The Gobi Me
St. Margaret’s Co-Educational English Secondary and Primary School: Secondary Section
Secondary, Gemma Yau, Fiction: Group 4
N
o! Stay away from me!”
Bang!
…Thump… “She’s just not taught well! Don’t harm her!” a girl shouted in agony.
“She won’t change, it’s in her nature, she has to go back home” said the man in white.
That was the last thing I remember. It’s over. Everything was lost. Time has run out. It was
time for me to go.
…Thump… “Why is it so bright?” I thought. My eyes felt heavy, it was so hard to open them.
“Where am I?” There was a sea of sand in front of me, and sand only. The sky was clear and the
sun is shone brightly. The cool breeze blew on my face but my body was warm.
“Why am I here? “ Remembering myself being in pitch black just a moment ago, “but how
am I here? And alive too?” I had many questions to ask but there was no girl here, no man here,
nobody here at all. But who would answer my questions and clear things up for me? I don’t
understand anything. I must find someone to solve all these mysteries.
As I was trying to remember something- anything at all, I walked in one direction. The heat
was starting to get to me, so I started to move faster. After two hours or so, the sun was setting
and the sky became bloody red. It was then I saw blood everywhere on the sand and footprints
heading towards the setting sun. I was frightened. Suddenly, pictures were flashing in my mind,
I saw the bloody hands of mine. Did I die? I wondered but there was no answer. After that, I
followed the bloody prints without hesitation. It could be my way out of this soulless desert.
The sky was darkening, my vision was getting blurry but I could see an outline of a mountain.
I ran towards the mountain, hoping I could find a place to stay for the night. There was a cave at
the bottom of the great mountain so I went in.
The cave was not as big as expected, but it was better than being out on the sand. The
temperature dropped by almost a hundred degrees, it was freezing. More importantly, there was
no water, no food. “At this rate, I would die from dehydration. But then again, where am I going?
What’s my reason for living when I should be dead?” It was the questions again, it really bothered
me how I was stuck in the middle of nowhere and was helpless. I was too exhausted so I stopped
with all the questions and slept until the next morning.
The next day, I woke up before the sun came out so I started hiking up the mountain to find
food and water. After a while, I saw a little mouse with big ears. It was very odd but somehow
I had a vision of taking it as prey. “You monster!” My mind cleared up and realized what I had
just been thinking. “People don’t eat things that are alive right?” I was really scared of myself,
maybe the man in white was correct, I was not normal for a human being. I ran away and headed
upwards until I found water at the tip of the mountain. I stopped for a little while to drink all the
water I needed.
I went down the mountain slowly, trying to forget what had I happened. As I walked down, I
saw a herd Musk Oxen. They all saw me and crowded up together quickly. It was as if they were
going to bully me, but I could not help but laugh at their body shape. Not to be rude but their
confused faces and the bumpy body figure really was unresistingly hilarious. To be crowded
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