The World I Live In

   For 19 years, I discovered a lot about myself and what this world. I learned that it's cruel, unfair, and difficult to live but this world is keeping something from us. Checking students from different school once of month, people can't go to work without being checked by special guards, even babies and patients from hospitals are being checked by them. If a student or worker is sick, the guards will to their houses or hospital to check on them, asking questions and stuff. And it's not only America that are doing this but every country out there is doing the same with no answer to why they are doing this.

   This annoyed everyone in the world but the government keep saying the same thing:
   "We know that what we are doing may be alarming you all but you have to understand that this is for your own good and for the safety."
But why? It would be much better if you just tell us why. Us living in confusion isn't helping any of us. What is going on in this world!

   As life go on, the world is becoming more strict and tougher on the citizens, even the guards are becoming tired of doing the same thing everyday. I even ask them why they're doing this but all they can say was that they have to, it's the law. People are making theories about it, the most popular of it are aliens but that just ridiculous to me. There's only a few sightings of them but there are mostly fake and besides how can aliens caused this much change in the whole world. It just can't be possible.

   Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to introduced myself. People here call me 'Moonlight' due to me hanging around the moonlight. It's kinda weird actually because I'm basically a one body here, I'm only noticed by teachers and my two older siblings who I don't out with, even though we live together. My parents  are always busy with work so I don't hang with them either, I'm almost alone here. I only had my grandmother who only spoils me a lot. I could tell her anything and she always there for me until she passed away. That put me in a deep depression and the bad news was that it wasn't the last.

   After a few months, I was at the doctor's and that when I discovered some news and the worse part, my parents sadly agreed on it. I was actually adopted. I now see how I don't fit in this family, how I don't fit in their lifestyle, I now see why we only visit grandmother a few times. She was different, very odd compared to others but yet, we were so close, so relatible. Is this why? Am I going to like my grandma, an outsider, where guards keep checking on her, even though she don't work or anything. They check on her everyday like if she know something. Does she know something? Is she hiding something? What does her last words mean?

   "I know that you are the only one who believe me even if it sound crazy but I need you to know that it's not a lie, it's not a lie. They are around, they're hiding but the guards shouldn't know, the suits shouldn't know. They'll find out, I promise them that I'll keep a secret but now you have to keep it a secret. Please say nothing, tell nobody, they'll find out and they'll get you. Please don't say anything, I want you to live. I'm so sorry for this, please forgive me."

   What does she mean? Who are they? Why are they hiding? What are they doing? What are 'the suits'? What were they doing to grandma? I wish to know the answers to those questions but I can't tell anyone and even if I do, they'll think I'm crazy or the guards will look for me or they. This secret was driving me crazy, I was never this confused, I couldn't concentrate, I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat much. My family was worried, mostly father, did grandma do this when she find out? This driving me crazy.

   Things were getting worse for me, I keep hearing scratching on my door but we don't have any pets. Some nights, I swear I somebody staring at my window or just plain white eyes. At school, I could hear laughing but it was outside like if it's the trees were laughing at me. While I was walking home from school, I could of swear that animals were staring at something behind me but there was no one and they behaving odd, they were frozen in place until I passed them. They went back to normal, playing like nothing had happen when I passed. Am I cursed or something? Did grandma did this? No, she wouldn't do anything like this to me.

   My life was going down to hell, I'm going insane! I keep thinking that these things is just in my head, maybe watching too much horror movies is now having an impact on me but no. This is real, very real. I keep seeing this man in a black suit with long black hair wearing a white clay motion mask and every time I see, I'm always near death. Everything is getting weird. No. I need to end it, I NEED TO END IT!

   I ran to the bathroom and look for something, anything. I found a pills that my father takes. But he's not my father, that woman is not my mother, those teens aren't my siblings, grandma is just my friend who is now gone. I have no one in my life, I'm alone with these 'they' that might kill me so why wait for them, the guards, or 'the suite' to get me, if I could end it now. I grabbed the pills and water, I always thought of doing this but not for this reason. I started to cry silently, quickly put the pills in my mouth until:
   "Wait, don't do it! We need you, you could help us. Please, we are in need, you have to. Please don't end it, you can be safe being yourself, just wait. We'll help you, if you help us."

   There is no one here nor outside but it made me feel safe and belong. I stopped and went to my room. After a year, after I graduated out of high school, i packed my bags and ran away at midnight. I just couldn't stay here any longer, it felt like a breath of fresh air when I ran off. The guards were out in the town searching for any strange events but I ran to the woods, they never check there. It's strange, really? I thought that they will check here for whatever they are looking but I guess wrong.

   It felt like days, I been walking forever but the sky still remain the same, dark like it's frozen in time. But then, I hear a sound, no, a growl. Wolves, not them. I started to run like hell to whatever is there that could help me. I didn't die from the pills and I am not going to be eaten alive. In a shock of fear, I trip over something solid and fell down a dumpy hill. I was in so much pain that I blacked out.

   I woke up on a bed but this is not my house.
   "Finally you wake up, I thought that I have explain about the corpse in my guest room."