I dragged the boy secretly to my room. I was fortunate that the children had gone for an outing and so no one saw us coming. Without the children the entire place was dead silent. Every step I took, echoed throughout.
I laid the boy on the bed and I myself sat on the chair. It was only after sitting down that I finally got to think what the heck happened to me in the last three hours. I slowly digested every bizzare thing I saw today. I looked at the boy in the bed, sleeping soundly. It was only then that I noticed that he wore nothing but a boxer. I went downstairs and fished for a shirt of his size and I found one. I put it on him and laid him down again.
I picked a chair and placed it beside the bed and looked at the boy. He seemed to be at least nineteen or twenty. I was surprised to see how normal he looked. Had I not known better, I could never have imagined, not even in my wildest dreams, that this boy was a part of a science experiment.
I shook him, tring to wake him up, but his body was burning. I touched his forehead and he was running a high fever. I went downstairs and immediately brought a wet towel and followed the exact same procedure my Grandma did two weeks back when I had fever. I also gave him the herbal medicine that Grandma taught me to make.
I sat down on the couch and raised my hand to my neck and felt it-the gemstone. It was still on my neck. I fiddled with it and wondered what it was. I reached to the back of my neck, tried to take it off, but no matter how hard I tried and pulled, it just wasn't coming off. I stopped trying.
'I will worry about this some other day. Right now, I too exhausted.' I thought and crashed on the couch and immediately drifted to sleep. I had a really weird dream for the first time.
I was inside a tunnel...or something resembling a tunnel. From ahead, I could hear noises. I slowly walked towards the voices and saw a man standing right in front of container in which the boy was kept. I was back at the facility.
The man was tall and had greyish hair. He seemed middle-aged but his eyes radiated energy and strength.
He fixed his eyes on me and I could barely move.
"Your decision was wrong. You must come back now." He said.
"Who are you?" I asked, I have been asked this question a lot lately.
The man looked down, sighed and looked back at me. "You know who I am, Alecmene. Things aren't going as we planned, you must hurry."
Before I could respond, the dream collapsed.
I slowly opened my eyes and found a pair of beautiful black eyes closely staring at me. The boy was awake. He was so close to me that I could hear him breathing.
I got up with a jerk, very surprised. The boy was crouching beside my couch. He looked up at me and I got a perfect view of his face. He had shiny dark brown hair and black eyes as dark as the night sky. His skin was pale and smooth as a baby's. He had perfectly defined features. He looked like someone made out of imagination. He couldn't have looked any more handsome. In fact, no one could have looked any more handsome than this.
He was staring deeply at me and I could feel all the blood in my body, rush towards my face. For a second, I fell in some sort of trance. I shook my head to come to my senses and focused on what was important.
"When did you wake up?" I asked, but the boy simply stared back at me. 'Does he even understand what I'm saying?' I thought. I put my hand on his forehead to check his temperature.
"Your fever's almost down. Are you okay? How are you feeling?" I asked. The boy kept staring at me. He raised his hand and put on his forehead just like I had and looked at me, expectantly.
"What are you doing? Hey, do you understand what I'm saying?"
He nodded this time. So he can understand, but why don't he speak then.
"Can you talk?"
He got up, sat on the bed in front to me and said, "I've... never... talked... before." There was a long pause between his every word.
"Do you remember anything? Where you were? What happened? Anything?" I inquired excitedly. I wondered if he could tell me about what was happening with him at the facility and what were those people up to. After all, they were experimenting on a live human and the experiment didn't look like it would ever get approved for human trial.
He looked straight in my eyes. "You're the... first person... I... saw."