‘yawn’
As I blink away my sleep I look around my panther filled room in confusion before remembering where I am.
“oh yeah” under my breath I hear a different voice “oh yeah” I repeat. I get up from the bed and walk past the wheelchair I wheeled in my room and walk to the bathroom.
As I look in the mirror I see a girl who is sad and scared
I splash water on my face “come on lucy, you got this its a new day and new life, nothings wrong” as I look back up to the mirror I see a smile.
I walk out of the bathroom and to the living room. I look to the front door and see there are only the ugly pink panther shoes, I guess David still isn't home. As I look down to my feet I see I'm still wearing the boots from yesterday. Really? I really forgot? Shit. As I look at the apartment floor I see bootprints going from the front door to the couch and then, to my room, I have to clean… later. As I flop onto the couch I check all the icons in my vision. I should have done this earlier but whatever. I'm doing it now. As I open the first app it says its downloading something and then suddenly the app disappears and a clock appears on the top left of my vision but its small enough so it doesn't get in my vision to much to annoy me, and it says 9:23 AM.
Well that’s convenient. Is this why I haven’t seen any clocks around since I've been here? What if someone doesn't have optics? Does everyone have optics? They have to. Or else they wont be able to tell time. That's stupid. Time for the second app. And as I open it, all the apps and the clock disappears. “Is that it? Just all my app going away?” As I say this I blink and I hear a noise and all my apps and my clock come back. What? What happened? As I look back to the app and re enter it the same thing happens but at the bottom left there's a little logo of a lens and as I click it a little less then half my vision is filled with a picture of what I was looking at. Is it a camera? That's nice I can take pictures so easily. as I exit the app my vision returns to normal and I blink a few times to make sure. Okay what about app number three. As I open it there's a see through screen showing contacts and recent. I guess this is where I call and text. And I have no contacts. Didn’t Oscar say everything from my old optics are lost?
As I exit the app I look to see I have one more app to look at, the one at the very top. As I enter the app I see… settings? Its really the settings. I can change the color of my clock, I can even make the apps and clock smaller, bigger or even off if I wanted to. After I looked through all the apps I exit them and blink after, to get my eyes adjusted.
Okay. I need to level body and the others. Wait I leveled body yesterday so I can put my points into my skills again!!
As I try to level up my skills it still wont work. Why?! I leveled up!! I spent 4 hours to level up yesterday!!
Wait. Do I need others leveled up to level up my skills!?
What do I need to level my skills? Maybe body and reflex? Or body and intelligence? Well I don’t know how to level intelligence yet, so I guess I'm gonna level reflex. I'm level 2, on body so I guess I better level reflex then. Alright, now how, is the question. Do I have to almost get hit by cars to level reflex? I really, really hope not. Okay, lets test leveling reflex. As I walk around the apartment looking for something, anything that is useless and thick. I found something in my room. My pillow. That very ugly pillow with panthers on every corner of it. I'm gonna use it to practice my knife throwing. I thought about knife throwing when I first even got my knife so I guess I should try It. As I walk into the living room I put the ugly pillow on the kitchen counter up against the wall. Okay time to throw my knife as I put my hand in my pocket I remember I don’t have my knife on me I threw it on the nightstand before I went to sleep so I had to get the knife and walk back to the kitchen. I'm so glad no body saw that, that would have been so embarrassing. As I stand across the kitchen against the wall I get ready to throw “annnnnd wham!” haha hit it first try.
*throwing unlocked*
100 XP REFLEX
What? Oh nice I unlocked a new skill. Oh I cant wait to level it! And I knew it would work, I got xp for this! I practically run to the pillow to get the knife in my joy, tripping over the kitchen chairs. Shit! And I fall. After getting up and getting back to across the room with the knife, definitely not holding my knee in pain. After a minute of not holding my knee I get ready to grind for the reflex xp.
After 6 hours of fucking up and jumping in joy when I did hit the pillow straight on, I leveled up
100 XP REFLEX
100 XP REFLEX……
LEVEL UP: *throwing*
LEVEL UP: REFLEX
I can level up skills without skill points? Sweeeeet! I can level up two at a time now.
When I leveled up I felt so good that it finally leveled I just stopped and flopped on the couch. “fiiiiinnnnnnaaaallyyyy” “finally what?”
as soon as I heard him I jumped falling off the couch.
He was there a second later helping me up “are you okay?” “yeah, yeah” “are you sure?” “brother, I'm okay” “alright” as I stand up I walk as quickly as I can to the counter without looking weird and quickly snatch up the knife before he can see it. Hopefully he didn’t see the knife. “hey, sis… why is there a pillow on the counter? And why does it have cuts in it?” fuuuu… “I hate that pillow” I say as a matter of factly, hoping to whatever god there is, that he doesn't ask anymore questions “that was a nice pillow” “no it wasn't” I say a little to fast. “so how was your day?” “it was okay... normal day” a normal day? He was gone for like, two days and that’s normal? “but how was your day?” he says that with real interest but he just looks so tired “it was a good day but you look like a ghost that died of exhaustion so you should go to sleep” “I think I will” wow he is dead tired. As I look at him walk to his room I quickly grab the pillow and run back to the room and put the pillow in the corner of the room. I have to throw that away now...later.
‘KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK’
as I hear the knock I look out of my room and walk to the front door and opened it… shouldn’t have done that, cause a second later I was on the dirty floor with someone on top of me
"luuuuuuuucccccccccyyyyyyyyyy!!!”
"Whoa whoa what the fuck!”
“llluuuuccccyyyy!”
"who are you!!” I practically yell this as she just cries my name.
After a few minutes of being quiet as she cries, she finally gets up off of me.
“alright... now who are you?” “d… do you really not remember me” “...im sorry but I don’t remember” I say this as I sit up and look at the girl “David only told me today that you woke up” “okay… but you still haven’t told me who you are” “I'm Jane, your best choom honestly its kind of crazy you really have amnesia” choom? The fucks a choom?
"but who cares now that your up and… walking lets party!!”
Are you serious? As she drags me out I think, I just met you! She drags me into the elevator and out into her very pink car parked half way on the sidewalk. Why is it so pink?
As she pushes me into the passenger seat I see her dashboard… yeah she was definitely lucys friend. There were panther stickers all on the dashboard and even on the steering wheel. Yup has to be. I look up from the dashboard to see jane running around the car and jumping into the driver seat. As she peels off the sidewalk “whooo! Hooo!” as she yells, I'm clutching the door with all my strength. Why the fuck is there no seat belt!!
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
When she finally stops I get out of the car and I had to lean on the car for a second to breathe. “come on lucy lets go!” I turn my head to see jane looking very energetic. “you know I only recently got out of the hospital” as I say this I see she looks sad, fuck I don’t want sad. With a wide grin “so you should have told me you were gonna drive like this I could’ve gotten ready, enjoyed it more”
As I say this she looks happy again. “when did you start liking the way I drive you used to hate it” oh I bet I did. “I have no idea what you mean” “I guess you used to before… never mind” “hey what happened to me, I wanted to ask but I cant ask david” as I say this she looks sad again. Shit. With a smile “please tell me” a smile always helps, right? “you were took by scavs… thankfully a mercenary killed the scavs and found you… but it was to late. You had all your chrome taken” shit. I'm sorry lucy you had to go through that. Thank god I didn’t ask david. I don't know what scavs are but if they take your chrome they cant be good. Without dropping the smile “thank you. But now that we got all that sad shit away where are we?” as soon as I said this her face lit up, probably real happy I changed subjects “were gonna meet up with our choom come on” “our choom?” “yeah our choom” I point to my head and say “amnesia” then I see her face finally realize it. “oh… sorry” as I smile and walk “its okay come on” “where are you going? its this way” as soon as I hear her, my face immediately turns red and I turn around with my head down and walk in the direction she's pointing, and get even more embarrassed when she laughs and wraps her arm over my shoulder.
After a few seconds we reach a club. “here we are” as we walk pass the line of people to the front we get inside getting dirty stares from all the people in line. As soon as we walk into the building I immediately smell cigars, alcohol and hear some music. As I look around I see people in booths smoking and drinking, some are just sitting in booths looking into nothing with drool coming out of their mouth. “Come on!” I hear Jane over the music and she pulls me to a booth with someone in it.
“hey hey looks who's back, ta da! back from the dead!”
“hey! Lucy your up!?”
“yeah… I'm up”
as I look to jane she immediately says
“oh and she has amnesia”
“oh… she does. Does she?. Well lucy before you went into a coma you crashed my car and now you owe me 470 eddies”
“shut up you lying gonk”
as she sits down I follow her move and sit down “drink! Drink! Get me a drink!!” she practicly screams over the music to a bartender passing by and wow she definitely got her attention so as half the people in the building. As the bartender looks exhausted she walks over
“you have to pay”
“oh come on Olivia you know I'm good for it”
“oh please you you cant even pay your last tab”
“oh come on please!, please!, please!, please!”
“Fine!! but no more after this, pay your god damn tab!!”
and she walks away. Well she seemed nice. “you should really pay your tab” I look over to see the girl looking at jane. “its whatever. my tabs are infinite if I can say please enough. Now jane what do you want?” “I don’t want any” when I say this both girls look over to me with surprised faces. “what? Why are you looking at me like that?” jane leans over to the girl and whispers and looks to me and say
“did someone threaten you?”
“what!?”
“you can tell me”
“no!”
“do you hear this Sophie”
“yeah… I hear it”
“what!!!?”
“you always drink I mean like a lot never said no to a drink ever”
“really? What was I like before!?”
“you were a bad bitch!”
“yeah you were a, lot”
“look at this picture of you before!”
she pulls out a phone and pulls up a picture of her and someone else with lines on her face and bright red hair with a mow hawk like David's… is that me!?
“whoa”
“yeah”
“what, what's whoa about it? She looks good!”
I look to jane with a look that says it all
“you do!!”
“okay”
“oh whatever!”
I laugh a bit at her. Just a bit.
After a few hours of talking and them drinking it got dark so Sophie had to get back to her house or else her parents would be mad at least that’s what she said. And I just wanted to get back. As I get back into the pink monstrosity that is janes car, jane just sloppily fly's in the car and right as she was about to slam on the gas she looks as if she caught herself and turns to me. As I look for the seat belt
“hold on I'm looking for the seat belt”
“seat belt? There isn't any”
“what, why!?”
“it makes the car less fun”
“how does safety make it less fun!?”
as she shrugs I just shake my head. I thought I just couldn’t find it last time.
“lets just go”
as I get ready for her driving we fly down the road. After a bit we arrive and I just walk away from the car. I cant even look at it without getting motion sickness, who drives like that! “can I spend the night with you?” as I sit on the curb for a second I see jane looking at me with eager eyes. Should I? why not. “sure, just give me a second” after a few seconds we walk into the complex and entered the apartment after scanning my hand.
“if you want to watch TV go ahead and try to find the remote, I couldn’t find it”
“what do you mean remote? Your TV isn’t that old”
as she says this the tv turns on to the news
“how did you do that?”
“wow amnesia really suck huh. Its easy, just focus on the TV and think really hard about turning it on”
“that… sounded so stupid”
“just try!”
after laughing I did what she told me to and focused really hard on the tv and it changed channels to a cartoon.
“cool”
“cool? Really, what are you 90?”
“what do you mean?”
“nothing nothing”
I was gonna say something but I was to distracted by changing channels. The only thing that got me out of my distraction was her flopping on the couch.
“you can put whatever you want on I don’t know any good channels”
as I say this she looks to me and smiles before turning back to the tv and… channel surfs
as I sit down she turns to me while still channel surfing
“there isn't any good channel. But there might be a watchable channel”
“okay”
after about 2 hours of channel surfing and finally finding a watchable channel she fell asleep. Wow she really wasn't lying when she said there are not good channels. Well she's asleep… I have skill points. There was so much going on I had no time to think about it but I have like 2 skill points might as well use them. As I put a point in throwing I feel as if I've been throwing knives for years. I was doing it so wrong. So so wrong. I had a better chance of cutting myself then actually hitting anything. Okay now for my next skill what should I level. blades maybe or handguns? No no. knives definitely knives. I would rather be ready if someone lunges at me then If I get in a gun fight which sounds kind of stupid. But I already made my mind up! As I put my last point into blades I feel as if my muscles moved in my body to help move with a blade. Ew ew ewwww so gross muscle moving is not nice.
*throwing level: 1*
*blades level: 2*
oh that feels nice though I don’t know why but it feels good seeing numbers go up. As I stretch in the couch making sure not to wake up jane, I think my muscles are in weird places. I rub my face exhausted and lay down with my legs on top of janes and I move my hair to let it hang off arm rest of the couch and lay my head on the armrest and I'm out.
