“Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool…” “Ugh mom, dad I can’t take any more of this. I am going for a walk outside.” “Okay come back by seven.” My little brother’s nursery rhyme was destroying my brain! I decided to take a little break and head outside. It was dark and a little chilly but at least I had my beanie and my hoodie to keep me warm. I walked through the empty street with my headphones in, the road looked pretty clear, so I decided to walk across. Then I saw a faint light in the distance, it was coming crazy fast. I realized what it was a car. I tried getting out of the way, but I was too late. I awoke……later, I wasn’t sure if it had been seconds, minutes, hours? But I had awoken someplace different, it was bright, and I was just floating, it just all seemed like…. nothingness. I had so many questions like, where was I? Why did I come here? And how did I come here? My mind was blank, I couldn’t remember anything, it was all gone just like this place. I looked around and even tried moving but nothing happened. After a little bit I saw a light and it came at me crazy fast. I couldn’t believe it i-it was the car again. I tried moving out of the way, but nothing happened. I couldn’t do anything. I felt the same pain when the car smashed into me once again. I awoke in the same place in the same state, I saw the flash once again, the car smashed into me again, and again, and again and I was helpless, I couldn’t defend myself and I would just feel the agony over and over again. I felt like a prisoner locked up tight getting beaten up not just once or twice but hundred of times and not having the guts to get up and fight. Wait, that’s the problem. I’m no trying anything; I’ve got to think. Think Veronica think “please get me out of here, please get me out of here, please get me out of here……” whoosh “huh?” The car smashed into the wall, “but how come it didn’t hit me?” Then I noticed. I was somewhere different, I mean I was still in the same empty place, I was just in a different spot. Somehow, I transported here. I saw the car coming again but this time I was out of the way, so the car whizzed past me and smashed into the wall once again. I saw another light but this time it was a dull black light. It came closer to me and I was able to make out what it was, a shadow, of me. It grabbed my arm and together we disappeared. We transported again but this time we weren’t in the white blank place, we were in a factory of some sort and there were people who just like me who looked just like me on some conveyer belts, at least I saw a familiar face, faces? There were hundred, thousands, millions!? I couldn’t tell. “What is this place, why are there…. clones of me?” The “me” shadow said nothing and just pulled me over to a simple chair. It pointed me to sit, so I did. Then I saw two, “what are you doing?” I asked suspiciously. She stuck the tubed on my head and I already felt it getting heavier and turned on what seemed like and on switch of some sort, “aaaaaaaaaaaaah!” “WHAT WAS THAT?! WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BRAIN?” The shadow didn’t say anything. I saw a little tube of some sort it had a blue and red blob in it, it looked like a virus of some sort. “This is your brain” said the shadow finally, she had a quite raspy voice and it sounded like multiple others were talking with her. “So, if this is my brain then how come I can still talk and speak?” “Every being has two brains one stays with them and one gets transferred in this tube.” She brought one of the clones over and she sat on the chair beside me. They opened her head and I gagged in disgust. The poured the blob into the clone’s head. I watched in fascination as the clone stood up. The shadow asked her a few questions like what is your name? Who are your parents? And where do you live? “Send her up” said the shadow. “wait where is she going?” I asked “She’s going up to the world” The shadow started walking away. “Why is she going up there” “because your family needs to stay happy” “If you mean me not dying, then why can’t I just go back up there? I mean I am alive here right?” “Are you really?” What do you mean?” “When you got hit by the car in this realm, why do you think you never got any bruises?” “Your dead Veronica you are just a poor soul now, wandering here and there.” “You are just like all the others who once came here.” “No that can’t be! I want to got back to my family!” “That is what everyone wishes” said the shadow. I sniffled. “Are you saying that no one ever really dies?” “It is complicated, every time you die another clone is delivered to Earth.” “Wait have I died before?” “That information cannot be revealed, for now you will stay in a room until your life is truly over” “Will I just die of old age?” “Yes, that is how the life cycle works.”
