The Real Thing
960 Words
*Beeeeeeppp
I got startled as I heard it again. I closed my eyes out of being startled and the next thing that I'm hearing is my...
Mom!??
"Hey sweetie good morning, I cooked your favorite" mom said.
I opened my eyes and I couldn't believe what I'm seeing and to where I am now.
I am still on my room, laying on the bed.
"Hey sweetie get up already your gonna be late" she said.
"I am waking you up for about five minutes, did you sleep late last night" she added.
I didn't sleep late last night but "yeah, sort of" I said, but it was just a lie.
What is wrong with me? What is happening? I don't know anymore! It was so clear to me that I was already on school. "Arghh" I murmured while face palming.
My mom left me in my room saying "I cooked your favorite, come on let's eat"
I followed her to the kitchen, she's preparing it. What could it be? Maybe it's my favorite toast, or bacon and egg, or adobo (A Filipino dish).
"I know you'll love it" she said while approaching me.
She handed me the plate and "oh it's- it's- What is it called again?" I said. I didn't even know what this is.
"It's your favorite sweetie" she said while giving me a smile. Her smile is different. It feels like she's a different person. Why do I feel that she's some sort of a stranger?
I turned my back on her. I don't know what to say to her, What just happened to her? I don't have the feeling that she's my mom.
I don't know anymore, What is happening!.
Out of nowhere I said "Who are you?"
I don't know why I said those words all of a sudden.
"PLEASE WAKE UP" she said. I was so confused when I heard her say that.
I turned but- What!?..
She's not there. It's like she vanished through thin air.
I don't know what to do!
Out of nowhere " someone please help me" I said while my eyes are closed and my hands on my ears. All of a sudden, I felt something on my face.
I touched my face and I couldn't believe it.
I am wearing the mask!
I quickly took it off. I don't know but eversince my mom gave me this mask. I know it's so much weird to think that all that has happened was caused by this mere mask.
Everything else got weird and strange and somehow, it scares me so.
I decided to toss the mask on the trash outside. But It flew away in the street road.
I was about to pick it up but I didn't notice that there was a car about to pass by.
It's fast. I can't think of anything and I can't move my body, its like it got frozen.
But I have this unexplainable feeling. It feels like I wanted to get hit by the car.
I closed my eyes, and I was about to get hit but--
"Please wake up" someone said. Her voice is very much familiar to me. It's the voice of my mom. I opened my eyes slowly then I saw her,
Crying.
She touched me in the face, and it's warm. For one moment, I just realized that this is real, I know this time for sure that it's real.
I don't know what to say.I have too many questions swirling on my mind right now.
"I missed you so much sweetie" mom said while still touching me in the face.
I looked around and realized that I was like on a hospital.
What? How do I get in here? What just happened to me?
"Mom, what am I doing here? What is happening" I said.
"I missed you so much sweetie, I'm so glad that you're awake, you're back" she said then she hugged me.
Mom told me everything.
She said that the breaks on my car got off and my car got out of control.
She said that my car stopped by the train track.
She said that my car got hit by a TRAIN. Luckily, I was alive. Am I some sort of a superhero or something? Honestly, it's kinda impossible to believe that I've survived.
"Your father and I got a call by that day saying that you got into an accident so we rushed to get back here" she added.
I was totally shock and I couldn't think of anything right now. What day is it when it happened? I forgot to ask my mom about that.
But something came up with my mind, I suddenly remember something about the train. As I recall...
It was when my mom and dad are still out of the country.
I thought it's been already 2 years since the pandemic.
I thought the pandemic was over.
I thought all things got back to normal.
It's unbelievable to think that,
all of what I thought is a dream, is actually the real thing.
I have so many questions, but I couldn't spit a little word.
I don't know the cause of all that has happened.
I know that I know it.
It's on my mind but I couldn't think of it. I couldn't remember what it was.
"We couldn't find your things from the scene of the accident, people say there might be someone who stole your things before they reported the accident" mom said
"This was the only ones left with you when they rescued you" she added while putting those things beside me.
I looked at the things and it's just three of them.
It's my car keys, a broken mirror,
And a MASK.
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