Reality Pause
One stormy night, a 16 year old teen was going home from his soccer practice like everyday. Humming to the tunes playing in his earphones, his playlist of edms and blues with a pinch of rock. Suddenly he gets a feeling he is being followed. But he dismisses the thought as he thinks, even if someone thugs him in his own neighbourhood things wont turn out so good for the robbers. Still, thinking of a possibility of him getting robbed, he rings his two other jock buddies. “Hey I need you to come on Gabriel Alley, I think I’m being followed.” same message reaches both Derek and Hale on different calls.
Derek swiftly texts back, “On my way bud.”, he takes his jacket seeing the cold stormy weather. He gets on his Duke 250 and with a whoosh! he leaves. He sees the unorthodoxical silence around Bale’s neighbourhood. Not minding this he sees a tall man’s figure’s shadow on Bale’s trail. He shouts, “Hey Bale I’m here!”, just loud enough that the figure disappears and Bale looks behind with a smile and saying, “took you long enough Derek.”
Hale replies, “I’m already in your neighborhood, have some work but I’ll reach in a few minutes Bale.” and turns the call off. He takes the cigars and leaves from a shop in the corner and makes his way to Gabriel Alley. He too gets on his Duke 250 and swifts gear like a boss getting the bike on 4th gear before 10 seconds pass and with a raise the bike vanishes away from the corner shop and reaches Gabriel Alley. He notices Bale and Derek standing and exchanging words. he raises his bike so that they know he is there now too.
Bale and Derek both get it that the sound of a raised accelerated duke could be no other than hale, and so they turn back to see him but as they are doing so, they hear a scream just ahead resembling bale’s mom’s voice. Bale gets on Dereks bike and they go ahead the direction they heard the voice, following them is Hale.
As they search for the woman who screamed, hoping it isn’t Mrs.Gordon. they come by an odd street so narrow that the boys had to get off their bulky bikes to go through it. as they went on and on, they heard someone sobbing and so they rushed on but it seemed as if the street was never ending. When they think that the person is nearby they switched on their flashlights so that the darkness goes away and they notice Mr.Gordon holding Mrs.Gordon in her hands and sobbing and notice that Mrs.Gordon has a cut on her neck. Mr.Gordon screams “No!!!!!!” without realising that his son is on his knees and his friends holding his hand just ahead with three phones with open flashlights dropped on the ground just ahead of the boys. When suddenly he realised that its Bale his son’s voice sobbing along with his friends. As he looks ahead to where they were standing he felts pain like never before and till he realised his neck is cut form behind. He fell on the ground with a thud… helpless.
At the sight of this nightmare Derek and Hale pick up Bale from his mourning as they see the hooded killer just ahead and they scream, “Help us!!!!!” and make Bale run instantly from the murder scene with them.
As they get on their bikes, all three feel a thud at the same time….
as they wake up they saw a frog marijuana lamp light smoking concentrated marijuana vapour at them ,feeling euphoric they think that that was all just a dream. And so they stood up and saw they were at Bale’s house and in his huge courtyard the funeral of Mr and Mrs.Gordon taking place.
Story Teller: Furqan Amiri
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