Sounds confusing, but I just have to just keep my mouth shut and know that this wasn't the world I used to live in. When I was alive, I can remember hearing about checking about the, Wait.... Is she supposed to be pregnant with a baby?, This is supposed to be the world of the Dead, how come is she carrying a baby, or was she pregnant when she died and never knew that she's never going to deliver this baby.
I know nothing about here, especially the scenario where she's pregnant while in the world of the dead, What if I am mistaken?, What if I am still alive?, No.... That can't be possible, in the land of the living, this van we are seated in has been abandoned for years and even the roads, they looks nothing alike from where I came from, there's a lot of differences, so I am definitely not alive, that I am supposed to be sure of.
“ We have gotten to the school dear... You can go in now ”, Mr Williams said. They already introduced themselves to me, the pregnant woman goes by Caro and the husband Williams, they didn't share much about themselves with me, I am just a stranger they almost knocked down with their Van and now decided to give me a lift.
They possibly might believe that I am in here because I was offered the chance to be given a lift, instead I am in here because I am familiar with the van itself. “ No Sir.... I lied, I am actually not a student of this school, I am just a girl putting on the uniform I got from the market.....”, I said. I don't know if there's anything like market here, but if there's a school, a pregnant woman and even an abandoned van in active here, why then shouldn't there be a market?.
“ Are you sure?.... Because I have that feeling that you just don't want to go to school....”, Williams was looking into my face with a slight smile, I could have almost believed him if I wasn't living in a new mystery world, “ No”.
“ I don't know whether you know about this dear but this is what I have to tell you, you don't have to skip school, though they doesn't teach much concerning the reality and cruelty of the outside world, but the knowledge you got there will pave the way for you out here....”, Caro said, both of them possibly having that feeling that I am just trying to skip school.
“ If you guys don't believe me, then we should go in there and you'll see for yourself....”. I know I dreaded going in here, but with the few differences that I am seeing from here, I am having that curiosity to go check out the environment, since this isn't my world, I am now hundred percent sure that I am no student of this school.
Williams and Caro looked at each other, they shared a smile, I thought they wanted to know whether I was saying the truth or not, but they just let it go and Williams ignited the engine as we drove away.
“ If you say you aren't the student of the school uniform you are putting on, then where should we take you to?.....”, Williams asked, eyes focused on the road while Caro seems to be resting right now, eyes closed and back relaxing on the chair. The window was slightly left open so that air can freely come inside the Van.
“ I don't have a home Sir, I just came here out of nowhere, no parents or relatives since forever....”, I told them the answer to the question asked, I don't need to go into further explanation since I know nothing about my location and I still don't seem to care, as far as it's not the world where everyone saw me as freak, I have no problem.
I can see the way Williams was nodding his head as if he truly understood me, “ Yeah... I have been there before, I lived on the streets with my friends whom I don't know of their whereabouts now, but life then was bittersweet, we don't have food to eat or someone to train us, but we were never sad about it, instead we dreamt and believed in who we all wants to be in the future, such a nice memory to remember.
I can tell that he's trying to strike up a conversation with me, we can't just seat quite while he drives, it's really boring, so I guess by sharing about his brief story about growing up, he will be waiting for me to narrate mine too.
“ I don't know about my parents or anyone related to me, but I lived with an auntie named Margaret, I was abandoned on the front of her door by whoever was responsible of me, she used to act all caring and loving towards me, until I realized she even kept me with her for her own selfish reasons, she was alone and working many jobs, her life was quite a misery too like mine, but she finds solitude knowing that I am always home to keep her company, she never cared about how I lived, the troubles I go through in school and the loneliness I felt, all she wants was a house girl who keeps the house in order until her return....”.
I told him all that I have lived through under Auntie Margaret, I wasn't seeing any reactions from him though, but I can tell that he listened to all that, “ I guess all that experience makes us who we are today....”, he said, I guess he doesn't really understood like I thought, he said he grew up with his friends while living on the street, but for me, I grew up in a home alone.