Okai, everyone pack your bags and go home. Screwyo has officially won.
Still, hereisa mah scary story.
It was beautiful. The sun was out, the birds were singing, children were playing, it was all you could expect from a sunny day at the park. I was sitting on a bench, enjoying my time, reading a non-fiction novel every few minutes or so, I wasn't really paying attention.
Then when I set my book down again, a man came by and sat down right next to me. I looked at him and he looked at me. I couldn't see his face clearly, as he was wearing some sort of white bandanna over his face and a cap over his head, I could see his eyes, but that was about it. I couldn't find anything else noteworthy besides that he was wearing a very large brown coat.
"Top of the mornin' to ya." He greeted, taking his look off of me and onto the pond in front of us.
"Hello to you to, sir." I replied, also looking at the pond.
A momment passed, I broke the silence with a cough.
"You shouldn't stay here very long." He told me.
I looked at him in confusion and asked "Why?" and coughed again.
"You value your life, correct?" He questioned.
"What?" I couldn't quite understand, and my coughing was getting worse.
".......When you feel like you've had enough of this place," He reached into his coat and pulled out a bottle of drug pills, "Take this." He handed me the bottle, and for some reason, I accepted it and put it away in my pocket.
The man stood up and walked away, as strange as it was, my coughing lightened up when he left, but it was still there.
Before I knew it, a childhood friend of mine was sitting on the bench with me, and we were in the middle of a conversation.
"Are you sure you're happy with this choice, man? As far as I can see, it's littered with nothing but sorrow." He asked of me. I wasn't sure what he was talking about.
"Of course I'm sure, John, it's what I want, all that hard work shows it, right?" I wasn't even sure what I was talking about.
"Alright Bill, if this is really what you think you want, I won't stop you." And like that, he got up and left me.
I didn't know how long before I really realized he was gone, but he was gone. I coughed a fit again.
I thought to myself
Was this the choice I really decided for myself?Wait, what?
I looked away from the empty spot on the bench for a moment, caught up in my thoughts.
"Bill, why didn't you tell me?" I looked back at the empty seat and saw my Angeline, my wife, all teary eyed and sniffling.
"I.....I.....I didn't think you would notice......I didn't want to hurt yo-"
"But you did Bill! You did!" She screamed at me. Her sobs echoed through my mind even when I closed off my ears, her crying face even when I shut my eyes closed.
The sobbing eventually stopped. I assumed she was gone, and when I opened my eyes, she was.
I coughed again and again, and thought about all of it. What any of it really meant.
Everything was getting fuzzy, my mind was searing with pain I couldn't take. The more I coughed, the more everything hurt. I saw that I was coughing up blood.
"It's too late to think about it now." The clear voice of my father rung through my eardrums. I turned to see my old father, his face overtaken by gray hair, his clothes filthy and ragged, he solemnly looked outwards beyond the pond. "Whatever choices you had are now gone, whatever ties you had are now cut. The only thing you can do is push forward."
I was silent. At a loss for words.
My head ached again, and my father vanished like so many before him. The pain stopped, my coughing now gone. I looked at the book I set down, and opened it up to the page where I left off.
........I read all the way until the end, but it wasn't. After setting the book down once again, I dig into my pocket and pull out the pills the mysterious stranger gave me.
It had no signature, no label, no directions or warnings, just a simple orange case with a single tablet inside.
"When you feel like you've had enough of this place, take this."I screwed the cap off, dropped the pill into my hand, and looked at it for a second before dropping it down my mouth.
Suddenly, the singing of the birds and laughter of the children were escaping my ears, the light grew dimmer and dimmer, and my head was in a deeper pain then it was a few minutes ago.
I blacked out.
Eventually, my hearing and vision came back, this time, I was facing upright into a light, some shadowed figures looking down on me.
A figure shouted out of my sight ,"Damnit Jack! Administer all the sedatives we have! He isn't supposed to be waking up yet!"
"That WAS all the sedatives!"
"Hold on," Another figure pushed the others, into my view "If he's waking up this early, then it means the procedure's working." The insignia on his arm, he was a soldier.
Suddenly, everything was becoming blurry again.
"Sir!.........his vital signs................dead........" a voice shouted.
"The..............no buisness...............he is........" another told the soldier.
A shadowy figure tried to get close, but the soldier held him back.
"Let him decide."
My body wasn't responding, but my mind was blazing right now. I struggled to lift my arms and legs, both pairs were tied up extremely well, but I was stronger.
I broke the ties that grounded me to where I lay, I kicked my legs and flailed around my arms until I had a steady grip on them again, The figures- no, the doctors and medics around me backed away in horror, but the soldier didn't. My vision and hearing, now clear, my mind, my memories. It all came back to me.
The soldier looked at me with a proud look and congratulated me, "Welcome to the Spartan-III's, soldier."
End
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I'm proud of it anyway you see it. Cause It took me two hours to write taht up.
