Do I really know me?

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" I yelped at a helplessly high pitch on seeing Shade in the game center. 'thank god i didn't exit right away' I pondered.

"WHAT DOES MY BEING HERE HAVE TO DO WITH YOU?? WHO ARE YOU?!" The male responds with the same volume I used to question him. His facial expressions clearly showed confusion and no sign of feigns. I was as dumbfounded as him.

"Didn't you say you had something to deal with?" I questionee him once again, this time in a little polite way. Shade stood there still bewildered.

"We don't know each other, Miss. You must have mistaken me as someone else." The dude explained gently. 

I think he's just pretending to be someone else. I decided to play along with him, to somehow know the reason behind him flirting with Estelle.

"Oh... Seems like I've mistook you for real..." I put on a disappointed look and sighed. "Anyways, I would like to introduce myself, I'm Shayna." I initiated a hand shake.

"Well, I'm Aziel. Nice to meet you, I guess." He ends with a silly chuckle, maybe recalling the way I snapped out at him.

"Yeah, I guess..." I also let out a brief nervous giggle.

"Do you play battlegrounds?" I asked out of curiosity.

"Yeah, By the way, were you heading out of here? I was." He informs.

"Yes, I was on my way home." I countered with all delicacy I could muster.

"Well, it's still not much late .... wanna hangout with me?" The boy offers.

"Okay." I agreed right away, I want to get to know about him as much as I can.

"What about we go for a night tour of the Colosseum? It's near anyway." I recommend. The place's been my favourite ever since Estelle took me there.

The ancient amphitheatre gives a fabulous experience of what we've been studying about since childhood in the history books. It's origin of gladiator battles that took place in the time of the Roman Empire which makes it attractive and interesting. Inspite of it's age, it stands beautifully showing off the glances of ancient times.

"That place may be scary at night." Aziel replies, trying to be as subtle as possible.

"Oh come on! We'll pass it." I said, keeping it all light. The atmosphere is not a typical sturdy one, but specifically frank.

"Okay, let's go if you're okay with it!" We both lead to our tracks towards the monument. 

The place indeed was scary at the night but who knew that the view would be ten times beautiful than in day. After today's experience, I would always prefer to come to this place at nights. Night hangouts are best anyway. Artificial lights luminiating the natural dark and at the times dark proves the most consoling element.

"Welcome guests! make sure to attend the lazer show held at zero o'clock." The robotic voice requests as soon as we pass through the tickets gate.

I let out a 'Wow', fascinated about having a chance to square up to the lazer show I used to wish about since her childhood.

Actually, one of my cousin told me about this, and as we all know that once we hear about something praised by someone, thoughts of how good it can be linger in our brains. I'll get to experience this today that makes me excited.

"Shade, you don't have any other chores to do, do you?" I confirm so that I might not be disturbing his schedule on this purposeless hangout. Although he was the one who asked me out, I felt a tad bit uneasy, hanging out late in the night.

"Come on lady, I'm not some company's CEO. I'm just a gamer, young wild and free. but you really have the need to memorize my name." Aziel informs, and I giggle in response. We both head towards the wide shrine.

"What's the time?" I kept on asking him, excited to watch the lazer show.

After a long wait (for me it was), we were there sitting on the chairs arranged in the huge hall of the Colosseum. The lazer show was undergoing preperation by the crew of the said monument and the viewers were delightfully sitting on their chairs, patiently waiting.

As the processors had got the images and videography converted into series of dots beforehand, the formations of History of the concerned area started to display in the air.

The scanners smoothly move the beams from dot to dot. The colours of the lazer beams were kept in contemplation deeply and several watts being utilised to show the wonderful display.

The Slightly robotic but feminine voice introduced the details about Colosseum one after the other. Including the time of planning, Architecture, Type of land chosen, why was the artificial lake infront of it was established and many more significant facts about the location.

Once in a while, There were purple beams displayed which catched my heed and I tried to trace the line with my eyes very precisely. As I continued to do so, my eyes started to produce flames timidly and very gradually. Same flashbacks start to play in my mind with glitches as if they were being shown on an old model of some tv player.

"I won't call you by your name, Your highness."

"I don't care, Amara. You know, you're my playdoll. Only mine. I'm yours too."

"You're the ki-"

"Argh!" I groaned softly on feeling the stinging pain on the borders of my head as if it were ran over by demons. I palmed my head very tightly and couldn't help but lower my head.

_

I kept on calling out for her and held her tight, making sure she doesn't hurt herself while losing it. I made her wobbly figure sit up soberly and quickly sneaked my hands under her knees and through her waist to pick her up and take her out for medical help.

The hospital being super close to the monument, we reached at time. Leaving her figure on the hospital bed, in the hands of doctors, I waited for them to check up on her.

I didn't even know where she lived, nor did I know when she was gonna be alright. So for now, all I could do was myself hack into her phone and call her parents or anybody who's close to her.

"It's just Normal trauma-Faint Case. After taking some medication, She'll be absolutely fine. But make sure, anything that triggered her mind this time, doesn't show up again. It could be her past Traumas or phobia." The anonymous doctor thoroughly explained it to me, because only I was present there as someone known to her. I carefully listened and noted it down. The doctor took his leave after giving out a reassuring smile to me.

I sat down behind her bed, waiting for her to wake up, with only her phone in my hand. As the female didn't brought any other stuff like other women often have with them.

I just stared at her mobile device and I was double minded, debating between the two options. Wether I should just keep idle and wait for her to wake up or I should open up her phone and call anyone.

It would definitely be violation of her privacy but there ain't any other option either. I don't even know her last name, let alone her address.

"Argh, I've never bothered this much to hack into some device! Why am I hesitating? Just do it Aziel." With which, I broke into her phone's contacts and searched for her parents or close relatives contact figures but had failed.

Woefully, the words 'Mom' and 'Dad' were absent. I was confused for now as what to do, only then she spoke up in her daze.

"Estelle.... Shade..." She said tipsily, while clenching on her hair strands with her fists. I mumbled, 'You are okay. It's alright', for her to calm down and made her stop trying to wake up forcedly.

I quickly typed the name Estelle, getting the spellings wrong for the first time but re-attempted, this time only typing 'Es' to which, the contact number appeared on the screen. In a trice, I dialled the number to be answered by a female voice.

"The f*ck is wrong with you, Shayna. I was sleeping!" The girl retorted annoyingly, while I had to quickly distance the phone from my ear.

"Uh- Ahm Hello Miss. I'm Aziel-"

"WHAT THE HELL?! IS SHE KIDNAPPED?! I'M SORRY I'M BROKE MYSELF!"

"Miss calm down, She isn't kidnapped but is in hospital." I nearly facepalmed due to the sappy behaviour of girl on the other side.

"HOSPITAL? DON'T TELL ME! SHE HAD An ACCIDENT?!?!" She continues to speak, my ears not being not too far from getting paralysed by the constant mutilation.

"MISS ESTELLE! Calm down first and listen to me." I discretely spoke to which Estelle let out a titter.

"How do you know my name, by the way?"

"It was saved. Now please listen. I and Shayna were hanging out but she suddenly started to tremble and fainted in my arms. Right now, We're at The Centré Sanerito. All you need to do is- wait you've two options. Trust me and send her address to me or come over and receive your friend." I calmly stated all the words, so that the fellow girl doesn't exaggerate Shayna's condition.

"YOU STAY THERE! I'M GON' BE THERE IN MINUTES!" She screamed for the last time, not even completing her words and I thanked the god that the phone call was ended at last.

As the girl said- sorry. Screamed her last words on the phone, she was their after a matter of time one could take and by then Shayna was awake too.

_

Estelle took me with her on her Black motorbike (which she uses for her street race and hides it in my residence). We both enter the warm-colored cold-temprated apartment. She helped me down on the bed and started her investigation straight after.

"What happened to you, Shayna?" She softly queried, replied by the dense silence.

I clenched my fists really very hard and it could be guessed that there were bruises of my each fingernail on my palm. I was trying to calculate something inside my head but failure was all that came as a solution.

"Shayna, You okay?" Estelle gathered up confidence to speak up again softly just like before but this time with a tad bit of higher volume. I lifted up my head and a soulless face was projected on Estelle's Retina.

"Leave." She confusedly stared at me as how to react.

She caressed my head and pecked on my forehead before saying,

"Be Okay, I need you." And she left. Soon after she was long gone, I groaned, gripped my head, in consequence of what I've been trying to enumerate since I came to my senses.

'What does that girl have to do with me? why do i see these sh*tty flashbacks?! why did i faint?!? It's just so unreasonable! what's my past?! was i ever brain washed? was i really an orphan?! is there something missing that i don't know?!?!'

All this determinating thing striked my head like a thick rod. I can't control my feelings anymore, like I could in the past.

"What the heck am I?? Who am I?"

...【Ｗｏｒｄ　ｃｏｕｎｔ： 𝟷𝟿𝟶𝟾  】...

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