Walking Alone – Original Writing

Dew clings to the harsh pale spate. The cool droplets of water baffle to my bare legs as I brush past, silently, stealthily. Where am I leaving? Itll come back to me in a moment. Ill just follow my instinct. Right, if Im automatically taking this direction to Wherever, then this is the right way. Wearing my jacket crown was a good idea. I had to rummage to find it. I cant remember the stand firm time I wore it. I cant even remember when I was stick up out of town for a weekend. That would be nice a weekend out with a few friends- not that Id ask.Theyd probably be invade anyway. Ok, I cannot get distracted. I shall walk on. Left, right, left, right. Im starting to enjoy this monotony. Yes, this is instead pleasant, rather agreeable. I look around for some sort of landmark, or something to help me recognise where I am. I wont admit to being bewildered because that would call into the question of my destination, which, to be honest, is still unbe admitnst to me. Ill just thre ad aprospicient this way. God, Im knackered, I could use a coffee bar. Yes, a chocolate bar is what I need, along with a nice drink.But not until I get there, I must keep on going. Oh, a house. Its a tall looming house, with ivy crawling over it, its brambles resembling long discolour tendrils, or fingers, curling crispy and brown at the tips. Whats that s condensetling across the reckon porch? A grubby, greasy blur darts past. I lean frontwards as if to grab it, but its gone before Im even close. I force myself upwards, and see a door in front of me. The ill-defined red paint is flaking. I reach my hand towards it and absentmindedly acquire to peel it back. I wonder why Ive never seen this house before.I wonder why I havent seen any of this area before whatsoever. A chill overcomes me, engulfing me in a stuttering totter. Its cold, and late. It must be gone louvre in the morning by now. Oh well. A bleak throng of clouds crumple over the nights sky, devouring any lingering traces of warmth. I pull my jacket tighter around me and shiver again, glancing around, praying, pleading, for some form of refuge. The house is not an option, its someones home. I cant break in. Not now, anyway. I trudge towards a large wooden gate.I thwack it open, shocking myself as I do so. An ear-piercing wow of pain comes from the gate, like a toddler protesting against eating the remnants of her cereal. I label my thwacking skills arent quite up to par, the gates stuck. What now? Onwards again? Alright, Ill stomp my odor around a bit to restore some warmth to my execrable shell of a body. Thats better, slightly. Argh, my eyes Some plonker has his doubtfulnesslights on full and hes facing me head-on. Perhaps I should step out the way.Oh, hes slowing down. My rescuer, maybe? That would be nice What the hell do you think you were doing, standing in the heart of the road at this ungodly hour? I see floater. I whimper. The mans face is weathered and tired. It reminds me of Father Christmas, now hes a pleasing bloke. A dreamy smile is wafting onto my face. The man looks at me as if Im unbalance and creepy, and then accelerates off into the night. Im shivering. I am literally shivering. I desperately need shelter before I get pneumonia. That house. That old, ruinous house. I turn around, stumbling over a rock. There it is, standing tall and imposing, however strangely familiar.Whoever owns it has made a hapless attempt at remodelling it, adding a modern extension and painting the wall. Well, some of it at least. The path has deep, hollow cracks and so I have to be careful not to cut my bare feet on the fragments. A desolate flowerbox hangs by a window, the flowers long dead. I examine it closer, noting the what-used-to-be-dark-green-but-is-now-discoloured-pale-turquoise crusty paint on the criss-crossed wood. Again, I aroma a faint hustle of familiarity- like an echo from the past. With a shudder I glance around fleetingly for a side entrance. A swing.An old, plastic-y swing, with worn out yellow rope, neglected and left to rot in the grass for the close millennia. A childs laughter, my laughter. A hot summer morning we were having a barbeque. I swung on this swing. I lived in this house. The memories come flooding, hitting me with a wave of nausea. I look up at the house, my house, my poor, poor house. Mutilated, derelict, left piteously to ruin. Its ugly, horrific. My once beautiful house is looking like a dump. This grass was once green, and this porch was once magnificently up kept. Memories. I now know why I didnt recognise it at first.All those memories, those awful memories, plugged out for all these years. I clutch my head and keel over, onto the burn ground. There is an immense pressure on my head. Bottled up for all these years, its ultimately unleashed on me again. I convulse and vomit, thus further disfiguring the house. Another nippy burst of pain in my side. Im in agony, reliving the past. Im dying. I m dying at the place of my birth whoever came up with the Circle of Life must be smug. I convulse one more time and pass out, my head in a fug of trapped memories, waiting to be recollected.