MasukTiana for the life of her can't remember anything, not even her family. Then the family set out to find an antidote for her amnesia. . . or so it seems Then again a lot of things are bothering her, she has the strong onus that there's something crucial she should remember, but, like the rest of her memories, it refuses to come back to her. Now she has to go through living and learning again. And of course trying to remember . . .
Lihat lebih banyakI came to with the feeling that I was being watched. My flesh itched from the stares — I was certain it was more than one.Overcoming the urge to keep my eyes closed, I looked into a pair of glass eyes. Frightened, I sat up quickly and winced when pain exploded from all over my body. I felt slightly weak and my vision was distorted for a few seconds before everything took shape accompanied by a dull throb at a side of my head.'She's up,' the-man-with-glass-eyes said.I frowned as another glass eyes came into view, then the older man and two other strange people.'How do you feel?' the-man-with-huge-glass-eyes asked.I looked at their faces one by one. I must be wrong but they all had their faces contorted in trepidation, fear, as though they were waiting to hear the worst from me. Suddenly I felt like a specimen undergoing diagnostic analysis.'Do you remember anything?' some
'Hey, you cheat!' Howard shouted, almost tossing his joypad at me.I smiled and stuck out my tongue, not for once taking my eyes off the screen.We were sat at the video game console playing this rather funny game where people speeded down unpredictable dangerous paths on long machines that moved with the aid of two big circular devices that rotated on their axis.Howard only just introduced me to the video games and after the first try I was already beating him hands down.'I'm not cheating, I'm merely exhibiting my talents,' I said.'How are you doing it? I mean, I've been playing it for months and I never scored higher than a C!'I shrugged. 'Maybe I used to play it a lot . . .'Howard didn't notice I'd broken off. 'But you never played video games. Even when Dad bought the new PS you were just like yah boo.'I cleared my throat and frowned at th
It was wake up time, because the alarm the older woman put on the stand in my box was making the most dreadful of noises. I yawned, rubbed at my eyes and kicked the contraption down. It stopped making noises. Good thing she'd showed me how it worked or I'd have been scared out of my skin.I got down from the sleeping place just as the cover opened. A girl popped her head around it, then her whole body appeared. I remembered her from early yesterday as the-girl-who-was-my-sister. This was my third time of seeing her.'Wakie, wakie,' she said as though serenading. She had on the brightest smile I'd seen.'What are you called?' I asked the question that seemed more important to me. I didn't want to make the mistake of calling her her given nickname like I'd done to the-boy-who — Howard.She seemed taken aback and an expression passed over her face and was quickly gone. But I'd noticed it. Thinking of it, I would
I was sitting in my box when the older woman called me by that name. I jumped down from the sleeping place and went down to the next Box.The Big Box - the one they all called home - was made up of two giant boxes stacked one on top of the other, I still find it hard to believe that they can't collapse, what with all the weight in the second box. There was also a box above the second box but it was of a shorter length if not of the same width. It was this the-boy-who-was-my-brother called the attic. I haven't dared to venture into it yet. Staying in the second box was perilous for me enough.I got down to the small box where food was prepared and the older woman stood up from where she was arranging eating utensils into a white contraption.'Tiana.' Her eyes watered again.I didn't know whether it was second nature for her, but since I've known her - which isn't that long - her eyes were always moist.





