My Secret Gift,
Hey there whoever may be reading this. This post may be a little long overdue but I'm going to explain myself. In this post. Anyways let's continue my annoying life story.
I was at school with my three friends Treasure, Reece, and Max when it happened. We were in the middle of running 'the mile' of 'fun'. When the worst headache of all time hit me. My friends were trying to ignore Reece talking about his new ice cream cone dish he made himself last night. When out of no where my head started to splurge suddenly, NO this was NOT happening, WHY! NOW! god must hate me. I fall onto the back of my head slamming hard into the ground, I felt a bone in my left shoulder pop in my ear from the impact. The noise sounded too loud, and extremely wrong, yet so perfect, like a popping sound of a ball coming from the surface of a perfect circle in bound, I was disgusted.
I heard yelling and screaming, some loud thuds and movement, but for the love of me, I couldn't see the sunset if I wanted too. Everything was too blurry, and it all started to slowly sway back and fourth making me feel like I was in the midst of pumping fourth the lunch I had ate earlier.
I heard chaotic screams and foot falls, that sounded panicky but too faraway to fully develop a true sense in my mind. I was definitely not all 'there' right now, I slowly closed my blurry eyes, allowing my body to buzz I felt absolutely nothing no pain or ground beneath me, which was sorta a strange feeling. I felt so disconnected.
I slowly rose back to the conscious world, I felt my lungs breathing unsteadily, I heard someone gasping beside me and another whimpering in front of me. I opened my eyes trying to get them to adjust to the way too white walls, everything was extremely blurry for two seconds, I closed my eyes back for a while then I opened them again. Right in front of my face stood some extreme close ups of my friends faces. I freaked out slightly jumping back away from them.
"What-what's go-going on... um guys." I rubbed my face tiredly feeling the headache stir up in the back of my head, from the jolting movement.
"Bro I thought you died.." whispered Max gasping for air sporadically. I looked into his eyes confused, his eyes held worry and safety. Treasure looked at me stone faced seeming to be wearing a poker face, she looked down and away from my gaze, then I looked over to Reece he was trembling for some reason and crying slightly. I whispered "what?" more confused than ever. Max took deep and thorough breaths to compose himself. "You fell directly on to the back of your head and you sprung your arm. The nurse said that people could die doing things like that. She also said you’re lucky you were on the grass when you fell." Reece shook his head along with Max's words. Treasure got up and punched me in my good arm. "Don't scare us like that again." I nodded at her.
The nurse came in and gave me a dose of pain killers. "Your parent has already been informed of this problem." I smile and nod thankfully at her. She smiles and nods back at me "I hope you feel better. That arm has been put in a sling." She walks out saying goodbye to my friends and me. Then my eyes begin to feel droopy. I knew that I was going to pass out before I got to talk anymore with my friends.
When I woke up I was being nudged softly by my mother. My friends were still there. I got up slowly with the help of Max. I thanked him and then marched after my mom to the car. When I got in she gave me this distant kind of look. It made me feel sorta out of place. She just started up the car and began to drive us home in silence.
When we finally got home I trudged up to my room and sat at my computer chair. I didn't feel tired anymore thankfully, but I did feel a weird numbness.
I started up my desktop that Jimmy had hacked for me. Then I clicked on the only site that the web browser already seemed to be on. It was Reddit.
I was confused the person before me had been using Reddit to do what exactly?
I saw that her username was lovely Anna. I clicked on the first submission post named Anna Wesley. I clicked on it and read through it concluding that the girl that used this before me. Clearly was a time traveler or something. She had said that she came from a different timeline or something odd like that. I went to her next post, then the next. Getting completely absorbed in the strangeness of her situation. The whole town Fantasma. Which quite frankly sounded very familiar for some reason. The forest that surrounded it. The people and monsters, creatures inside of it.
It was night by the time I had gotten to part 12. I was getting tired and I knew that I had to go to sleep before my mom came up to check on me like she usually did when I was sick or injured. I shut the desktop off. Then I jumped into my bed and made myself comfortable for sleep. The morning was a blur to me. I woke up at some point but it wasn't to be forced out of bed it was to be given soup. Then I remember my annoying little brother whining about why I got stay home.
Then I finally woke up at 11am to find a bunch of worried text's from my friends. I reassured them that I was fine and everything was okay. I just needed a day of relaxation. They all replied back with asking if I was up for hanging out in the old parking lot. I told them that I would pass for today because, I had to watch my brat of a brother.
They all texted back at me in understanding and sadness at my departure. Of course I had to watch my brother but I also just wanted a day to think about all that I had read on the desktop yesterday. Anna reminded me of myself. She went through odd situations and she even seemed to have some sorta gift. Just like I did. I found mine out the hard way. If your wondering there is a story behind this.
It all started three years ago. I was having weird headaches for weeks they would get uncontrollable to the point of a seizure or just a bloody nose. My mom had to take me to the doctor many times. I was almost afraid that I had a brain tumor or something. My doctor assured me that I was fine.
I lived on in peace for a whole day before I was headed back for the hospital again, the same doctor was doing brain scans on me to try and figure out what could be causing these crazy migraines and headaches. I was still going to school even though I was having these mind boggling headaches my mom said that I would miss to much school if I only stayed at the hospital. I didn't agree because school sucked anyways. Though that's just my opinion. One day during this shitty week my head was feeling okay for once, though it still felt strange. Almost like it was light pressure around my skull and I had a swirling itchy feeling in my brain that I could never scratch. But, I braved on and went to Mrs. Bell's classroom she was my English and she droned on and on about some boring book that we were being forced to read that week. That's when I made the mistake to think 'Oh lord she's killing me.' The I made it even worse by thinking 'Please something kill me now.' Then I thought 'it would be a dream come true if everyone in this god forsaken school decided to kill me right now' well I dug my hole.
Then the entire classroom began to act like robots sitting up too straight in their chairs in unison. My teacher dropped her marker in her hand and stood straight too with them. She and the other student's all turned to me in unison and unblinking. That scared me so much that my brain forgot to be scared and snorted instead thinking it was a joke.
I quickly came to the conclusion that this was not a joke when my teacher grabbed her ruler from her desk and came hurling at me. Students from all sides came pouncing on me, I felt backpacks chairs and pencils all being thrown at me. I got out of my chair throwing the students off of me in my wake.
I ran for dear life out of the class as the entire classroom came after me. I heard maniac screaming behind me but also down the halls. I couldn't stop I knew that I had to get out of there before I was killed by these maniacs. I screamed as I ran in front of a open door classroom and an entire desk came flying at my head. I ducked out of the way before it hit me and I continued to run with the rampage of students and teacher's running behind me. I passed the library where the librarian was holding a nail filler in her hand like a dagger she was hidden behind the door. As soon as I seen her I ran the opposite way and up the stairs. I looked down over the school as I climbed the stairs to see an angry mob of teachers and students flooding from all classrooms and running in my direction with their own ideas of weapons. I even saw people coming from the bathrooms some with their pants on the ground between their ankles forgotten to have been picked up, and some people carrying toilet paper as if it could actually do some harm.
I continued my fleet up the stairs as I was chased by the entire school who once were once boring friendly teachers, and stupid kids, but had suddenly turned into a hungry pack of wild animals within twenty minutes. As I got tot the top I saw herds more of teachers and students coming my way even the principal and vice principal were running out of the front office to try and strangle me.
I was at my wits end crying for this to stop. I ran over the balcony overlooking our swimming pool on the bottom deck I came to a quick decision as I saw the crazy mob of people hopping over each other to get to me. I jumped over the railing and made the most ungraceful leap known to mankind into the deep side of the swimming pool. I scrambled to the surface and swam over to the back door that lead out to the fields. People started to dive into the water after me all the screaming and feet pelting the ground could've been mistaken for hell in that moment.
I jumped out of the water as fast as I could. Which wasn't fast enough because before I could take my legs fully out of the water I almost got pulled back under by the force of the pull that the person when they gripped my foot. I quickly kicked them with as much strength that I had. I felt my foot connected with a face. I scrambled to get fully out of the water and ran for cover before I could even think about slipping.
I practically threw my self out of the door and into the fields. I ran as fast as I could Imaging the song push it to the limits like I always had when I had to run as hard as I could. I ran over the blacktop for basketball and over to the bleachers to hide from the mob of insanity. Though once again I was stopped by the force of someone snaking a hand around my body and hurdling me into the floor. the person jumped onto me getting dirt and grass all over my clothes.
I focused as much as I could on thinking straightly as more and more kids ran my way. The kid on top of me began punching me using as much force as he could behind each blow. I was thinking about how I had been bored before this started then I thought about my thought process had been leaning towards killing my self as a result of the boredom. Then I got it. I used as much of the mind numbing itch that I had in my mind to think 'stop, make everything go back to normal'. The kid was beating the crap out of me as I tried to focus on this one precise thought. Then he stopped I suddenly heard all of the hundreds of feet slow or stop all together. I rested my mind as I felt as blossom of a migraine start up and the bruises all over my body sting in pain. The kid on top of me started to scream as he realized what he had been doing to me. The principal yelled "Stop what your doing right now!" Everyone was muttering in confusion. My mind was getting too fuzzy to think straight then I passed out.
That was the first time I had really understood that I had a gift. The gift to mind control. I remember doing things before that. I just didn't realize that I was the one who had done it. The saddest one that I could think that I had done before I had realized I had gift was when I was almost six-years-old. I had been out font of my house when I saw a stray kitty across the street from me. I had wanted to pet the cat so bad that I just kept thinking 'come here!' The cat then I walked slowly and robotically my way. When out of no where a car came and hit the kitten when it was crossing the street over to me. I was so shocked that I cried to my mother to help me. She called the animal center they came by later that day to take the small corpse. That had scarred me.
Or when I had asked my mother for a toy and she kept saying that she need to buy something very important and that there wasn't enough money to buy my toy and her adult stuff. So when I kept asking for the toy in my mind. she stood up much straighter and robotically put back her birth control and bought my toy. That's how my brother was made. My mother had no recollection of ever buying me that toy but I clearly remember her getting it for me.
I don't know. After that whole my entire school are zombies and are trying kill me escapade. I thought that my gift was nothing but a curse. That's why I try to keep it as secret as possible. I want to be normal and not some weird freak who has powers and cane make someone do something not of their will. I try to keep my powers as suppressed as possible, but the headaches and migraines still get the best of me from time to time. Plus I don't want my loved ones thinking of me as a weirdo freak either.
I wonder if there were any other people out there like me. I sighed and went over to the desktop an read some more of Anna's story then I switched onto a new tab. Then I saw some very conflicting things. Firstly instead of news and sports and stuff that was usually advertised under the google search there were things such as 'Gifted Girl found in arctic' Or 'FBI on the hunt for newest crime lord...' I clicked onto the gifted girl thing and found a legit biography and address to go along. There was so much personal information on this girl. I was scared for her safety seeing as this was all on the internet.
The website they found her at was 'what's your gift artesian' I clicked the link and it took me to a page that said 'don't click' I was so confused. What in the world was going on. I thought about the possibility of this being a hackers sight or something. I clicked on the 'don't click' using my mouse just to be rebellious. The mouse gave me a little shock then my entire screen turned off and rebooted itself after. I stood up even more confused. I stared at my hand feeling impulsive for my dumb train of thought.
I heard the doorbell ring I ran down to open the door and there stood my little brother looking angry at me. "Why do you get to stay home?" I rolled my eyes and let him walk in. Then I saw a car all in black pull up to the front of my house. I thought nothing of it and shut the door.
I went back to my room as my brother went through the fridge mumbling about a turkey sandwich. When I returned the desktop was back on and the webpage about the gifted had disappeared. I rolled my eyes in annoyance because of the old crappy desktop. I laid back down in my bed and fell asleep.
Then I woke up to screaming it sounded like my little brother yelling for me. I got up and rubbed at my eyes and ran down the stairs expecting it to be my friends or something there to see me. "What?" I said as I came down and looked up only to be taken aback. Right before me stood a man in all black I smiled politely and said "Hey...um Hello what did my little brother do sir?" The man shook his head as if to refute the idea of my brother doing anything wrong.
"No I did not come for him I came for you." I felt my eyes widen at the weird statement. Then mumbled "oh" at a lose for words. Then as quickly as I could I grabbed Bobby and swung him away from the man and slammed the door in the mans face locking the door just as swiftly. I grabbed Bobby by the arm and pulled him upstairs with me. We looked out of the top floor windows down to see if the man left.
Instead I saw this motherfucker walking around our house as if to find another door for entry. I turned to Bobby "Did you lock the door?" He shook his head a little frightened looking from the quickly escalating situation. "Good" I whispered as we watched the man walk back around to the front door ten minutes later. I closed my eyes and focused on my thoughts trying weave out the panic and the worry. Then I found that itchy and gross pain that is usually hidden deep within my mind and I thought as much as I could with as much ferocity as possible. 'leave now' I slowly opened my eyes as small waves of agony graced me to see the man stiffen considerably. Then he walked into his car and drove away.
I grabbed Booby and hugged him to me. He still seemed frightened of what he had just witnessed watching the car drive away. He hugged back reluctantly. I scuffed his hair and whispered "He's gone now go." Bobby slowly let go of my waist and walked out of the room he looked back at me as if to say something then back at the window. Then he left shutting the door as he went. I ran over to my bed and searched under my pillows for the headache pills that had stuffed under my sheets. I found them and took some. They knocked me out for the rest of the night.
I woke up the next morning to my alarm being shut off for me. I saw my mother standing there when I opened my eyes. She looked to be in thought. I slowly got up and rubbed at my face tiredly. She smiled at me. Which was something that I didn't see every day. She sat down on the edge of my bed and ruffled my hair softly. "Hey Danny you okay? I heard about what happened yesterday." "wah.. oh yeah...Ma I'm fine." She brushed her hands through my hair. "I wish I could be here more with you boys. Rather than at work all of the time."
I didn't know what to say to that so I just smiled as she kissed me on the forehead. I got up as she got up to leave. I got dressed as quickly as I usually did and ate an orange on my to the car. My brother was already seated when I got in. He looked like he didn't sleep at all last night. I finished my orange and waited until my mother came and got into the car. She drove us to school I got out at my school. I said goodbye to my brother and I got out of the car and walked up to the front of the school. I found Treasure and Max there talking to each other about pizza or something. When I walked up they both looked stricken and they hugged me.
"Hey Guys" "Sup bro" said Max as he and fist bumped and Treasure nodded her head at me.
"Wow I didn't know you'd be her today." Treasure said offhand. I shrugged and sat on the ground beside them taking out some art supplies to sketch.
"Man, do I have a story for you guys." I said Then they sat there for twenty minutes as I explained the situation that happened yesterday when a thought struck me suddenly. The computer. I slowly connected a few dots I searched around the immediate area for Jimmy. I got up and ran inside of the school. Leaving my very confused friends behind. I spotted Jimmy drinking from the water fountain not too war away from me. "Hey Jimmy!" He stopped drinking and looked over at me.
"Danny! what do you want." I walked over to him. "What else did you do to that laptop? Why am I getting these weird ads?"
"Oh! I thought I told you. I was going through the desktop's back drop when I decided to try and test my hacking skills. So I hacked into FBI and government essential websites. You can see FBI and government issued websites that no one else can." I was again found myself at a lost for words "Oh." He nodded smiling. then a horrifying thought came to mind. 'that website I had clicked on had been a government issued website. Meaning that man was from the government. They know about me.' I suddenly found the urge to cry I angrily stumped my foot at Jimmy making him jump back a little.
I ran to boys bathroom and pretty much slammed into the sink. I felt a increasing headache and nausea take over. I ran to the garbage can and barfed into it. I just felt so gross. I got up feeling woozy still and slowly made my way back to the sink then I washed my face with water and gargled as much of the nasty taste out of my mouth. The acidic feeling was still on my tongue as I ran back through the halls to my discarded bag. My friends were still there but Reece was also there this time.
Treasure and Reece were arguing once again as I stumbled my back to my stuff. I grabbed all of the art supplies and put them back into my bag and listened into my friends argue over clam chowder. When the bell finally rung I was relieved to walk to my first period class.
I literally laid down onto my desk when I got there and dozed off when the teacher came in making a announcement. The entire school day as usual passed by in a big blur. I hardly even remember eating lunch with my friends. All I know is that they were doing their normal things. Max on the phone with someone, and Treasure and Reece arguing over something.
I was starting too feel really distanced from my friends which wasn't too good of a feeling. Which is why I went to Treasure's pizzeria with the rest of my friends after school. I was dazed though most of that too. Reece chattering on about demon warlords living in his basement as Treasure chastised him for being a wimp. While Max just as stone faced as ever gave commentary here and there about the odd conversation. I couldn't get a grip on what was bothering me so much. That was until I looked out the window to see all black car pull up outside in the parking lot. A man stared right back at me talking into a phone. He was dressed just the same as the guy who had came to my house. He got out of the car ten minutes later and headed for the pizzeria.
I quickly shut my eyes and tried to pry out the worry and the loud yelling of Treasures. I focused intently on my thought 'Go away now' I felt that striking gut wrenching feeling of gross itchiness. I was so frustrated I wanted to march out there and yell at that man to leave me alone. But, I didn't I just focused on my lingering feelings and thought as hard as I could about that man getting in his car and leaving.
I slowly opened my eyes to see the man stiffly walking back to his car. He got in it and drove away speeding off like the devil on wheels. I sighed a heavy yet relieved breath and let the agony rip through my head. I felt like my head was a watermelon and someone was cutting swiftly in two. The feeling was breath taking and disgusting. I got up and ran-walked into the bathroom. Once again leaving my friends behind they didn't see to notice any difference in my behavior as their conversation continued on as if nothing had just happened.
I went into the bathroom stall and cried my pain away I had brought some pills with me. Just in case of a situation like this and I took them swiftly before cleaning myself and walking back out to talk with my friends.
They were waiting for me already having cleaned their messes made on the table. I cleaned mine in a quick success and we headed out to our old abandoned parking lot. It was boring but interesting walk hearing Max talk about him seeing a misshapen goblin as child once. Which sounded like the funniest experience ever. All of us were laughing by the time we made it to our desolate lot.
Treasure tossed Max one of her apples while Reece dug into his back pack and pulled out three hotdogs. We sat in our usual places and told each other scariest stories. We generally did have fun telling each other stories.
By the end of Reece's story about seeing a vampire I had called it time to go home. It was almost night, around 7pm and I was not feeling getting yelled at by my mother. I said my goodbye and walked away leaving them to their storytime.
As I was walking home I noticed this one car that kept following me. It never went fast or slower than me but it was always ten feet behind me. That's when I noticed that it was the same guy that came to my house and followed me to Treasure's Pizzeria. I ran over to the car with a new feeling of bravery in my bones. "Get out of there right now! I know who you are! Stop following me!" I demanded.
The man got out of the car with it still running. I felt the urgency of distress hit me. 'I could be about to get kidnapped.' He stood there and smiled at me making me feel weirded out. I ran up to him and focused my thoughts feeling for that itchy gross and agonizing feeling which I found way to easy. Then I thought in rapid succession 'Go to your boss and tell them that I have no gift and no power and that it was misinformation! Now!' I let the pain and frustration tangle, I let it sweep through me to the point of feeling like crying. I put as much strength as possible into my thoughts feeling kind of desperate to get rid of this situation nd this ma. After two horrible and brainstakingly painful minutes I opened my eyes. As sweat heavily enrolled me with exhaustion from the stress of controlling this power beyond me. The man before me was stiff with a dead glooming gaze he stood straight posture heavy as he walked back into his car and drove off. I haven't seen him or anyone else that look like him sense and god am I happy about that.
So now you know my power. Which is crucial information to know when going on through the rest of my journey. I hope no one ever has to experience these things as I have. Goodbye Redditors I'll post later.
Hacking into the Desktop Part 1
Submitted November 15, 2019 at 11:24PM by Zaylovestodraw https://ift.tt/32WSvP2
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