The Festival

Chapter 1

JAMES

Every night, James waits for his friends to invite him for a drink at a night club.

*Phone rings* "hello?" "James! We dont have a party tonight, we're going to have a family gathering with my aunts." "Well how about, Luke? Is he busy, I'm sure he's just lounging at his home."

James starts to worry, he won't able to hang out with his friends. "Well all I know for sure is, he'll be taking care of his daughter's wedding." "Fine, thanks anyways."

The next morning, he woke up late, forgets he has a job, forgets he had a project, and is running late to work.

A phone call came in, James answers his phone, " hello, sir I'm coming right away i just need to finish this project.

"JAMES! I told you to finish it by tuesday and it's already wednesday. When will you give the project to me? I asked for just one favor and you could not even do it. YOUR FORCING ME TO DO THIS DECISION, YOUR FIRED!"

"Fine I hate my job anyway, that's why no one stays long in that company!" The phone call ended. His stomach starts to hurt, he can't manage to buy his own food, even in just making a simple breakfast he couldn't do it. He doen't have that much of money to buy some groceries.

James hangs his phone, and went to his bedroom and grabbed a tequila he stole at the bar, while looking at his fractured mirror. "I dont need them, I really am. Well atleast I have Trina." James contacts Trina, while holding a bottle of his tequila.

James contacts Trina, but she didn't answered. But the voicemail came in.

"Hey it's Trina, I'm away and going somewhere leave a message after the beep" *BEEPS*

"Hey Trina it's James, can i come at your house, I'm looking forward to settle things between our get away trip. Call me when you recieve this, i love you."

James throws his phone outside. Without realizing she hit a woman's head by accident. He quickly went downstairs, he saw that the woman he hit was Trina. And so he headed to the hospital as fast as he could.

Finally they arrived at the hospital. He urged the nurse to bring the woman at the emergency room.

"Sir kindly tell me what happened here"
James was stammering. " I saw a random person and not by an accident, he picked up a stone, threw it at the woman and left.

I dont know what intentions he had with the woman, but for sure I know he did it on purpose." James lied about what happened to Trina. "Okay, do you have any relation to this woman?" "No ma'am" He lied again.

He was completely out of control. He ran across the street, crying aloud. Furthermore, a truck coming towards him, with a speed of 100 speed limit.

Then suddenly...

*CAR HORNS*
He bumped on a big truck. The good thing is, the driver noticed what he crashed on, he quickly shouted for help, called the ambulance, but the bad thing is he didn't took the reponsibility for the accident.

He woke up lying in his hospital bed. He sees the doctor and the nurse talking about him. Then he realizes he was in a coma, He can't move nor do anything.

He heard what the doctor said, " Do you know who he is, I'm worried, no one found any of his personal belongings mostly his phone, that's the only way we could contact someone and give the news about him." James was shocked about what happened to him, and sees himself with a ventilator and a life support.

He discovers he has been suffering from cancer, even though there's not too much sign that had happened in his body. Few minutes later he got up, but not with his body, but with his soul.

He walks around the hospital hallway. Finds his lover at the same hospital but a different floor. He checks her regimen, and he finds out she has an amnesia, for the cause that he did to her.

"What have I done, What do I do." James sobbing, slowly kneeling on the floor. He goes back to his room. Sits on the couch, "what's happening why am I still here, dont you know im suffering too much. Why am I still alive, why is my soul not with my body? Please just give me a sign." Then a man showed up, looks unusual to any certain person. " hello, I know who you are, dont be afraid you'll know what to do."

"What? I dont even know what happened to me back there, all I know is I'm here right now suffering in this freaking cancer." James got furious to the man. "

"There's this one thing you need to do, to get back at your life. You have to find the missing pieces of your memories. Each memory you find has a certain lesson you have to learn.

"What memories, I can still remember what happened in my whole life."

"Can you still remember what Trina gave you on yout first anniversary?"

"Yes of course, its a, uuhm, hmm. Why can't I remember it? Am i in somekind of hallucination. Maybe it's just a drug i took last night. What did you do to me?"

James looking at the man terrified. " Look you have to listen to me. Your here for a mission for your life, to save your memories you had. Every time you waste a second you tend to forget a memory. Im reminding you, if you did not do this, you'll meet death. You can never go back.

"Your joking right?" James was very confused what the man had told him.

"You've just lost another memory, you actually wasted 2 mins. The clock knows what you're doing, if your just going to waste your time, you can just give up, easy."

"Yeah sure it's easy to give up"
"Yes, like what you did in your life, deal with it. You only have a week to look for the memory. So long!"

The man walked out of the room and faded away. James realized he really is not making up stories or joking. So James took it seriously.

He wondered off outside the hospital. "Hey! Where are you? Fine im going to listen, But I want to know where shall I be headed? Where should I start.?

James was terrified when he met the man, because he looks like death. He wears a dark cloak with a scythe. But he didn't realized that, the man who came to him was death.

But the man didn't showed up. "Okay so now your not going to show up to me. It's fine I dont even care anymore."

James went to the nightclub, there was a party going on. He remembered he was a ghost, he can't touch anything unless he goes through someone's body. He was looking at the celebrant.

He had Big Muscles, all the girls was crawling to him, drinks a lot, and has a pot of smoke. "Perfect!"

James went to the man's body, drunk a lot and stayed there for more than 3 hours. Without him realizing he's wasting time.

When the party's over. He tries to remember why was he there. " Why am I here? Can somebody tell me what's happening?"

Then death showed up " I told you so, the more you waste your time, the more you forget your memories. If you really want to retrieve your memories back do the mission."

"For hell's sake I told you where should i be headed first?"

"The place where you always go with your parents when you were still a child."
"In the festival?" " I don't know it's your life not mine think deep." Then death walked away.

James walked away at the party and went to the place.