The world in Me

Chapter One

I remember the horror, no one is supposed to be able to remember what happened so long ago but I do. It all started the day I was born, I was in a small dark room with my parents on either side of me. Dr Hanophy was looking confused. He didn't quite know what to do. Usually with cases with the brain the doctors tried as hard a a they could to prove that the person was mentally disabled so they didn't have to do as much work but in my case it was different. It wasn't that I was mentally challenge it just that my brain was not functioning at all. My heart was working and everything was working well except my brain. I remember the doctors screaming my name to see if I was in there but I couldn't do anything! That's all I remember about that because after that they put me to sleep but my adoption parents told me that at this point Dr. Hanophy cut open my head and injected a large device called 'e-mind' into my head. This device was the only thing that kept me alive all these years. This device had never been tested so the doctors were unaware of what would happen. Dr. Hanophy wasn't even supposed to put it in my head but he did anyway. It was a project that Dr Hanophy had been working on and had only tested it on rats. To this day, that kind of scares me, just knowing that at any moment this thing could break. E-mind has some minor side effects such as: seeing the future, feeling no pain, never forgetting anything and living for thousands of years. At the moment I am a thousand years old but only look and act 18. This device sounds pretty cool at the moment but that is what ruined my very life. That's right, I can see the FUTURE! and this is my story.

I am no longer the person I used to be. I am suffering a series of depression because of this but that's not all. This whole problem began a couple years ago...

I was like any other teenage girl. I had heaps of friends at West High. West high was a public school where everyone was judged and most the girls had boyfriends accept my friends and I. People did drugs and partied till late but i wasn't into that. I was seen as a bad girl at school but to be honest I wasn't some tough girl, I was just confused. I couldn't go to a better school because my family couldn't afford it. I would just pass the time day after day and would sit on the grassy fields and talk to them about my major crush on a guy called Ace. He was about six foot tall and was so muscly. His sharp blue eyes popped when he opened them. Ace had many piercings, he had two on his bottom lip, one on his right eyebrow and one on his earlobe. He has large black spirally patterns tattooed on his right arm but not the left. The best thing is his hair falls perfectly and leans against his face. He is perfect. He's my bæ. I would sit and text Ace every night but in reality... he barely ever replied.

I texted him one night saying how I had a massive headache and wouldn't be going to school the next day. He, for once did reply with a simple text saying, " I'll miss you Cecilia." At this point I started to think to myself that something was wrong. I could see the future but I didn't see that coming at all. He was supposed to say, " whatever." This started to worry me. All I could think of was if e-mind was broken because my parents told me it might happen. I hope it is just a malfunction because if e-mind is broken I could die. This is a life or death situation. I was about to pick up my phone off the small black bedside table in my room to text Ace but I hesitated. He doesn't know about the device, he doesn't know I can see the future. If I tell him he may think I am weird and I might not ever get a chance with him also my adoption parents told me not to tell anyone. I, for some reason didn't put the phone back down and couldn't stop myself I just had to text my friend Emma and before I knew it it was too late I had already hit the send button.Only Dr. Hanophy, my biological parents and my adoption parents know. Now my friend Emma knows and she is such a big mouth. The text read,

"Hey Emms,

I need some help. I have a thing in my head that keeps me alive & lets me see the future. It might be broken. I COULD DIE!!!

It was too late. She took a screenshot of the conversation and posted it ALL over Facebook! All I could do was hope that no one believes that rubbish. I decided to try and keep my mind off it so I lay my head on my cold pillow and lay back onto my bed. I couldn't sleep. I tossed and turned most the night and still couldn't sleep. I decided to lay there and stare at the ceiling until morning came. I gave up on staring at the ceiling so I went to look for something to do. I walked down the hall to the lounge. I hadn't really noticed this before but there was a small chest on the mantelpiece that needed a key. My curiosity got the best of me and I went to find the key. The mantlepiece had 4 drawers, 2 on each side. I looked in each of the drawers and finally in the bottom left drawer was key. I reached into the drawer and slowly grabbed the drawer trying not to make any noise because I was very close to my parents room. I took the key and unlocked the chest. What was inside the chest really disappointed me. It was just a book. I hate books! However I had nothing else to do so I took the book and went back to my room. I lay down on my bed and opened the book titled, "The World In Me." On the very first page was a message from my real parents...

It was a long night and I was about to get some sleep when my phone went off. I jumped out of my skin! I looked over to see who was texting me and much to my surprise it was Ace? I was so surprised. Usually I text him first not the other way around? How come I didn't see this coming? I had so many thoughts resonating in my mind. I couldn't stop to even to look at the text that Ace had sent me. I had paused for a split second when I saw the name of the person texting and time froze around me. When I came back to normal I dropped my phone in shock and it shattered into pieces.

It made a large THUD as it hit the hard wooden floors in my room. Andrea, my adoption mum came running in to see what was the matter. She rushed into the room and stepped on a sharp shard of the broken phone. She didn't scream so I presumed that she was fine but she then slipped over and fell on her back. "Ouch" she howled. I could see that she was in excruciating pain so I decided to call an ambulance. A man answered with a deep but familiar voice and agreed to come straight away. When the ambulance arrived with a large build but I knew that face anywhere. It was Ace's dad! No wonder the voice on the phone sounded awfully familiar. I didn't know that Ace's dad was a paramedic.

Before I knew it the ambulance rushed off, sirens going with Andrea in the back. I was left there in shock just standing there abandoned unsure of what had just happened. I was unable to speak! It was at least half an hour before my adoption dad, Pete came out to get me. He was half asleep because it was about two in the morning. I slowly slumped back to my room and placed the SIM card from the smashed phone into my old phone. My old phone was large and bulky. It was not touchscreen and it only had three games! To put it straight, it was horrible! It would have to do. I checked the text, it read:

" Dear Cecelia,

I saw Emma's Facebook page and was wondering if that junk was true..?"