The Rules

Now I’m awake again, maybe I should explain a few details. Whether anyone will read this or not is not important; I’m doing this to stave off my own memory.

To play the Memory Game, should you ever have to, there are a few rules everyone should know.

Rule number one is the most important and it is also the easiest to break: don’t think about him.

Rule number two is a continuation of the first: if you think about him, you have already lost.

Rule number three: there is no way to win the Memory Game, you may only try to not lose.

Rule number four: if this is the first time you’ve heard about him, then you are safe. But there are no second chances.

Rule number five, and this is so important: if you lose the game, you have half an hour to spread the knowledge of him to someone else. It can be anyone, even if they know of him already. Just reminding them of him will trigger them to lose.

And you don’t want to lose.

Oranges. Round, juicy, orange oranges. Just focus on them, Clarissa. Even writing down the rules was nearly too much. I almost remembered.