Hey guys! I know I should be blogging on some other important things (like college for example) but instead I wrote a short story. Its a long one actually (could it be a novel??). Anyway, I’ll try to write rest BUT you know me, always with the trying and never with the doing. Enjoy!
FirstStop mall was one of the biggest malls in the city. It was a popular hangout spot for everyone between the ages of ten to sixty. High on top of the other floors is the cinema showcasing the latest movies involving the hottest actresses and actors fighting crime, aliens, and vampires while finding time to be attracted to each other. In the bowling alley next to the cinema, bowling balls smoothly slide on waxed floors before colliding with plastic pins which is then followed by joyful hugs and awful victory dances.
Every store was full of people. Preteen girls were trying on new trendy clothes, giggling to themselves. High school boys were browsing the latest in gaming entertainment, remembering reviews they read online. Middle aged working men slowly take out their wallets as they use their salaries to buy trivial things that will be forgotten. They were smiling. They were all smiling except for one person. Angelos looked like an empty man. His face was pale and tired. His eyes were swollen, dark and determined. He would not move from the bench he is sitting on, being transfixed on the fast food restaurant in front of him. Among the many people in that restaurant, a child was enjoying her ice cream with her family. It was the soft type of ice cream and she was enjoying it so much that it fell on the floor. Tears started rolling from her eyes.
Under his breath, Angelos muttered words that mean nothing to these shoppers. Green electricity start to arch across his fingers. His eyes were still staring at the child who was now being comforted by her family. The electricity starts to spread across his whole body. People walking past Angelos start to notice and they start to gather round him. One woman tried to put her hand on his shoulder but then she received a nasty shock that threw her on the ground. She was petrified.
“Oh my god, are you okay?” said a worried bystander to the woman.
“I saw a vision. Of a different world. It was burning to the ground.” She replied. She was expecting weird expressions and lots of loud talking but no one moved. In fact, they couldn’t. It took her awhile before she realized only she and Angelos can move.
Angelos, whose body stopped emanating electricity, was looking at her like he was looking at a dead body. He was crying.
“I hate this part of the job,” He said. His dialect was perfectly British. “The collecting of people and all that. Wish he could find a way to rule the world without me. I’m a slave you see. Part of a group taken in 1587. Strange though, never asked to get so many people at once. Master must be doing something big.”
The woman and Angelos continued staring at each other.
“Don’t worry about that world. It’s perfectly safe as long as Orange is safe,” he continued “ You guys on the other hand. Slaves for all eternity. Depressing stuff. Now stay there like the charming woman you are as I teleport you all to your new home. I’ll be honest, its gonna hurt and that’s why I froze everyone so they won’t feel a thing but since you touched me you’re gonna have to endure-“
“Please,” she interrupted him. “Have mercy on me,”
Angelos looked away, sighed and snorted the fluids coming out of his nose. He noticed the young child with the fallen ice-cream was looking at him with her tears frozen in time.
“I can’t”
The woman began to hear a high-pitched shriek inside her head and everything started to distort and fade out. Pain started going through her body, a feeling like a thousand sharp 20-inch nails were going through her body. In an instant she was gone. Everyone else was gone too. Even Angelos was gone too. The only thing that remained was their clothes.
Every store was empty. Mannequins were displaying the newest designer clothes to tiny dust particles. Television sets once proudly showing cool new trailers of video games was met with no response. Wallets were left unguarded along with credit cards and other valuable items. Another happy day has ended abruptly. Bowling balls that were being held by someone all fell hard, making loud thumps that echoed throughout the FirstStop. One of the bowling balls kept rolling and went into the gutter.
