Aleathea Dupree

The Treasured Chest

She had forgotten how to be human. She had forgotten how to be around normal people. She watched them making small talk with each other in the hallways, and she felt alien. Everyone looked at her the same way, as if they were trying to figure out how she had ended up like that. She tried to smile; she thought she was, but the look on their faces proved her attempts were failures. She wondered when she had gotten this way. When did she forget how to be a person?