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Close your eyes and sleep

Here, m’y first novel ! That was an exercise for the Storytelling course. I had the obligation to use this two words (randomly found) : “Wided-eye” and “Order”, and i must wrote between 1500 and 3000 words. My first character must have a companion too.

Our teacher, S.Beaulieu, didn‘t read and correct my work yet. So if you find any mistake, don’t hesite to report it ! Thank !

“Building 102B, You have 3 people to scan here.”

Usually, i’m not going in this part of the city. In this part of the town, we can’t see the sun, he’s hide by a thick fog. Here, the buildings looks like a wall who never stop, thousand of people living here and logically thousand of people share the same contaminated air. The government tried to plant trees and create green spaces, but no one wanted to grow. It’s in this atmosphere the virus borned, he don’t kill or handicap no one, in fact we don’t really know if he is dangerous. But, in precaution, the Ministry of Prevention would to branded and isolate the sick, just in case. I think it’s stupid, we don’t know how the virus infects people ! However that look like to work, the number of infected decreasing...

I shouldn't complain, it’s thank to this virus i’ve got a job. Yep, i’m proud to be a “Cleaner”. Like my mother before, i heal people, not directly but i’m still proud of what i’m doing. I don’t have money to pay a medical school but i can help the population to be have a good health !

My job is simple, I just have to knock, scan the eyes of three or four people, send the analysis to the lab and that it. If the result of the analysis is positive, they are sent to a Care “Close your eyes” center. In fact we don’t really need to scan, an infected can be detected by everyone, we just need to see his face, if he has wide-eyed it’s probably because it’s an infected.

“Building 102B, You have 3 people to scan here.”

My job is simple, however I have to accept “0R-D3R”, a little IA integrated in my Anti-infection suit and on my watch. She’s records all my moves, and I always wear this suit or use my watch, so she knows everything about me.

I knock, and a women with sunglass open the door.

The apartment was small but kindly tidy, an unique window illuminates the blue walls of the place.

Once again, the scan is not going to reveal a surprise, behind the tinted glasses i could see the wide-eyed of the women.

“Jesus christ, it’s the end. We’re going to this damn center ! Please, don’t scan my childs, they’re not ready to leave home !”

In the same time, the mother showed me a little boy and girl in a pram. They sleep tightly together, in their pyjamas I can read “Thomas” and “Emily”.

If i didn’t visit the Care center yet, I would probably have a wrong idea of where this family will go. But, in fact the center was a very nice place, carefully considered for everyone.

“I’ve already visit where you’re going to live for some month, it’s a nice place, you and your kids will be in good hands. I promise, I don’t want to insult where you’re living but you probably be in better condition in the Care Center” I said to calm her down.

The woman don’t look appease but she takes off her glasses and let me scan her.

The sun began to disappear, at the foot of the building, the air was fresh and the city was beginning to be illuminated. That was a pretty view. I sit in a wood bench to rest and admire the transformation of the wall. This big block in concrete slowly disappear in the night, to moves on to a firefly cloud create by the light of the residents. The condensation on my mask put a stop to my break and i slowly back to my car to back home. They are nobody on the road, i’m going to drive quietly.

When i said, i don’t usually go to this part of the city, that was true, i lived miles away. A few years ago, on of my colleague would have scanned this family, but the number of infected has decrease and the Ministry reduce the number of Cleaner. We are only five now, counter to hundred few years ago. Next year, i will probably be dismiss and find an another job. That make me sad, i love this job, for the first time since i was graduated i’ve the feeling to help people. Before the end, i want to go back when i started, in the Care Center. I want to see how the center and me have evolved in ten year of working.

I don’t have anyone to scan since this mother with they child, any order for weeks. 0R-D3R stay quiet. I think it’s time to go back to the Center.

The Care Center is hide in a huge forest on north to the city, only few people very know where it is. After five hours, i finally arrive, the metalic doorway was no so huge in my memory. They don’t have any guard of course, all the complex is autonomous.

“I don’t detected any electrical interference, that mean the complex is offline, we can’t enter by this way. You must enter and report the situation to your superior”

I start to walk all around the wall around the Center to finally find the same doorway but open.

When I enter into the yard, i feel perturb, this place is beautiful, i can see a basket-ball court, a little park with some water, some equipments to develop the muscle in, but with nobody to use it. All the structures looked like if no one never used it, but that was not the absence of patients or doctors that make me me disturb, that was the silent.

The only sound was the wind. He infiltrates the trees and comes to my hears. On a wall, just to the top of a gate, i see a sign where i could read “Close your eyes! You’re in good hands. This place is carefully considered for everyone!”

I pass trought the door, inside the center, a strong smell of bleach comes to me. In all the complex, the floor was made of tiles, and he was shine by some emergency lights. Dozen of tables and chairs was piled up in a corner just at the right of the door, this mountain of wooden furnitures makes way for an huge empty area inside the room. This huge room without any furniture or things makes me uncomfortable. There is no windows, only two doors and this odour. I slowly walked to the opposite door, she was open. I found a little corridor with a guardroom. I enter into the Guardroom, no mark of violence or any clue to explain this uninhabited place, again, the room was cold and dark.

“There is a computer here, connect me to him. I will try to understand what’s happening.” 0R-D3R says. I connect it to the guard’s computer.

“Ok, all the cameras was turn off for a long time, the last video was the inauguration of the Complex, i can see you on it.”

Without notice, all the lights turns on and all the complex was look like he wakes up. I heard a brouhaha for the last room, like if thousand of people was suddenly start to eat and speak. All around me, dozen of voices start. It’s like behind every doors of a corridor someone speak, walk, open door, laught, eat, turn light on and off. I was stunned, my heart was beating hard.

This cacophony lasted a few seconds, and she disapears. I was alone, on my knees. I slowly raise my head to discover the place likes she was one minute ago, absolutly empty, without any sound.

“Sorry that was me, that was the unique program on they server. I ask you to investigate the first door on the corridor please.”

I walked to the first door on the corridor, in it i can read “Appartement B201”. Behind the door, there was an little room with a window in front to the entrance.

Strangely I was familiar with this room, i don’t know if that was the red carpet, or the blue curtains. But something remind me when i was little. An odour of applepie slowly come to me, this odour warmed me up. I don’t have a really attachment to my past, but i can remember this feeling, when my mother was take out of the oven the applepie. That was every wednesday.

I was sitting in a corner of the room, with the windows on my right.

I was calm, my head started to be heavy, all my body become slow.

The door just in front of me opened up, a massive black mass appears behind it. She was not effraying, but conforting. The shadow was so much tall, she can reach the ceiling. Her long arms started to embrace me, my eyes becomes hard to stay open. Slowly i fall in her, that was pleasant and

An electric shock wake me up. In a second i was on my foot. The room was cold and empty. My head was clouded, i can’t feel my fingers, they was frozen.

“Get out ! This room is full of gas, I thought there was somebody, but the heat of the gaz confused my analysis.”

I run to the door, and i was back to the corridor. The center becomes very menacing. I felt like all the walls, doors, lights were mad at me. If this center don’t have any patients, what is his utility ?

I note a long mark of water on the floor. The mark started to previous room and continue to the outdoor.

“This mark is recent, somebody just came here. I suggest you to follow it.”

This stain have nothing special, that was just a long line of water. I followed it.

It’s strange but, if 0R-D3R wasn’t here with me, i don’t know if i’ll could do all this things.

I came back to the first room, the table stay piled on the corner. Outside, the night slowy come, i turn on my torchlight and continue to follow the stain.

With the night, the beautiful yard change into a game of shadows and figures, the basketball hoop was huge, i feel like a ant in comparaison.

The stain goes to a little path in the forest. I'm not going to move away of the Center. After one minute of walking, i arrive to a clearing with a little lake.

All around the lake, the wind was making the thin silouhettes dancing.

The moon reflecting on the water, the stain disapear on it.

“Take off you’re watch and put it on this rock on you’re right.”

That weird, it’s the first time 0R-D3R said an enigmatic message like that, but I put my watch.

The reflect of the moon, make the lake shine like a sun. Here, I felt like time had stopped, just me, the wind and the moon. I came here to remind me my past and talk with my old coleagues, that was not a good idea…

I was interrupt in my reflection by something floated on the board of the lake.

A little soaked piece of cloth. She looked familiar, i turn it over and see something like a name, this cloth was teared and lost on this lake, but who ? My heart started again to beating me hard.

I recognize this cloth, i saw it a few days ago, it’s a piece of the pyjamas of one of the babys ! Thomas and Emily. What’s happening here ?!

In the same, time dozen of monsters emerge from the lake. They looks like humans, but without any clothes, they faces was flat, i can’t see any noses or mouths, their bodys was wrinkled and terrifying. Their eyes was empty of life sign, but they was just standing in front of me, alive.

I was petrified but the monsters face to face with me didn’t move too.

I think we stayed like this two minutes, without any movements, just the wind, the moon, they and me.

I slowly move to take my watch with 0R-D3R and

“I ask you to put me on this rock. After this, go to the lake with the patients.”

I put back my watch, and I walk to the lake. The monsters looks at me without any sound.

I started to feel the cold of the water on my legs, and on my knees, to finally come to my waist. A heit tear roll on my cheek.

Before my head came to the cold water, i can see my face reflecting on the water. I can see my wide eyed for the first time.

Slowly i was dragged to the bottom of the water. Now, they was only the moon and me.

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