I woke up in the morning, after the morning glare hit my eye, forcing me to get up. It seemed different, my surroundings, and I had also felt some uneasiness. Then, the answer dawned on me, right in front of me, literally. I looked at the clock, it was nine o’clock already and it was a school day!
I took my bag, ate the bread that was on the table my parents had prepared before they went for work, and rushed out to go to school. While I was running to school, that same uneasiness from the morning hit me again, but I was not very concerned about it, I was more worried about how my school teachers would reprimand me, and even more so about my parents. When I reached the school, surprisingly, although I was not a school athlete, I did not feel any exhaustion from the run, which would be about three to four kilometers. I continued running and running, and for some reason, even though I ran past my school’s two discipline masters, they did not shout at me for running, not even when they looked at me straight in the eye.
When I stopped at the front door of my class, everybody was looking at me and there was total silence, not even the slightest bit of noise. I walked into the class and greeted my teacher. Then, my heart missed a beat, maybe even two. No sound came from my mouth, but my teacher still pointed to my chair, with a face redder than an apple. Obviously that meant that I should go to my seat immediately, which I did, and at the same time, stunned. While I was still pondering about what had just happened, everybody stood up and bowed to the teacher, which I guessed should have meant that it was the end of the lesson. Thousands of thoughts and questions filled my head till I could have sworn that my head would burst anytime. I blindly followed the class to the canteen where some of my fiends gave me food to eat, which, to me tasted like nothing and had no smell. While walking, I tripping and fell on the edge of the table, which did not hurt at all. When I looked up, I saw my friend with a horrified look on his face, opening his mouth wide with nothing coming out. Then I thought about it, and feared that I had just somehow lost all my senses, except my sense of sight! I went mad and gone around the canteen to wreak havoc, before my friends held me back and tried to calm me down, which had no effect as I cannot even hear them. I managed to break free of their grasp and ran out of the school. I ran, not knowing where to go, where to stop. After I sorted my head out and thought that it was useless to run, I stopped to work out my next step, but some red droplets of water dripping from nowhere distracted me. When I looked up, the ‘water’ went into my eye. That was when I remembered that I had knocked my head against the table and the red droplets were blood. I carried on walking, thinking that I had to go to a hospital, but I did not even know where I was! Then, my vision became blurry, my head felt like a heavy rock waiting to drop, and my legs were as soft as rubber bands. It was a total darkness after that.
When I woke up, I could hear the bustling traffic near my house. I could smell the tasty food my mother had cooked for me. I could also feel the comfort of my bed, and the bandage around my head. I was confused at first, but thought nothing about it and took in all that I had lost a moment ago, which would be a few days ago. I felt refreshed after taking in all the smell, sound and feel, but when I opened my eyes, I saw blackness and nothing else. Fear overcame me. My life was never going to be the same again.