Charlie the lab doll.

by M smiles
I am a 14 years old boy who goes to a normal high school. Right now I'm in the laboratory with my classmates. we're not doing any experiments but just cleaning the room. It is very dusty. Deborah is one of my classmates and she kept sneezing since she had stepped into the lab.
After a few minutes wiping the grey window into its rightful transparent self, A large human size dummy caught my eyes that stood at the corner of the wall. I go towards it and- Oh god! its so dusty!. I cover both of my nose and mouth with my palm. Poor doll, who knows how many ages he's been sitting here with no one had ever uses him as project. or even touched him. I wipe him up with a wet cloth and turns out the plastic doll wasn't that bad or ugly but slightly creepy with one of its eyes was gone. or maybe it is made that way. who cares, its a lab doll for mud sake.
After recess, our teacher informed us there will be a competition in a game of 'tug of war' next week against different classes. Our teammates was shockingly not enough. The population of girls is larger than the boys. How pathetic..we had to find another teammate.
On the next day, our substitute teacher introduces us a new student named, Charlie.
"WHAT IN THE MOUNTAIN OF SOCKS?!" I shouted. The whole class turns at me confusedly. My mouth stood open.
"Phil is there a problem?" my teacher asked. I turned puzzled. what is wrong with this class??
"Hasn't anyone cares? that's the dummy from the lab!" I explained. But no one still to understand what i'm saying. Their faces looked like they are solving a math problem written on my face. The doll did the same thing as the other students did.
"Phil,how rude of you. Are you deciding to bully this new student on his first day??!" i shook my head slowly with confusion then leaned back to my chair. It seems that no one sees it. No one turned to realized how creepy is that 'new student' which is from the school's science lab.
The doll sat at the right row of my desk. I couldn't focus on what Mr.Dan Howell is saying because of charlie sitting right next to me taking some notes about the topic. I bit my bottom lip. On recess I waited for the other classmates leave and i pulled Charlie's arm while he's on the way to leave his desk. "What kind of possessed doll are you and what do you want with my friends?!" I voiced out directly. He raise up his palm in front of me," whoa,whoa,hey..hey..chill man, we can talk this out.." He said. Trying to loosen my tight grip. I grip tighter cause i know it wouldn't hurt him because his made of plastic! He might try to pull his arm and run away. My eyes look into his sharply.
He looked like he had no other way but to speak out. He took a single breath,"look,okay..it looks like you're the only one who sees me as a plastic doll from a science lab. I'm sorry for freakin' ya out but, I've been wanting to thank you for tidying me up back then at the lab.
My eyes widen and waited for him to continue his sentence.
" and for that, i wanted to pay the price. I am joining your team for the competition" He explained. I finally let go of his arm. There's a silence between us for a moment. My no reaction face turned crumbled back again when another thought bugs me."But how? how are you alive? do all other doll labs actually alive? but they do not want to show it to people because people would freak out?? is that why?!" My eyes still chained on his one eye that is still on its place than the other one that left a hole inside. The doll blinked a couple of times and turned out chuckling."well yeah, i bet they would freak out! hahaha!.." My reaction still in confused.
"No silly, dolls aren't made to be alive, well on most dolls. unless like the possessed dolls. or the voodoo dolls. oh wait that is possessed dolls. or maybe-"
"look! it doesn't matter! i'm just confused how can you be alive??"I invaded his sentence. He smiled for a second.
"well to let you know, i'm not a possessed doll. And the suitable answer for your question is,...i don't know." My mouth drop open.
"look,Phil, i have no idea how i blinked and saw myself in a school uniform instead of a naked mannequin. But the only thing I know why I'm alive is my destiny is to pay for what you did to me. now, i know you might be thinking, 'it's just wiping a dusty creepy lab doll, whats so big deal about that?', right? but if you didn't know, is that the school student and teachers used me as a project again. I'm some how important in that lab just because I am cleaned and shiny again! I am very happy!" He said proudly with a wide smile. I froze.
"um..wow..well, so now you wanna payback by helping us winning the competition next week?"I asked. He nodded immediately couple of times.
"okay then. lets shake on it" I raise my hand. We shake it off as a symbol of our agreement.
The big day of the competition called 'tug of war' finally arrived. We had practice very hard in such little time even on weekend. Charlie and I turns out to be close friends.We have to fight against two classes. "okay everybody! group plan!" Our class monitor ordered. "okay guys we practiced as hard as we can and now this is our moment to prove everyone of what we did to win this shit! and..if we didn't get the trophy,that means we do this for fun. okay, lets get in position!"
At the end of the competition, the headmaster notifies the winners. And happily we won the Tug of war! we all screamed and hug each other with joy. I noticed Charlie didn't scream along like a mad football player. my eyes went searching for him. I turned shock when I saw Charlie lying on the field's grass not moving a muscle. i run towards him." hey Charlie!" my smile faded in seconds when i see his face rock as a doll he used to be. I shook my head repeatedly with grief."no.."
then i heard a girl screams. "aaarghh!! isn't that the dummy from the science lab?!" she shouted in shocked making other students turn to charlie. My eyebrows almost connected into 'V'. the teachers was also in shock.
"what? what are you saying? Charlie is our teammate from my class!" i turned to my classmates to earn the truth. they looked shock as the others.
"phil,there is no one in our class named Charlie.." one of my teammate said. They all stared at me with confuse. I slowly let go of the doll from my bare hands. sitting on the grass with my tongue-tied with anymore words to convince them that charlie existed. or is he?..
I Let the teachers took him back into the science lab then stands on my feet to walk myself home after the school ends.
Than i thought,maybe its because he'd done his job of paying me for cleaning him. If he didn't know how he became alive,than how should i know why a dummy has a feeling to pay the price.. wait..what?...no im just saying that my head has loads of empty questions.


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January 4, 2015 - 10:13 Thanks for your thuhgots. It's helped me a lot.
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May 6, 2015 - 20:24 hahah.. this is so good.. and so different.. havent read anythin like this lately :D THE BEST :P

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