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I wanted to panic, but I needed to be alert. I didn’t have the time to cry. As sure as I was a prisoner, my captors weren’t done tormenting me.
“My name is Claire.” I tried to speak, but my voice came out a barely audible, ragged mess.
I wasn’t really speaking for the others in the room anyway, but rather for myself. I needed the reminder. My memories were trickling back, but slowly, in unreliable chunks of places or times, many of which didn’t make much sense out of context.
Everything was undisturbed. Yet, the air was still as death—the silence so profound it hurt my ears.
Even those who were “only teasing” hurt her feelings so much that she’d stopped sharing her interests with anyone outside a small circle of friends who were supportive of her fascination for extraterrestrials. Since I had a fascination for the occult and paranormal, it was easy for me to support her beliefs. After all, it would be pretty arrogant to assume that we were the only intelligent life in the Universe.
It didn’t matter what their intentions were. I couldn’t allow them to prank her. She really believed in aliens and UFOs, and for that, she’d been ridiculed and ruthlessly mocked by unkind people.
I stared into the fire as the conversation went on around me. I’d had the word “anti-social” thrown at me from a counselor or two, but it wasn’t that I didn’t like people. I just wasn’t sure how to deal with them. I never knew the right thing to say, or the proper way to act.