September 12th, 2019 Perhaps the craziest day of my life. My name is Devin Mcquay, I'm 21 years old, and I'm a college student at Florida University.
That day was like any other day. I woke up to the sound of my roommate, Josh, walking through the door. He was a tall and well built guy, and had short blond hair. He has green eyes and pale skin. "Out late again partying with people you don't know?" I asked groggily. "Hey, it's not what you think, I just went to Claire's dorm to see if she would look over my notes on the lecture we had yesterday."
He threw his notebook and laptop onto his desk and jumped into his bed. "You know that you could have had me read over them, right?"
These words came with slight irritation as Josh had the habit to think that the only person in the world other than him is Claire. "Well, unlike you Claire actually reads my notes". I roll my eye's in response and decided to move from my bed and observe the room after a night of investigating random idea's that had come to my head. The room was nearly covered in trash and wads of paper. I sighed heavily as i realized the night of research had done nothing but trash the dorm.
"Would you mind helping me later with my prototype engine system, I need to balance the weight." "ugh.. why are you building this again?" I stopped myself from lecturing him until he would actually fall asleep and replied "To do something other than sleep and be stuck doing something stupid with you". All I heard was a sigh from my tired friend before he fell asleep.
I spent the next few hours working on multiple papers and projects due later that week until Josh woke up. He helped me clean, after realizing that Claire had planned on stopping by later on to help me with my test.
"I have a question" josh said after staring at my designs on the wall.
"What?" I said after setting the engine on the dining room table. It was small but would work for now. "What is it this engine will do again?" "It's supposed to force rotation of a steel ball without contact and keep the air around the engine from moving, creating high amounts of resistance and magnetic energy." I stopped because I knew he had no idea what I just said. I took a breath to continue but was stopped by a knocking on the door. "I got it!" Josh practically yelled as he leapt for the door knowing it was Claire. I laugh to myself as he opens the door for her.
"Hey Josh, hey Devin" said Claire casually as she walked in. Claire is my age. She was only "5'4" and as thin as a twig. Her hair is light brown and comes down to her shoulders in a braid.
"Whoa, Derek what did you do to the design?" Claire just stared at the machine for a few seconds as I thought of the right words. "I needed a chamber that didn't touch the inner ring"
Out of realization that something may be wrong, I checked it again to make sure it was ready for testing. This machine was for Claire and I to build, but I took over for the past few weeks. It was a large hollow steel ball trimmed into a frame that sat on poorly welded stilts that were bolted to heavy stone bricks to keep it from moving. On the inside of the frame sat a suspended metal ball and ring that slowly rotated as the air moved. I continued to pick at the flaws of the machine until Josh broke the silence. "So are we gonna stare at it all day or test it?" I could tell he didn't want to do this so I turned on the starter battery. The only reason I had my friends here was to help me if something went wrong. "Now, when the ring picks up speed don't drop anything into the engine or it may explode, OK " I said quickly as the ring was already picking up speed. Josh looked taken aback by this and quickly moved back a step. The only problem with the design was that it was nearly completely magnetic and can become erratic if the metal around it isn't placed properly. The ring had then reached its full speed and made a low humming sound.
"Wow, just... wow" Josh said gawking at the machine. His amazement was cut short as a high pitched ringing filled the room. My heart skipped a beat as I realized that the ring was unstable due to the stilts. "Turn it off!" I yelled to Josh hoping he would hear. I fell to the floor holding my ears from the pain. "TURN IT OFF!" I screamed to Josh who was now writhing on the floor from that horrible sound. It was too loud and we were out of time. Claire was in the corner trying to escape the sound. The ringing stopped as quickly as it started and the machine began to shake violently. Claire had just moved towards Josh to help him up, but before I could get up, the machine caused a blinding flash and that sadistic sound returned.
I closed my eye's and suddenly started falling, I continued to fall for what felt like several hours, but was probably only a few minutes. Then, I hit the ground. I felt no pain when I hit, but I knew I had to be hurt in some way.
I slowly passed out from the shock from what had just happened, and as I faded away, I thought I heard bluebirds singing.
thanks for reading and I hoped you enjoyed it, I will try to update regularly every two or three days but it just depends on the time I get to write, till next time.