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Some of my colleagues 320Please respect copyright.PENANArDuqNbSROn
believe that humans cannot repress memories. That memories which are 320Please respect copyright.PENANAHZOVdQrWwL
remembered with the help of someone are just implanted through 320Please respect copyright.PENANAczATtYQJyf
suggestion or hypnosis.320Please respect copyright.PENANAeMjTPyxsVQ
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Utter none sense I say! In a world where320Please respect copyright.PENANA3xpf8poAa2
ether exists, some find it hardest to believe that we humans can 320Please respect copyright.PENANAfwAHvVa8HG
repress our memories. Those scientists and professors are too arrogant 320Please respect copyright.PENANAGsfEtMFsQL
to admit that we know nothing of the brain and what it can do. They want320Please respect copyright.PENANAxf5Qa8dV1P
me to prove without certainty of a doubt that humans can repress 320Please respect copyright.PENANA8iihz5wFGl
memories. Well to that I say, I want them to prove that it cannot. For I320Please respect copyright.PENANA66Wlk37YAB
am not arrogant enough to state I know everything about our brains 320Please respect copyright.PENANA43KL2Bh8ln
capabilities.320Please respect copyright.PENANAFTpZYETKar
'Notes from a lecture by Sig Frind on memories at the Royal Commonwealth College."320Please respect copyright.PENANAMGGvUsxtg8
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David awakened. Not 320Please respect copyright.PENANAqQ6eBkuDDz
wanting to get up out of fear of the wounds and disfigurations he 320Please respect copyright.PENANAaAguzXl7wh
suffered. He closed his eyes. Ignoring reality, ignoring the inevitable,320Please respect copyright.PENANAYw7liwvjIJ
ignoring the pain....wait. David risked moving his hands in front of 320Please respect copyright.PENANAJcCVmZvemf
his face and all the fingers were there. Not only that his hands were 320Please respect copyright.PENANAzJSXZ65spc
undamaged.320Please respect copyright.PENANAC2yHm7jq0b
"Only your physical body320Please respect copyright.PENANAcmmRDXPHwe
was damaged, your ether form is safe." A voice broke David's 320Please respect copyright.PENANArFB4gZQJmR
concentration. "The only reason your eye is gone is because the blast of320Please respect copyright.PENANA3NyTiPw1uu
steam that burned your eye was full of ether."320Please respect copyright.PENANALOYN2hXAlR
A shadowy form appeared.320Please respect copyright.PENANA31I8S0csCX
Jester. Instead of his form constantly shifting and his voice taking 320Please respect copyright.PENANAYZUvRNv235
different intonations, Jester was only wearing a cloak over his body 320Please respect copyright.PENANArl3mmVfAth
hiding any features. And his voice sounded...almost human.320Please respect copyright.PENANAmcE9wCh1kc
"Long time no see, David. Well for you, I've been watching you for a while." Jester laughed as if he said something funny.320Please respect copyright.PENANAYL1GUliC4b
"Am I in the...ether 320Please respect copyright.PENANAlX1EQEO2zp
world again?" David asked looking around, seeing rocks flying around, 320Please respect copyright.PENANA136hscIgB7
storms raging in the skies and shadows flickering in and out of life.320Please respect copyright.PENANAoewdDFDxok
Jester clapped." Indeed! You are learning, maybe you won't be completely useless." 320Please respect copyright.PENANAX85MVcujNX
David was tired, too 320Please respect copyright.PENANAJJCH1cKbAK
tired for Jester. Even so he still stood up. "Jester can we...can we 320Please respect copyright.PENANAMofPuXDqoW
just all this?" David waved his hands in the space between the two.320Please respect copyright.PENANAfZIgw0pXj6
The shadowy hood cocked 320Please respect copyright.PENANAQXOo5pGkMg
to a side. "Oh, that's just boring." David began a reply but Jester 320Please respect copyright.PENANAS5wrvJbi8A
interrupted him. "Very well, if it'll save me from your nagging. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAA2VbjYC0Ne
Knowing what's waiting for you in the real world, you'd think you'd be 320Please respect copyright.PENANAigXvxItnuI
more grateful."320Please respect copyright.PENANAK6vr1fbqQk
"I..."320Please respect copyright.PENANAumWJpR2aWG
"I went through all the trouble of getting you here. Hiding my presence from my brother and other mages. Honestly some people."320Please respect copyright.PENANAYb8XL8xIJz
David groaned in 320Please respect copyright.PENANAT2PheuyqZ7
annoyance. "I've just been tortured for the better part of my day. Even 320Please respect copyright.PENANAabmlRI3dof
if my body isn't feeling it, my mind is. So if you can get to your 320Please respect copyright.PENANARus5lyjUnu
falling point, that'd be fly."320Please respect copyright.PENANA5AATdGlCUX
Jester muttered something David couldn't hear. "Very well. What do you remember of your childhood?"320Please respect copyright.PENANAZ3E2AZKiv7
David was startled by the question "What does that have to do with anything?"320Please respect copyright.PENANA9CFHdUDOEI
"Well it's the main point of my visit, and you did say you wanted to stop playing games. What about your mother.?"320Please respect copyright.PENANAefdXvXPDr2
A headache, feeling of resentment. "She's dead, or alive. I don't flying care."320Please respect copyright.PENANAOL2DZniqty
"Have you ever wondered why you don't remember your childhood?"320Please respect copyright.PENANAzgEhQKcbz4
"How do you even..." Then David had a realization. "It was you? Were you the one who took my memory?"320Please respect copyright.PENANAHG4QB0kHLu
Jester giggled and put his hands up. "Guilty."320Please respect copyright.PENANAdWiZ7uYHq1
David shouted and 320Please respect copyright.PENANAbHcP57QynS
tackled the cloaked figure. His mind couldn't take it. After all that 320Please respect copyright.PENANAJSgNYby3E5
torture and Jester's games, after all the pain and loneliness, after all320Please respect copyright.PENANAocDq78Dyu9
the deaths, David just wanted to blame someone. "Give back my life!" He320Please respect copyright.PENANA2xTmJt2tKl
punched inside Jesters hood, meeting only air. "Give back my freedom!" 320Please respect copyright.PENANAgfRDiDdkx3
Another punch. "Give back my happiness!" Tears joined the third punch, 320Please respect copyright.PENANAibuuudAr1x
which was David's last as Jester started cackling and dissolved into 320Please respect copyright.PENANA1AYWuG8z4n
mist.320Please respect copyright.PENANANU09Hpb0uF
Jester's voice came from320Please respect copyright.PENANA7BTNIEfTek
behind. "Do you truly think, your misfortune sterns from me?" David 320Please respect copyright.PENANA4jFT6UQ1OB
could see surround shadows gathering around him. "What of everyone 320Please respect copyright.PENANAKIGyG47xAP
you've betrayed? People who would've called you their friend or lover. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAONSULdxheE
Killed or abandoned for coin or survival. The shadows seemed to be 320Please respect copyright.PENANAGCxOKKdoCX
creating a circle around Jester and David.320Please respect copyright.PENANAvfnFM3kDSr
"You're lying to yourself. You..." 320Please respect copyright.PENANAbHjeWHjhZ7
"Shut up!" David 320Please respect copyright.PENANAfOn6Fhh7EG
struggled to get up. "Shut your falling mouth. You don't know me, I 320Please respect copyright.PENANA31yZiTccAc
don't care if you're one of the five, or a demon, or a falling figment 320Please respect copyright.PENANAI1RmmLOH82
of my imagination only I know what or who I am!"320Please respect copyright.PENANAA7hhusC0QZ
Jester gave another 320Please respect copyright.PENANAj7qf2TSrGg
laugh, a laugh that chilled David to the bone. Don't I? What makes you 320Please respect copyright.PENANAQX0hDW8zm1
so sure? Or are you just trying to convince yourself because you're 320Please respect copyright.PENANAdtExsszScX
afraid of the truth?" 320Please respect copyright.PENANAeFIvipsmVF
"I'm not afraid,I'm..." 320Please respect copyright.PENANAlK95ziMMHC
"You're what? A 320Please respect copyright.PENANAV9QP8CUXs8
despicable human being? True. A murderer, liar and cheat? Also correct. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAXgW38dnkjc
But allow me to show you something, something that will make everything 320Please respect copyright.PENANAeLBE4JR7hs
you've done not matter." 320Please respect copyright.PENANAM0LJrOKQTY
The shadows completely 320Please respect copyright.PENANACoRFzIowBT
surrounded the two of them now. "Allow me to show you the why you're 320Please respect copyright.PENANAy1cpVcVahZ
afraid. Allow me to show you why you forgot your childhood. Allow me 320Please respect copyright.PENANAETVrJcl1pI
show you why this world needs to die." Jester put his hand over David's 320Please respect copyright.PENANAx8h6ZqNxKi
eye and shadows swallowed him.320Please respect copyright.PENANARJiTafxLqi
Shadows parting, David 320Please respect copyright.PENANAUGAc5rdzbg
found himself in a room. Bottles and rubbish littering the floor. A 320Please respect copyright.PENANAgq8uY6Wznf
woman in the middle of the floor, flailing and screaming from pain. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAxeloOfauJw
David could see her so clearly as if he wasn't in the fade anymore. No 320Please respect copyright.PENANANbLz7NZxW0
more shadowy figures or echoes. Just an improvished room and David's 320Please respect copyright.PENANAY2sbru9oqm
mother320Please respect copyright.PENANAbMexJWeFln
"This is my memory." 320Please respect copyright.PENANAuhy82fk1cZ
Jester said as he appeared besides David. "You claimed I don't know 320Please respect copyright.PENANA5N4QeqinPg
you, yet I might just be the person who knows you the most.320Please respect copyright.PENANA8C5ACc14Ij
David didn't reply to 320Please respect copyright.PENANAwNzH3elKhM
that. He just looked at the woman as various feelings rose within him. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAlxGQOGR2mH
Love, longing, loneliness, but most of all hate.320Please respect copyright.PENANAWHsvNtLwRZ
Unaware of what was 320Please respect copyright.PENANA5l5lmeDxHt
inside David's mind, Jester continued. "From the time that you were 320Please respect copyright.PENANA0etDYLpJS8
conceived, when your father raped your mother neither the first nor last320Please respect copyright.PENANAcJnhjz2sPC
time. Your poor mother, she loved your father with all her heart, 320Please respect copyright.PENANAbUoIFtk0mx
despite his many, many faults. It is rather amusing how such a man can 320Please respect copyright.PENANARub9du6RJL
find true love and yet you cannot." David didn't rise to the bait. "She 320Please respect copyright.PENANAtBq3odmipV
tried getting rid of you, taking herbs and the like, it didn't work. She320Please respect copyright.PENANAPniijYzHQq
was even tempted to stab herself in the stomach but she was too scared 320Please respect copyright.PENANAspl2yyHJJ6
she would die. A running theme with you Oxthornes, fear of death."320Please respect copyright.PENANAuzVlVbUcPl
Finally the screams of 320Please respect copyright.PENANA9hBMwuGg7N
pain were replaced by the screams of a baby. Whispers from the babies 320Please respect copyright.PENANAo6Ornnb0Dm
mother reached David as if she was speaking to him. "Quiet, just stay 320Please respect copyright.PENANAsde1fMnc2z
quiet. You ruined my life, he stopped loving me because of you. You. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAxxiPYe2F31
You. You." The baby started crying louder, screeching the woman grabbed 320Please respect copyright.PENANAsljpsMZeb1
the baby's throat and squeezed.320Please respect copyright.PENANAoWmCY90Q5h
David could feel his 320Please respect copyright.PENANAjZWlgJQJ5a
throat contract, the air trapped in his lungs, extending them beyond 320Please respect copyright.PENANAAVzEmnktme
their capacity. The shock made him go to his knee. "This is when you 320Please respect copyright.PENANA1EWk8P5052
died." David could hear Jesters voice in the back of his head. Just as 320Please respect copyright.PENANAvDKPKPjQdk
the room began spinning his breath and vision returned and the crying 320Please respect copyright.PENANAXbwL1Ih5WJ
stopped.320Please respect copyright.PENANAqPZoaeTQWO
"Oh, nonononono." The 320Please respect copyright.PENANADprPsGiMKM
woman wailed. She put the baby gently on the floor and started pushing 320Please respect copyright.PENANAfs7i0oihEy
on its chest. Gently at first, and then with more distress. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAPtGqw7YuqX
"You who were supposed 320Please respect copyright.PENANAZ5WAe3Cykc
to die, defied death." Thus the baby started crying again, weakly at 320Please respect copyright.PENANAlhs2Y8qQaO
first but then gained more vigor. "Yet by dying you became closer to 320Please respect copyright.PENANAo95HeD0e4v
the etherworld, susceptible to its inhabitants." 320Please respect copyright.PENANAH3KC5jA7fQ
Coughing David stood up 320Please respect copyright.PENANA9r4xXOJqmY
and looked at the mother and son figure...No he looked at him and his 320Please respect copyright.PENANAh7eHZbCJg8
mother. David didn't want to believe this image, yet deep down he knew 320Please respect copyright.PENANA1P92li2WkI
it was the truth. "Did...were you the one who brought me back?"320Please respect copyright.PENANAU7aMlOsEcT
"No, it was a small 320Please respect copyright.PENANAeoRdHhEDkg
miracle, for all of us." David was unsure if he should believe Jester 320Please respect copyright.PENANA97qqZKoT3i
but before he could question it anymore his vision changed again.320Please respect copyright.PENANAI9JBuU245E
He was staring at the 320Please respect copyright.PENANArUODAkwKF2
wom...his mummy. His mummy who loved him and took care of him, David was320Please respect copyright.PENANAvKwXfMeisi
only good at one thing, getting in the way of his mummy's work. He 320Please respect copyright.PENANAUN6CCrkXLp
learned to be quiet after the first few times she slapped him, he 320Please respect copyright.PENANAFEa6nKy4xt
deserved it because mummy did her best to provide for him and David was 320Please respect copyright.PENANACcv9R5g452
just a useless existence, just like his mummy said.320Please respect copyright.PENANANzBBQtXNE0
But today David got to be usefull. He had the opportunity to make his mummy proud and happy.320Please respect copyright.PENANARYrTH45c31
"There you go, David." She said brushing his hair with her hand. "You will make mummy proud, won't you?"320Please respect copyright.PENANAhOBO3fVETV
"I will!" Came a squeaky320Please respect copyright.PENANAp9XqMGzSp3
voice. "I will make you proud..est!" David said as he put a book down.320Please respect copyright.PENANArWY4GmMGEQ
David was unsure what the name or what the words inside said but it had320Please respect copyright.PENANAwfjeRID05F
pictures of flying ships and heroes, something he wanted to be when he 320Please respect copyright.PENANAlKOQH8nQh2
was an adult.320Please respect copyright.PENANA60QoXNRfTK
A knock came from a door320Please respect copyright.PENANA9Lbt7aOPpu
and David's mummy went to answer it. She spoke to someone in hushed 320Please respect copyright.PENANAGhSh63UAJ9
tones and then left the room without giving David a glance back. In her 320Please respect copyright.PENANA0kEpvCN254
stead a stranger came. David had never seen the man before and he was 320Please respect copyright.PENANAVXfP7PJitf
scared of strangers. Whenever a stranger came in with his mummy he was 320Please respect copyright.PENANAdoBT1M4wt7
supposed to be quiet otherwise he wouldn't get food and get slapped for 320Please respect copyright.PENANAFn6VCWCO9E
being a bad boy.320Please respect copyright.PENANAQAuowIcWc6
That's why he didn't 320Please respect copyright.PENANACo5OT617Mj
speak, didn't move, didn't look at the stranger. "Speak up boy, what's 320Please respect copyright.PENANAjUthHKovlB
your name?" The man said in a haughty voice.320Please respect copyright.PENANArHeMfNpDPe
"D..david" the answer 320Please respect copyright.PENANA1B5SxMLugV
came in a whisper. The stranger grunted and came closer to David, moving320Please respect copyright.PENANAYIX00y8UmB
empty bottles with his boots. "I said speak up."320Please respect copyright.PENANAfjydmylFNf
"David!" Came out the reply, which sounded too loud in David's ears.320Please respect copyright.PENANAxUu3YmuQ8h
The man put his hands on320Please respect copyright.PENANAkm1xI7QjNW
Davids shoulders and smiled. "David? I'm David aswell, David Hozzelpoff320Please respect copyright.PENANAJKlllWbWJc
to be exact. Do you recognize my name?"320Please respect copyright.PENANAhEzLw9EiJg
David meekly shook his 320Please respect copyright.PENANAtx3vkU7Hc6
head and was shoved to the floor. David hit the floor hard, losing his 320Please respect copyright.PENANAjUYGptvAyX
breath. "I am the greatest mind of this century!" He crouched down 320Please respect copyright.PENANADBcs6zF3ly
putting his face next to Davids. "Soon everyone will know my name, no 320Please respect copyright.PENANADA6vYMQPXX
matter what my colleagues say or what rumors they spread." He said but 320Please respect copyright.PENANAAqVHDU7xWy
the anger was slowly leaving his voice. "You must understand, I'm not 320Please respect copyright.PENANApoPXiQMOBw
usually like this, but...but sometime you just reach that point. I'm a 320Please respect copyright.PENANArdcOluWcnx
good man I have a bright future and sometimes you just need obstacles, 320Please respect copyright.PENANAf3pp1fd1E3
you are just that an obstacle that I must conquer." The man was 320Please respect copyright.PENANAbcqNx3dnaZ
bubbling. Caressing Davids face with his hand, the other one moving down320Please respect copyright.PENANA3e8vplk6Bz
Davids body.320Please respect copyright.PENANAeC59Cgmeun
Please don't. Came adult David's voice320Please respect copyright.PENANAs79rGelcEb
Young David was scared; 320Please respect copyright.PENANAEaGFB198GI
he was used to beatings but not being touched in that way. He tried 320Please respect copyright.PENANABTrVMINhvT
wiggling away from the man pinned David down with his greater weight. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAqFJ1ypan90
"Stop resisting." Derek hissed. "If everyone just didn't resist I 320Please respect copyright.PENANA3umXX2h32W
wouldn't be here I wouldn't need to do anything."320Please respect copyright.PENANAqoAZCMepBd
Help me. Save me. Came the child and adult voice intermixed.320Please respect copyright.PENANApABEsG6jWH
"Mummy, mummy!" David 320Please respect copyright.PENANA4DZfOCtuLl
screamed, tears flowing, a feeling of wetness around his legs. Finally 320Please respect copyright.PENANAwdDUXOrKtD
the man slammed his palm into Davids face. That stopped all resistance, 320Please respect copyright.PENANACBtm8bsQKB
after that day David liked to pretend that he lost consciousness, that 320Please respect copyright.PENANACuhWRsbg0e
everything that happened was a nightmare, but deep down he knew better, 320Please respect copyright.PENANA4DrB6vgAwK
he knew that what he saw and felt was what had happened.320Please respect copyright.PENANAT0vYsqPLTA
David didn't even know 320Please respect copyright.PENANA0iDGO3Lrxj
when the man finished, his mind was blank and when he came to he could 320Please respect copyright.PENANAWOpPkCen8r
see his mummy looking at him. She scoffed. "Clean yourself up, you're a 320Please respect copyright.PENANAHDd1AzAP30
mess. David tried crying but no tears came.320Please respect copyright.PENANALUcXwq4et4
Suddenly the room shifted again and David himself as an adult again. "That was the first time it happened. One of many." 320Please respect copyright.PENANAfquAs8oCFN
David could barely hear 320Please respect copyright.PENANACN6vkmyzlw
jester, as all the memories came flowing back. It overwhelmed him and 320Please respect copyright.PENANABo9MtS3l5o
the tears he couldn't find as a child freely flew out of him and he 320Please respect copyright.PENANA1tZTCvUndQ
screamed into the void. Out of desperation, out of misery, out of pure 320Please respect copyright.PENANAmd6utcCIwA
anger. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAfo8dVa5shh
"There are more 320Please respect copyright.PENANAS4RWP5zJMG
memories. Let me know when you're ready." David looked at jester, whose 320Please respect copyright.PENANA2oRx9b4HU5
form changed again. His hood was down but half of his face was covered 320Please respect copyright.PENANA3W4vMKrgjp
in a dark like substance. The other looked...looked like a normal adult 320Please respect copyright.PENANAEJUZe5mkcC
male. David almost recognized it but couldn't quite place it.320Please respect copyright.PENANAELIZZS56mD
"What else is there to 320Please respect copyright.PENANAdy6XI943ND
remember?" David asked as he got up. Jester just smiled. "Just indulge 320Please respect copyright.PENANATXmwbX4FKZ
me." Jester waved his hand again and David was standing in front of a 320Please respect copyright.PENANATy9oftPPYS
mirror. He could see himself, a young teen. With dead eyes and bruises 320Please respect copyright.PENANAqHk7xcklZx
all around his body. He looked at the glass shard in his hand. The blood320Please respect copyright.PENANA6d8GfLl9tH
that was spilling down his arm and hand was slowly dripping on the 320Please respect copyright.PENANAfhymQPUgc5
floor. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAAYF2FWC054
Even the pain didn't 320Please respect copyright.PENANA6z4mN7ECHh
offer him solace, it used to be that the pain he inflicted on himself 320Please respect copyright.PENANATBTQxSOXWJ
offered an escape, but no more. One flick of the shard though...and 320Please respect copyright.PENANAKmKaAPyoln
everything would be gone.320Please respect copyright.PENANAzdM5IpKf3Q
~Just like that, give up320Please respect copyright.PENANAIMIlrdZLF9
end it all. No one will care. ~ That's right, no one cares. Mother is 320Please respect copyright.PENANAr3C787i8ha
probably with some man, or trying to get someone who was willing to buy 320Please respect copyright.PENANAdH3EWIBmwH
Davids body. Would she really mind if he died. He moved the shard closer320Please respect copyright.PENANAmReR74Lhfs
to his neck, his pulse slowly beating. ~But...what if it gets better? 320Please respect copyright.PENANAtfzoEkiJRs
What if death only brings more pain?~ David paused. "Can't be much worse320Please respect copyright.PENANA1qwDZDbq0Y
than this."320Please respect copyright.PENANALlTGH1sN0W
~STOP! ~ David dropped 320Please respect copyright.PENANAE0836ee7BM
the shard as if burned. ~It will get better. Just survive. Have to 320Please respect copyright.PENANAnwfC3158Ug
survive.~ David dropped on his knees. That's right all he had to is 320Please respect copyright.PENANAHBQ8L9sqX2
survive. Survive and live.320Please respect copyright.PENANAqRIRpVY0Tj
Everything changed again and David could see his reflection. Scarred, rugged and haunted. 320Please respect copyright.PENANATLRxsGDtYj
" that voice, it was yours." More of a statement rather than a question. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAhMFsCgqVeZ
"Indeed." Jester 320Please respect copyright.PENANAHbZx7dCfws
replied. David could actually hear his voice properly, without an echo 320Please respect copyright.PENANASoWCEKtZ1H
or any other effects. He never noticed it before but it did sound a lot 320Please respect copyright.PENANAv006CDboK6
like his own did.320Please respect copyright.PENANACspu62Dazc
"Why did you try 320Please respect copyright.PENANAnME5kfITmK
convincing me to kill myself and then stop me? Why not just let me do 320Please respect copyright.PENANAYByZzntk3D
it?" He said the last part in a whisper; his brain still trying to 320Please respect copyright.PENANALUapsmuE0w
process the influx of memories.320Please respect copyright.PENANA9FfX7gGCEJ
"I've been there since you were a child I..I wanted to offer you an escape, but then I got scared I'd get lonely, if you died,"320Please respect copyright.PENANABtCBAa0hoq
"You expect me to believe that?"320Please respect copyright.PENANAteeWvQKcmP
"Believe what you want."320Please respect copyright.PENANACknSHjd9Dy
"How many times? How many of my thoughts were mine?"320Please respect copyright.PENANA8m489TNFLq
Jester chuckled. "All of320Please respect copyright.PENANAXbwfkApbwm
them really. To make sure you didn't notice anything was out of the 320Please respect copyright.PENANAtHmPjoDWZC
ordinary I had to make it look like they were your thoughts."320Please respect copyright.PENANAAwKlp2Sw3s
"That just 320Please respect copyright.PENANAlcU7YIImrl
means..."David held his head and groaned in pain. "I'm so confused, in 320Please respect copyright.PENANAQmapmW392t
my memories it doesn't like you're trying to be subtle. What changed?320Please respect copyright.PENANApb9nzGcogW
"It's related to the last memory, I'll show you if you're ready."320Please respect copyright.PENANAmZ5qzq1C2J
David nodded. "Do it."320Please respect copyright.PENANAFENlysFdWE
Everything shifted. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAtTwJhaueuz
David was cleaning his 320Please respect copyright.PENANAeR7Oo0W7ed
face, in his middle teens and miserable. He wasn't sure when this 320Please respect copyright.PENANAvVkNQ7JDfN
grounded life started but it's been a long time now. He learned tricks 320Please respect copyright.PENANAf9VI907mB5
on how to make it easier for himself. By pretending the strangers were 320Please respect copyright.PENANA64Tr5oKQxb
important he would save himself a lot of abuse, by guessing how they 320Please respect copyright.PENANA6YbFb3urbI
wanted him to act and acting that way they, sometimes, took pity. Of 320Please respect copyright.PENANAJfQN9ISAym
course not everyone cared; some still had fun abusing a young boy.320Please respect copyright.PENANAkcYc8JALTp
His last one was just 320Please respect copyright.PENANAft8bqKqoF1
that an abuser. David touched his broken-again nose and the eye that was320Please respect copyright.PENANAKG2PW2irLK
barely opening. The bitch would be angry again, his face was supposed 320Please respect copyright.PENANANy7aZbh5sc
to be without bruises. Her clients liked him more when he looked pure. 320Please respect copyright.PENANALTEgTDXCcv
Undamaged goods she loved to say.320Please respect copyright.PENANA4bTrAyUwX7
Right on cue, David 320Please respect copyright.PENANA55Dcnhoskz
could hear the bathroom door opening and she came in. Sneering she 320Please respect copyright.PENANAWDNBQiTL47
slapped David causing him to fall on the floor. "Stupid, idiot boy!" She320Please respect copyright.PENANATbNAn45vBq
slurred. What a surprise the bitch was either drunk or drugged. "One 320Please respect copyright.PENANAKarr7adP7g
thing, don't let them hit your face. And look at you! Useless!" She 320Please respect copyright.PENANAuQflqjfFzj
shrieked and kicked David clumsily.320Please respect copyright.PENANA4fhJyHB6sD
Why was this his life? 320Please respect copyright.PENANAD4bZTdz3Ay
Should he have taken his life, can he still do it? He looked at her and 320Please respect copyright.PENANA8dwzQmawPN
she seems to have taken offense at that. She scratched at his face and 320Please respect copyright.PENANA09QUxjUWY6
came down on him. "How dare you look at me with those eyes! They're his 320Please respect copyright.PENANAYHIZSmhK0B
eyes! Someone like you doesn't deserve them!" She continued in a similar320Please respect copyright.PENANAk5vTJvBpDf
vein trying to get his eyes. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAVenMvsIEm1
~Enough David.~ A voice 320Please respect copyright.PENANAJ04EfaN87B
resounded in his head. David knew that voice, it was his only friend. 320Please respect copyright.PENANABBddXvTRZB
~Fight back.~ David faught against the urge and voice, after all it was 320Please respect copyright.PENANAW8TzW86XeR
still his mother. ~FIGHT BACK~ Finally David extended his arm with force320Please respect copyright.PENANAzoXahP8plm
and met resistance.320Please respect copyright.PENANAVzkNG69CV7
The scratching and 320Please respect copyright.PENANAcHLkD6xcxW
shrieking stopped, he could see his mother on the floor, groaning, 320Please respect copyright.PENANAvMKuPr8kfY
slowly getting up. Thinking quickly David grabbed a glass bottle and hit320Please respect copyright.PENANAcfp1AH3QMl
the bitch with it. Again and again until all that was left was a glass 320Please respect copyright.PENANAkCRHWLerZZ
shard and then he kept stabbing and screaming until his throat and hand 320Please respect copyright.PENANAnNMoLYyCew
was raw. Once he couldn't hold the shard he stopped and laughed.320Please respect copyright.PENANABCBsYIq9PK
Oh god what did he do? 320Please respect copyright.PENANAnbOsZMXVRD
This was his mummy, the one who always protected him, the one who would 320Please respect copyright.PENANAchoyam9oqj
never abandon him a and he..he murdered her. But...no, no, no. She hated320Please respect copyright.PENANAmJu5zH10bB
him did she? Yeah she was a bitch..NO..she was his mother. Was there a 320Please respect copyright.PENANAyPmyxP59Md
difference? David started crying and throwing up. He killed her, he 320Please respect copyright.PENANA1x1L0SODJv
killed her, he killed her. His head felt as it was going to burst, cries320Please respect copyright.PENANAvYmDNY9JIc
replaced the laughter as he rolled on the floor covering himself in 320Please respect copyright.PENANAECB6UeATd2
blood.320Please respect copyright.PENANAAXNSam5WA8
~that's enough David. Forget, forget everything.~ 320Please respect copyright.PENANAO6FwZReaQ8
There was a pause and everything quieted down.320Please respect copyright.PENANA6ao5ePFjAK
A boy named David just 320Please respect copyright.PENANAXaclBtahr7
woke up. Surrounded by empty bottles and rubbish. David shrugged and 320Please respect copyright.PENANAMQgXYKFb6p
winced. He was in pain did he fall? That would explain the blood all 320Please respect copyright.PENANAxguwWyB5vS
over him. Yes he fell and hurt himself. But what about the body...wait 320Please respect copyright.PENANAXGRXntnjYH
what body? David looked around and couldn't see anyone else in the room320Please respect copyright.PENANAbFpttJ4HT0
besides him. Why did his head hurt? Why couldn't he remember what he 320Please respect copyright.PENANA67g2eYtxhc
was...oh that's right. He was going to become a hero and fly on a ship. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAWar1p328sx
Yes, that's what he was about to do when he became all confused, how 320Please respect copyright.PENANAZOwGtfNo8Z
silly of him.320Please respect copyright.PENANAkl6QGUYPlT
Remembering his 320Please respect copyright.PENANAE3GKFhOITp
objective, David opened the door and left his old life behind. To enter 320Please respect copyright.PENANAcDMrugI6wD
his living room and find his dad, mum and brother sitting at a round 320Please respect copyright.PENANAvLOi2cwZ5V
table preparing a meal. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAnt1mxgvOCf
"There you are David!" 320Please respect copyright.PENANAGjvRhQ4DiB
His dad said. "We've been waiting forever, come on I can't wait to start320Please respect copyright.PENANADOPhA2aec9
eating!" He started hitting his utensils on the table. 320Please respect copyright.PENANADQVGGBTRaB
This isn't the truth.320Please respect copyright.PENANAY5J31wkaaX
David obligingly sat 320Please respect copyright.PENANAs5PIj7wjAe
down. "Oh stop, honey. You're going to give children bad manners." His 320Please respect copyright.PENANAAm1zLob5dY
mum chided playfully. As she put the food on the table and ruffled his 320Please respect copyright.PENANAXieL1Oor1G
brothers hair. Sitting down next to David and giving him a warm smile.320Please respect copyright.PENANArn0iaTgktr
A dream, nothing else.320Please respect copyright.PENANAmYDGCVnhr8
They all thanked the 320Please respect copyright.PENANAafJs08Yxok
gods for what they had and started eating. Yes thankful for this happy, 320Please respect copyright.PENANAwoQWH55IsG
oblivious life. Thankful for good and supportive parents. Thankful for 320Please respect copyright.PENANAtxn8XiqcRC
this lie.320Please respect copyright.PENANA76SiUPkHXQ
A lie that has to end.320Please respect copyright.PENANAJZIrqNnnGv
David was standing at 320Please respect copyright.PENANAm6zN8hW0RC
the table.. He was sure this wasn't part of any memories, but he was 320Please respect copyright.PENANAMaoDfuCuCR
sure that the boy was him, a happier more healthy him, and the woman was320Please respect copyright.PENANAnJaNn3yFMx
his real mother or atleast someone who looked like her. While the 320Please respect copyright.PENANAt9pHVt0GuT
brother and man? Something that might've happened if he was luckier? 320Please respect copyright.PENANArgyFR64pOv
Either way David hated 320Please respect copyright.PENANAv2ZAjXkGfp
this. Why, why, why, why didn't he get this happy blissful life. Why 320Please respect copyright.PENANAUJgAYSazFw
didn't he get a father who would teach him to become a proper man, why 320Please respect copyright.PENANAuQyIzyx2J2
didn't he get a mother who consoled him when he hurt? Why was he all 320Please respect copyright.PENANAwoy2eQ5DGs
alone, without a brother or any other sibling. Why does THIS pale 320Please respect copyright.PENANA3H4SxiWLzV
imitation of his deserves this good life, he'll never appreciate. Why 320Please respect copyright.PENANALtUMSCQlSU
does anyone. When there's so many suffering why do only few deserve to 320Please respect copyright.PENANABnVtH8l2cy
life this happy blissful life?320Please respect copyright.PENANAm9g17HYPrC
The answer was so simple320Please respect copyright.PENANACCCQfPtVpp
that David almost laughed. It didn't come in a whisper by someone else,320Please respect copyright.PENANAT2QzgzWIdu
it was his own and he fully knew it. They didn't, they didn't deserve 320Please respect copyright.PENANANLDnCCkytB
this life, no one did. Thus there was only one solution to end it all, 320Please respect copyright.PENANAkhUNmd3RsW
end all misery either present or one that will come in the future. 320Please respect copyright.PENANAjkNYhxb49Y
David decided to start 320Please respect copyright.PENANAKUVKpKCqW5
with this lie, he took the knife and plunged it into his young self. "No320Please respect copyright.PENANAhEEB2zN3O5
more lies." He took it out and stabbed his father. "No more regrets." 320Please respect copyright.PENANARzqLCJowtJ
Next his brother. "No more tears." And finally he stabbed his own 320Please respect copyright.PENANARsUeOgJpFX
mother. "No more mercy."320Please respect copyright.PENANAIGFLniX5pP
With the last stab 320Please respect copyright.PENANATQzkLbbgAC
everything fell apart piece by piece and David found himself staring at 320Please respect copyright.PENANAKaS3pJ12GY
his own shadowy reflection. The only thing surrounding them was the vast320Please respect copyright.PENANAQDHJAKWtct
emptiness.
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