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UNRECOGNIZED VOICES.

"Open your mind. "

F's voice penetrated through my head and it took me minutes for it to sink in.

I struggled to keep my mind open, to focus but it wasn't easy. My eyes were closed, my body was paralyzed yet I knew I was alive.

" Karleen, please open your mind. Leave your body. Don't struggle. "

I tried to feel, tried to move, tried to awaken but I could not. I was numb. Feeling nothing but excruciating pain burning through my body.

" Just focus. Open your mind! Listen! "

F's voice penetrated through my aching head to my dead sense organs and slowly, I forced my mind open.

The voices were barely audible at first but as I began to feel my organs at work, I heard them.

"... She won't be awake till tomorrow." the voice was close. Probably feminine but I couldn't identify whose voice it was.

"we did a good job switching the injection. Right now, she can't feel. "

I tensed.

Another voice had answered the woman. I wanted to open my eyes to see them but even if I did open my eyes, I never knew. Just like she said, I can't feel.

" but should we be doing this, she's gone through a lot already. Don't you feel this isn't right? "the first woman asked.

" you should never question the Dread's orders," the second woman answered firmly.

Who's the Dread? Who are they?

"same thing we did ten years a - "

The second woman angrily interrupted the first." no one is permitted to talk about ten years ago! It was a flawless plan. "

The first woman laughed." Flawless doesn't exist because even perfection is a flaw! "

Ten years ago? What happened then?

I heard footsteps before the door opened and closed and my mind crept back to its cage.

*

" Karleen! Karleen! Just listen."

F's voice was soft. I mentally opened my mind for the second time, totally ignoring the overwhelming aches in my bones.

"Get well soon, Karleen. We all need you to. You have to fight through this hell, " the voice was masculine and held raw emotions.

I smiled mentally and wished I knew who this kind hearted being was but his next sentence made all of me freeze.

" you need to remember those memories too. But don't remember me, please don't. "

Who are you?
Why don't you want me to remember you?

I was confused. This was getting too much for me to handle. Who are these people? Are they my imagination?

I couldn't tell how long my mind wandered. This time, I didn't need F to bring me out of oblivion. The soft touch and the cruel laugh did.

Another person with a different voice and an entirely different reason for me to know that I was in the middle of an inevitable mess.

"I've missed you. So. Much. So. Much. I hate to see you like this but... You, Karleen will always be my Barbie princess. "

Mac. It's definitely Mac! From that memory, he called me his Barbie princess. He gave me the chain.

" I love you and we could have worked. If only you weren't investigating what happened ten years ago by yourself... You brought this upon yourself. I loved you. "

I can hear you! Who are you? Why are you all messing with my life?

" it's funny how you became an object even sooner than I imagined. I'm not cruel, you just deserved it for being too smart. "

Go! Leave me. F tell them to leave me. I don't want to listen anymore.

He said I became an object sooner. Objects were meant to be used. Objects can't feel. Objects were meant to be discarded when the user got tired.

At that point, realization dawned on me that there was a staggering difference between the old Karleen and the Karleen I've become.

I knew then that my life depended greatly on me continuing from the place old me stopped because that was when everything started - Ten years ago.

They called it a crash but there's more to it than a mere crash on a bicycle.

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