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Published : 10 months, 1 week ago (Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:19:25 PDT)
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Man’s Best Friend or Puppy Love Session 6- Version 2
“I don’t think so. And honestly, stop calling me ‘boy’!”
Ok well um…apparently there is a stranger in my house…and he’s very close…and very warm..
Not just kind of warm, like most people are, but I mean a living furnace warm.
And we were at least a foot apart.
Wait.
Hold on.
Stranger. In my house. About a foot away from my back.
The same person from the one in my dream?
Slowly I rolled over and looked at him.
Creepy voice, golden hair, black furry ears, golden eyes…yep, same person.
I stared. “So you’re real..”
“What, you saying I’m to dreamy or something?” He asked, lifting an eyebrow.
Apparently he thought the look on my face was amusing and began laughing.
I slowly inch-worm-wiggled back until it seemed that my back was nearly in the fireplace.
Stranger.
In my house.
Previously in my bed.
Laughing at me.
The full weight of the situation exploded in my poor exhausted mind and I froze.
…But since I was all but in the fireplace, I couldn’t exactly freeze- my back felt like it was on fire. And so I was doing a wiggly-shuddering impression of being still, and as far away from the creepy boy with the sharp black claws-for-nails, as I could be.
As soon as he calmed down he looked at me. “What? I don’t get a hug this time?”
He had to be joking…
I just stared at him.
The look he gave me was like a small child that had just had its favorite toy taken away.
Creepy analogy.
He reached over. “Hey…I know you’re cold but…aren’t you a little too close to the fire?”
At that moment, for the first time in my life I became a screamer.
…And bolted to my feet, starting to run only to have him grab my ankle.
And I fell- ungracefully landing on my side as I stared at him wide-eyed.
Immediately there was a hand clamped over my mouth.
“Jeez you’re noisy! Just calm down alright!! Did I hurt you before?”
I quieted down and stared at him before shaking my head ‘no.’
“Then why would I have any reason to now?” He asked, glaring slightly.
I shrugged as best as I could and he pulled his hand away.
I slowly sat up- I was very tired, very confused and my shoulder started to throb.
He smiled and tucked his legs under him, sitting like an excited schoolgirl.
Well he wasn’t exactly sitting…it was more like perching..
I stared, my mouth hanging open slightly.
“That isn’t a very attractive look, Annie..” He said, smiling slightly.
I promptly closed my mouth and glared slightly.
I sighed and tried to get over the fear of the creepy stranger in my house…
I put on my best emotionless mask and stared at him. “Who the hell are you, how the hell do you know my name and exactly how did you get into my house?”
He just blinked. “Did you forget already? Sheesh..” I stared at him. “Did I forget what?”
“Hello! Don’t I look even vaguely familiar?”
“We’ve never met.”
“I’ve only slept in your bed for the past 3 months!!”
“That’s impossible.”
“Is it now?”
“You are not my dog.”
He looked hurt for a minute then smiled. “You’re right- I’m not a dog at all.”
My façade faltered and I let out a growl of confused frustration.
“…I was human..I don’t know if I still qualify though..”
I snorted- I couldn’t help it, it was too much…I just started laughing..
“I knew I shouldn’t have bothered...” He glared and turned away from me, his shoulders slumping.
I stopped laughing. Could he honestly be serious?
I stared at him for a moment- my gaze moving to his ears as the swiveled around.
…So either they’re real… or an awesome Halloween costume accessory.
I think I lost all common sense somewhere about this time because I got up and moved over to him, tentatively reaching out and touching one of his ears.
And he jumped, the ear flattening back under his hair, before spinning around to face me.
Apparently I startled him…but not in the way I’d expected because he promptly hugged me, his head in an extremely improper area on my upper torso…
“Annie…please….”
..Was he begging me?
I looked down at him- he looked like an abused and wounded puppy…
I think that is when I noticed the blood in his hair; it was on the top of his head, a little off to the right… Dani had hit Shader in the head with an alarm clock, hadn’t he?
It was in basically the same spot… That means that…
No..
There’s no fricken way…
“Shader?” I asked softly, not trusting my own voice.
Slowly he looked up at me. “That is what you called me….”
I opened my mouth to say more but stopped when I heard the lock on the front door click.
Two black ears lifted themselves out of his hair and he glanced towards the hall.
I looked back at him, “We’ll talk about this later…what are we going to do?”
He lifted his nose to the air and sniffed, only to have his hair stand on end. In the blink of an eye he was on his feet, pulling me up.
“I’m sorry but we’re out of time- you have to make a decision right now…it cant wait..” He hissed, eyes locked on the hallway.
The knob was turning, twisting rapidly, as if the person on the other side was having problems getting the door open, we could hear it, just barely over the fire.
“What are you talking about?” I asked, starting to understand what all those dumb blondes in horror movies were supposed to be feeling.
“You need to decide whether you’re willing to give all this up, right now and come with me…or …not.” He sounded nearly heartbroken at the last word.
“And if not?” I asked, just curious.
“Everything will return to the way it was- everyone will forget I was ever here..” He paused, taking a deep breath “I’m sorry- I know its sudden…but as you can see I really couldn’t wait any longer…”
Judging by the noise at the door I had 10 seconds to make my decision, or quite possibly less..
I stared at him blankly until I heard the window at the top of the door shatter.
10
Could I really give up my life here? Did I have the strength to?
9
There was a clawing sound against the door- like an animal dragging its claws over the door.
8
“What do you mean give it all up? Never see them again?”
7
He smiled faintly, seeming to be almost relieved.
6
“Not ‘Never’ but…stay away until its safe enough to return..”
5
“Safe? How long would that be..”
4
He glanced nervously at the hallway as the hinges on the door started creaking, as if under some massive weight.
“H-how ever long it takes…Less than a decade..”
3
So it wouldn’t be like half a century or a lifetime…But to leave…abandon my family…my sisters..
But this is an opportunity for adventure..a drastic change in my almost cookie-cutter life…
2
And aren’t we supposed to choose the road less traveled, stray from the norm and not let these sort things pass you by, for fear of regretting them later in life?
Or is that drugs?
…Either way…
But still…would I be willing to let go?
1
There was a crash…apparently the door had finally given in, I shuddered hearing the glass from the window shatter as it hit the ground.
He looked at me, panicked. “ANNIE!”
A voice in my head, one that I hadn’t listened to since I was three, reared its ugly head. “NO!” I screamed, at the top of my lungs.
There was a flicker of something in his eyes and he frowned, his ears lowering.
The world seemed to freeze as a dark shadow slid into view through the doorway.
“As you wish..” was all he said and I felt something strange, almost like a pin-prick in my forehead which seemed to expand, feeling as though it was stretching a hole in my forehead. White-hot pain coursed through my skull and I didn’t even have time to scream as my world went black.
---
I awoke with a terrible headache. I couldn’t open my eyes- I could hear this horrible beeping noise, and the sounds of people talking only a few feet from my side, but I could hear others, many others, farther away.. walking, talking, wheels squeaking, something that sounded like metal being jolted against metal…
I let out a startled cry and moved my hands to my head, which caused something to painfully stab into my arm….which thus caused me to let out another cry.
I could hear some one talking- a man…he was trying to say something…but I couldn’t understand it…it was warped…almost like it had been slowed down..but at the same time put on fast forward…
Then I felt huge hands- probably the man’s, pushing my arms down, then pulling whatever I had in my arm out…painfully.
What was it with this place and pain? I didn’t like it…
I tried to curl up into a ball, but there was something…on my legs, it was heavy- not painfully so, but heavy enough that I couldn’t move them.
The man was still making noise, constant, harsh sounds, probably from panic or surprise, but that didn’t ease my distress in the least.
Slowly the noises became something familiar- something I recognized. Not the tone or the voice, but the words.
I could understand him. And the beeping was going crazy- it had been a slow and steady beat, but now… “-here yet?” He was trying to calm down..
There was another voice, still male, but younger, lighter. “No- Molly just went to look for her and Robin is calling Kara...Annie, calm down!”
Molly? …Sounded like a doll’s name..
Isnt Robin a type of bird? How can it ‘call Kara’? Was ‘Kara’ another type of bird, one that I wasn’t familiar with?
And ‘Annie’…..
It was something I needed to remember- I knew it was important…
Some sort of distress word?
A type of person?
Another word for ‘you’?
..No..
It was.. a name?
..My name? Or the older man’s?
….Who or what was an ‘Annie’?
I couldn’t ask- I tried to, but my throat didn’t seem to work properly..and I felt myself drifting..leaving…
The last thing I remember was hearing a woman’s voice…or perhaps another young man? “She’s awake? That’s Amazing!! ..Why hasn’t she opened her eyes?”
I felt my body go limp.
I don’t know how long it was until I swam back into consciousness, but I could hear a young girl and the young man from earlier talking…once again it was hard to understand, but this time it was just gargled, not inhuman.
Why did the fact that it was human soothe me?
Was I human?
I think I must be..I’ve never heard of animals understanding human conversation. ..But I’ve never been an animal….have I?
Where do I know all this from? Why cant I remember…me?
Once again the words separated into something I could understand.
“-azy, isn’t it?” The young man was talking.
“So what happened exactly? Dad wouldn’t tell me..” The girl said, in response I felt a shift on my right side and then something brushing against my cheek.
“..She was..freaky.. she never opened her eyes but she flailed around, shoved the IV deeper into her arm..and then passed out before the doctor came in.” He said.
“How’d she manage to shove the IV into her arm?” She asked, another shift on my right.
“She tried to bend her elbow…what do you think she’s dreaming about?” The man asked, a hand moving onto my arm.
I couldn’t help it and I flinched, the hand was gone almost immediately.
“Must be good if she prefers it to being with us for 2 months and counting.” The girl sounded almost bitter…
The man didn’t respond but I heard the swish of cloth and the creak of a chair; apparently he had stood up. “I need to stretch- you want something from the cafeteria?”
“Just a cola or something if you don’t mind…” She said, almost immediately there was another shift on the bed and I heard soft cracks and pops as she groaned. She liked to move…and I didn’t like it.
“Its not healthy…all you’ve had is colas…”
“I said ‘or something’ jeez, Vinnie!” She said, laying down next to me.
I couldn’t help it- I yelped and tried to move away from her, only to find that my limbs didn’t want to seem to move.
She immediately sat back up and I sensed the man- ‘Vinnie’ had moved back to my other side.
“Annie?” They asked, simultaneously.
…That was really creepy…
…But why was it creepy? What made it creepy?
I don’t know…I can’t remember..
Am I defective? What’s wrong with me?
I managed to slowly crawl back into the pillows behind me, resting against the headboard, whimpering.
“ANNIE!!” The girl cried and tackled me, squeezing my midsection to the point of pain- not an unbearable sort, just incredibly uncomfortable, and extremely unwelcome. I let out a surprised yelp and then there was light...unbearable light, searing through my eyes.. I cried.
What was with this place?
Nothing but pain…
I didn’t like it..
I wanted to go…
But to where exactly, I was not sure..I just knew that I didn’t want to be here.
Then it happened.
In a matter of seconds the room was full of people, some of the voices I recognized, a few I didn’t..
Everyone was talking, shouting, trying to get my attention.
Then a woman, wearing a strange coat, started asking me questions…
“Do you know where you are?”
“No..”
“You’re in the hospital….do you remember what happened, why you’re here, Annie?”
I shook my head slightly “No….who are you?”
“My name is Dr. Michelle Tori-” She started, but my curiosity got the better of me and I asked a question that apparently wasn’t something I should’ve asked “Who’s Annie?”
The room went silent.
Then the doctor smiled weakly “You are…” |
