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Posted: Nov 21, 2008 - 03:38 PM
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Dart
Joined: Sep 06, 2007
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eheh Joking daron is always...great^^
this chapter is deep silke.
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Posted: Nov 25, 2008 - 02:11 PM
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Cigaro
Joined: Dec 19, 2007
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Location: Ruling the Pogo Empire together with Serj
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Next part  hope this will be a surprise for everyone... by the way, its still not the end 
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We left the house at about eight. I was surprised that John had not killed me until then, since I was nervous, hyper, aggressive and even annoying myself with all the crap that came from my mouth. I couldn’t stop babbling until we had reached that certain crossing where I had stumbled over Sarah about two months ago. As soon as I saw the familiar streets and abandoned houses, I suddenly was not able to speak anymore at all. The silence around us almost hurt in my ears as we walked around, looking for the green-haired girl around every corner, behind every car, and yet found – nothing.
“Maybe we should come back another day”, John suggested after we had spend more than one hour searching for someone who was not there, but I shook my head. “I won’t leave this place until I got my answers.”
“But she’s not there, dude. What do you wanna do? You can’t wait here until she might show up... tomorrow or next week – or never.”
“Why not? If it’s necessary, I’m gonna stay here, and...” The worried look in John’s eyes made me pause and realized what bullshit I was talking. “Okay, you’re right, it would be totally stupid to lurk around here any longer.”
“Alright, so let’s get out.”
“Hold on...” A couple of young punks who sat in the driveway of an abandoned house had caught my attention once again. I had noticed them before, but only now I got the idea that they might be able to help me. “I’ll just go over and talk to those guys, maybe they know where Sarah has gone...”
The two boys didn’t pay any attention to me, even when I was standing right next to them. They were too busy drinking and smoking joints. Life in the streets is probably way more tolerable when you’re high. A part of me wished they would share. “Hello?” No answer. “Hey, guys!” Nothing. “Hey!” One of them, a skinny boy with a short blonde mohawk, gazed up at me. “Huh?”
“I’m looking for a girl...”
“A girl? Who do you think we are, whorehouse owners?” They broke down laughing. “This is not the red-light district, dude.”
“But if you pay good money, I’ll blow you – I’m good at sucking cocks”, a chubby guy in army-pants offered, licking his lips. I raised both hands. “No... no, you got me wrong. I’m looking for a certain girl, her name is Sarah. She is sixteen, has green hair that’s shaved on one side, and several piercings, and...”
“What do you want from her?”
My eyes widened. “You know her? You know Sarah?”
“Sure we do”, the chubby one answered, taking the joint from his friend and taking a hit. “She used to hang out with us and some other people.”
The boy with the mohawk punched his arm. “Why do you talk to him, jackass.”
“Leave me the fuck alone, motherfucker”, his friend complained, “it’s not a secret, is it.”
“Do you know where she is now?”, I kept asking, my heart pounding in my chest with excitement. Please, tell me she’s somewhere near, tell me she will be back soon, tell me...
“You’ve come a bit late, man. She’s gone.”
“Gone?” I twinkled nervously. “Where?”
“To the cemetery.”
“What the fuck are you talking about?”, John interfered. He had remained silent until now but I could tell from his voice that he was slowly getting angry.
“Whoo”, the blonde boy laughed, “hey, old man, who is this, your bodyguard?”
“Maybe I am”, John barked, making a step forward, “so stop talking bullshit or I’ll kick your useless ass, is that clear?”
The boys gazed at each other. At least the chubby one looked a bit scared. “We ain’t talking any bullshit, man. Sarah’s at the cemetery. Go and see for yourself if you don’t believe us.”
“Hold on”, I interrupted him impatiently, “what the fuck shall she be doing at a cemetery at almost ten in the evening? They’re already closed at that time.”
The boy nodded, opening another bottle of beer. “Yeah. I know.” His blonde friend punched him again. “You’ve told him enough, dude, okay? It’s none of his business anyway. We don’t even know who this motherfucker is... maybe her Daddy...”
John chuckled. I flashed him with angry eyes. “I’m a friend of hers. A good friend.”
“No way, man. Sarah ain’t having any friends like you.”
“Yes, she does. Seems like you guys don’t know her as well as you think, she has spent two nights at my place during the last weeks... I really need to talk to her, please, I don’t wanna harm her, I just... what?”
Again, the boys gazed at each other but this time, both of them looked scared. Scared and confused. “Dude, I don’t know what you’ve been smoking”, the chubby guy said slowly, “but this can’t be true... you can’t have been together with her, that’s impossible.”
I scratched my beard, trying to get any sense out of the words I heard. No need to say that I failed miserably. “What are you talking about?”, I wanted to know, recalling the memory of the nights with Sarah to assure myself that they had happened for real. “I’ve been with her, only two nights ago, she came to my apartment and we talked and... she even asked me if she could visit me again before she disappeared. I don’t get why you’re telling me that it’s impossible, I know what I know.”
”Two nights ago?” The blonde guy shook his head. “Man, seriously... I don’t know who you’ve been with but it was not Sarah, definitely not. Sarah ain’t here anymore... she died more than two months ago.”
I felt like someone had struck my head with a hammer. “What? No... no, that can’t be true, Sarah isn’t dead, I’ve been with her, she’s alive... you must be talking about someone else, this is...”
“She is dead”, the chubby boy agreed with his friend, “you can believe us, dude. She was stabbed by some freaked-out junkie right here around the corner, and no one fuckin’ helped her. She died all alone. We found her in the early morning but it was already too late... damn, if I ever get that son of a bitch, I’m gonna do the same to him, I swear!”
“No!” I shook my head fast enough to feel dizzy. Actually I had never been that dizzy before in my entire life. “No! That’s not true, that’s just not true!”
“It is true. We wouldn’t joke about that, man, Sarah was our friend. She is dead. We can even show you her grave, tomorrow, I mean.”
My stomach turned before he had finished speaking. I choked, once, twice, and threw up behind a garbage can near me. Wiping my mouth, I tried to take a deep breath but it felt like my throat was too tight all of a sudden. Gasping for air, I felt a hand on my shoulder – John’s, probably, but when I tried to turn around to him, I couldn’t feel my legs anymore, wasn’t even sure if I actually moved or just stood there, paralyzed. The next thing I remember is that I lost my balance and everything around me went black.
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Posted: Nov 25, 2008 - 03:03 PM
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Joined: Jul 26, 2008
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Wow. I've missed a lot. I just realized that I haven't read the last part, and now there's a new one. 
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Posted: Nov 25, 2008 - 03:04 PM
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Cigaro
Joined: Dec 19, 2007
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Location: Ruling the Pogo Empire together with Serj
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^^ enjoy  |
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Posted: Nov 25, 2008 - 03:55 PM
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Joined: Jul 07, 2008
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ohhhh noooooo she's dead  btw great idea |
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Posted: Nov 25, 2008 - 07:32 PM
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Ego Brain
Joined: Jan 14, 2008
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Location: Being kicked out of my mind...
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| SHE DIES?! D: NOOOOOOOOO! >.< |
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Posted: Nov 25, 2008 - 08:00 PM
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Dart
Joined: Sep 06, 2007
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Location: Their Hearts.Their Minds.My World.
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She was already dead before...
OMG.
great excamotage Silke!
tghis socked me, u were right^^ |
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Posted: Nov 26, 2008 - 01:46 PM
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Cigaro
Joined: Dec 19, 2007
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Location: Ruling the Pogo Empire together with Serj
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Well, you guys know that I love to tease my readers, so... Ill just say that things are not always what they seem
Edit: I hurried with this so I can already post the next chapter right now 
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“Serj? Hey! Serj.”
A voice called my name. A familiar male voice. I opened my eyes and couldn’t see anything but a thick grey fog. I twinkled like crazy, yet it took ages until it disappeared and I was able to realize that I was in a white room. White. Everything was so white that it even hurt my eyes, and I had to force myself to keep them open. What the fuck was this place? What had happened?
“Serj! Hey!” John’s worried face appeared in front of mine. “Good to see you awake again, dude.”
“J-john... what... where am I...”
“Keep calm, Serj. Everything’s alright. You’re in hospital...”
“Hospital?” Only now I realized that I lay in a bed with – guess what – a white sheet and blanket of the same colour. “What happened?”
“Don’t worry. You passed out, and I thought it would be better to call the ambulance, you had quite a nasty bump – but don’t worry, the doctors just wanna keep you here over night to make sure you don’t have a concussion.” John smiled at me and put his hand on my arm. “For a moment, I really thought you were... you know.”
Still I couldn’t remember anything. “I... I passed out? Why?”
John frowned. “You can’t remember? We’ve been in the streets to look for this girl, Sarah. You talked to those two boys and... well, I guess all that was a bit too much for you, hm?”
I raised my arm and touched my aching head that felt like it was about to burst. “The streets... Sarah...” When I said her name, the memory came back in one overwhelming rush. It struck me like a flash; I sat up abruptly, catching my breath. “My God, John... she is dead, right? Tell me!”
John sighed, sat down at the edge of the bed and nodded his head. “Yeah. She is dead. At least that’s what the two punks said, and well, if you ask me, I believe them; why should they be lying about it?”
Again I felt like throwing up and had to swallow hard to prevent myself from puking on the blanket that covered my legs and stomach. “God... holy shit, God... I can’t... I don’t...”
“Be calm, Serj, please...”
“Calm? How could I be calm, don’t you know what that means? She is fucking dead! I’ve been with a fucking ghost or whatever she was...”
“Hold on, man”, John interrupted me, “how can you know that the girl you’ve been with is exactly the same girl that died in the streets? Maybe it’s just some kind of a – strange coincidence, I mean, Sarah is a common name, and many of those little punks dye their hair green, so...”
“It’s the same girl. I know that. I can feel it. And the more I think about it, the more it makes sense!”
“What makes sense?”
“Don’t you understand?!” I grabbed his arm. “She died in the streets, that’s why I met her there, she is somehow attached to this place and can only leave it at full moon, it seems... and this guy she was talking about, the invisible mind-talker, you know, it’s death, as a person, I mean. He’s in control of her because she ain’t alive anymore, but for some reason, she is still stuck in this world and can get in contact with the living ones –“
“Serj! Listen to yourself, I’m begging you!” John looked almost desperate now. “I admit that all this is a bit weird, okay, but you can’t be serious telling me that you’re convinced you screwed a ghost who was sent to you by death. We’re living in the real world and not in the twilight zone or whatever.”
“There is more in this world than what we see with our eyes and hear with our ears”, I replied, raising my voice unintentionally. “And if Sarah got in contact with me, it has to be for a reason, and I gotta find out...”
The door opened, and a small male doctor in his late fifties entered the room. I wasn’t sure how much of our argument he had witnessed. Hopefully not too much. “Hello”, he said with a friendly smile. “You are Mr. Tankian, right?”
“Yeah, nice to meet you,” I shook his hand.
“I am Doctor Jenkins. How are you feeling now?”
“Uhm, quite alright, I’d say... got a bit of a headache but I guess that’s normal...”
The grey-haired man nodded and gazed at John. “I have to talk to Mr. Tankian, so could you please wait outside?”
“No”, I contradicted, “John is my friend, I want him to stay... I’ve got nothing to hide from him.”
John shrugged. “Whatever you want.”
“If it is your wish, he can stay”, the doctor said and pointed at the wooden chair next to the small wardrobe. “You can sit there, I gotta check your friend’s reflexes first.”
As soon as John has sat down, Doctor Jenkins came closer, took his little torch and lit into my eyes. The light hurt terribly. “Please look right... left... right again... up... down... thank you.” I was glad when he put it away. “How bad is your headache? Do you feel dizzy? Can you move your arms and legs properly?”
“I’m alright”, I tried to assure him, “I think it’s not necessary to make me stay overnight, to be honest, I’d rather go home and stay in bed for a day or two.”
“I’m afraid it’s not so easy in your case. You might feel alright, but actually, you are not.”
I narrowed my eyebrows. “What does that mean?”
“When the ambulance brought you here, we made a computer tomography of your head to make sure nothing’s broken. Luckily, there weren’t any fractures but we found something else.” Dr. Jenkins paused. “I’ll just say it the way it is, Mr. Tankian, you’ve got a celebral tumour. I know that must be a shock for you now, but...”
Silence around me. The doctor kept talking but I couldn’t hear him anymore. I wish I could say something about the way I felt that moment, but in fact, I didn’t feel nothing. Nothing at all. All I could think of was Sarah. That was the reason why she had picked me. She had known that I was meant to die soon as well, maybe she had been sent to prepare me, or...
“Mr. Tankian? Mr Tankian!” I gazed into the doctor’s worried grey eyes. “Are you okay? Did you hear what I just said?”
“Y-yeah... you said I had a tumour in my head.” Even now that I said it myself, it didn’t scare me. “How much time do I have left? A year? A month?”
“Oh – no, no, it’s not that bad. Well, it is serious and we have to start treating it as soon as possible, but is it rather small still, so we have good chances to cure you. I don’t wanna lie to you, we will have to do a surgical operation, that is the only way to get rid of it.”
“You want to open his head and cut a piece out of his brain?” I had completely forgotten about John who sat on his chair, his eyes wide open. He was way more shocked than I was. Now I regretted that I had not sent him out.
The doctor laughed briefly. I didn’t even feel like smiling. “If you wanna call it that, yes. I know that it doesn’t sound very pleasant but you can trust me, it is the only chance Mr. Tankian has before the thing will grow and cause severe damages.”
I took a deep breath, laying my hands on my forehead. It was hard to believe that there was something evil inside, something that would have killed me without me even noticing ... “How come I didn’t feel anything? No pain, nothing? Shouldn’t I at least feel sick when I got some kind of a loose cannon in my brain?”
Doctor Jenkins shrugged. He seemed to be surprised that I did not freak out. But after all that had happened lately, I wasn’t in the mood to freak out anymore, even when it was about my own life. “Well, like I said, the tumour is still rather small... it is indeed possible that you did not have any symptoms yet. Although celebral tumours can not only cause pain, there are also symptoms like dizziness, insomnia, hallucinations,...”
“Hold on”, John interrupted him, “hallucinations, you say... like what?”
“Like everything. Some people hear sounds or voices that aren’t there, some see things or persons... it depends, there are no rules for that, you know.” His eyes met mine. I’m sure I was not able to hide that there was something going on in my mind. “Is there anything you want to talk about, Mr. Tankian? Strange things that happened to you lately, maybe?”
I know I would not have told him anything if John had not been there, his eyes forcing me to answer “my whole life has been strange lately”. Still I didn’t feeling like going into detail. John did it for me, telling Doctor Jenkins everything he knew (which was more or less everything), about Sarah, about the things she had said to me, about how much I had changed in his opinion, finally about last night and what had happened before I had passed out. To hear it from his mouth made me feel – I don’t know, sick, mentally, I mean. Being a professional medical, Doctor Jenkins didn’t show any emotion while John spoke; when he had finished, the grey-haired man nodded his head slowly. “That’s interesting. Very interesting indeed.”
Now I seriously felt insane. Not that I actually had felt sane during the last months... “What exactly does ‘interesting’ mean?”, I wanted to know, and John added “yeah, I mean, are you trying to say that it is possible that this tumour-thing caused... all this?”
“Well, considering the area where the tumour has been located and the fact that you never seemed to have any mental disorders before, I would say yes, it is indeed possible.”
“No”, I interrupted him, shaking my head until it seriously hurt. “You’re trying to tell me that – no, Sarah has not been a delusion, I didn’t just make it all up, that’s just...”
“Nobody said you’ve been making anything up”, John replied softly, “but at least it would explain why everything has been so weird lately and why you changed that much.”
“No, that’s not possible”, I repeated, “you don’t know what it felt like, it was so... so real. Every word she said, every touch, the way we...” I blushed.
“You know, that’s the tricky thing about hallucinations”, Doctor Jenkins smiled, “they seem to be real to the affected person. If you could tell that they’re fake, they wouldn’t do any harm.”
“This is great”, I sighed, not sure if I was about to panic or rather pass out again. “So I have either been in contact with a ghost, or I’m going insane because of a tumour in my brain. Any suggestions which one I should choose to be the least creepy one?”
John got up from his chair and sat on the edge of the bed again, taking my hand. His skin was as cold as ice. It reminded me of Sarah’s. “Man, I – I don’t really know what to say, but I’m sure everything’s gonna be alright, okay, the doctors are gonna give you the best treatment in this world, and they’ll be getting this fucking thing out of your head, and then... you’re gonna be okay again.”
“I’ll leave you alone for now”, Doctor Jenkins said softly, walking towards the door. “Tomorrow we are gonna do some more tests, and then we will make an appoinment for the surgery. I’ll send a nurse over to give you some sleeping pills, I think you might need them.”
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Posted: Nov 27, 2008 - 04:05 PM
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Joined: Jul 06, 2008
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Location: On a thin line between reality and insanity
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| How the fuck did I miss two chapters? Poor Serj...finding out about a brain tumor and all of this was a hallucination. I was a little suspicious that she could be a ghost but the tumor angle really threw me. Great job! Can't wait to read more. |
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Posted: Nov 27, 2008 - 05:05 PM
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Joined: Dec 08, 2007
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Are you sure it was all a hallucination?  To me, it seems that the brain tumor allowed Serj to see what people usually can't see - only madmen, idiots, children and those about to die. Hehe, Serj talked about that quite a number of times - but what a way to experience that!
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Posted: Nov 27, 2008 - 05:54 PM
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Ego Brain
Joined: Jan 14, 2008
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Location: Being kicked out of my mind...
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| Tumor...tumor...tumor?...TUMor?! D: great logic silke! XD this is like the sixth sense movie.... |
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