Mary-go-round (Chapter six)

Mary-go-round

by: Carla L. Sierra Arzuffi

Chapter six: Darkness and Light. 

Peters story didn't make sense, it was confusing, everything was confusing, but at the same time, there was something familiar in what he was saying. And then I remembered, the book, "The fair of the deceased" they were also trapped, doing the same thing over and over again. Old Tom wrote the book, he knew!

"Peter" I said "all those people in town, that once in a while disappeared, like you, and everyone forgets, they go through the same thing as you right?"
Peter nodded.
"But why? how? who is doing this? how did you get away? how did you came back?"
"Well, I was getting to this part of the story"
I listened carefully.
"So when I realized something was wrong, I started thinking, and like you just said, I realized all the people in town that disappear somehow end up there, where I was, in this weird dimension, and then I started wondering why us?, why my family? and then it hit me. My dad, he worked for the elders, he knew things, things that are not supposed to be known. Im guessing he discovered something and they had to get rid of us, so we wouldn't interfere with the peace and happiness of people. So there I was, I knew, but I was still stuck. I pondered and thought how could I get away."
"The front door" I said.
Peter looked surprised "How did you know?"
"The book" I said as I took the book out. "One of the characters stuck in the fair realizes that in order to get away, to get away from the endless cycle, he has to do the simplest of things."
"Leave" Peter says.
"Yes, leave"


"Well thats what I did" Peter continued "I walked into my front door, I don't know why I didn't do it before. I opened it and stepped out. Then this weird thing happened, I was sucked by this sort of energy and I was floating through darkness, my body felt like it was going to explode and then, and then I opened my eyes. And I saw everything, I saw everyone, I saw light"
"What do you mean" I asked.
"Mary, I dont know how to explain this, this, now, is not real. This is not the real world, its all fake, fake"
"Fake" I repeated his words.
"Yes fake, when I woke up and opened my eyes I was in a white room, and I had cables and things stuck in my arms, legs, chest, everywhere. I unplugged them. I remember feeling dizzy, but at the same time I felt alive, like never before, like I had just woken up from the longest of dreams, not even when I was supposed to be living my real life here with you felt so real. I saw a door I clumsily walked to it and opened it. Oh Marie the things I saw, the world, the real world, it was out there, for me, within my reach."
"Did you go out?" I asked him.
"No" he answered "Because I remembered about my parents and about you. I don't know how I was going to do it, but I had to come back for them, and for you, I went back into the bed full of cables and started to connect them back again into my body, when I was finished I thought of home, where I last had been. I don't know how it happened but suddenly I was being sucked into darkness all over again. And I was home. I told my parents everything, and they believed me. So the three of us went out the front door, I found myself yet again the white room, my parents where not there, so I imagined they had their own white rooms."

My brain was racing trying to maintain and understand all the information and things Peter was talking about.
"I didn't disconnect myself and then I thought of you and while I was being sucked back into the dream world old Tom appeared right in-front of me, floating in the darkness, and without speaking he told me everything, the truth, what was happening, and about you"
"What about me?" I asked.
"Marie, you are meant to save us, to save everyone, we have to stop this, we have to make everyone wake up, it is time, its time to wake up the deceased."

To be continued....

I hope you all are enjoying and understanding this story.
Badadim-badadum.
C.LS.A