I gingerly pick myself from the floor, trying to ignore the strong smell of iron assaulting my nostrils. The floor felt hard and coarse to the touch, the air was cold and not a sound can be heard except for my own breathing. I try to open my eyes, and I realize they're already open - it's just too dark to see even my own hands. I honestly don't know how I got here; I remember walking from my apartment to go to work...and that's about it. The rest is all a blur.
Where the hell am I?
I’m in pain. My whole body felt numb and remembering what happen to me contributes to the headache I have so basically, I have no clue what happen to me and reason why I’m here in this dark and rusty place because. From the looks of it, I’m inside of an old collapsed building of the cracks in the floor and the walls and I’m somehow trapped inside it where there is no place to go. Putting myself together, I tried to look for a way out but since my sense of sight is out of order because of the darkness that governs this place, I have to rely to my other senses and in my inner instincts to pull me through.
From afar, I heard a familiar tone but my dizziness makes it hard for me to know what is it and when I manage to come closer to the sound, I realized that it was my phone receiving a message. The light coming from my phone somehow makes me feel relieved for now I have a chance to ask for help and most importantly, I now have a source of light that can help me through the darkness I’m in. Supposedly, I should be glad about it but when I saw the date in my phone, realized that I have been stuck in this place for quite a long time. This made me really want to know what happened to me and while I’m thinking about it, my stomach crumbles. Come to think of it, I haven’t eaten anything for the past 2 days and since my phone has no load to contact anyone for help, getting out of here will be close to impossible.
I don’t want to die in here or anything like this; I still have a life to live and dreams to fulfil so disregarding all the odds, the hunger, the darkness and the pain I’m feeling, I am still trying my best to find my way out of this place. Unfortunately, that ambition is hopeless. In every step I make, there will always a ceiling, wall or floor that will crack and the longer I stay inside, the higher the chance of me being buried alive. It is like I’m lost inside a dark forest with my phone is the only light source I have and with no memory how I got here in the first place, makes me think that I’m already dead.
I’m in a desperate state. I don’t know what to do. The cold air worsens the pain I’m feeling and I had reached my limit. I’m getting dizzier and dizzier by the moment until I fell in the ground.
“So this is it, I’m going to die here without even saying goodbye to my love ones”
They say that before you die, your life will instantly flash back and reminiscing the past is the least thing that I can do but all of the sudden, I remember that I still haven’t read the text message I received that lead me to my phone. The text message came from my girlfriend, telling me how bad she misses me and that she wants to me to have a conversation with her and this reminded me of the day before the day I lost my memory; we had a small fight back. “Hahaha”, I at myself because of the crazy stunt I did to make her mad at me then all of the sudden I remembered that one of my officemates warned me to be careful because he overheard something about me being dead. I thought that he was just making it up but now it all makes sense. I can remember it now, when I was on my way to work, there is this guy who seems to be following me and when I was about to pass in a street corner, a guy grabbed me and his company kept on punching me until I passed out. The next thing I can remember is that I was inside of a moving car and that is as far as I could remember. They probably just thrown me in some wrecked building and I’m somehow in the basement. Now at least I know what happened to me but that information is useless now. I have no strength left in my body to even stand up and I guess this is the end.
“Goodbye...”
“HELLO! Is anyone down there?”
“Joseph! Where are you?”
“Jhin! Here are you buddy?”
“Those voices, they are all familiar”
“Anya, my son, answer us!”
“Mom?”
Could it be? Is it possible that I have been found? They are near and they are looking for me. My mom, my friends, they are all looking for me. I pray to God to please help them find me before I passed out.
Moments later, I was unconscious, everything is all blurred again but this time someone is pulling me gently and now I can rest... Rest peacefully.
I am safe.
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