Every day seems the same. No matter how much I wish or pray he just won’t notice me. Day in day out we continue to be stagnant. He looks at me, I look back, he looks away. No matter where we may be. I’ve tried countless times to talk to my mysterious interest but he always finds a way to avoid me, to just disappear. Yet he looks at me so longingly, I don’t understand!
I first encountered him at a large house I was considering buying, but it was far to big for just me. I saw him looking at a painting of a family on the wall when he looked up and made eye contact with me. I began towards him but before I could reach him he went around a corner and I couldn’t find him again. Then I began seeing him at work, he’d be walking outside, inside lingering by customer service, or just somewhere in the building. It’s a large company so I thought maybe I just never noticed him as a coworker and we happened to be at the same open house. But then I started to see him everywhere.
I’d see him at the store or at the salon. He was everywhere but my apartment. At first this bothered me and felt like it was becoming a stalker situation, but he never gives off that feeling. He looks at me so intently and is almost surprised every time I make eye contact with him and try to talk to him. In a way that makes him seem so lonely but still inviting. I just want to get to know him, maybe grab dinner and a movie. He seems like my type other than the fact that he won’t talk to me. I just don’t know what to do anymore.
Life feels dull, without color, without purpose, light, or happiness when you’re not by my side. If I could let you look through every corner of my heart, every nook and cranny, you would never end your search. Every room in my heart is filled with unconditional love for you, which is an unending love that creates limitless amounts of space for you in my heart. Just the thought of life without you by my side easily brings me to tears, I cry until I know you aren’t actually gone. Life isn’t life without you by my side.
My life sucks, I hate it. I have a low paying job and ridiculous work hours. When I get time off and try to relax my family always wants to spend time with me,This basically means that I spend half my day off driving and the other half listening to my mother nag. She’ll say things like, “When are you going to get married, I want grandchildren!” She frustrates me, but so does dad. Last week he asked me, “So do you have a boyfriend yet?” I looked at him, “nope,”. “You realize your mother and I aren’t gonna be alive another 40 years and we want to be at yours and your children’s weddings?” This is when I get red flustered because I know that what he says is true, but can’t reassure him that I’m going to give them that, “Yeah..” “Right..” then he let out a disappointed sigh.
At first these efforts to shove me into making a family was just an annoyance to me, but now I’m really starting to see what their saying. I know I still have a lot of my life left, but I don’t want most of it to be lonely. I’ve never been much of a catch, I’m not to good looking, no spectacular personality; I’m just average.
Another Monday rolls around, and I’m back at my ‘lovely’ job, feeling particularly lonely. I’ve never really payed much attention to the lobby of my work, but there is a fountain in the middle. A childish idea came into my head that I was quick to shove right back out; what adult in their right mind would throw a coin into a fountain?! I spent the rest of my day working, but I just couldn’t get that stupid fountain out of my head, so on my way out I found a penny I had and chucked it in, asking for a guy.
Like usual I got onto my bus and started the ride home, and, like usual, I fell asleep. When I woke up every person on the bus had gathered around me. “Ummm” was all I could utter out. The girl directly next to me grinned, “you are so beautiful, could I have your number?” I stared at her in shock, “Well I’m straight so that’ll be a no from me.” All the girls in the crowed glared at all the men. One man sang, “The moment I saw you I knew you were the one, marry me.” And with that every man in the crowed started yelling and fighting, “No me!” “She’s mine!” People all around me were tearing each other’s hair out and throwing one another on the floor. The moment the bus stopped I ran, but before I knew it more and more people were crowding me and begging to be my lover! All I could do was yell, “WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HAPPENING?!”
5 years have passed since THEY took over. Humans have been forced to live in secret underground, with only a couple hundred still living and rapidly decreasing due to starvation and being captured when searching for food on the surface. Who could have caused all of this destruction to what we believed to be an indestructible species? The small devils that we created.
Let’s back track a bit, I’m Copper Fields, one of the top scientist in all of America. The government decided what our military needed was the world’s smallest soldier that could sneak into the enemy’s body through the ears or nose and essentially shut down the target’s brain, basically assassination. I was asked to help assist in developing the technology to shrink a living organism, I personally liked to refer to it as the real life ant man. Long story short, one of our team members leaked the information on our tech to their home country, who used it to make millions. Lucky for us they did not use it in the same way as we intended to, instead they decided to shrink different animals and sell them as house pets or in petting zoos and it became a world wide phenomenon, more specifically, the shrunken elephants were what people really loved. They were called “Teacup Elephants” and they were adorable and replaced the pony in every little girl’s dreams. Everyone says elephants are smart, but we did not yet know to what extent. Once they started living like family dogs, they realized that they could cause chaos not only in the fields of Africa, but across all nations of our world. They were able to outsmart all of us and find ways to hold people hostage, destroy our homes and ways of transportation, and even man slaughter. The teacup elephants killed off almost all of us, but some of us were able to escape underground without them noticing.
We have been developing weapons and defenses to use against them for these past 5 years, and we are finally ready to take back what is ours in human’s biggest war against our own creation. We’ve even already come up with a name, and one quite nifty in my opinion. Since our war is against something we blindly called teacup we’ve decided this is our “One Lump of Revolution” to rebuild society.
She had the perfect disguise, masking her short dark hair with long golden locks and finalizing her makeup as she walked into the crummy 1 star hotel. Jamie knew her target only from his profile papers, but based on all the nights spent at bars and strip clubs she knew he could easily be seduced. Her months of digging for info was finally about to pay off; all she needed to do was get him alone, then she could kill him and cover her tracks. The big business owner Tom Jones, that had left countless people jobless to die on the streets, would finally pay his debt. Jamie went up to the desk clerk, “Reservation for Daisy”. She almost puked every time she had to use that cover name on this hit it was so cheesy, but almost every girl Mr. Jones has taken back to his hotel room after a drink or two had lengthy blonde hair and a connection to flowers in her name. Jamie got her room key, room 374, right across from Mr. Jones’. All she needed to do now was wait in her room until he left for the bar, tail him, then seduce him.