Past Returning

 A cell phone began to sound loudly, as it was the cell phone's alarm clock.

 It was sitting on a small wooden shelf next to a bed.

 - Ah, what a thing, it's time to get up.

 He was a brown-skinned teenager, his black hair was messy, then he got up wearing clothes that were worn out because they were old, then he thought.

 "Here we go again."

 After tidying up his wooden bed, which faces his closet, he went to open the window of his messy room, which is just above his air conditioning unit, to turn on the light.

 "Why should I turn on the light in my room if I can just open the window?"

 Leaving, he sees a corridor with several pictures of his family, but something happens, it was a figure, however, nothing frightens him, so he goes to the bathroom thinking, which is next to his room.

 "They don't scare me anymore, I don't know why they're still trying."

 In the bathroom, he thinks while he splashes water on his face and dries himself with a small towel, then urinates into the toilet.

 "I used to be afraid of shadows, but now it's become something very banal."

 After all this, he leaves the bathroom with his face dry and goes to the kitchen, which is at the end of the corridor, which isn't long, but continues.

 "I was six years old when it started, the shapes were scary, since that day it's always been with me, but now that I'm sixteen it's become so commonplace that it doesn't even scare me anymore."

 Arriving at the little thing, there was his older sister, who looked like a beautiful Indian woman, also wearing a more worn-out outfit, her beautiful green eyes quickly staring into his blue eyes.

 - Good morning Lucas, did you sleep well? I don't think so, by the look on your face right now.

 Lucas goes to the kitchen counter to make his breakfast, which is just a chocolate milk in a cup and bread with bologna, but he doesn't stop answering his older sister.

 - Haha, great joke Julia, but I'm fine and I slept well, have mom and dad gone to work yet?

 She, who is drinking a cup of coffee, sits on the chair facing the kitchen table, which is near the entrance to the kitchen, and replies cheerfully.

 - Yes, they did. Dad will be back around four in the afternoon.

 Having finished, he comments.

 - Yeah? I hadn't even realized it was Thursday.

 She goes up to him and says.

 - Well, now I think about it, it won't be long before the winter break.

 Lucas was just about to sit down to eat his breakfast when he said.

 - At least that.

 But he thought.

 "It's always like this, she always makes jokes when she gets the chance, I don't know why, but from time to time, I get angry about it, but that's not the case today, I have to get it over with and get ready for school."

 Already on her way to her room after drinking her chocolate and eating her bread with bologna, and washing her cup and plate, her sister says.

 - Next week, Mom and Dad are planning to go to the cemetery to see him, don't you want to go with us?

 Lucas stops as he enters the room.

 - And why would she do that?

 She then leaves her empty cup in the kitchen sink and replies.

 - It's because next week will be ten years since that day.

 Lucas then goes into the bedroom, saying.

 - I'll think about it, maybe I'll come with you.

 As he closes the bedroom door, he thinks.

 "I don't know if I should go to the cemetery next week, especially to it, because it still makes me feel guilty, but, calm down, it wasn't my fault, wasn't it!"

 In that same bookcase where his cell phone is, there are also several psychological diagnosis papers on top, all of which have one thing in common, and that is that the patient has a strong childhood trauma.

 So he went on getting ready, and during all this, Julia, after washing her cup, went to her room to get ready for school.

 "I hope he doesn't try anything stupid next week."

 After everyone is ready, they find out about the house, and go to the gate, at which point Julia asks him.

 -Do you have any tests today?

 He replies quietly.

 - No, and why do you ask that out of the blue?

 She answered, while they were already on their way to school.

 - It was nothing, I just wanted to see if my brother needed any help.

 Strangely, he asked.

 - You know I've never needed your help to study, what are you trying to do to me this time?

 Julia is taken aback.

 "Damn it, he's already suspicious!"

 She simply replies.

 - You'll know right away.

 He becomes noticeably suspicious and comments in an unserious manner.

 - If it's another psychologist, it won't work, I've had them do it several times and it's never worked.

 She doesn't reply, but thinks.

 "I'd better not go on about this, otherwise he'll soon find out."

 So they walked along the well-built sidewalks, passing a few buildings, several houses and stores, but when they reached the school, Julia commented.

 - Okay then, have a good lesson.

 Lucas said goodbye.

 - You too, have a good one.

 In this way, he entered the school, passing through its thick walls, which protected four buildings, one of which was the school gymnasium.

 The other three buildings were for classrooms and the other was a library, a computer room, a boardroom, a secretariat, a hall, a chemistry lab, a biology lab and so on, but not far from him there was a teenage girl waiting for him.

 - Lucas! 

 He looks at her, and sees this pretty teenager with white skin and long black hair, wearing her school uniform, her brown eyes sparkling in the morning sunlight.

 She approaches him, but he doesn't care and just keeps walking.

 "And here we go again."

 When she reaches him, she asks cheerfully.

 - Hey Lucas! How are you?

 He goes quietly into the building where his office is.

 - I'm fine, how are you?

 She becomes more cheerful as she follows him.

 - I'm glad you asked, I managed to talk to Yuri and get to know him going to the recreational club near my house, so ...

 Then he interrupted her by asking.

 - Okay, but what do you mean? You want me to go too, is that it?

 Taken aback, she thinks quickly.

 "Crap!"

 And replies.

 - Well, that's it.

 They were already inside the building, passing through the crowd in the corridor.

 - Okay then, I really need to get out for a while.

 She's even more surprised by this.

 - Really? You're really going?

 Not far from the room, after climbing a flight of stairs to the second floor, he answers quietly.

 - I'm going, why are you surprised? Have you changed your mind?

 She was embarrassed to be confronted with this question, so she just answered a little sheepishly.

 - It's not that, it's that I was surprised that you spontaneously wanted to go with us.

 He looks up thoughtfully

 "Really, who was the last one to do that?..... it was that day."

 Suddenly he saw a figure of a child among the crowd, it was familiar, and Lucas was startled because he was looking into its eyes.

 She didn't see the figure, she just witnessed his fright, so she intervened.

 - What is it, Lucas?

 The figure disappeared when she asked him. Perplexed by what he saw, he replied relatively calmly.

 - It was nothing.

 Confused by his reaction, she asks herself.

 "I wonder what's got into him like that."

 After some thought, she comments.

 - All right then, anything, I'm here to help you.

 Still relatively calm, he says.

 - Okay then, it was nothing.

 However, he thinks less calmly.

 "The figures never looked like him, but calm down, remember it wasn't your fault and everything will be fine."

 So he goes into the classroom, well set up, with backpacks hanging on the chairs to mark the place, and seeing that there are no people other than the two of them, he goes and sits down in the middle class in the middle row of the five rows of the classroom.

 "I have to see why this happened."

 But then she leaves her blue backpack on the chair at the end of the same row as him, and goes up to him saying.

 - I think it's going to be history now, so have you finished your essay on the Protestant Reformation?

 Now much calmer, Lucas replies.

 - It was very easy for me, but what about you, Ana? Were you able to do it?

 She replies.

 - Well, I had to stay up past midnight to finish it, because I forgot to write it down.

 Seeing her answer like that, he comments, now completely calm.

 - But that happens, everyone forgets something important from time to time.

 Then more classmates began to arrive, as it was getting close to the time for class to start. Meanwhile, another classmate arrived, also wearing the school uniform, with white skin and blond hair.

 - Hey Lucas, how are you?

 Lucas replies calmly.

 - I'm fine, how are you, Yuri?

 He replies in a friendly manner.

 - I'm fine too, but are you going clubbing with us?

 Ana interrupts him, saying.

 - I've already asked him that and he says he's going.

 Yuri is surprised.

 - Really?

 - Yes, it's true, this time I'm leaving home voluntarily.

 He gets more surprised, then comments happily.

 - That's good, Lucas, so I'll take some balls so we can play a bit of soccer, volleyball or basketball.

 Then Ana became enthusiastic and happy.

 - Tell you what, how about the two of you and Julia playing sand volleyball?

 Lucas asks immediately when he hears this.

 - Wait a minute, did you call my sister?

 Ana replies cheerfully.

 - Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have a chance of beating you, you're almost athletes, how would I have a chance of winning without your sister's help?

 Lucas immediately thinks.

 "So they talked before she came to ask me, I really should get out a bit more, I'm really floating on this subject."

 But suddenly, in the blink of an eye, several figures appear around him in a circle, all looking him in the eye, but also in the blink of an eye, they all disappear.

 Lucas isn't alarmed and thinks quickly.

 "There's something going on, normally this wouldn't happen."

 Then the bell rings and Ana, hearing this, goes to her class and says.

 - Okay, we'll see about that later.

 Yuri does the same, commenting.

 - If it's going to be like this, then let's go without mercy at the weekend.

 After the class period, recess had arrived, everyone left the room except Lucas, who looked around before grabbing his headphones and cell phone from his pocket.

 "Why am I going out if I can relax in the living room?"

 Meanwhile he hears a voice.

 - Do you remember me?

 He's immediately startled, because it was while he was concentrating on watching a video, and then Lucas thinks.

 "What was that?"

 Then it echoes again.

 - You tried to arrest me.

 Startled again, he thinks quickly.

 "Damn it, where is that voice coming from?"

 He soon hears it.

 - Don't you remember me? How can you forget me?

 He faints and when he closes his eyes, he sees darkness all around him, the floor looks like concrete but nothing can be seen but darkness, but a mysterious light shines above him, a strong white light above him, he thinks.

 "What is this place?"

 However, as he thinks, he hears what he has just thought echoed by himself, and surprised by this, he ends up thinking even more.

 "But what? Is this some place in my mind? But I've never been here, can I talk?"

 However, when he tried to speak, nothing came out, he had no voice, so he became a little desperate.

 "How is this possible?"

 Suddenly someone appeared, stepping out of the shadows and revealing himself in the light, after hearing footsteps while he was thinking.

 If it was him, it was him, but he was a macabre child, dressed in the same clothes as that day, which scared him.

 "Who are you?!"

 His empty eyes, containing nothing but darkness, let out tears as dark as night.

 - I'm the one you forgot.

 Still afraid of such an individual in front of him.

 "But what have I forgotten?"

 He replies.

 - That day, I am the materialization of your trauma, you kept me locked up for nine years, that's why you don't remember this place.

 Lucas thinks about the situation.

 "I don't even remember how I locked you up, how did you escape?"

 Then he comments.

 - I'm not stupid enough to tell you, it's better not to know, but I have to warn you about something now.

 Confused, he then thinks.

 "Warn you? Of what?"

 He immediately replies.

 - They're back, and they're coming for you.

 Then five pairs of luminous eyes appear out of the darkness, and he speaks.

 - They...

 Startled by all this, Lucas hears him say even more.

 - In case you've forgotten, my name is Tel.

 In this way, he begins to hear a female voice.

 - Lucas! Wake up! Not that one.

 Tel gives a small smile.

 - I think it's up to you.

 Lucas opens his eyes and sees that he is already being led out of the room by Yuri and the teacher.

 Still not knowing what was going on, he says - What's going on?

 Everyone rejoiced, then Yuri, who had done the procedure to raise his legs, asked.

 - I'm glad you're awake Lucas, we're already taking you to the principal's office to call your parents.

 Then his teacher also asks.

 - How are you feeling, Lucas? I thought he was asleep in class, until I went to check his pulse.

 Arriving at the principal's office, he is immediately put in a chair near the entrance door. The principal, a black man with gray hair, asks the teacher.

 - What happened to him?

 The teacher replies.

 - He ended up fainting inside the classroom, and when I went to give my lesson I realized that he was lying in the class, so I thought he was asleep and went to try to wake him up, but until I checked his neck for a pulse, I called a friend of his who was near him and took him here.

 The principal immediately thought.

 "I'd better call his parents before something worse happens."