LOST

I woke up in a forest, it was raining and yet I could not hear the drops hitting the ground, I wanted to scream, I need to scream, but not the slightest noise comes out of my mouth, so much silence makes me desperate, I don't know myself, thousands of questions invade my mind.

Where am I, who am I? What do I do here? Why am I not hearing anything? What is the purpose of life?

Why the hell do I have philosopher questions?

Well at least I don't have that clichéd "what's my name?" Question, that's progress.

I walk straight, I saw the animals pass, ignoring my presence, while I walk I try to remember what I do here, as I arrive. However, the only thing I remember is my name, Nicolás. I don't know where I'm going, I'm lost, I want to go home, if I have a home. When I least expected it, it stopped raining, I was very happy, my clothes would not get wet anymore.

I estimate that I have walked for more than two hours, why? Well when I started the sun was at its highest point and now it is hiding, however I do not feel hungry or thirsty, nor tired, that worries me, will I be alive? I do not know and I honestly do not want to know, they say that the best way to be happy is by being ignorant of what happens around us, although I personally believe that it is a temporary happiness with everything in this life.

Finally, after hours in absolute silence I hear something, children's laughter, although it is not my favorite sound I am glad to hear something, without being able to contain myself I run to where the noise comes from and I laugh, although the latter could not be heard, I can ask help? Well, although they are children, I don't think they can help me much, I think about it carefully, why would children be in a forest at this time of night? Has no sense.

I was going to return but it was late, in front of me I had 3 infants between 5 and 7 years old staring at me without saying anything. For some reason I felt criticized, judged, intimidated. Those moments were where I felt the most pathetic, how can 6-year-olds make me feel like this?

I deigned to look into their eyes ... black ... black eyes in which many things could be reflected, you felt like they could read your darkest secrets as if they were the words of a children's book.

They began to shed tears, thick and black tears, blacker than their eyes, but without changing their expression one bit, I was caught in their eyes suddenly I saw fire, a fire as burning as if it were burning lava from a volcano in their but splendid moment, I turned to look behind me to see if there was a house set on fire behind me. The fire was hugging a building full of people, the screams ... so heartbreaking, tears began to flow from my eyes.

Scared, he turned to the children, they raised their little heads towards the sky. I was disturbed.

Long and thin spider legs came out from his black eyes, piercing his eyes right in the center, as if everything were measured, disgusted, he ran from there in the direction of the torch house, when I saw those people screaming in agony I regretted it, I turned to The children, their bodies were thrown away and they no longer had eyes, next to them, finishing going out, there were some spiders, I calculate that one meter, I don't know, I immediately saw them I ran to the left.

I ran like I've never done (as far as I remember) I didn't want to be there anymore, I want to go home, I want to hear something other than those screams again, damn it, I want to be dead.

Luckily I lost them, I hid in a small house that I found, once again, I did not feel tired, at least not physically, I decided to rest, surely it is just a damn dream and when I wake up everything will be fine.

I didn't have a good night. I woke up 3 times vomiting, repeating that scene in my dreams. Spiders, eyes, children, human torches. As I couldn't sleep anymore I got ready to continue on my way, I left the abandoned house, it was a clash of auras. Even though the house was abandoned and dirty it reassured me, I felt safe in one way or another, I must be crazy, dead and crazy.

I was not in the same place, outside the house there was no longer a forest, in its place there was what looked like a laboratory. I walked the hallways until I came to one that looked familiar. I went in and saw a young man, I don't think he was over 16 years old, his hair was between brown and red, he wore a white coat, characteristic of hospitals, he had his gaze lost in the window. I wanted to call him, I opened my lips in search of being able to say something, however I closed them almost immediately, I could not speak, when I tried, no noise came out of my mouth so it made no sense.

I reached for a chair with a small table in front of it, it was about 2 meters from the boy's bed, where he was sitting quietly. In the small piece of furniture, I could see notebooks, drawing pencils, colors and watercolors.

One of the notebooks was open, curiosity got the better of me and I went to see it. I was very surprised by what I saw, but not in a good way. In it the spider children were drawn, the house burned (with people and everything) and there, in the middle of everything, I was.

Who the hell is this kid and how did he know he got through the night before?

Something made, to my surprise and joy, turn to see me, he stood up and walked towards me.

-Doctor ... please let me go- I miss that a lot, when I went to protest I heard a voice behind me.

-Sorry boy we can't, we have to get rid of you- A man of about 37 years crossed me, wait what ?! I-I'm a ghost !!? How is that possible? A few cries interrupted the shock that had entered.

-Please ... please ... Let me go, I can't stand it anymore, I want to see my parents ...-

I felt sorry, I don't know what they did to this child.

-Your parents are dead, your mother was anybody, she got to shoplift when she was your age, and it wasn't even out of necessity and your father knew that we needed his body and blood to perform the experiments and what did he do? He left his pathetic 8-year-old son home alone and committed suicide. We were lucky that you had the same disgusting blood from him, but since the experiment went wrong and now you have that ... Anomaly we cannot leave you alive.-

The boy did not say anything, he was silent, with his eyes open and tears streaming. Like him, I started crying, I don't even know why I just wanted to cry, I felt guilty, my heart got smaller, I don't understand why but I gave myself the freedom to cry.

-Don't cry- he approached the child and said in his ear- it is better that you forget it, after all you will soon go with your parents, so why not let me touch a little? - I looked at him with lust. I felt an enormous anger and disgust, I tried to push that man, I wanted to take him away from that young man, I had to protect him. Before I moved a single finger the young man acted on his behalf.

-NOT!! JUST LEAVE ME !! - He pushed that man while he yelled. For a moment I thought that the man would hit him or something like that, however he only complained and left the room.

The boy just stayed silent, he didn't cry, he didn't do anything, he just stayed for a few minutes, and then his shocked face changed to an angry one. He grabbed the notebook that I had observed before and threw it, then he repeated the same action with the colors and watercolors, when I grabbed a teddy bear (, which I had not noticed) of a raccoon, the urge to cry came to me again, when I started to cry, surprisingly the tears returned to my eyes and at the same time memories came.

I turned to the window, and I realized that it was already night, I calculate that the same time at which yesterday I had found those spider children. When I turned around the young man was leaving the room.

I followed him, he went to one of the laboratories and grabbed something, I could not see very clearly, I did not give it much importance and I followed him, he left that laboratory, in front of him there was a forest, and at the entrance to the forest I saw spider children, but they didn't have those spider legs sticking out of their nonexistent eyes.

I walked slowly towards them, however I stopped suddenly, I wanted to know what happened to the young man, I looked back.

The laboratory was on fire. To one side I saw the young man, continue chasing him, he went into the forest, as if a building was not burning behind him.

I followed him throughout the night. It was when the sun came up that I realized that I had to let my son go.

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