The Meaning of Life

I click on a link on the library school computer. Two cases of people going into comas and disappearing. Strange, but I don't think it's true. Probably just the reporters making up stories. I print it, click off the web page and log off, heading towards the exit. I start heading towards where I live,  look around and slip into the woods. I live in an abandoned house. It's pretty cool though actually, because somehow it still has power and water coming to it. I guess they forgot to cut it off. I take out the report and look at it. It says that there is no known reason for the comas and is thought that there are new species of bacteria, though they still cannot explain why people are disappearing. I yawn and carefully head up the broken stairs tucking the paper away into a drawer and deciding to skip supper and go to bed. I brush off some of the dust before climbing into the bed and soon fall asleep.

Another horrid day of secondary school. I change clothes so nobody will notice anything off and head out grabbing an apple from a short tree in front of the house on the way out as a makeshift breakfast.

When I get to school, I head to my homeroom class and start feeling woozy. Someone asks me if I am okay, and I reply that I'm fine, when suddenly I can't move. I fall down paralyzed and helpless watching the homeroom teacher rush to call the ambulance. I get lifted onto a bed thing and carried away to the hospital.

They think that I am unconscious. I feel like screaming, yet I cannot do a thing. They close the light and leave me there alone. I feel so helpless and even more so when I start feeling stabbing pains and crunching sounds coming from within myself. Everything goes black.

My hands felt there, yet not there. I could move them though! I could move! My eyes fluttered open. When had I gotten blonde streaks? I'll figure that out later, but I can move. I quickly lift my arm up and start waving it around when it catches my attention. It ends in a hard stub. Someone had cut my arm off! I scream in alarm and scream even louder when I realize there is yellow fur all over it. What kind of sick joke is this!? Still alarmed I examine the rest of my body finding my other arm and legs were like that too. Somebody had cut off my limbs, dyed streaks in my hair, glued fuzz on me, and left me- I pause and look around. In the middle of a forest. Wait though, why could I move the tail? My arms and legs move in odd directions too. I marvel watching my arms and legs as I move them.

I'd say it was a dream... It's too realistic though... In dreams i never even think of something being a dream.. So it can't be.. Have I really morphed into something? I wince as I look down at my appendages and hesitate before I try to get up. I push all four legs downwards and force myself up. I look around. Now for the hardest part. I shut my eyes and move one leg forward thinking I will fall. I open one eye, and when I see that I'm fine I open the other. I look down at my legs again and realize I could be a horse like creature. Or maybe even just a horse, an oddly shaped one though. I guess I could try walking like a horse too. I put another leg forward, then a back leg, then the other back leg. This is easier than I thought. It's still very hard, but easier than I imagined. Slowly I increase my speed faster and faster, walking along a path.

I get up to a small pond of water and decide it would be the perfect time to look at my reflection and see what my head looks like. I wait until the pond is still and look down at my reflection. My eyes are very big and a nice shade of green while my fur is yellowish orangish and I have a brown mane and tail with bleach blonde streaks. It is a very strange experience, but what bothers me the most is the long horn protruding out of my head. It looks almost.. Unicorn like... But that's impossible because unicorns are not real. I look like something out of a fairy tale.

I stare at my reflection for a while longer before continuing walking down the trail. Perhaps I would get to real people soon. They would know whats wrong with me. They would fix me. But...They probably already figured out by now I live alone in an abandoned house. My ears droop down automatically. They would send me somewhere and make me live with strangers! I sigh, but I can't lose hope because getting back to civilization is my best chance right now. I keep to the path, careful not to stray off and look up seeing lights in the distance through the darkness of the night. I make out shapes of houses. People! I start galloping towards the town and realize everyone would be asleep right now, and I should wait until morning careful not to wake anybody up because that is just how I am. I feel bad when I wake somebody up. I look around finding a cozy small bush in front of a house and curl up hidden safely behind it.

I wake up surprised to find another horse, but this one with wings standing in front of the bush. I look around realizing this is not a town of people but is a town of the same creatures I had turned into!

"What are you doing in my bushes?" It or he, asks me. It talks!

I decide to pretend I'm one of them, as not to raise suspicion, besides what could go wrong?

"Oh.. Sorry.. Must have been sleepwalking!" I try to reply with a sheepish grin and am also surprised that it ends up a garbled mess of words. With that I dash out of the bush and into what I guess could be an alley.

I calm myself down and convince myself to get out of there. I walk the opposite way down the alley and find myself on a long stretch of land. What the heck. I walk on a dirt road through it and find myself in a forest. No not exactly a forest. More like an orchard! Of apples! I realize I am hungry and look up already able to taste the apples and look on the ground to see if any of them fell, to my surprise there was an unbruised apple lying on the grass of the orchard. I tried to figure out a way to eat it and decided to just bite out of it while it was on the ground. I took a big bite finding it was the most delicious apple I had ever tried. I quickly gulp the rest of it down and turn around galloping back towards the way the town was to explore new things because after all, if I had to be stuck as a weird horse creature, why not enjoy it?