My journey into your world began exactly thirty-four days ago, everything started rushing like a hurricane and it started the last time I saw my friend, me and Carlos met again outside the fast food restaurant eating burgers and fries, then we met a certain gray man, I call him teacher because he told me about the end of everything.
- come on, man has no choice, because he is ruled by fear and lies, the truth is much worse, these two forces push man two steps forward, but man uses fear and lies as an excuse and takes as many as a hundred steps.
This gray man enlightened me, suddenly I understood something very important, despite the lack of choice whether a man would have a chance with a choice, it's hard to say, it doesn't change the fact that that day I saw the gray man, the teacher, the third madman and my friend Carlos for the last time, because Carlos disappeared, couldn't find it in the store or the bar, it wasn't anywhere, nowhere, but that doesn't change the fact that when the new week started my company got a grant and I was transferred to a new company in San Francisco, it was for very surprising to me, but I accepted the new job without complaining, except maybe that I had an assigned co-worker.
I never hid that I always preferred to work alone, because I had never been able to establish long-term relationships with anyone except Carlos, but that was about to change too, Toyota was standing in front of the company. a capacious green-yellow van and in front of it stood an extraordinary woman, a black-haired girl with blue eyes, wearing a green-and-yellow company uniform, her smile expressed a lot but most of all her own childhood come on she was thirty years old as I am, already in the first movement and gesture , giving me her hand showed her straightforward approach to the world.
- part, it's like ready for a new adventure, I'm Olivia and we're supposed to work together from today.
- Um, hi, I wasn't expecting that.
- girls what, there are few girls in this profession but it will change, it's a pity that there are so many changes and the bad ones, eh, do you sometimes look at the stars, I'm not talking about aliens, you know, do you dream.
I stood grounded for a moment because this girl was completely different, cheerful, turning everything into a joke and innocently daydreaming, I realized that I would be working with someone who was similar to Carlos, maybe even more, until I wanted to ask her everything get to know you best.
- was she beautiful.
- it doesn't matter what you look like, it's what you have inside, she had everything, beauty and an unusual way of being, something that I have never seen in my life, Olivia stood out from the world from the very beginning with her unusual way of being, naive, childish, even funny.
I greeted my new co-worker, introduced myself, and we left New Orleans together, but just as we were about to leave the city, a dark Ford drove past us with tires screeching. but I saw the driver anyway, he was a gray-bearded man, but to my eye he was not that old. but I could tell from the furrowed brow that he was some kind of scientist, his driving style and focused eyes, the back seats full of some papers. but I couldn't shake the feeling that I was his main target that day, his gaze behind his glasses was focused solely on me.
- that's how we go.
- yes, we're going.
- Let me guess I'm impressive what not Anders.
- what, no, it means!, Em!, Olivia, it means.
- You too.
- Thank you.
It was a bit weird because I didn't expect to be liked, rather when I looked at myself I saw an average person, that's what I've seen on TV and everywhere, movies, commercials, all those beefy models everywhere, eh sometimes I really didn't feel like looking at myself in the mirror but Olivia's behavior was surprising again, I couldn't respond other than with a sincere smile.
- Anders, you're not ugly, you think badly of yourself, but it's not.
- really, thank you, and I don't know if I should.
- go ahead.
- Elsa, you're beautiful too, maybe more than Olivia, because she, well, you'll understand in a moment.
- I want to understand, tell me, please.
The next day, Olivia and I arrived at our mission destination, the home of our work, it was the beautiful city of San Francisco, a majestic fjord-like red bridge called the Golden Gate Bridge, a beautiful bridge that was the main crossing point for me and Olivia for the next thirty days because the company the courier often sent us to the other side of the bridge and back with new goods or for more deliveries, not a day went by without us crossing the Golden Gate Bridge and each such moment, whether it was a day or the coming night, these moments were truly magical.
I remember one such magical moment, I remember it perfectly, it was already night, the sky showed the most beautiful color it could, there were hundreds or even millions of stars visible in the sky, and the traffic on the bridge was exceptionally calm that night, while driving I looked at the sky from time to time and Olivia, sitting next to me, lost herself in the beauty of the stars.
- beautiful, my mother often sang me to sleep and I looked at the ceiling with pasted stars, sometimes I sat in front of the window until long hours of the night and looked at the stars, believing that one day the prince would take me from this world and lead me into the unknown.
- it's always worth believing, it's always worth dreaming, Carlos was right.
- Carlos, the one who disappeared third.
- as it disappeared.
- you didn't read the papers, Carlos, along with Alex Kowalski and Lucas Nowak, disappeared third, that's very strange, but, well, maybe he decided to find his happiness, or he was kidnapped by agents in black, you know anything is possible, anything.
- Olivia, you're always in the clouds.
For a while I wondered about the missing persons case, I was very surprised that my close friend Carlos disappeared, but everything was blown away by Olivie stargazing, her innocent approach to the world, dreams, was something I had never seen in my life except for a couple of times, then I decided to protect her from the evil of the world, she was too innocent.
One day, when we stopped in front of the warehouse, I ran out of the car because I didn't want Olivia to carry unnecessarily heavy bags and sacks, and there were a lot of them, come on, we often worked together on loading and unloading, most of the time it was the warehouse workers who did it, from the fourth day I wanted to defend her above all, lest they become like the rest of the world.
- Anders, come on, I can handle myself, really.
- I know, for sure.
- remember, full permission, I have the same.
- well, then take these bags, they are a real challenge.
- yeah, you joker.
Olivia only got the lightest job from me because I didn't want anything to happen to her, you could say I cared for her like a little sister who never competed with me and instead was naively innocent.
My zeal to protect Olivia continued unabated and on that one day when we pulled up in front of another warehouse waiting to be transshipped across the fence and the street we both watched as two parents pricked themselves on a small child, it was a heated argument over an innocent child who didn't knowing the mess it was crying and screaming, I didn't want Olivia to watch it, to hear the screams and cries, I wanted to send her to fetch us some coffee but Olivia focused her blue eyes on the pair of arguing parents, but her eyes showed no anger, more regret.
- I don't understand, so blind, so stupid, after all, they only hurt this innocent child, I don't know if I should be angry or sad at them, I don't know.
- Olivia, remember what you see there is blindness in anger provoked by fear, it's the worst evil.
- man, you're telling me the same thing as my father.
Then I rested again on my colleague from work, opening my eyes wide and her smile, her gaze was so tender, suddenly the sound of a squeak woke me from a moment of weakness, I looked ahead from the driver's seat and saw the police getting out of two cars and handcuffing both my father and mother, then the police psychologist takes the child with him and the whole situation was ended suddenly and violently, which I personally liked very much.
- well, at least today this child will have peace, maybe someone at the police will talk about how much harm his parents are doing to him, and Anders, you don't have to protect me from that, I've seen a lot, but my parents really loved me and it doesn't matter what you think.
For the first time I really believed, sitting behind the wheel of a Toyota, looking at my friend, her gentle smile, confident gaze, this inner strength, I didn't think someone like that would stand in my way, but I couldn't help but believe what Olivia was telling me, I believed her every word, and I wanted to do even more to protect her from the evils of the world.
Such a moment happened the next four days later, we were just finishing work, I pulled into the parking lot of the shipping company and Olivia and I got out of the green and yellow Toyota, leaving behind the fence of the shipping company, me and Olivia went in different directions, we both rented apartments in different parts city, but that night was supposed to be different, because on the other side I saw three men, very loud, staggering and they turned their attention to the walking Olivia, seeing what was going on, I rushed to the rescue.
Seeing three men surrounding my friend, I rushed at the first one, wanting to do everything, but I was quickly thrown back and the furious man, all three of them drew knives, and although they walked rather unsteadily but their movements were extremely precise, suddenly the first of the swashbucklers shouted loudly, I saw something again that surprised me very much, Olivia in a quick half-turn, kicked the attacker in the knee and head and the attacker fell to the ground with a bang.
The other two attackers with big eyes looked behind them but before they made the first move they were hit again in the hands holding sharp tools, Olivia turning left and right again kicked the two torturers twice and I stood still for a moment looking at what surprised me, I didn't expect something like this, speed, strength and precision when Olivia knocked the weapon out of two attackers she hit with a clenched fist first and second at the central attacker, knocking his head back and hitting him in the stomach as the second attacker fell to the ground the third suddenly pulled out another long knife, shouting, chewing on the attacker, grabbing his right hand, trying to deprive him of the knife, but he pulled me to the ground with all his strength and put the knife, with difficulty, I held his hand with both hands, until suddenly the attacker stiffened, made a big squint and then was pulled by Olivia.
Olivia punched her attacker twice in the stomach and knocked him to the pavement before extending her delicate hand to me, smiling at me again like the only innocent person in the whole world.
- Anders do you really think I need your protection, I could do it myself, my dad was a karate fighter and he taught me a lot.
- I thank you.
- no, thank you, if not for you, the third one with the spare knife could have hurt me.
Olivia suddenly hugged me with all her might, and I felt something I'd never felt before in my life, this care, tenderness, gentleness, something I'd never felt from my mother to anyone until now.
- I'm sorry, I shouldn't, I'd better go home, and Anders thanks again, see you tomorrow.
- See you tomorrow.
I was really surprised, you could even say enchanted, but I still wanted and protected Olivie from the evil of the world, and each day that followed, her shining blue eyes showed me something that I couldn't give her, it seemed to me, because there was a moment when I believed, when I really believed that I could fall in love, because being crazy I can also love.
- Anders, tell me what happened, no, since you're here, something terrible happened, I don't want to know.
- Elsa you must, there is no escape from this.
One day, me and Olivia were driving over the Golden Gate Bridge again with goods for an out-of-town customer, again because the second time I met on my way a certain bearded man in a black Ford coming from the opposite direction, I ignored it because my eyes and Olivia's eyes were focused more on the view couple of lovers standing on the edge of the bridge, in front of the steel railing, that's where a man was kneeling in front of his lover handing her an engagement ring, though I knew everything they did was either a lie because one was doing it for money or fear because he wanted more and everything was born of the same, but the first time I kept quiet about it instead I stared at the momentary sight with a smile, when we finally passed the lovers I felt a warmth on my right side, it was Olivia.
Olivia sniffles softly and, shedding a few tears, she puts her black-haired head on my right side and cuddles lightly against me, dreaming of Prince Charming, the prince I was that day.
- as if I wanted someone to take me into the unknown, to show me their world, so that I could show them mine.
- you've already done it, and say the word come on and I'll become your prince charming.
- I want.
Olivia looked me straight in the eye, I stopped the car for a moment and kissed her, then I felt something that I don't think I've ever felt again, I guess, but this day was magical for us, it was supposed to be.
- unfortunately, there's always a but, right?.
- Yes Elsa, there is always a but.
- no, I don't want to hear it, Anders, please stop.
- forgive me Elsa, but I have to finish this, listen, because nothing was as it seems, it's a big lie.
- What?, no!, I don't believe it.
- believe.
That day, me and Olivia exchanged our first kiss, our first moment of tenderness, we already had big plans, we planned them with open hearts as our Toyota was unloaded by the warehouse workers, that's when we planned to connect our worlds, her voice trembled, her breath became more deep, we held hands together and when the employees unpacked the load, we left the company's warehouse, returning to the courier company's headquarters and today we decided that we would never part again, never again.
- Anders, so how, today at your place, I'd like to see your apartment, I'm sure there's no woman's hand there.
- surely, there's so much missing, without you I was so empty.
Come on, I was a self-counter madman, I felt something that had always been missing, and the great void was filled by Olivia, it was supposed to be that day, it was going to happen, and as we were crossing the Golden Gate Bridge I parked our Toyota and got out of the car, opening the door for my beloved.
- Anders what are you doing.
- something crazy, ma'am, if you will.
Olivia gave me her delicate hand and got out of the van, and I suddenly knelt in front of her asking for her hand.
- will you marry me.
It was a moment of contradiction but the smile, the joy in Olivia's eyes gave me new courage, I knew this day was going to be extraordinary, special, but as you'd expect, there was a but, suddenly the lights on the bridge went crazy, a strange tremble shook the bridge, I got up quickly and hugging Olivie violently because I expected a dangerous earthquake but it wasn't an earthquake, no, it was something strange, suddenly there was a strange gurgling sound in our ears, me and Olivia walked from the edge of the bridge and we saw floating new pieces of something that looked nothing like anything known to me, it looked like parts of some long-fallen meteorite, but the rock didn't float, and this one floated.
- What is this.
- I don't know, but I have to give a signal.
Olivia pulled out her phone, sent an SMS, it's an electronic letter, and I saw something in the water, something that glowed with an unusual light.
- look there what it is.
- Anders, be careful, maybe.
- Olivia, I, I have to do this, stay here in a moment I'll be back.
- but what are you doing, no, please, don't risk it.
- if not me, then who, aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I screamed, jumped off the bridge from the part where it was closest to land, I fell into the evidence which surprisingly wasn't even cold, I swam under water for a while I looked at everything around, including a deep hole and fragments of a sinking meteorite, finally I saw something in the water that it shone until my eyes saw it, it was a strange Token with a K symbol on it, the Token began to drain away from me and I followed it, stretching out my hand.
Finally, I grabbed the strange Token and it trembled slightly in my hands, giving me a feeling of warmth in my hand, I suddenly swallowed the lack of air I fell to the surface and swam to the shallows, it was there that I met Olivia, but this time her eyes were different, and she looked only at on my clenched right hand.
- Olivia, what are you doing here, I thought you'd wait for me on the bridge.
- I was so afraid for you, so much and what, you risk for some Token!, you're crazy.
At first I was ashamed, I even wanted to throw a token with the K symbol into the water, but suddenly a certain question struck me, reflected in my head, how did she know that it was a token, out of curiosity I extended my right hand and opened it, revealing an ordinary golden token with with the K symbol and Olivia was just staring at him, I could see a lot, like Olivia was mad at me for risking so much so why was her attention focused on the gold Token, how did she know and why was her right hand hidden behind her back, really I didn't know what to believe but my madness was screaming for me to run.
- it's something, you risked so much, I thought I would die of fear, give it back to me but now.
- how do you know it's a Token, why do you want to take it from me, why are you hiding your right hand behind your back, Olivia what happened for what.
- Which is why.
Suddenly and without reason, Olivia pulled out a pistol, a very dangerous weapon, and I will never talk about it again, Olivia was aiming the gun at me and I clenched my fist hard on the gold Token, suddenly another bang hit me literally and it was an oncoming black Ford and the bearded man behind the wheel, but strangely enough, Ford stopped in front of me by some strange power and the man with the gun in his hand fell out of the ignition and suddenly pointed the gun at Olivia and my world spun again.
- Olivia, how many times do I have to tell you, if you want to save this fool, you have to provide me with something more, but this will be enough, give it to me or I'll kill her or her or her parents. Screamed the scientist, who later introduced himself as Steve, and Olivia immediately dropped her weapon and looked me straight in the eye with desperate eyes.
- forgive me Anders, you always wanted to protect me but I was protecting you, now I can't anymore.
- but why me, what's the matter, or this Token, why him.
- hand over the token, but now.
Shouted Steve stretching out his left hand and I didn't believe in anything anymore Olivia, I knew that I was deceived by Olivie not to protect me but to use me here, memories suddenly hit me, the days spent together, me and Olivia, her words, her innocence, someone being blackmailed could not be so carefree and naive, so childish, only a clever actress, an agent, I understood one thing, Olivia was not a hostage here, but a specialized agent who was supposed to deceive me, deceive me, lie, that's how my whole world collapsed in an instant, I realized that except for a few madmen, I was always alone here, and Olivia was a deceiver here, not like us madmen, not an innocent soul but a deceiver.
I clenched my fists, took it back from the scientist and he started screaming.
- kill her you hear.
- so do it here and now, go ahead, I know what the truth is, Olivia, if that's your name, you won't fool me again, never again.
- NO!. Olivia screamed, a pistol fell out of her right sleeve, both Olivia and Steve aimed at me, when Olivia was aiming her gun, Steve shot at me, emptying the entire magazine, I stared with wide eyes at the speeding bullets, but they stopped in front of me and Olivia and Steve were held in place by an unknown force, at the same time the Token in my hands began to vibrate as I opened my hand the Token jumped out of my hand and exploded creating a perfect portal to your world.
- you can't, please step back, this is the only chance to recreate our great project, the only such chance.
- Anders, tell me if you didn't feel anything for me, tell me that.
- you've always been like sister olivia to me, even more but today i see the truth, everything is a lie, everything started with fear and ends with a lie, but you're only worse, even though you didn't shoot me, you won't fool me again, teacher, common man told me about it, you won't fool me today, no one will fool me, no one, goodbye.
I said I rested on the open luminous portal and approached it feeling the power of the portal waiting only for me, it was my decision, the stone of the portal found me but everything as Steve said it was up to me alone.
- you are right in many ways but you are wrong in one thing, I'm not lying to you, it's the first time I've met someone like that, but if you must go, and don't forget me.
- I will certainly not forget you, mistakes must not be forgotten.
I said I entered the portal hearing the screech of the scientist and my ex girlfriend, then the world spun around me, everything, stars, light, space, everything was rushing like a highway, until suddenly lightning struck me and I fell to the ground among the devastated trees.
I clenched my fists again that sparked with the power of thunder and my consciousness was filled with the knowledge of my own great powers, I became a thunderer and stood right here in your world.
- so that's how you got here and your heart.
- Elsa, you don't have to feel sorry for me, and now you know that I don't believe in anything that is good from people, maybe what you say is true, I see it, I feel it, because in this world I can sense when someone is lying, but you are a little naive, but, well, it doesn't matter.
- Anders, listen, I don't know about a mind like yours, even now, but I know how you must feel, you're heartbroken.
- if you can call it heartbreak, more like an acknowledgment of what is obvious, there is no true love.
- I disagree, you hear, wait Anders what happened, what's going on!.
THIS TIME, THE HUMAN WORLD AND AROUND THE GOLDEN GATEB RIDGE.
Steve lost again, lost another token to another madman watching, and his emissary, instead of making Anders change his mind, not using the token and its power, instead of having an influence on him, Olivia finally failed, just like the great plan of the scientist who now stared into the darkness night and a large illuminated bridge throwing an empty pistol into the water.
- let the thunder take it all, Olivia why didn't you stop him, why didn't you shoot, couldn't you convince him, why!. Steve shouted furiously, but Olivia showed nothing but grief, grief that was released in the form of a few tears.
- you loved him, how could you, after all, you're an agent, it's forbidden, you can't love someone you're spying on, it's breaking all the rules!. Steve shouted.
- it wouldn't change anything anyway, he chose and I know one thing, come on, he didn't love me, it was an illusion, I hope he finds true love somewhere, I can only hope that he finds the one and doesn't have to run away from it or fight like me. said Olivia, throwing her own gun until suddenly both she and the scientist were shocked to see a man coming out of the water, a man in a gray suit and hair, but his voice and his eyes reflected the essence of the cosmos, the image of stars and galaxies.
- who are you. Steve asked in shock before he was pulled over to the gray man.
- sometimes they call me a gray teacher, sometimes, a teacher, because I show what the truth is, and the Tokens are the path that the chosen ones can follow, but it's their final choice, it doesn't matter, if you want to get something, find me first, but no, it's impossible because I find you first cha cha chacha. Said the gray man as his cosmic eye returned to normal and he, throwing the scientist aside with his power, began to move in.
- wait, please, is Anders safe. Olivia asked, even though she didn't know what she was talking to, she wanted to know at least that.
- yes, he's safe, and so are you, and you girl, keep looking and you'll find the one, it's always possible. said the gray man and suddenly shot up into the sky and after crossing the stratosphere reached the speed of light, flew through the sun, opened a portal and disappeared into the unknown.
- what was it, hello, hello!, Hank, we found a new object, I saw something, a certain gray man, he can give us everything, that's how you saw it too, he flew far above the stratosphere, he, the gray man, will teach, that how! our friend Gary Williams is sick! let it be lightning, no chance for him, know tell him about the gray man, this point flying in the sky is a certain gray man, but Gary, for him, there is no more chances, I'm sorry for him, I'm sorry. Steve said when he found out about his friend's illness and put the phone away, hiding it in a blue jacket and his attention focused on the agent and this time Steve didn't give any reprimand because the mail itself had bigger problems.
- my mentor, my master suffering from brain cancer, that's why he had a headache so often, I thought it was from thinking, and now please Gary is already paralyzed from the waist down, we must go back quickly. Steve said.
- only for what. Olivia asked.
- as the gray man told you, you still have a chance for true love, but first we go to Washington. Said Steve hiding his hands in his blue pants and his next mission began right now.
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Olivia is a terrible character, it's not her fault that she fell in love with Anders, and he treated her only as a sister, but there was a moment when he believed, but he believed a lie, now he's free from lying, and as the Gray Man said, it's Anders he chose, he used the power of the Token and crossed the gates of the worlds, and now it seems that the fate of the world that has become his home is in his hands, but what will the scientists, Steve, Hank, and their terminally ill friend Gary Williams do now, what will they do knowing this humble truth, and what will Olivia do, she will surely keep searching even though her heart is bleeding today because for her all is not lost.
Ps.
This is the last chapter written in this style where the main characters are the narrators, I hope you liked this style of writing.