Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Mystery of the missing girl

In an olympic-sized indoor pool, filled with people above and beneath the surface, I was clinging on the side.. I knew for a fact that I couldn't swim, so I stayed where i was. Everybody seems to be enjoying the unusual warmth of the water. Weirdly, I swam underneath. There I saw a community swarmed with men, doing their own silly businesses. A man doing yoga upside-down, a group of men playing poker underwater, and there rest I didn't pay attention much. My presence didn't seem to bother them, so I swam around. I didn't see anyone that I know, thus, decided to get out of it. It appears as if getting out is much harder than swimming in, it took me almost twice as much as the time finding my way out of that bizarre environment. I was already losing air. Then I saw a tiny space in one corner. I gasped for breath. That has been enough to bring me out in the surface.

Darkness loomed. no one, not even a single soul was present in that place. "Is anybody there?" I asked loudly. Nobody answered. I guess I was trapped inside. I cannot go back into the pool, because neither that I could see clearly.
So, I crawled my way up in those high windows -- the only things visible in my sight. They were too small for me to get out of, the only thing I can do is shout for help. A custodian who's in charge of the pool came in with his cleaning gadgets. "Thank goodness you came," I blurted. "But I only have 5 minutes to clean up all these mess and get out of this place, the main door is timed and it's going to be automatically locked soon!" hurriedly he exclaimed. "Let's just get out of this place," I said. We got out just in time.

The outside appears to be surrounded with lots of trees and also there was a couple of nipa huts. Then came this another lady running towards where we were at. "I can't find my way out, this place gives me the chills.." she said. Even the custodian was clueless. "I think we just have to wait for someone who can show us the way," in unison we all agreed. After a while, a man riding a golf cab that appears to be a security guard stopped in front of us and said, "Are you guys lost? May I see your Id's please.. " The lady and the custodian showed theirs to the guard. I don't have anything with me except the wet clothes that I was wearing.

"I left my book bag in the cafe, and all my stuff are in there including my wallet, so I can't show you anything," I said calmly.

"Hmmm... the last book bag that was left unclaimed in that place was on July of 1984, by this girl named *can't remember what he said*, and that's it, nothing was ever left in that place since then."

"But I'm pretty sure I left my book bag in there just this afternoon."

"Sorry ma'am, but we found nothing... By the way, what is your name?"

"Bonnamie Lomio"

"Just a second.." He looks at his dusty book of files and took out several
newspaper cut out pictures.

"Weren't you this kid?" Showing me a bunch of head-shot pictures of this weird looking girl age of five, curly, dark-skinned, with a cleft-palate... But I have to admit, her face kinda resembles mine except the curly hair part and the cleft-palate..

"Whoa, definitely that's not me." I knew exactly what I looked like when I was at that age..

"But her name is exactly the same as yours. Bonnamie Lomio."

"Goodness.. who says two people cannot have the same first name and last name in this world?" Heavens, that was weird... "And since when were these pictures dated?"

"July of 1984... That's exactly the date this girl went missing... We found her school ID in her book bag left in the cafe at the same time... "



Holy Lord... I was born on October 25, 1987... There's no way I could have been that girl...
Anyway, that was just another dream...

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