Nobody

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It’s all happen when I was young. My family died in a car’s crash leaving only me has the only survivor. I now live at the church with all of the other orphan and the priest but sometimes its too overwhelming for me to think that I will never see my family again. The priest, an old man that seen many lost and gain, help me in my grief and "getting all better after" as he said. But no matter what I could still feel the depression taking slowly hold of my body. Leaving only the shell of what have once been me.
I sometime take stroll in the forest near the church when I want peace from the other and brood my feeling, remembering all that I lost. But what I didn’t expected was for me to travel farter in the wood than usually. I walked and walked and walked again lost, everywhere I look was the same. Same tree, same rock, same leaf and same everything. I walked until I found a house in the middle of the night. The light emitted by the fire in the house could been see from far away be the window. It light showing to the damned and lost where to go to find rest and peace.
I knock three time at the wooden door when an old lady opened. She was all wrinkle and peace, like an cherished grandmother that make everything to keep your soul warm with love. she didn’t let me explain myself to why I was there that she ushed me inside. Already she prompted me to the kitchen where an soup waited patiently to be eated. Once I got something in my stomach, my eyelid closed by themselves after fighting the stress and depression from early.
When I woked up it’s was by the chirping of bird and an odor of eggs and bacons waffling in the room. The lady served me an breakfast that I seen only when my family once lived. When I asked who she was she only say that she was nobody. Intrigued I followed her for two more days when she finally showed me the way to the church. I walked away with an promise to met again.
Each years at the same time I go see her and talk with her. But each time I asked who she was she only answered with an nobody. Now I am alone in my house no other half, no kids, my depressions only darker with the passing years where only the old lady help keeping it at bay. People always say it get better after some time but they are wrong, they said it all in my head of course it's in my head and that i should think more possitively. I tried, i really tried, but when i think maybe i success something throw me in the bottom again. I tempted to end my life at multiple time. Slashing my wrist, hanging myself, throwing myself in the rivers. but each time something or someone saved me from the passerby to the priest looking for me. Then one day that I goes to the church , on the left side of the wall, was the picture of an face I know all to well looking peacefully at me. The old women from the wood. I asked to the priest who was on the picture but he himself didn’t know her name. he only knew that long ago she sacrifices herself to help people from her town escape while it’s was in fire and raid. She was raped and killed by soldier of the opposite army when in time of war. She was truly unknow. An nobody.
Upon reaching her house I see that something was wrong. The way to the forest seem older than in my memories and the house was gone! I knew when I see it that Nobody… was gone.

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