She’d explain things for you and keep him happy at the same time. You could just push the button, then call and ask for Alyson. His favorite drink is a Shirley Temple with extra cherries, what does he know? This is the perfect excuse to call in sick. You’d never admit to Brent that he was right. Go ahead, blame it on those margaritas from last night. Alyson will let you charge it to office expenses, if you bring her the latest scoop on-but why bother? The button’s right there. And if you make it to work on time, you could bring Martin one of those green concoctions you know he likes, and actually decent coffee for Stacey. But the smoothie place will be open soon, and today could be your day to splurge. Did you promise you’d go with him this time? Too late now anyway. Brent’s probably already up, running his morning marathons. You know you’ll have to ask that question sooner or later. Now, what are you going to do about it? Come on, step three. All that money, and no use for technology-no, don’t break it. But your birthday’s coming up, and Great-Aunt Lorraine said she might get you a new one. Careful, resist the urge to smash it. You know you’ll have to buy another one, and the budget barely stretches to cover your dumb phone. Finally, you find it, and replace it on the nightstand. You fumble for the plastic nuisance, almost tumbling out of bed. The beep is still heckling you, even when muffled. The insistent beep fully penetrates your consciousness, and you heave your pillow at it. Acceptance is the first stage, and you’re past that. Okay, you’ve given up silencing the noise. Concentrate you must-but the annoying static is now a familiar beep. If you don’t, your last chance will do you as much good as that Netflix. If you concentrate, you just might be able to-use the Force, Luke, use the Force! Why did you promise Brent you’d watch those again? If that’s his idea of a date, that’s his problem. Coming up with comparisons takes way too much brain power. But it’s still nails on a chalkboard, and you didn’t even use those in preschool. Who’re you kidding? No one has cable anymore. The crinkle of static, like the TV when you can’t find your channel. That’s the last you’ll ever watch of that, even if it does star-shut up, dratted noise. Alyson was right about the end of the season, what a downer. But when does she ever not notice? All that Netflix content you binge-watched instead. And how many emails did you leave unread last night? Hopefully Stacey didn’t notice. Not even Jared could be as stupid as you were, and he was the definition of idiotic. You had the chance to impress him, but you’ll win the jackpot before you get that promotion. And the meeting with Martin, forget that. You forgot to make Stacey’s coffee on Thursday. You slam the door on those old memories, but others flood in. The swarm of wasps that ruined your whole spring break, the last year of school-no, stop it. But none of that’s important now, because that humming has become a buzz. Or Jared, when you were the teenagers who knew everything. Or Amelia’s pranks, when you were both eleven. One of these days, you’ll finally get back at him for it. You really prefer to forget what Mason did to you, when you turned seven. That humming has turned up the volume, triggering forgotten memories. Forget them, even that charming foreign exchange student from Brazil, or was it Madrid? No, it doesn’t matter. A faint hum at the very back of your mind, in the dusty corner where you keep the names of your ex-significant-others. You have the power to create the most beautiful paintings ever painted, but you lose your vision so you will never be able to see them yourself, You would be rich and be able to order anything you could realistically to your home, but you can never leave your home, You could transfer yourself into any anime, video game, television show, and basically stopping time in real life, but you can only transfer back to real life after living in the world for 10 years, You can have any super power you want, but everytime you use it you become 1 day closer to death, You could have an internal tracking device inside your brain that finds anything that you you lose, bt Everyone knows of you having this power and everyday there are people asking you to find some of their own belongings, You become fluent in all spoken languages, including all animal languages, but you lose the ability to read and write, and you can never get it back, You have the best day in your life everyday, but every night, you will have the worst nightmare, You can travel through time, but you can only go to the future and never back, You will become the most intelligent, beautiful and competent person in the world, but everyone would really dislike you.We’ve all heard this noise before, but now it’s your turn.
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