1 The Lady
A woman, tired and confused, was walking staggeringly down a dark alleyway in the dark. She swore she was just at work a few minutes ago, but how did she end up here?
She was getting more tired by the minute, and even more confused by the second. "Where am I?", she thought. Suddenly, she felt something coming fast from behind but couldn't turn around in time to react.
She only managed to turn her head partly to the side and catch a glimpse of what was coming her way. The only thing she saw before her world turned black was a huge, black truck that was barely discernible from the darkness of the alleyway.
She had a few flashbacks in those few seconds before that truck hit her.
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Somewhere in the middle of nowhere...
A little boy was climbing a tree, he looked around the age of 6 or 7, he had light red hair, but that was not the most noticeable feature of this oddity of a child, the most noticeable feature of this little child was his deep dark red eyes, if you stared at them long enough, you would probably never be able to look away.
He also had a little bit of that adorable baby fat that made him so cute... Anyone could tell that if you gave him about 7 or 8 years to grow then he would probably be a handsome, no, not handsome, something even beyond that, but he could be someone that would take the world by storm just by his looks alone.
This child was being watched by a group of 20 or 30 people. Each of them was staring at the young boy like a diamond in a coal mine, and honestly, no one could blame them...
A lady walked out of the middle of the crowd and called to the boy, "Kane!", said the lady while hurrying to the tree that the boy was climbing. "What did I say about climbing trees?".
The young boy, whose supposedly called Kane, answers the young woman, "But Chara, there's nothing to do here...", while saying this the child slowly started to climb out of the tree.
"And?", says Chara, "Go meet all of your relatives, this is your first family gathering after all.", says Chara sternly.
Kane hopped down the remaining few feet from the branch he was on and down to the ground. "You're not my family.", Says Kane with a look of sadness and disappointment.
While this was happening, all of the other people there suddenly realized how long they have been staring, and started to go back to what they were doing...
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Another memory flashed through her head...
A few months after the family gathering...
Chara was running through the house, and by no means was this a small house, it was quite the opposite, it could be considered a mansion if you were to come inside. Chara's heart was beating out of control, she screamed, "KANE! KANE, WHERE ARE YOU!?!?!?!?", She heard a crackle from the living room.
She practically flew through the hallway, down the stairs, and through the kitchen, shortcut to get to the living room. When she saw what was happening... She just froze...
Kane was sitting there with a little box of matches, that only God knows came from, lighting his clothes on fire. But what made her freeze not the fact that he was lighting clothes on fire, but it was the fact that he was still wearing the clothes.
Chara, like the good mother she is, quickly ran over to Kane and pulled his shirt over his head without caring if it hurt or not, and threw it to the ground.
She then stomped all over the t-shirt until it was out, but was mortified her after the shirt was out, Kane started laughing maniacally.
Chara then stared at Kane like he was crazy...
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Again, another memory...
A week after the fire incident...
"What is wrong with my boy?", Chara asks the doctor, Chara could already feel her eyes welling up.
"I... Is Kane Vermile your real boy? And I presume that that is not his correct last name...", says the doctor, in a quiet manner, trying not to wake up the little boy that was napping next to his mother.
Chara looks at the doctor, a little bit of sadness in her eyes," No, he is n-n-not", says Chara, having a little bit of trouble saying the last word.
"Chara, your son, I am certain that your son has dissociative identity disorder...".
Chara at this point looks like she is about to break into tears.
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Again, another memory...
This was when Kane was just adopted...
A little boy, around the age of 3 or 4, ran up to an average-looking woman and gave her a hug around her waist.
The woman continued to pick up the child and held him up to her face. She pushed her head against his and he pushed his head against hers.
"I love you, Kane.", says Chara with a smile.
"I wuv you too, Kara," says Kane, and then continues to make a face after he says it.
Chara starts to laugh which causes them both to laugh.
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Then they stop.
She thought, "Kane... I'm sor-".
THUD!!
The lady was sent flying through the air, but what was worse was the truck kept going. The poor lady would have probably lived through that, but instead of the truck stopping, the poor lady was run over by the speeding truck...
BUMP!
BUMP!
The lady couldn't even be described as a lady anymore. There was nothing left to describe what the poor lady even looked like anymore.
The truck kept on going, and a few minutes after the lady was run over, there was a loud BANG at the end of the ally.
Then silence.
Just dead silence.
