Totally random story, but try to understand it .I had a lot of fun writing it.
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"Hannah? Hannah? Hannah O'lean get up!'
"Whoo?" I thought as I woke up to the sound of a very tiny, angry voice .When I opened up my eyes I saw before me something very similar to a stuffed animal. It had pink fur, blue eyes, and a purple swirl on its forehead. It was about the size of my hand and, I noticed dispassionately floating 7 inches above the desk with a pair of white angel like wings.
'7 inches above the desk?' I thought, jerking my head off my desk and became suddenly alert. I looked around and saw I was still in my English class room and the same thing that I last saw on the board was still there, but the room was empty. "What the?" I asked.
"oh, goody you're awake" the tiny animal said.
"How ….you're…you….it talks!" I exclaimed.
The animal rolled its eyes and said "they told me you'd react like this. Ok, let me explain, the date is 2060, January 25, 2060. My report tells me you fell asleep 50 years ago and since today is your 65 birthday you are being given me to assist your transaction" the animal said, calm as can be.
"Transaction?What transaction?"I questioned.
"Well, to becoming elderly in this hard future of course."The toy said.
I tried to process this .And when that didn't work I gave up and little black spots began to appear in front of my eyes.
"Whoa, whoa we don't want to do that, not when you've just woke up. Maybe we should take a walk to get the blood circulating." The thing pushed me to my feet, it was surprisingly strong.
"It's in my programming. The strenght" it said.
Had I said that out loud? I didn't think so.
"Shoot' I thought I heard the thing mutter "anyway, as I was saying. 50 years ago everyone suddenly fell asleep and when they woke up they could…..how do I say this…. They could... aaah….they could kind of read um eachothers... that chaos broke loose. Because everyone could read each other's minds they knew what other people thought of them. People started to fight over petty ideas or opinions. They started to commit suicide from hearing what people really thought of them. When the dust cleared 2/3 of the earth's population was dead and 2 main groups had formed, the mindsoloist and the mind groups. The mindsoloist were those who decided to separate themselves from everyone, including each other because distance makes a difference on whether or not you can read each other thoughts. The mind group where those who decided to band together to try and find a cure for mind reading, no matter how hard it was to work together. So far their labs have created a head band that muffles the voices, and they've created me. They have also decided that what happened that day was a sudden evolution, one we were not prepared for. But right now as the mind soloists continue being hermits, and the mind groups look for answers, you are the only one on this earth that we are aware of that did not wake up after the evolution" the thing paused" because of this scientists believe that you might have had more time to evolve your power. There for having a better control over it."
As 'it' was talking we walked through the school and I quickly saw the changes that were unapparent in the classroom. The floors were littered with dust and drooped materials, and every now and then I could see a few drops of blood. At the end of our conversation we ended up at the doors and I could see my reflection 'What? Why? I looked older but not 50 years older!' I thought. I looked like I was 20 or 21. My blond hair was waist long and shiny, my blue eyes were the same and I looked skinnier. But I didn't look anywhere near the age of 65.(A/N:this is all in her head).
"Oh, let me explain that. You see after 6 years of being asleep we began to worry about you so we had to read you mind. In it we could only see the numbers 2060 and no matter how hard we tried we couldn't get anything else, another hint to your abilities. Anyway, we didn't know when you'd wake up so gave you a shot that basically froze your body until you awoke." It said.
I thought that it was scary that I was accepting this explanation. But an odd explanation is better than no explanation. "But who are you?" I questioned the toy.
"Oh, how rude of me. I didn't introduce myself. My name's Naterban. I am a newly developed life form and I will be your life guide from here on out." she turned to the doors"By the way I am not a toy"With that she opened the doors.
It was beautiful. Nature had taken back its land. There were flowers of every color and size blooming all over. The sun was shining and… "Wait." I turned to Naterban and asked "Didn't you say that it was January? Why are there flowers blooming?".
"This isn't real" She said.
"I can see it right here. How can it not be real?"I asked.
"It's a projection. After the war the world was a mix of gray and black, it was colorless. So to lessen the blow of an already huge loss we built a satellite to color the earth till color comes back."
This new world was becoming scarier and scarier by the second; I didn't know what was real and what wasn't. "I need to see my home" I demanded.
"Fine" and off we went.
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At the bottom of my drive way I had heard and seen no one on the way and my house looked the same but empty. Walking up the drive way the lawn was up to my waist. There was a rustling in the lawn and when I looked toured it a figure came through the grass. It had a tail and a large ovalish shaped thing that could have been a body with a face that had a brown spots over one of its eyes and looked at me with sad eyes.
"Could it be? Molly! "I rushed forward to the animal that used to be me small cute little dog, time had not been kind to her. I picked her up and together we went to explore the house. Like the school it was covered in dust, and scattered objects, but there was no blood. Much to my relief.I checked everywhere, there was no one? I started to panic "Mom, Dad, Brian, anyone?" I called. Then I had a thought "the barn" and started running to the barn with Molly.
"Where are we going?' asked Naterban.
Until then I had forgotten she was there "to the barn "I said. At the barn door I tried the handle and it was locked. I knocked.
There was a brief silence then"…..yes?" came a small voice.
"It's me, Hannah. " I said.
The door swung open and someone jumped into me arms"…..si…sis…sister?".
I pulled away and stared "Brian?" my little brother looked to be 59 but I knew him to be 9 last time I saw him. "Brian, is that you?".
He spoke"yes, it's me. Where have you been, after the mind reading started, everyone went crazy. I ran to the school and looked for you but you weren't there! You weren't there!" He yelling and started beating my arms and crying.
"Oh, honey I hadn't woken up yet like everyone else, I stayed asleep. I only woke up just now." I tried to explain to soothe my little brother. But he wasn't so little anymore he was at least a foot taller than me had a slight beard and I had more questions than answers for him so my explanation was weak.
Jake came up right as if realizing something "I can't hear your mind. Why can't I read your mind?".
Ah, we run into the problem of the lack of answers again "I have no idea."
"Why don't you look older?" his inquisitor mind demanded answers, some things hadn't changed.
"The scientists froze my body with medicine when I didn't wake up."
"I've missed you so much .After mom and dad came and got me we looked for you and.."
"Wait, mom and dad?"I interupted him" Where are mom and dad? Are they Ok?"I grabbed him shoulders frantic for information.
"Here" He said quietly
"Can I see them?' I asked. He paused and his eyes shifted to the door. But before I could inquire into why he did that we were interrupted
'Let her in Brian "came a voice quietly from inside "we have many things to discuses." It said.
Brian opened the door and inside where dad's carpentry tools had lined the shelves, beds had replaced them. The main floor had a curtained off area in the back and a stage like thing in the center. And there on the stage was my mom and dad. Mom would now be 96 and dad 94 by my calculations. But the two people who stood there did not look a day over 20.
"Mom? Dad?" I asked hesitating for these people did indeed look like my more like an old picture of them. It didn't add up, like a lot of things lately.
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It's not over. The insanity will continue.
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