Past - Snake eyes -1

"312, 311, 310, 309…." A young girl's dull and monotonous voice resonated against the empty walls of a cuboid white room. The room has a white roof, a white floor, three white walls with no windows, and no room for sunlight to enter. Instead of the fourth wall, there are two tightly shut electronic doors made of blast-proof glass.

An entire hallway comprised rooms like this one, facing each other on opposite sides. The only light that entered these rooms was from the LEDs on the ceiling. Men and women in white lab coats moved around the hallway with a clipboard in their hands. A clean-shaven man stood in front of the room and observed the two girls, who slept back down on their pillows and wrote something on the clipboard before heading to the next room.

The girls who lived inside the room ignored the nerdy presence of the man who stood outside. They just stared blankly towards the top while one of them continued to count backward.

This white room became their home sweet home after their mother sold them away. Less than three days after they arrived here, these entirely clueless girls completely forgot about their real home, or rather they tried to forget about it. Even though they had to stay in a white room all day long, it didn't matter because they got hot, flavorful and well-cooked food to eat. They even got fruit jellies twice a day to eat, but only under the supervision of someone wearing the labcoat.

They continually asked questions to anyone they saw; people in white coats, people in black suits, the woman who came inside the room two buckets of water to wash their bodies, and even the creepy kid from the opposite room. However, they were ignored by everyone. Eventually, both girls realize that the only person they can talk to is each other. In about a week, they ran out of topics to chat about. So they started making their own stories and narrated them to each other, fairy tales of a girl, stories of a damsel in distress and a prince, stories of talking animals, stories of their future self, and stories about the facility they were confined in.

Approximately a month after they arrived at the facility, their wishes came true. They got out of the room but in an unexpected way. One night after they ate the jelly, "They're ready," the sisters heard them speak for the first time, and the following morning they woke up belted to a bed in a room that was also white but not as empty as theirs. It was the first time they got separated at this mysterious facility. Electrodes are stuck all over their young delicate bodies, and a bunch of people in white surgical attire surrounded them.

It all started with an injection. For the first time, the sisters felt pain in this facility. The pinch of the syringe felt like a massage compared to what happened to them next. They vibrated more than an alarm clock, felt as though their brains had been deep-fried, and were limited to simply experiencing and contemplating pain.

The sisters are returned to their white room in an unconscious state following their initial operation. The girls woke up in their rooms, dressed in their usual white gowns. They still felt a numbing pain in their frail bodies. Their movements became stiff. One look at the other made them sure that both of them went through the same painful operation. Tears welled up and started coursing down their faces. They just sat there and cried, they cried after eating lunch, they cried after dinner along with jelly, and once again they woke up belted to a bed the next morning. The cycle continued as their bodies started to change into something abnormal and monstrous.

One painful day they saw something odd by their bed, something that looked like a baby snake stored in a cylindrical glass container which bubbled like soda. It was their source of entertainment during that day's operation. That night they talked all about the snake and laughed and giggled. They hoped that the snake in soda would be there the next day also, but it was not there anymore.

They were concerned about what happened to it after it went missing the next day. A week later, the sisters noticed a difference in their dark brown hair color. One had darker hair, while the other had lighter hair. They panicked, but they also discovered that their eyelashes and eyebrows were changing colors too. A week after this occurrence, the sisters noticed that now their eyes were turning unusually narrow and glowy. Their suspicions deepened, they stopped looking at each other, frightened at the thought of what they were turning into.

"244, 243, 242, 241…" The girl continued. She has white silky hair evenly cut to a inch above her shoulder, milk-white skin, white eyelashes, a silver-white iris and narrow pupil, and light pink lips. If not for her special condition, she could easily be mistaken for an albino. Dull white scaled covered half of her skin, partly she looked like a beautiful young girl, and for the other part she looked like a monster in young girl's clothing.

"3...2....1...done, now it's your turn, " She said to her sister who was also lying on a pillow beside her. Her sister's color tone was highly contrasting. She had the same skin tone as her sister, so the black hair, and scales stood out against her skin along with her reptile like eyes. Since they were twins, their faces and bodies looked alike, and all their physical traits were the same except for the black colour in their hair, scales, and their eyes. They even have scales on the same parts of the body.

"From where?"

"878"

"878,877,876,...., " Now the black-haired sister continued to count backwards without moving any part of her body except for her mouth.

"By the how long do you think the new one will last?" She got interrupted by her sister.

"Maybe 1 week?"

"I thought so too..." The white haired girl's voice fainted softly as she closed her eyes and took a long breath, and her sister continued to count.

*sssssssss*

When the doors opened, a boy wearing an over-size white jumpsuit and pushing buckets half his size on a trolley entered the room. He appeared to be three or four years older than the sisters. He had dark-brown hair, a toned figure, as well as a charming face, and his jumpsuit was folded at his wrists and ankles to manage his fit.

He was mesmerized at first glance after taking a glimpse at the sisters. It was nothing like what he had pictured being there instead of those girls. He couldn't take his eyes off the girls in white gowns who were sleeping on their pillows. As he stood in front of the door, ogling them, the sisters had the same impression.

"What a CREEP!"