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believe that humans cannot repress memories. That memories which are 324Please respect copyright.PENANAwXDiZIyZ4e
remembered with the help of someone are just implanted through 324Please respect copyright.PENANA3fGaFB156K
suggestion or hypnosis.324Please respect copyright.PENANAWVOpK1x6pe
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Utter none sense I say! In a world where324Please respect copyright.PENANAwkuz37IRjw
ether exists, some find it hardest to believe that we humans can 324Please respect copyright.PENANAx1m2YWQQUH
repress our memories. Those scientists and professors are too arrogant 324Please respect copyright.PENANAnqgWWChpDq
to admit that we know nothing of the brain and what it can do. They want324Please respect copyright.PENANAVITsgn7nbi
me to prove without certainty of a doubt that humans can repress 324Please respect copyright.PENANAJaFYZlKImq
memories. Well to that I say, I want them to prove that it cannot. For I324Please respect copyright.PENANAbD4fVtLQBC
am not arrogant enough to state I know everything about our brains 324Please respect copyright.PENANA2HKPtyIMml
capabilities.324Please respect copyright.PENANA2PqKMFgF7X
'Notes from a lecture by Sig Frind on memories at the Royal Commonwealth College."324Please respect copyright.PENANARldevL8l42
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David awakened. Not 324Please respect copyright.PENANALBaInYXz81
wanting to get up out of fear of the wounds and disfigurations he 324Please respect copyright.PENANAKmBtsePZRw
suffered. He closed his eyes. Ignoring reality, ignoring the inevitable,324Please respect copyright.PENANAZQQpXyhv6W
ignoring the pain....wait. David risked moving his hands in front of 324Please respect copyright.PENANAynztvuwBqE
his face and all the fingers were there. Not only that his hands were 324Please respect copyright.PENANA1elUf65i2Q
undamaged.324Please respect copyright.PENANA00BDDSiZN6
"Only your physical body324Please respect copyright.PENANAwPFOrZE5og
was damaged, your ether form is safe." A voice broke David's 324Please respect copyright.PENANAKCKqdhJce2
concentration. "The only reason your eye is gone is because the blast of324Please respect copyright.PENANAfJFaeJn1VL
steam that burned your eye was full of ether."324Please respect copyright.PENANAWEUFRmbkyM
A shadowy form appeared.324Please respect copyright.PENANAHmKeKbP0lr
Jester. Instead of his form constantly shifting and his voice taking 324Please respect copyright.PENANAdE7DbWoy33
different intonations, Jester was only wearing a cloak over his body 324Please respect copyright.PENANAoLlWILtwOQ
hiding any features. And his voice sounded...almost human.324Please respect copyright.PENANAB8khxShhEz
"Long time no see, David. Well for you, I've been watching you for a while." Jester laughed as if he said something funny.324Please respect copyright.PENANAzgLc1srDvd
"Am I in the...ether 324Please respect copyright.PENANA9yK8WGF0kP
world again?" David asked looking around, seeing rocks flying around, 324Please respect copyright.PENANAyh61XE1JW4
storms raging in the skies and shadows flickering in and out of life.324Please respect copyright.PENANAcE3ROTs0gD
Jester clapped." Indeed! You are learning, maybe you won't be completely useless." 324Please respect copyright.PENANAAyvmjVMmqp
David was tired, too 324Please respect copyright.PENANA932iby60Cj
tired for Jester. Even so he still stood up. "Jester can we...can we 324Please respect copyright.PENANAnkJuyMm3PJ
just all this?" David waved his hands in the space between the two.324Please respect copyright.PENANAOulJq10aIs
The shadowy hood cocked 324Please respect copyright.PENANA4CmBzscT7Q
to a side. "Oh, that's just boring." David began a reply but Jester 324Please respect copyright.PENANAb4eNtngt5Z
interrupted him. "Very well, if it'll save me from your nagging. 324Please respect copyright.PENANAnbxNZbgXck
Knowing what's waiting for you in the real world, you'd think you'd be 324Please respect copyright.PENANAzFo1l6bkK1
more grateful."324Please respect copyright.PENANAxEgnGXppQP
"I..."324Please respect copyright.PENANAPaWFNuSHYf
"I went through all the trouble of getting you here. Hiding my presence from my brother and other mages. Honestly some people."324Please respect copyright.PENANAWU0aux6DHs
David groaned in 324Please respect copyright.PENANAoqw19rgg21
annoyance. "I've just been tortured for the better part of my day. Even 324Please respect copyright.PENANAhLeiYu3aQi
if my body isn't feeling it, my mind is. So if you can get to your 324Please respect copyright.PENANAefaFBQMk8L
falling point, that'd be fly."324Please respect copyright.PENANAUhCfnxZugG
Jester muttered something David couldn't hear. "Very well. What do you remember of your childhood?"324Please respect copyright.PENANA8PLbrfGymw
David was startled by the question "What does that have to do with anything?"324Please respect copyright.PENANAFPxmhEDm7Z
"Well it's the main point of my visit, and you did say you wanted to stop playing games. What about your mother.?"324Please respect copyright.PENANAeze19wpbpf
A headache, feeling of resentment. "She's dead, or alive. I don't flying care."324Please respect copyright.PENANAx83Y70xsFk
"Have you ever wondered why you don't remember your childhood?"324Please respect copyright.PENANAwXLiLaLL1r
"How do you even..." Then David had a realization. "It was you? Were you the one who took my memory?"324Please respect copyright.PENANA1ajMSBVnWb
Jester giggled and put his hands up. "Guilty."324Please respect copyright.PENANAYW4i1sacf1
David shouted and 324Please respect copyright.PENANARwMUKU0Pk5
tackled the cloaked figure. His mind couldn't take it. After all that 324Please respect copyright.PENANAFJsQN6gBi3
torture and Jester's games, after all the pain and loneliness, after all324Please respect copyright.PENANAvg7Y5Gk3sc
the deaths, David just wanted to blame someone. "Give back my life!" He324Please respect copyright.PENANAinrSlE8VEh
punched inside Jesters hood, meeting only air. "Give back my freedom!" 324Please respect copyright.PENANArJAqi8iUGS
Another punch. "Give back my happiness!" Tears joined the third punch, 324Please respect copyright.PENANAnjhqWhwPK8
which was David's last as Jester started cackling and dissolved into 324Please respect copyright.PENANA0EPHLVEdJs
mist.324Please respect copyright.PENANA3JoyL3nPDi
Jester's voice came from324Please respect copyright.PENANAgH0ulAN9Ez
behind. "Do you truly think, your misfortune sterns from me?" David 324Please respect copyright.PENANAFDZhGRGeuN
could see surround shadows gathering around him. "What of everyone 324Please respect copyright.PENANAX2PgxVSnfE
you've betrayed? People who would've called you their friend or lover. 324Please respect copyright.PENANA2MF9R9Gtj7
Killed or abandoned for coin or survival. The shadows seemed to be 324Please respect copyright.PENANA3dwfaMg3qm
creating a circle around Jester and David.324Please respect copyright.PENANABSEEjA1a0U
"You're lying to yourself. You..." 324Please respect copyright.PENANAX2zlOf4Qfu
"Shut up!" David 324Please respect copyright.PENANAXiP2s0obYJ
struggled to get up. "Shut your falling mouth. You don't know me, I 324Please respect copyright.PENANAcdEThSknvr
don't care if you're one of the five, or a demon, or a falling figment 324Please respect copyright.PENANAdbZfkq1Lre
of my imagination only I know what or who I am!"324Please respect copyright.PENANALiKjd1iIgQ
Jester gave another 324Please respect copyright.PENANAs3azxUwZBX
laugh, a laugh that chilled David to the bone. Don't I? What makes you 324Please respect copyright.PENANAqaBXxjhlTv
so sure? Or are you just trying to convince yourself because you're 324Please respect copyright.PENANARWS8Jshl9Q
afraid of the truth?" 324Please respect copyright.PENANAcycI2VXKNj
"I'm not afraid,I'm..." 324Please respect copyright.PENANAKVIToNO0Bi
"You're what? A 324Please respect copyright.PENANAPdvMqNP0MZ
despicable human being? True. A murderer, liar and cheat? Also correct. 324Please respect copyright.PENANAlRLCbLmP8i
But allow me to show you something, something that will make everything 324Please respect copyright.PENANAi28PRBRtb9
you've done not matter." 324Please respect copyright.PENANAqepWdqS53P
The shadows completely 324Please respect copyright.PENANAJEVS5T2Zzg
surrounded the two of them now. "Allow me to show you the why you're 324Please respect copyright.PENANAPDBr9vb4Lx
afraid. Allow me to show you why you forgot your childhood. Allow me 324Please respect copyright.PENANA8YRgSQsURc
show you why this world needs to die." Jester put his hand over David's 324Please respect copyright.PENANA0e23r8Fk9d
eye and shadows swallowed him.324Please respect copyright.PENANA7fxAhH5tqI
Shadows parting, David 324Please respect copyright.PENANAqIbIKWENTM
found himself in a room. Bottles and rubbish littering the floor. A 324Please respect copyright.PENANANLjnPHezws
woman in the middle of the floor, flailing and screaming from pain. 324Please respect copyright.PENANAps4ZySVkUN
David could see her so clearly as if he wasn't in the fade anymore. No 324Please respect copyright.PENANAZNUywlTu8f
more shadowy figures or echoes. Just an improvished room and David's 324Please respect copyright.PENANAkmQ44YtxTv
mother324Please respect copyright.PENANAIGeGVr9JN8
"This is my memory." 324Please respect copyright.PENANAlMlrSR9K4X
Jester said as he appeared besides David. "You claimed I don't know 324Please respect copyright.PENANAm983PY8d3l
you, yet I might just be the person who knows you the most.324Please respect copyright.PENANAiuFPEMrIxY
David didn't reply to 324Please respect copyright.PENANAne8ChjT9Di
that. He just looked at the woman as various feelings rose within him. 324Please respect copyright.PENANAHw2MnnSFVE
Love, longing, loneliness, but most of all hate.324Please respect copyright.PENANAxeW2ffp8na
Unaware of what was 324Please respect copyright.PENANACOBKobHfpF
inside David's mind, Jester continued. "From the time that you were 324Please respect copyright.PENANAhHQyKaEEmy
conceived, when your father raped your mother neither the first nor last324Please respect copyright.PENANAXYXoAr5Tcl
time. Your poor mother, she loved your father with all her heart, 324Please respect copyright.PENANAj1D37LJsLq
despite his many, many faults. It is rather amusing how such a man can 324Please respect copyright.PENANALzbLngdueV
find true love and yet you cannot." David didn't rise to the bait. "She 324Please respect copyright.PENANA9nogICUbKP
tried getting rid of you, taking herbs and the like, it didn't work. She324Please respect copyright.PENANAtujr4ZJOft
was even tempted to stab herself in the stomach but she was too scared 324Please respect copyright.PENANAxbxM5AYRDW
she would die. A running theme with you Oxthornes, fear of death."324Please respect copyright.PENANA4zkPtryyMf
Finally the screams of 324Please respect copyright.PENANA78JtqJc113
pain were replaced by the screams of a baby. Whispers from the babies 324Please respect copyright.PENANAx8PLIVS9O9
mother reached David as if she was speaking to him. "Quiet, just stay 324Please respect copyright.PENANAgJynVDl8aD
quiet. You ruined my life, he stopped loving me because of you. You. 324Please respect copyright.PENANAUVBXH4Cr6I
You. You." The baby started crying louder, screeching the woman grabbed 324Please respect copyright.PENANAhkJBTyeSv8
the baby's throat and squeezed.324Please respect copyright.PENANABoPTzYMfOn
David could feel his 324Please respect copyright.PENANANNVOE7OgJp
throat contract, the air trapped in his lungs, extending them beyond 324Please respect copyright.PENANAuTNAWlILd9
their capacity. The shock made him go to his knee. "This is when you 324Please respect copyright.PENANANaRbZKGS9v
died." David could hear Jesters voice in the back of his head. Just as 324Please respect copyright.PENANAWAxuQs1zBf
the room began spinning his breath and vision returned and the crying 324Please respect copyright.PENANACoq4vB8Eld
stopped.324Please respect copyright.PENANAWmJzRrsMtj
"Oh, nonononono." The 324Please respect copyright.PENANAVarEFxGEBq
woman wailed. She put the baby gently on the floor and started pushing 324Please respect copyright.PENANAQR6fNkHBZj
on its chest. Gently at first, and then with more distress. 324Please respect copyright.PENANAc4Ix7Kh1hL
"You who were supposed 324Please respect copyright.PENANAWu65rBfVBT
to die, defied death." Thus the baby started crying again, weakly at 324Please respect copyright.PENANA5w8JRHyhNu
first but then gained more vigor. "Yet by dying you became closer to 324Please respect copyright.PENANAeBPh0y57f1
the etherworld, susceptible to its inhabitants." 324Please respect copyright.PENANAE2DiG2i47D
Coughing David stood up 324Please respect copyright.PENANAXWwyLK8MHe
and looked at the mother and son figure...No he looked at him and his 324Please respect copyright.PENANARMniwYzIAD
mother. David didn't want to believe this image, yet deep down he knew 324Please respect copyright.PENANArLupSw3xlH
it was the truth. "Did...were you the one who brought me back?"324Please respect copyright.PENANA9a7jsei8lH
"No, it was a small 324Please respect copyright.PENANAgjHu0EYssy
miracle, for all of us." David was unsure if he should believe Jester 324Please respect copyright.PENANA8ZTbE9wTMx
but before he could question it anymore his vision changed again.324Please respect copyright.PENANA9OELcQyr7N
He was staring at the 324Please respect copyright.PENANAR6y4UVRhiQ
wom...his mummy. His mummy who loved him and took care of him, David was324Please respect copyright.PENANAyru3v03rtC
only good at one thing, getting in the way of his mummy's work. He 324Please respect copyright.PENANALQT4SSfJVh
learned to be quiet after the first few times she slapped him, he 324Please respect copyright.PENANA4LAoLnP7XQ
deserved it because mummy did her best to provide for him and David was 324Please respect copyright.PENANAhsefu3Oidv
just a useless existence, just like his mummy said.324Please respect copyright.PENANAn6n9kNjzK5
But today David got to be usefull. He had the opportunity to make his mummy proud and happy.324Please respect copyright.PENANAwwxKAaqdLG
"There you go, David." She said brushing his hair with her hand. "You will make mummy proud, won't you?"324Please respect copyright.PENANATudQkZBxDw
"I will!" Came a squeaky324Please respect copyright.PENANAuyawAleHQ0
voice. "I will make you proud..est!" David said as he put a book down.324Please respect copyright.PENANACcW7sXESMc
David was unsure what the name or what the words inside said but it had324Please respect copyright.PENANAbEJs6dWI27
pictures of flying ships and heroes, something he wanted to be when he 324Please respect copyright.PENANA3tOfG1eLvA
was an adult.324Please respect copyright.PENANAY6ebUrLsVd
A knock came from a door324Please respect copyright.PENANARi8WQ6tJD3
and David's mummy went to answer it. She spoke to someone in hushed 324Please respect copyright.PENANAUYiZGWR6i3
tones and then left the room without giving David a glance back. In her 324Please respect copyright.PENANA0K54urID3n
stead a stranger came. David had never seen the man before and he was 324Please respect copyright.PENANA9twm5udjgH
scared of strangers. Whenever a stranger came in with his mummy he was 324Please respect copyright.PENANADmcmX5JarQ
supposed to be quiet otherwise he wouldn't get food and get slapped for 324Please respect copyright.PENANAeorBFG4awN
being a bad boy.324Please respect copyright.PENANAXrsnly3pdD
That's why he didn't 324Please respect copyright.PENANAyKRUKJf4Tm
speak, didn't move, didn't look at the stranger. "Speak up boy, what's 324Please respect copyright.PENANArGOnszpDZc
your name?" The man said in a haughty voice.324Please respect copyright.PENANAEPZo6gKKVP
"D..david" the answer 324Please respect copyright.PENANAh7go5jSulE
came in a whisper. The stranger grunted and came closer to David, moving324Please respect copyright.PENANADAvK2NiTqi
empty bottles with his boots. "I said speak up."324Please respect copyright.PENANAfQByKPNCvZ
"David!" Came out the reply, which sounded too loud in David's ears.324Please respect copyright.PENANANSvx8A6heb
The man put his hands on324Please respect copyright.PENANAWh51mXFaqR
Davids shoulders and smiled. "David? I'm David aswell, David Hozzelpoff324Please respect copyright.PENANAY6JUu3I6pq
to be exact. Do you recognize my name?"324Please respect copyright.PENANAqI2eomcFVj
David meekly shook his 324Please respect copyright.PENANAFJH00lmWVz
head and was shoved to the floor. David hit the floor hard, losing his 324Please respect copyright.PENANAaV2pwg08X9
breath. "I am the greatest mind of this century!" He crouched down 324Please respect copyright.PENANA9OhCcH22TJ
putting his face next to Davids. "Soon everyone will know my name, no 324Please respect copyright.PENANAEYxg0MbRdp
matter what my colleagues say or what rumors they spread." He said but 324Please respect copyright.PENANAZP4NMCrNL3
the anger was slowly leaving his voice. "You must understand, I'm not 324Please respect copyright.PENANAKWBK72tIpk
usually like this, but...but sometime you just reach that point. I'm a 324Please respect copyright.PENANANVyb9utLYT
good man I have a bright future and sometimes you just need obstacles, 324Please respect copyright.PENANALOndwUpzyU
you are just that an obstacle that I must conquer." The man was 324Please respect copyright.PENANAWMG27TQmhM
bubbling. Caressing Davids face with his hand, the other one moving down324Please respect copyright.PENANAUHsG00mPR7
Davids body.324Please respect copyright.PENANAIU1zu42kCo
Please don't. Came adult David's voice324Please respect copyright.PENANAw0lHJBQpiZ
Young David was scared; 324Please respect copyright.PENANAws2gh2xtHT
he was used to beatings but not being touched in that way. He tried 324Please respect copyright.PENANAmtVoCxkCL7
wiggling away from the man pinned David down with his greater weight. 324Please respect copyright.PENANA3u4cObVMD6
"Stop resisting." Derek hissed. "If everyone just didn't resist I 324Please respect copyright.PENANAS6iZBiFlU2
wouldn't be here I wouldn't need to do anything."324Please respect copyright.PENANALLQ0OPpozs
Help me. Save me. Came the child and adult voice intermixed.324Please respect copyright.PENANAo2ByqRH9CS
"Mummy, mummy!" David 324Please respect copyright.PENANAjikk3CyEYZ
screamed, tears flowing, a feeling of wetness around his legs. Finally 324Please respect copyright.PENANAVrzycwUcIb
the man slammed his palm into Davids face. That stopped all resistance, 324Please respect copyright.PENANA0U4T2Vh7cL
after that day David liked to pretend that he lost consciousness, that 324Please respect copyright.PENANAbXxMvww4Sh
everything that happened was a nightmare, but deep down he knew better, 324Please respect copyright.PENANADlirl5qucX
he knew that what he saw and felt was what had happened.324Please respect copyright.PENANA6QqpOc3q8E
David didn't even know 324Please respect copyright.PENANAucOHljkmDD
when the man finished, his mind was blank and when he came to he could 324Please respect copyright.PENANAMEgJF2fDSF
see his mummy looking at him. She scoffed. "Clean yourself up, you're a 324Please respect copyright.PENANA8uzWSkhnSC
mess. David tried crying but no tears came.324Please respect copyright.PENANA8OCVbffLF7
Suddenly the room shifted again and David himself as an adult again. "That was the first time it happened. One of many." 324Please respect copyright.PENANASIWBC8MW56
David could barely hear 324Please respect copyright.PENANAhCufWrgujY
jester, as all the memories came flowing back. It overwhelmed him and 324Please respect copyright.PENANANYdDpoYMrv
the tears he couldn't find as a child freely flew out of him and he 324Please respect copyright.PENANACtm6mteKd7
screamed into the void. Out of desperation, out of misery, out of pure 324Please respect copyright.PENANA9oEPiQeb80
anger. 324Please respect copyright.PENANAqbEOb8KMr9
"There are more 324Please respect copyright.PENANA6lCLm0ltWN
memories. Let me know when you're ready." David looked at jester, whose 324Please respect copyright.PENANAtVC6yoYaE4
form changed again. His hood was down but half of his face was covered 324Please respect copyright.PENANACk0xge5X83
in a dark like substance. The other looked...looked like a normal adult 324Please respect copyright.PENANAOYCOuaqcS9
male. David almost recognized it but couldn't quite place it.324Please respect copyright.PENANALjED9bKDyP
"What else is there to 324Please respect copyright.PENANAslZXvlkhBe
remember?" David asked as he got up. Jester just smiled. "Just indulge 324Please respect copyright.PENANAbVGv0ckizf
me." Jester waved his hand again and David was standing in front of a 324Please respect copyright.PENANAedetOzjEwV
mirror. He could see himself, a young teen. With dead eyes and bruises 324Please respect copyright.PENANAjIknHDklV4
all around his body. He looked at the glass shard in his hand. The blood324Please respect copyright.PENANA7EtrJzw8By
that was spilling down his arm and hand was slowly dripping on the 324Please respect copyright.PENANAD6rBP0HlZD
floor. 324Please respect copyright.PENANAebnYuZ8LMO
Even the pain didn't 324Please respect copyright.PENANA3c1pgAWfYu
offer him solace, it used to be that the pain he inflicted on himself 324Please respect copyright.PENANAXUbYt0EYt5
offered an escape, but no more. One flick of the shard though...and 324Please respect copyright.PENANAYxsEQ6xi7p
everything would be gone.324Please respect copyright.PENANA93SJoKWBjy
~Just like that, give up324Please respect copyright.PENANAHa8i59DQwL
end it all. No one will care. ~ That's right, no one cares. Mother is 324Please respect copyright.PENANAJ01qZZHlr8
probably with some man, or trying to get someone who was willing to buy 324Please respect copyright.PENANACw2b4KFhsP
Davids body. Would she really mind if he died. He moved the shard closer324Please respect copyright.PENANAQWhLcQ7uQ1
to his neck, his pulse slowly beating. ~But...what if it gets better? 324Please respect copyright.PENANAEn0Efo0Uqg
What if death only brings more pain?~ David paused. "Can't be much worse324Please respect copyright.PENANAVQU5mgPoyF
than this."324Please respect copyright.PENANAFLZuo691Sw
~STOP! ~ David dropped 324Please respect copyright.PENANAwvucxiBPlo
the shard as if burned. ~It will get better. Just survive. Have to 324Please respect copyright.PENANAMCLSXCWH2e
survive.~ David dropped on his knees. That's right all he had to is 324Please respect copyright.PENANA5EVgIYAJtQ
survive. Survive and live.324Please respect copyright.PENANAyyrdvWpOtT
Everything changed again and David could see his reflection. Scarred, rugged and haunted. 324Please respect copyright.PENANAGp9YHzf0gR
" that voice, it was yours." More of a statement rather than a question. 324Please respect copyright.PENANARZ3dmTaMqQ
"Indeed." Jester 324Please respect copyright.PENANAn0MgvJgOc9
replied. David could actually hear his voice properly, without an echo 324Please respect copyright.PENANAfDUyMiOEm6
or any other effects. He never noticed it before but it did sound a lot 324Please respect copyright.PENANAvdVZqcjfYs
like his own did.324Please respect copyright.PENANAhskw5SQKfd
"Why did you try 324Please respect copyright.PENANAC0RmAGNlzj
convincing me to kill myself and then stop me? Why not just let me do 324Please respect copyright.PENANAfA5931j12l
it?" He said the last part in a whisper; his brain still trying to 324Please respect copyright.PENANAo81XvPdt7W
process the influx of memories.324Please respect copyright.PENANAWxnlNS7Nfk
"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,"324Please respect copyright.PENANAfY0Ao9gQMb
"You expect me to believe that?"324Please respect copyright.PENANAuHGFoTSDoo
"Believe what you want."324Please respect copyright.PENANADCeS2lFlLj
"How many times? How many of my thoughts were mine?"324Please respect copyright.PENANAO8RuthC2Cf
Jester chuckled. "All of324Please respect copyright.PENANAQUnpGeAFIt
them really. To make sure you didn't notice anything was out of the 324Please respect copyright.PENANAp9HUAyT5QM
ordinary I had to make it look like they were your thoughts."324Please respect copyright.PENANA2ZXeeBkoBD
"That just 324Please respect copyright.PENANAcrgJNZptFV
means..."David held his head and groaned in pain. "I'm so confused, in 324Please respect copyright.PENANA8f0xh4alMB
my memories it doesn't like you're trying to be subtle. What changed?324Please respect copyright.PENANApXgQGp83dl
"It's related to the last memory, I'll show you if you're ready."324Please respect copyright.PENANABGY1rCJBEN
David nodded. "Do it."324Please respect copyright.PENANAl6ZomvPDAZ
Everything shifted. 324Please respect copyright.PENANApib1AclmPB
David was cleaning his 324Please respect copyright.PENANAn7TD2VFNwn
face, in his middle teens and miserable. He wasn't sure when this 324Please respect copyright.PENANA4yh4qF2yCJ
grounded life started but it's been a long time now. He learned tricks 324Please respect copyright.PENANAYJE9bfRras
on how to make it easier for himself. By pretending the strangers were 324Please respect copyright.PENANAoxqnhKwcuj
important he would save himself a lot of abuse, by guessing how they 324Please respect copyright.PENANAAjlvf6esmc
wanted him to act and acting that way they, sometimes, took pity. Of 324Please respect copyright.PENANA2oCh8MAf0L
course not everyone cared; some still had fun abusing a young boy.324Please respect copyright.PENANAnlBOd9pUU2
His last one was just 324Please respect copyright.PENANA8qLCVxpVws
that an abuser. David touched his broken-again nose and the eye that was324Please respect copyright.PENANAyYq54tD1Yi
barely opening. The bitch would be angry again, his face was supposed 324Please respect copyright.PENANA4yOQkbNq4c
to be without bruises. Her clients liked him more when he looked pure. 324Please respect copyright.PENANA3J62tjJBwQ
Undamaged goods she loved to say.324Please respect copyright.PENANAYeJMMW8p4H
Right on cue, David 324Please respect copyright.PENANAD6Qj0VhzGt
could hear the bathroom door opening and she came in. Sneering she 324Please respect copyright.PENANAAklBkP8JIU
slapped David causing him to fall on the floor. "Stupid, idiot boy!" She324Please respect copyright.PENANALMuoLv3BR6
slurred. What a surprise the bitch was either drunk or drugged. "One 324Please respect copyright.PENANA59AqrefscB
thing, don't let them hit your face. And look at you! Useless!" She 324Please respect copyright.PENANAc9IzppW6yv
shrieked and kicked David clumsily.324Please respect copyright.PENANA0dFbnwJPRp
Why was this his life? 324Please respect copyright.PENANACle1z0AZIn
Should he have taken his life, can he still do it? He looked at her and 324Please respect copyright.PENANAdHkULCtgnP
she seems to have taken offense at that. She scratched at his face and 324Please respect copyright.PENANAuVQq1xZG87
came down on him. "How dare you look at me with those eyes! They're his 324Please respect copyright.PENANAIiomoizXQ3
eyes! Someone like you doesn't deserve them!" She continued in a similar324Please respect copyright.PENANAOHGNeNU2ZC
vein trying to get his eyes. 324Please respect copyright.PENANAiJYehtSQ6C
~Enough David.~ A voice 324Please respect copyright.PENANAnUshq8ZvJP
resounded in his head. David knew that voice, it was his only friend. 324Please respect copyright.PENANAkDwiI0RSDc
~Fight back.~ David faught against the urge and voice, after all it was 324Please respect copyright.PENANAQUB8fRuCZe
still his mother. ~FIGHT BACK~ Finally David extended his arm with force324Please respect copyright.PENANAoCoUao9ZQP
and met resistance.324Please respect copyright.PENANA1tQkOC3bU6
The scratching and 324Please respect copyright.PENANAFx3qK5g27v
shrieking stopped, he could see his mother on the floor, groaning, 324Please respect copyright.PENANAHLMzppGDdM
slowly getting up. Thinking quickly David grabbed a glass bottle and hit324Please respect copyright.PENANAgkpBquxfM7
the bitch with it. Again and again until all that was left was a glass 324Please respect copyright.PENANAlG2zKP39V2
shard and then he kept stabbing and screaming until his throat and hand 324Please respect copyright.PENANAkEVG4YXUoW
was raw. Once he couldn't hold the shard he stopped and laughed.324Please respect copyright.PENANA5ztoCQ9t0o
Oh god what did he do? 324Please respect copyright.PENANA5vznByiyyi
This was his mummy, the one who always protected him, the one who would 324Please respect copyright.PENANAssjKn1CA22
never abandon him a and he..he murdered her. But...no, no, no. She hated324Please respect copyright.PENANAdaCqA9ASWg
him did she? Yeah she was a bitch..NO..she was his mother. Was there a 324Please respect copyright.PENANA83P1aFxqLa
difference? David started crying and throwing up. He killed her, he 324Please respect copyright.PENANAxiZns1SjKc
killed her, he killed her. His head felt as it was going to burst, cries324Please respect copyright.PENANAmnjWDvhwfL
replaced the laughter as he rolled on the floor covering himself in 324Please respect copyright.PENANAEJ7viblTQD
blood.324Please respect copyright.PENANA10AHc6oDNN
~that's enough David. Forget, forget everything.~ 324Please respect copyright.PENANAn7xwYX9tCQ
There was a pause and everything quieted down.324Please respect copyright.PENANAj43r8ADKkw
A boy named David just 324Please respect copyright.PENANAJocwSYLvSA
woke up. Surrounded by empty bottles and rubbish. David shrugged and 324Please respect copyright.PENANAN3nmzTxnBd
winced. He was in pain did he fall? That would explain the blood all 324Please respect copyright.PENANALMu7iHtHkV
over him. Yes he fell and hurt himself. But what about the body...wait 324Please respect copyright.PENANAyj9ScbhGfg
what body? David looked around and couldn't see anyone else in the room324Please respect copyright.PENANA4PgM8d3vXk
besides him. Why did his head hurt? Why couldn't he remember what he 324Please respect copyright.PENANAl5UQdY0NxP
was...oh that's right. He was going to become a hero and fly on a ship. 324Please respect copyright.PENANAkdSDdjnXYL
Yes, that's what he was about to do when he became all confused, how 324Please respect copyright.PENANA9efDJ1xth1
silly of him.324Please respect copyright.PENANAux8FJlxYlL
Remembering his 324Please respect copyright.PENANA1fwte5wche
objective, David opened the door and left his old life behind. To enter 324Please respect copyright.PENANAk10ntMOvaN
his living room and find his dad, mum and brother sitting at a round 324Please respect copyright.PENANAgmfesFOd7H
table preparing a meal. 324Please respect copyright.PENANAxBpComIMWg
"There you are David!" 324Please respect copyright.PENANA58TKeal0ac
His dad said. "We've been waiting forever, come on I can't wait to start324Please respect copyright.PENANAoJqFfLG52J
eating!" He started hitting his utensils on the table. 324Please respect copyright.PENANA3RWVUiWdFB
This isn't the truth.324Please respect copyright.PENANAPcffPPcZmT
David obligingly sat 324Please respect copyright.PENANAeoVJe5Ik7c
down. "Oh stop, honey. You're going to give children bad manners." His 324Please respect copyright.PENANAgel2p25kqA
mum chided playfully. As she put the food on the table and ruffled his 324Please respect copyright.PENANAKKXo43eETP
brothers hair. Sitting down next to David and giving him a warm smile.324Please respect copyright.PENANAOl6fyIKCCi
A dream, nothing else.324Please respect copyright.PENANA5aOWWMkE1A
They all thanked the 324Please respect copyright.PENANAFAdAVzzGUs
gods for what they had and started eating. Yes thankful for this happy, 324Please respect copyright.PENANAdjmJI6sqGi
oblivious life. Thankful for good and supportive parents. Thankful for 324Please respect copyright.PENANALbUsz196My
this lie.324Please respect copyright.PENANAimnVRryJnN
A lie that has to end.324Please respect copyright.PENANA2N7zabmzVf
David was standing at 324Please respect copyright.PENANARG3XzB3I7B
the table.. He was sure this wasn't part of any memories, but he was 324Please respect copyright.PENANAmT6xhJQy0a
sure that the boy was him, a happier more healthy him, and the woman was324Please respect copyright.PENANAkiU8ZzOYQC
his real mother or atleast someone who looked like her. While the 324Please respect copyright.PENANA5FsXFI0bj8
brother and man? Something that might've happened if he was luckier? 324Please respect copyright.PENANAXlCjtVhyOq
Either way David hated 324Please respect copyright.PENANASmOYZ3Cg2m
this. Why, why, why, why didn't he get this happy blissful life. Why 324Please respect copyright.PENANASiVsk1ec4P
didn't he get a father who would teach him to become a proper man, why 324Please respect copyright.PENANA5GoIAmk5qj
didn't he get a mother who consoled him when he hurt? Why was he all 324Please respect copyright.PENANA1kIv2ZJ7Bn
alone, without a brother or any other sibling. Why does THIS pale 324Please respect copyright.PENANALJxe6zTsKJ
imitation of his deserves this good life, he'll never appreciate. Why 324Please respect copyright.PENANAIQEaaI21gR
does anyone. When there's so many suffering why do only few deserve to 324Please respect copyright.PENANAmYrXMP2t1t
life this happy blissful life?324Please respect copyright.PENANAL8yi47nizQ
The answer was so simple324Please respect copyright.PENANAmxqSYURTLl
that David almost laughed. It didn't come in a whisper by someone else,324Please respect copyright.PENANA0MMKHdTac2
it was his own and he fully knew it. They didn't, they didn't deserve 324Please respect copyright.PENANAO3FQccBlMA
this life, no one did. Thus there was only one solution to end it all, 324Please respect copyright.PENANAOczsfnuULs
end all misery either present or one that will come in the future. 324Please respect copyright.PENANA6QK9kVosu3
David decided to start 324Please respect copyright.PENANAwPabS4JTtu
with this lie, he took the knife and plunged it into his young self. "No324Please respect copyright.PENANAjzq1zuNXUb
more lies." He took it out and stabbed his father. "No more regrets." 324Please respect copyright.PENANArTb59801e0
Next his brother. "No more tears." And finally he stabbed his own 324Please respect copyright.PENANAjM42PqCxX8
mother. "No more mercy."324Please respect copyright.PENANANosZjLWpAi
With the last stab 324Please respect copyright.PENANAFBMV4I5Yb1
everything fell apart piece by piece and David found himself staring at 324Please respect copyright.PENANAYv54Q9oxgI
his own shadowy reflection. The only thing surrounding them was the vast324Please respect copyright.PENANASthl0aEk9C
emptiness.
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