C3 The Haunting Past

When I woke up, I found myself in a dark room. I am feeling pain in my back. I lay on the ground for a minute, but a minute later, I stood up and started walking toward the front. I did not see anything. I do not understand anything: what is happening to me, how I got here, or who it was that took me inside and brought me here. Is this a dream or reality? I felt heavy in my head. I was sleepy. It feels like I have not slept in days. I was walking without taking any breaks. It is too dark here, and I do not know if I am going someplace or walking in a circle. I started feeling pain in my legs.

I bend forward and stop for a minute. I take a deep breath and then stand straight and start walking again. A while later, I saw a light far away. Now it looks like a tunnel to me. After seeing the light, I breathed a sigh and started running toward the light. One moment I tumbled and fell to the ground, but I got up and started running again.

As I reached the light, I saw that the light was coming from the room. I walk toward the room and go inside. As I enter the room, the door from which I entered closes. I looked back at the door, then turned my face in front and saw that people were sitting on the chairs, watching the circus. A clown was performing. I keep feeling tired, so I sit on the chair in front of me. I lean against the chair. I close my eyes and sit with my face up.

"It is a dream, and it will end soon. When I wake up, then everything will turn back to normal," I keep telling myself. I was consoling myself. A minute later, I heard the voice of someone waking me up. The voice was confusing, and I suddenly woke up and saw a man standing over me. I was rubbing my eyes with both hands and then looking at him closely. I fell from the chair. I slid back and looked at the faces of the people sitting on the chair. People have no faces, just lips on their faces.

No, no, no it cannot be real. It is a nightmare. I want this to end now” I shouted while rising to my feet and started running to the front.

I was just running, and someone pulled me back and I fell to the ground. I looked up and saw two faceless men in uniform standing over me. They grab me from my arms and drag me outside the room. After this, they take me to the room and make me sit on a chair. After that, they left the room. I tried to stand up but found my hands tied with a wooden pole. I sit back on the chair and start shouting.

“Where am I? I want to go home. You know it is not funny”

A while later, a man comes close to me. He also has no eyes, nose, or ears but he has lips. I was just staring at him. He closes his face close to mine. I lean against the chair and look at him. I was staring at his lips. A minute later, he spoke.

“Do you remember me? Who I am?" I was staring at him. he asks again in a sobbing voice. “I do not know you. I have never seen you in my life” I said.

He walks away and starts pacing in the room. I tried to stand up again, but I could not, so I tried to untie my hand. Meanwhile, the man comes again and asked.

How could you not remember me? Only fifteen years have passed, and you forgot me so soon. I thought I was in your thoughts all the time you robbed my life from me. You took everything from me” He yelled.

I was scared and looked at him. I do not understand what I am doing here and who are you?” I spoke. My hands start shivering. You think I am crazy, and I will accept whatever you say but you are mistaken because I know that you have no regret about what you have done in past” He shouted while putting a gun in front of me.

I saw the gun and started staring at it. I lean forward and closely look at the gun then I remember what he is trying to ask me. I look at him.

This is the gun that I had used in the crime. According to the prosecutor, but they were wrong, it was not my gun. I did not use it to kill anyone” I said. He comes close to me. “You disappointed me a lot. I thought you would tell the truth now” He shouted again.

I stood up and spoke. I am telling you the truth. You must believe me. What is this? Am I dead? Why are doing this to me?”

The man burst into laughter. Meanwhile, two faceless men enter the room and come close to me, and they untie me. Afterward, they took me to another room. It was a glass room. People were sitting on the other side of the mirror, who were looking at me. The two men left me in the room and close the door behind them.

I was just staring at the people who were sitting on the other side of the mirror. Abruptly, the door burst open, and the same man walks inside with the gun in his hand. As I saw the gun, I took a step back and leaned against the wall.

What are you doing? I told you this was not my gun, and I did not hurt anyone. Just let me go. Please forgive me” I yelled. The man looks at me and points a gun at me. As I saw that I started begging.

“Do not kill me. Do not kill me”

You did not give me any other choice. I gave you a chance, to tell the truth, but you lost it so now you must face punishment. I get on my knees and start screaming. “I have been punished for what I have done. Forgive me. Please, forgive me”

Meanwhile, I started hearing the chanting and clapping.

“Kill him. Kill him”

After this, I hear the crackle of the bullets and I look at the man and he was shooting at me, and I fell to the ground.