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Palmoun 12-19-2009 04:35 AM

Forgetfull Touch
 
Hi, my name is Palmoun and I love to write and want to write a book. This is one of the books that I am working on at the moment and I would like you oppinion about it. If you like it there is more, just ask me and I will tell you the rest of the plot but if you dont please go ahead and tell me what you dont like about it. Now here is where it starts and the title of it is Forgetfull Touch.

I was buried in my book just like always at lunch. Sitting in at the back table where no one would see me or touch me. I only looked up from my book when I heard a slam and saw that Tarra was here.
“God, I think your right when it comes to the whole I don’t want to date thing because I just found out how evil men are.” She said as she stabbed her fork into her salad and jammed it into her mouth.
“Why do you say that? You never say that, all you ever talk about is how I should get a boy friend.” I said as I put my bookmark back into my book and set it down. She was right that it was time that I got a boy friend, but the thing is I don’t want one it is because I can’t have one; it was physically impossible, and it wasn’t because I was gay or anything. God, my parents would kill me if they knew that.
“Yeah, but I just found out that Sam was cheating on me with Molly Starling for two weeks now, and he just decided to break up with me. That is why I now think all men are evil, and I am going to stick with that,” Tarra said as she finished her salad and looked at me. She smiled and reached over, poking one of my gloved hands, and I quickly pulled away.
“Still got those ratty old gloves on, I see. Didn’t I tell you to get new ones?” she said as she looked at them. I looked down at my gloves. They where pure black and the strings where coming out of them. They covered every inch of my hand, and went down part of my wrist until it ended where my sweatshirt began.
“Yes, you did just two days ago. You said, ‘Faith you really need to get new gloves, or at least show your hands sometimes, or something like that,’” I said as she shook her head, her red hair falling over her shoulders and into her face. When she finally stopped you could hardly see her crystal blue eyes from behind her red curtain of hair until she pushed it out of her face.
“You know you really have to listen to me. I mean maybe if we get rid of those gloves and that sweatshirt, and put you in some real clothing guys will be after you,” she said as she looked at me.
“Guys have no idea how beautiful you are underneath all that, I mean with your purple eyes and your jet black hair I am sure that all the guys would be after you if you just showed them off and didn’t hide.” She said as she pushed back the hood I was wearing. I almost flipped out on her, afraid that she had touched me in some way. But she hadn’t, thank the heavens.
“See? Now that is what I am talking about. You look beautiful. Show it off and maybe people will pay attention to you now, and start to remember your face.” I smirked when she said that. It was kind of hard for me to get people to remember me. But just as she was about to go off on another rant about how I dress, the bell ran and the hood was back up.
“Sorry Tarra, but I have to go. I don’t want to be late for Spanish,” I said as I slung my back pack over my shoulders, and started to make my way to the deserted corner in the hall. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to be late, I just wanted to get there before the halls where to crowded, and I was in danger of touching people. But just as I got out of the lunch room doors I got sucked into the mod known as the student body.
I wormed my way around people, hoping to keep away from others, but that wasn’t happening. As I got further and further down the hall I heard someone falling into step next to me. I looked up and saw Eric.
Eric was very tall and very nice. He worked at his dad’s farm not too far from this school, and that was how he got the big muscles on his arms that scared little kids.
“Hey Miss Goth, are you going to grace us with your beauty for once?” he asked as he looked at me.
“Sorry, but there is no beauty here, only a lonely kid with a hood and gloves,” I said with a smile as I looked back up at him. He had dark blue eyes that a girl could just lose herself in, and I knew that he was head over heals for me. I also liked him a lot, but I could never be with him, all because of what I was and what I could do.
“Come on. I know there is, and you have to show it more.” He said and flicked the hood down when I immediately backed up like he had just tried to threaten me. My jet black hair rolled out form under the hood and onto my shoulders as Eric put up his hand, showing he meant no harm.
“Sorry, I didn’t think that you would spaz if I did that,” he said as he looked at me then smiled, “but I was right. There is the beautiful face that I have been waiting to see for awhile.” I growled at him and before I could pull my hood back up I heard some of the loud jocks come over, and when they saw me they stopped.
“Hey, look she actually does have a face,” one of the older and more annoying jocks had said as they moved closer, pushing Eric and everyone else out of the way. They always joked about how I didn’t have a face, and that was why I kept my hood up 24/7. They surrounded me before I could do anything.
“Yeah, she looks cute enough to date, but first let me get a good look at you.” He said and reached out before I could stop him and touched my chin.
I felt memories starting to drain into me like no tomorrow and I felt as if electricity was coming into me; it was painful. But after about a second the pain and rapid memory flashes stopped and the jock who had grabbed my chin fell to the ground. Everyone was momentarily stunned, and then the other jocks gathered around and started to check if he was okay. They had completely forgotten about me. I quickly pulled my hood on and walked back over to Eric.
“Can we go now?” I whispered softly, unable to speak any louder because of the head ache I had now.
“Yeah, I don’t want them to think that you had anything to do with that.” He said as he nodded and took my hand, directing me to our next class. I was still slightly dazed from the touch, and was still sorting threw the many memories that jock had gave me. I could see all the things he had thought and said about me; every time he had seen me and also what he had been doing for the past six hours. It gave me a head ache as I sorted through them and tried to stick them in a place in my mind where all the other useless stuff I learned through skin contact went. I sighed when I finally got it under control, and smiled. I was sure glad that I had gloves on or else Eric would have collapsed exactly like that jock, and remembered nothing of the past six hours or anything about me.
I don’t know why, but it just seemed to work that way. I never meant to do it, it just happened. That was why I bundled myself up in clothing from head to toe like a mummy. I didn’t want to learn what I didn’t need to know. I have lost more friends this way than any other person. But then again no other person could absorb memories and make people forget who I was. It was something only I could do, and that was the reason I could never get close to someone. They would always forget about me in a single touch.
I soon felt Eric let go of my hand, and that was when I realized that we had reached my next class and he had even brought me to my desk. He then looked down at me as I looked up.
“You going to be okay?” he asked as his blue eyes made it clear just how worried he was. I smiled and nodded. He was such a wonderful friend, and she only wished that she could be more.
“Yeah, I am going to be fine. I’m just a little shaken up.” I said, and he nodded, his eyes becoming serious as he tapped the hood of my sweatshirt.
“Yeah, I would think so, and I think it is best to keep that up for now. I don’t want more competition for you then there already is,” he said as he smiled, but his eyes stayed serious. He was always like that and I had to be careful around him since he really liked me. It was always like this ever since he first met me when I was in seventh grade. I was still trying to control my power and figure out how was the best way to hide my skin. He had seen how I was kept away from people, and started to talk to me. He was the one who got me the gloves that I wear all the time. He said that he thought of me when he saw them, and I loved him for that.
“Yeah, and I don’t want that to happen ever again either,” I said and smiled at him. He was like a giant teddy bear with his brown hair. That only added to how much he looked like a bear. He smiled down at me, then kissed me on the head like he usually does when he is about to leave my side.
“Well I have to go, I have a long journey ahead to the other side of the school for class,” he said and then left. I watched as he disappeared out the door and into the hall that had few students left. I sighed heavily as I plopped down into my desk, and waited for the teacher to come in and get Spanish started.

I pulled up into my drive way in my green pick-up truck. It was my dad’s old car and he had given it to me for my sixteenth birthday. I had hoped to get a nice Toyota Venza, but my dad didn’t want to pay for it since we where already having money problems, and needed the money to pay for my mom at the hospital.
I slipped out of the car, and slung my backpack over my shoulder. I then made my way towards my house, and smiled as I got closer. It was a small two-story house, and I loved more then anything else. I opened the door and smiled seeing my dad passed out on the sofa. He had been out late visiting my mother in the hospital, and he needed to sleep. I set down my book bag and pulled out a blanket. I laid it over him, and he groaned slightly when he felt it on him. That was how he was now-a-days; go see Mom at the hospital, come home and fall asleep, then go to work. It starts back up again the next day, and it was my entire fault.
I smiled at him then went to my room. It was a simple room painted a slight blue, and the carpet was a deep green. I sometimes felt like I was outside because of that. I threw my bag next to my desk making it shake. One of the pictures on the side of the desk fell, and I quickly grabbed it before it crashed to the ground. I sighed happily, and looked at the picture. It was one of my mother and me before the accident.

I was only nine, and just coming home from being out with Kimi and her mother. Kimi was my best friend who was native America, and that was how she got her name from. We had been out seeing a new movie about people with powers as a moving away present to her. Kimi was moving away to another town, and going to a different school. We would be able to see each other every once in a while, but it was still sad that she was leaving. Kimi and I had thought that it would be awesome to have powers like that, and we talked about it for a long time. In fact we talked about it until Kimis mother dropped me off at home. We said our good-byes, and said that we would meet each other again very soon. So I headed inside and my mother was making dinner. She asked how the movie was and I said it was great and she had to go see it. She then asked me to go and fetch a plate for me and I did. But right as I handed it to her and our fingers touched I felt a rush of electricity and flashes of memories that I never even remembered before. After about a second my mom fell to the ground and she dropped the plate. I kneeled down besides her to see if she was alright, but right I asked if she was okay she nodded and looked at me. There was no recognition in her eyes and then she asked me who I was. I just sat there for a little while and then dad came in asking why he had heard a crash. My mom looked at dad and said everything was fine but asked why there was a little girl in the house. He just looked at her for a second then said I was her daughter. That made her freak out and she said that she never had a daughter and that if she had she would have remembered. My dad then drove her to the hospital and that is where she has been ever since. They say that she had amnesia but have no idea why it only affected my.
It happened again the next day I went to school and we where out playing freeze tag with my friends. I was it. I chased everyone around and when I tagged my first person we just froze. I felt the electricity as before and I started to see flashes of memories, I saw when she first met me and everything else. Then I saw what she had done for the past six hours. When she dropped to the ground the others ran to the teacher and they came running over. I told them that nothing happened but when she got up off the ground she just looked at me and said, “What is happening and who are you?” I just froze there for a second and let it soak in. It was just like my mom and it occurred to me that it was me. I had done something and I could remember stuff that they did. For a second all I did was look at my hands, I was a monster. From that day on I stayed away from everyone, drew away from all my friends till I met Eric and Tarra. They didn’t care that I hated people touching me or that I hid under a mile of clothing.

Evergreen Goddess 04-02-2010 12:02 AM

Very cool book in the making!

Palmoun 04-02-2010 12:03 AM

thank you, glad that you like it.

Nekochan5345 04-02-2010 08:32 PM

Ah you finally finished the first chap. Good job!

Palmoun 04-02-2010 11:41 PM

this as been up for a while now.

Nekochan5345 04-03-2010 12:06 AM

haha, yea i missed it i guess

Palmoun 04-03-2010 12:14 AM

yeah but bad news is that I blew up the lap top with the only file of it and I am not sure if I will be able to get it back.

Nekochan5345 04-03-2010 12:15 AM

Oh, your laptop died?

Palmoun 04-03-2010 12:17 AM

((yeah, just about, the only way to get it back is to restore it back to what it was like years ago))


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