OPEN: A GONE FANFICTION.
Chapter One: Waking Up In Perdido Beach
16 DAYS. 6 HOURS.
1
Sam sat there in his bed. The FAYZ hadn't come down yet, and Sam didn't even care mostly because he didn't know what was to come. He rubbed his eyes as he climbed out of his twin bed. His tan body glistened in the sunlight as he walked over to the closet. The only reason he glistened was because Sam had nightmares. The nightmares vaused Sam to sweat, and that sweat is what reflected in the light.
Light. It always felt good to think about the light. Especially the light in the closet. That light. It was a special light that was for sure. The way it glowed in his closet without stop. The way it…
"Sam!"
"Yeah ma?"
"I was just making sure you're up! I've got to start heading down to Coates, I'll see you after school!"
"Okay Ma!"
Sam waited until she left and then he jumped back on his bed and lay down. He didn't actually have to get up for school for another twenty minutes, so maybe it was time to do what Sam hardly got time to. Something that Sam loved to do.
Sam grabbed the lotion on the side of his bed by the wall and put some on his right hand. Then he lowered his boxers to his knees and rubbed his hands together. He didn't need any porn to get hard. It just happened whenever he had the thought of jacking off. He placed both hands on his erection, the left hand on the lower half, the right on the top. Then he slowly began stroking.
God it felt so good. That feeling of everything being alright in the world swept over him as the rubbing took its toll. He stroked faster, now only with his right hand, and he smiled a wicked smile as he bucked his hips at the motion of his hand.
That's when it happened, that's when everything really changed for Sam. Sam sometimes had these, images in his head that played like a video, and it took him in like it was really happening. This one came quickly and it was the most confusing one he ever had. It was Quinn. His best guy friend in the entire world. He was shirtless on the beach and smiling at Sam. Then he started rubbing his thin chest and pushed his hand directly into the front of his swim trunks. His hand rubbed, Back and Forth, Back and Forth. Sam was so into it, he had no idea why, he just was. He came all over his abs and chest, and then he placed his hands on his forehead.
He couldn't have these thoughts. They weren't right. He was dating somebody. A girl named Sarah. (When the FAYZ came down, Sarah would actually be one of the first to die, parents driving off a cliff into the ocean as they disappeared, but none of this would phase Sam since they would be breaking up really soon). Sam wiped up the cum with the tissue by his bed, and then continued to lay there. His soft length sitting there, he fell back asleep. Sam never got to school that day, but his friend Quinn did, along with his other friends.
He thought as he fell asleep, Even though I'm not going to school, I'm still going to hang with Quinn later. Just so I can tell him about what I saw, and we can laugh about it.
But Quinn didn't laugh about it, no, what happened next, Quinn didn't laugh about at all.
2
Quinn had been waiting on the beach for Sam, and he didn't look too happy.
"Hey dude, how's it hangin'?"
Quinn looked at him, and smiled. It's not that Quinn looked sad or anything, he just didn't look himself.
"Low bro."
Sam smiled and put his arm over Quinn's shoulder.
"I have something I have to tell you."
Quinn smiled.
"Shoot."
Sam smiled bigger, a grin in fact, and Quinn returned it again.
"Um, earlier today, the strangest thing happened."
Quinn looked at Sam and he was no longer smiling.
"Were you at school today by any chance?"
"Nope."
Sam made eye contact with Quinn, and they didn't say anything for a minute or two until Quinn said,
"I didn't go either. Missed the bus…"
Sam nodded.
"I missed it too. I got caught up in masturbation."
Sam laughed then, but Quinn did not.
"Me too. I, uh, got caught up in masturbation."
Quinn blushed a bit as the words escaped, he never really talked much except to Sam, and he had never ever talked about his masturbation habits with anyone.
Sam wrapped Quinn into a hug then, and then spoke quietly in his ear,
"I had a flicker."
That was what Sam called his tiny flashes in and out of his day. His daydreams that were more than daydreams. Quinn didn't respond at first, instead he hugged Sam back. He wasn't afraid of being seen since they were on the little alcove of rocks by the beach and the only people who could see them would have to be on a boat and pretty close to the shore.
"What was it about?"
Sam brought his body close to Quinn and held him like that. Sometimes when they were on this alcove they did this, mostly after a really good surf but also if Quinn's parents were having their usual issues.
"I had it while I was masturbating; I came because of it…"
Quinn smiled to himself and then kissed the nook of Sam's shoulder. He had no idea why he did it, it just felt like the moment to do it. Sam let go a bit and looked Quinn in the eyes,
"Did you… kiss my armpit?"
Quinn giggled.
"Yeah, I'm sorry…"
Sam kissed his cheek and then said,
"We're even."
Quinn giggled and pulled himself away from Sam a bit, but Sam locked his fingers together and held Quinn to him by putting his interlocked hands on the small of Quinn's back.
"So Sam, what was the flicker about?"
Quinn pressed his groin lightly against Sam, and maybe Sam pressed back, just to let Quinn know that it wasn't a big deal, or maybe he didn't even notice he did it.
"This guy was on the beach touching himself… it made me cum so fast."
Quinn looked at him questionably,
"A guy?"
Quinn had sometimes thought some of the things he and Sam did together were a bit gay, but he never thought that Sam actually rolled that way.
"Yeah, promise you won't tell anyone?"
Quinn nodded repetitively,
"Who was the guy?"
Sam smiled and his groin rubbed up against Quinn's a bit rougher this time.
"You…"
Quinn didn't know what came over him, one second the light gayness was okay, but as soon as Sam said that, it was just way too weird for one day. He looked at Sam and backed away, and then he said,
"I've gotta go bro. Call me later tonight."
Quinn started walking away, not looking back at the boy who he had just pressed his groin against in his own act of lust.
"Quinn… wait…"
But Quinn didn't wait, he just walked away.
3
Astrid didn't kow how to respond
Honestly, she hardly ever came to a question that she couldn't answer in her life, and by someone like Orc. Oh, Charles. She was tutoring him, and he had asked a question that made her think so hard it made her head hurt.
"Why don't you go out with anyone?"
How was she supposed to honestly answer that? As if she thought about getting together with every other guy in school. As if.
Astrid was just not into dating, she didn't really have a reason, but she jus didn't date.
Or maybe she didn't date because nobody wanted to date her. Maybe that was the actual reason why Astrid was so alone.
But really who knows? Honestly, Astrid didn't care, but avoiding the question just wouldn't happen.
"Uh, I don't know. I'm just not interested in anyone..."
Charles nodded solemnly and then smiled,
"You've gotta find someone who's perfect for Astrid The Genius."
Astrid laughed and giggled lightly. Her giggle made Orc smile too. Somewhere in the distance, a man was hollering.
4
"This is the end of the world! Tribulation is near! The end is impending! I implore you all to change your lives around, before it is too late for change!"
What the hell?
Who was this idiot screaming from the steps of town hall?
He was wearing a black robe, so there was no way he was a priest. Pastors and such always wear white right? So there was no way this guy was a monk or something.
No, stupid.
Monks wore brown right? God.
It really had been a long time since Cookie had went down to church, he really had no clue.
But this man was wearing all black, and he didn't look like he was the friendliest guy in the world, he just looked like he had a message to deliver.
And he sure was delivering it.
"Life is coming to an end! All of you are fools for thinking that the lives you lead are correct! Ka will catch up with you! I have planted the seed of the gaiaphage, and he will show you all the error of your ways!"
Cookie had to admit, this was kind of scary. This man was actually frightening him just a bit.
Gaiaphage?
Ka?
He thinks he may have heard of ka before in a book, but he didn't really like to read, and he must have seen the book a long time ago.
Cookie turned on his heel and bounced away, sweat on his brow from the hot Perdido Beach day.
"The end is near! Everyone WILL die if you do not heed my warning! All of the people in this town will burn! You'll all FUCKING burn!"
Cookie turned around again when the man cursed out the obscenity, and watched as the crowd around him got bigger and the murmurs turned into full conversations.
Cookie could see a police officer coming up out of the corner of his eye.
"16 days. Until the end begins."
The cop approached the man with a hand raised, and his other on his gun holster.
"16 days until LIFE becomes DEATH!"
The cop grabbed the man in black and escorted him away.
The man turned back and screamed,
"Everything you think you know is wrong, just because this officer thinks different do not fall for the lies! Watch this, I will show you the darkness is coming!"
Clouds started covering the sky as the man was dragged to the cop's squad car.
"Look alive! Look ALIVE!"
As the people looked up Cookie watched the man. In one second he was there, and the next second Cookie and the cop were looking at the blank spot where the man had been with confused eyes.
The man disappeared in one second, and a crow took his place. It flew off into the sky, cawed, and then disappeared, as the clouds started to leak on the ground.
That thunderstorm was the worst that Perdido Beach had in twelve years.
End of Chapter One.