Finding My Missing Piece

Zara's POV "No grandma, you have to come with me too. I will not leave you here" I held on to her but she only smiled sadly as she pushed me through the barricade. "I cannot go with you dear. You have so much to fight for and my time is over. I belong here now" I shook my head crying. I tried reaching out to her again but an invisible wall blocked my movements "No...no grandma don't do this to me. Please," I allowed my tears flow as I looked into her eyes that were just like mine. She was right in front of me yet it felt like we were so far apart. I was losing her, I could tell. "They need you. You must go back, and always remember that I love you." Her eyes softened. No, I cannot accept this. She pushed me through when it should have been her. "I may not be with you but am always around you" Those were the last words I heard before everything began to swirl and something unseen sucked me in. "Grandma..." ************************************* After much struggling with myself

I woke up sweating bullets as my heart raced painfully in fear. I just couldn't understand what had just happened or why that just happened. I didn't want to think much about it and go back to sleep but that was extremely difficult. As I closed my eyes all I could see were those hunting images from the dream I had and thinking about it just made my headache start. I wanted to lift my hand to massage my head but I was still immobile. I could feel my hands but I needed to put in a lot of effort to move a finger and those constant movements were making my headache emerge from bad to worse. My heart beat which was in unison with the annoying beeping from the machine were the only sounds that accompanied me in the silent dim room. It was terrifying and plus the room seemed to get closer and closer and every sound in the room including the tiniest sound of water dripping from that sink along with that beeping seemed to get louder. My head was heavy and full of something, maybe blood. I felt

I froze in shock at how terrible what I saw made me feel. I thought things are bad but this was beyond my imagination or at least my estimate of how bad things were. I did not expect things to be at such a bad state that a person like Chukwuemelie would be so rude to our father. I remember that he really looked up to dad. When we were younger, he would always stay up to wait for dad to help him with his assignments and projects, I could do most of them but he always insisted and I always ended up doing them anyway. Dad just wasn't there, but is that really enough reason for him to be so full of anger, anger directed towards the one person he considered a role model?It was pretty obvious that everyone entirely lost their appetite judging from how uncomfortable they all seemed. This is very overwhelming and honestly I really don't think I can take it anymore. I stood up and excused myself saying that I am tried. I need to escape this suffocating atmosphere and have a talk with

  She looked down, hiding her face from his piercing gaze. The atmosphere got cold real quick. I could not stand it any longer so I spoke up, I might have as well turned into an ice statue if I didn’t say anything. “Emelie…” my voice came out softly but firm. He doesn’t have any reason to be so mean to her. But he didn’t look my way. He kept silent and still like he didn’t hear me or did I also turn invisible? I really do hate the way I felt and I very well knew that I shouldn’t have had such emotions running through me, but still I felt like I was an insignificant entity at that moment. I wanted to yell at him to stop ignoring me. I may have the mind of a thirteen year old but I’m eighteen and the older sister. Suddenly he jerked up harshly from his seat and took the text book out of her grasp. “You’ve given me the book right? Now I think you should leave?” His emotionless voice sounded unfamiliar to me. It doesn’t sound like my little brother or the ca

Kaima was right. The fresh air I breathed in, the wind gently kissing my skin, it all felt perfect. I did need to step out and it helped clear up my messy mind. We didn’t go too far, only walked a few blocks down. No matter how good and free I felt I still couldn’t get that tinge of worry within me out of my system. It continued looming in my mind like some wronged spirit seeking vengeance without any thoughts of stopping till its goals get accomplished. I sighed heavily… “Zara are you okay?” the concerned voice of my sister pulled my out of the reverie I had let myself get lost in. I beamed at her “Of course I'm fine.” “It must all be confusing-” she suddenly stated. Her eyes were looking straight ahead yet they were not focused on anything in particular. She looked so wise and much more mature. She must have noticed my confusion so she explained further “Waking up to two years in the future...” “Technically I woke up five years into the futu