectron realm" he said "Now we really need to get going"
Mayla sighed.
"Fine, but you have to at lest stop somewhere and tell me why I look different to everyone!" Mayla said "Before we get to to the 'mistress' at the 'safe house'"
Lucas sighed.
"Okay, we will stop in an hour to talk okay?" He said "I swear on my relfecta"
A fog swirled around Lucas for a second before disappearing.
"What was that?" Mayla asked "And what is a reflectron"
"Relfecta" Lucas automatically said "A Relfecta...is kinda like what you call a soul"
"So you just swore on your soul?" Mayla asked "And what happens if you break it?"
"I don't know" Lucas admits "The books state that you will be erased from the realm of a million colours as well as this one"
"The realm of a million colours ?" Mayla asked.
"The realm with millions of colours...the realm I assume you're from" Lucas said, looking Mayla up and down "Come on, we're wasting time here already"
Lucas grabbed Mayla arm again and pulled her away.
She's never going to get used to this.

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"Okay, we're stopping" Lucas announced as he slowed down.
He stopped in what looked like a forest but everything was different to Mayla.
The tree trunks were a glittery black and the tree's leaves were a golden colour.
The grass surrounding them is a sapphire colour.
The river that they stopped next to had water that was a shimmery emerald green, see through like the water Mayla was used to but had a darker green look to it. The stones in the water is a opal colour and the occasional fish was a purple colour.
Mayla was speechless.
Lucas chuckled.
"Like it?" He asked.
"Like it? I LOVE it! This is amazing...this is...not what I'm used to" Mayla whispered, sitting on the grass "Everything's the same"
Lucas sat down next to her.
"What...what's different?" Lucas asked.
"You really don't know?" Mayla asked "The tree trucks are brown and the leaves are green, the grass is also green and the water is a blue-clear colour and the fish are normally silver"
"Really?" Lucas asked, "Wow, I can't imagine what thats like"
Mayla looked at him.
"So...what did you want to know?" Mayla asked, catching him off guard.
"Quietie?" He asked, making Mayla look at him with confusion.
"What did you just say?" Mayla asked.
"Quietie? Its what we say if we miss something...kinda like you 'soony' uh 'Sorrnt' uh-"
"Oh sorry!" Mayla exclaimed, making Lucas nod "Sorry,the word caught me off guard, thats all"
He nodded.
"So..." Mayla asked.
"I mean, you're the one in a strange world, you can ask first" Lucas said.
Mayla sighed.
"I just...I have no idea how I got here...one second someone was taking a photo of me and the next second I woke up here" Mayla explained "And way more colourful than everyone else...why is that?"
"Well from what I know all of us in this realm have a picture or photograph that we're based off of from your realm" Lucas explained "Like I'm from a picture of my look-like is smiling in a picture in what looked like a house with someone else I don't know..."
"Do you have to go back to that photo?" Mayla asked.
"No,I don't think so...unless you're really sick then you go there...it's kinda like your wila-force which you can only go back to unless you're dying" Lucas said.
"Wila-force? Is that like a life force?" Mayla asked.
Lucas nodded.
"So our appearance is based off of the picture...but I don't know what colours he has or anything like that" Lucas said "And why you look like a different colour...I have no idea, maybe its because you're apart of the realm of a million  a colours so-"
Lucas noticed Mayla fell asleep on his lap without him noticing,he smiled and played with her hair as he watched the water flow.

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Mayla groaned as she woke up and noticed she was in a different place...again.
"What? How did I get here?" Mayla asked, looking around a Victorian style home.
Lucas looked down.
"I...carried you" he said, making them both blush.
They both looked at each other and gasped.
Mayla's blush is a pink-red.
Lucas' blue is a blue-green.
"Wow, you're blush is so weird" they said at the same time, making them blush even harder.
"I told you Lucas that they blush that colour" a female voice said from the top of the stairs.
"I couldn't believe you, it seemed unreal mistress" Lucas said and bowed.
"I told you many times not to call me that but by my name" the female said, walking down the stairs.
Mayla was looking at Lucas, still fascinated by the colour of his bush.
"You have saved me more times that I can count, you've earnt that name" Lucas said.
Mayla looked to the side and gasped with shock as she realised who the person was.
Mayla widen her eyes.
Tied up faded Black hair.
Fair skin.
Around Mayla's height
She knew who this person is.
"Mum?!??!?" Mayla exclaimed.