De Ja Vu

Once in Torrington, there was a girl named Lucie, wanting herself to be involved in everything…Not thinking if her peers are comfortable with her around.

Sometimes finding herself aloof in the corner. No wonder she is a shy girl, a girl wanting attention and was longing to feel belong.

“Hey, what’s wrong with that girl, she keeps following us. She is somewhat annoying…”, a girl said.

“Yeah, that’s true. Everybody in the campus got pissed whenever she put herself into conversations she did not know.’, the other one said.

She heard all of that, every morning she encounter hearing such murmurs. But she can’t do anything. She just smiles and smiles and smiles through all those people.

One day, while walking through the corridor, she bumped someone and when she looks up, he saw this guy, John. She was unable to speak; she stared a very, very long time.

“Oh, sorry. Are you hurt or something? Oh well I guess not. Bye then.”, the guy said.

Lucie was truly amazed. She can’t believe it, that someone will talk to her and asked if she is okay. Without noticing it, she begins to fell in love with that guy.

John used to call her and talk to her, for John, Lucie was just a friend that’s all. But for Lucie, it is not like that.

“Hey, is this admiration? No!!! It’s…it’s Love!!!”, she then shout in her room.

From that day, wherever John goes, she follows. When John goes to the cafeteria, she goes to.

“Look at that girl; she kept following that guy…She looks so desperate. I feel pity for her.”, the girls kept talking about Lucie.

Lucie did not find herself pitiful, instead she felt herself lucky to find a guy like John. But she did know John has a girlfriend. She kept following John.

Everybody thought that Lucie was crazy, a stalker. Until one day, she found out finally that John was starting to stay away from her and that he has a girlfriend. She can’t believe it. She can’t accept it. For her, her world turned upside down.

She locked herself in her apartment room. She did not eat for couple of days, she did go to school anymore. Her colleagues worried about her so much, that they visited Lucie in her apartment. But Lucie did not entertain them , she wants to be alone.

“Why doesn’t people can’t understand me…they don’t know about my feelings and thoughts. They don’t know anything!”. She said.

Why do I have to loved such kind of guy? Why do I have to put myself into a situation like this? Was it wrong to fell in love?”, she keeps asking herself.

But then the thought of her comes up, “Eventhough he did not love me, I don’t care! Because I love him…no matter what.”

She fixes herself and goes out to see the world again. To see his beloved John, but before she knew it. John was gone, after the class, she chased John in the street. John could not stop himself running for he didn’t want to be involved with Lucie. Without knowing it, John was hit by a car. And when Lucie came to that place, she saw John on the ground.

No one was accusing her. She herself can’t forgive herself. She got really depressed and tired of living her life. Her miserable life, full of problems and despairs. She ran and ran for miles. She can’t faced everybody, she is ashamed and scared.

By the time, she realized that she ran too far from Torrington. She was in midst of nowhere. She was in a town, a ghost town perhaps. She wanders around the said town looking for people and for…for food.

“Hello?Anybody here?”she asked. But only her echo answered her,

“Hellooooo……Anybody hereeeee…….”.

She was totally scared, totally out of herself. Finally she decided to look for food. She goes to a abandoned grocery store and look for food.

“Food, I need food….or ..or even water….”, she said.

Finally she found an old, moldy bread. She ate it without hesitance. A shy girl turned into a greedy, fierce looking girl. After eating the bread, she walk through the town and found other people. They are all in ages same like her, dressed in an old, dirty rug clothes, walking through their bare feet. They all stare to Lucie, as if they will eat her alive.

“At last people, do you know where I can get enough food? I am still starving…”, she asked.

“No food here”, they all answered in choral.

“Oh I see, maybe one of you know how to get out of this place? I need to go back to Torrington.”, she kept asking.

Then a girl, Charlotte approaches her, “No one can escape here. You will live here.”

“No, no…that’s not true. I can’t live here. I need to go back.”, she yelled.

“Why do you have to go back, if that people doesn’t want you to come back anymore. They don’t like you, you belong here, with us.”, she said.

Lucie was so afraid that she ran again, but Charlotte’s people was too many that they cornered Lucie very fast.

“Accept it Lucie, you belong here with us. We will lived here forever. And no one can interrupt us anymore.”, Charlotte still insisted.

“Look at yourself, you are now a dirty, alone girl. Can’t you see the truth? You’re already dead Lucie. We are all dead here. Our souls wander around and got stuck in here.’

“Dead me? Of course not! It can’t be! I was able to ran for miles from Torrington then I arrived in here. You’re a liar!”, Lucie insisted.

“So you didn’t noticed at all? While you were running from Torrington, you were bumped by a car following you. You had severe head injury that made you die that fast. We saw what happened. Look at the mirror…”, Charlotte said.

Lucie glanced in the mirror just liked Charlotte said. When she opened her eyes, she saw nothing. She can’t see her own reflection. Lucie was totally shocked that she cried and cried and cried out loud. She can’t accept the fact that she was already dead.

“You see? Better lived here with us. Here you will not starve, no one will treat you bad. Here everyone was free to do what he like.”, Charlotte said.

“I don’t care, I want to go back now.”, Lucie yelled.

“Look Lucie, your colleagues hate you. John died because of you.”, Charlotte said.

“I didn’t mean to do that, it was an accident or…or…”, Lucie answered.

She start to ran again and ended in a steep cliff.

“You can’t go anywhere else now….just come with us Lucie.”, Charlotte said.

Then all of those teenagers went up into her and tackles her down into the cliff.

“No……..noooooo…………”, Lucie screamed.

“Lucie, Lucie….wake up. It is time for our Psychology subject.”, Betina said

“Oh…oh…, It was a dream???? That’s impossible.”, Lucie said while she was gasping.

She thought everything that happened to her were all real. It was all a dream, part of her wild imagination.

One day, while she was walking in the corridor of their campus, she saw a guy…which looks familiar to her.

“Hey, who is he???? He looks familiar.”, Lucie wondered.

Then when she heard that the name of that guy was John, she somewhat felt cold and she ran away really fast along the corridor. All of her colleagues were wondering what was Lucie’s problems. All of Lucie’s dream intend to happen in real…Creepy….

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