I don't Remember

Characters: (all 16 years old)

• Calliope (girl)

• Clementine (girl)

• Davina (girl)

• Echo (boy)

• Chandler (boy)

“Do you remember us?” sighed Calliope.

About 10 years ago, a case was reported of four missing teens in Illinois, Chicago, and were later found dead under the roof of an unknown property.

After a thorough investigation that took almost three years, the detectives were ready to present the case to a lawyer in court where the judge gets to decide if the case is dismissed. It was one of the most interesting yet complicated cases they’ve received in the past five years which led to ten different court visits, and other departments to review the case, and for that reason the judge has finally announced the case to be dismissed without prejudice.

In New York City, Chandler worked as a traffic officer in the NYPD as a 19-year-old with his dad which worked as a detective, he started his shifts from 7 am till 12 pm, however, in a very hot, steaming day he had to cover shifts for a friend, he had to work for 3 hours more than usual and that caused him to faint and enter a coma.

“It’s been three days already” screamed Chandler’s father, “We can confirm he’s alive, but we can’t do anything whilst he’s in a coma,” said the doctor.

After five days, Chandler woke up terrified and asking to see a therapist as soon as possible, they tried calming him down, but he wouldn’t stop mumbling.

They got him a therapist and he privately sat with her in the room,

“What’s wrong?” the therapist questioned, “I…I… I had a really weird dream that gave me flash backs, I think it means something.” Chandler replied, “Go ahead” she said…

“About three years ago I was on a school trip, gladly I had my friends with me, we were going to the international park, and while we are there, we decided to run away so that we won’t have to return to school, we could just call our parents after, we planned a whole escape, we first decided to buy some food for some hours, and when we did, we then headed to the end of the park which was the opposite side of the school buses, we went out the backdoor and heard a teacher screaming for us to come back, so first thing that came to mind was to run, and we kept racing until we reached this property, it was a house on sale for about two years, at least that’s what the sign stated”

He added “we came in to hide, and it was a really big mansion, we sat in the living room area waiting for the buses to leave, and once they left we walked around the house to discover it, we went into a basement but it was so different from normal basements, it had an underground pool and many games, it was so clean like someone had been here a couple days ago, it was surprisingly amazing and huge, never have I ever wanted to live in a basement this bad.

We stayed under there and ate our food while talking and playing with some of the board and video games, until we hear a knock from a small moving brick in the side of the room, we back off from the hole and someone suddenly pops up “AAAA” we all screamed with frighten, A man with black gear, mask and outfit, no one could identify him, he locked us in handcuffs, tied us into a chair, closed our mouths with duct tape and went back down, we were all panicking trying to figure out an escape plan, its already been fifteen minutes and we were all struggling to get out, but finally my slim hands went off the handcuffs, I untied myself and was willing to help the others but it was too late so I hid in the cabinet, “Weren’t there five of you?” sighed the man, and he harshly pulled the tape from Davina’s mouth, “ Weren’t there five of you?” he repeated angrily, “No, no, there were only four of us initially” she replied, he taped her again with suspicion, he still felt that something weird has happened since he left them and came back.

“I don’t know how to explain this to you but let me sum it up by saying you shouldn’t have come to this house at all, because anyone that enters, never exists” he announced. We were all looking at him scared to death, crying, but he didn’t even have emotion, all he did was give us a death stare.

He spins around and he reaches to his pockets and points a gun at Clementine, “You’re the first to go I guess” he said, “NO, NOO!” sobbed Clementine, she was hardly able to talk or scream from the tape, and the next thing we hear was a gun shot, and the sound of splattering blood all over the floor, I gasped so hard that I nearly got caught, I heard all my friends shouting and crying so hard I just couldn’t help them, sadly they’ve all been murdered that second, and I wasn’t holding up well, it has only been a couple minutes in and I’m already starting to sweat which was a really big problem while I was in a closet, Although soon enough I started hearing more noise as if more people had come, and I’ve heard their conversation about digging the bodies in the backyard which was truly tragic, I felt really lost and sad, my mind couldn’t take it anymore, I lost my family and my ability to make change, I blamed all on myself”

“Do you think this is just a built-up imagination considering your illness in the past?” the therapist questioned Chandler, “What do you mean an imagination” “I would never fake something like that” he replied.

“Alright, so what happened next?” the therapist said, “ I.. I don’t really remember, that’s all I got” he sighed.

The next day, Chandler walked up to the international park to keep the memory of his friends alive, he just sat down on the chair and started talking to them quietly, “Where are you guys now? I missed you so much, please tell me there’s hope”

“Chandler wake up already!!” shouted Echo, “Don’t leave us hanging” added Davina, “HELLOOOOO?” said Calliope.

Chandler slowly wakes up saying “Where am I?”.

“In the hospital” said Echo, “What, how, why?” Chandler questioned, “You fell while we were running” said Davina, “Do you remember us?” sighed Calliope, “Yes, your alive oh my god” Chandler shouted with excitement while all his friends looked at him weirdly, “It was all a dream” he whispered to himself with relief.