Chapter 1
I run. I run far away, with no aim or direction in my head. My brain is not working anymore, its only goal is to give signals to my legs to keep moving. I need to run. Away from my nightmares that are still chasing me right now even if it is way past midnight. I can feel the serum they gave me taking effect but I won’t let it control me. I saw what it did to the others. None of them deserved what happened to them. Yet the only question working through my head, the only one I allowed to distract me right now was, why hadn’t it affected me too? The serum caused my memory to become a jumbled mess. I was starting to remember things that I did not even know happened to me. Secrets about my past that were kept hidden from me for so long. Things I refuse to believe until confirming them myself.
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I have no idea how long I have been running for. All I know is that it is already the next day because I can see the sun rising. I took breaks in between because even if I was running on pure adrenaline, I am human and I had to rest. The officers stopped chasing me a few hours ago but I haven’t been able to feel relief. I leaned against the tree, trying to catch my breath. The sun’s rays shone directly upon me and again I started to feel the weird buzzing sensation in the back of my head. It gave me goosebumps whenever I came into direct contact with sunlight. I had been getting them since I was young but until yesterday I never thought much about it. As much as it sounds stupid, it feels like I have this connection with light. And some of the new memories that I have gained prove my theory right.
Flashback
I stare at the sun enjoying the way its rays sent tickles down my arm. Little goosebumps appeared on my arm and a low humming rang in my ears. It was like the light was trying to communicate with me as strange as it sounded. And I know it sounded strange because that's what Ellie told me when we were playing in the playground. She had called me a freak, saying that seven-year-olds don't talk to the sun. No one does. She isn't a nice person Maybe mommy might know something.
"Vera? What are you doing here?" My mommy's sweet voice fills my ears. I turn around smiling. "Hi, mommy. I missed you. How was work?" My mommy was a very important person. She worked a lot and studies a lot. I want to be her when I grow up. Mommy leaned down and kissed my forehead. "It was fine. Now tell me what question is troubling your brain? I can almost see the gears in your head churning," She smiles back at me. I love her smile. It's so pretty. Just like her blue eyes. "Mommy, can the sun talk to me?" I expected her to frown and call me weird but instead, she smiled wider as though she had been waiting for me to ask her this.
"Vera, when you look at the sun what do you feel?" I frowned. I don't know why she is not answering me. "Like it's trying to tickle me," I reply honestly. Mommy's eyes softened with happiness. She looked really happy. Maybe I will try to be really honest from now on if it makes her happy. "That's because you can control light darling. You have this ability that makes you powerful."
Now I didn't understand anything she said back then but now, given the situation, I was really starting to see some light. Literally. From my new memories I gathered this much that apparently, mommy dearest had done some weird things on me that resulted in me getting the ability to manipulate light. My guess is she gave me a serum, similar to ones the officers gave us yesterday. Except that she gave me another serum exactly two days after her little experiment on me and that caused me to lose my memories of that incident.
Subsequently, two days later she kept giving me a serum. I think this one was to prevent my ability from resurfacing since I remember taking this weird medicine every two days. But here is the bid question, why did she give me this serum to supposedly block my ability when she herself planted it in the first place?
I may not know it now but I will find out sooner or later. I need to know what happened in my past because I know it is connected with what happened just two days ago.
My mother was a genetic scientist and on top of that she was also a prodigy in neurology and behavioral science. I don't remember much about her because she disappeared when I was nine but I know that loved to experiment a lot. She was always trying to find new ways to solve problems in the human system so I have no doubt that this nightmare all teens are facing is all thanks to her.
I lie my head against the tree trunk, the leafy canopy a protection from blazing morning sun and a relief from the constant pull I feel towards its light.
I have to find out why she did this to me. Why she stripped me of my normalcy and made me into her personal guinea pig. And all this can only be done if I can find my mother.
Hey! I am back finally with a new story idea. Honestly, I had gotten this story idea just recently and I am not sure how it will turn out but hopefully this will not end up in my unfinished stories pile… share your thoughts about this first chapter!!
