Fiction
3 min
Somewhere Else
Lola Garden
PREFACE
This is a story that happened to you, so listen closely.
This is a story that happened to
you, so use your imagination and yours only.
This is a story that happened to you.
You don't remember so you won't believe it. I know you won't, but trust me it happened.
I'm only going to tell you about this since you deserve to know, but you may just forget.
...............................................................
You don't remember what happened except that you are lying on the floor of your bathroom and you have this weird feeling that it isn't your bathroom, you're SOMEWHERE ELSE.
It's a scorching summer day, you watch as a single drop of sweat that has rolled down your forehead, drops off your nose landing on the strap of your backpack. You sigh wondering why the bus has no AC, even though the bus was as hot as an oven. You would choose riding it home over walking the mile and a half in the 99 degree heat any day. It seemed like a good idea at the time, -not taking the bus- but that was before the rented E-scoter ran out of battery after the first few miles.
The moment you arrive at your house you collapse on the ground, waiting until the cool air makes its way through your clothes. You never want to go outside again. While you lay there, you remember. You can not believe you forgot! You get on your feet as quickly as you can. Today is the day of the Universal Aligning! A Theory proposed by your favorite scientist, Authura Oceano, she explained that the multiple universes buzz around like bees, sometimes bumping into each other creating a single, bigger universe, but sometimes (every few billion years) the tips of the universe-bee-wings meet for around an earth day creating a portal. Apparently your favorite scientist has found a way to capture the Universal Aligning and she will be showing it today live on TV! It's always been your lifelong dream to witness any type of inter-dimensional travel at all and now that dream would become a reality.
"Almost done" you say, you spent a little while in the bathroom getting ready. You combed your hair and put on your fancy clothes. Almost ready to go watch the incredible event unfold on your TV and witness the greatest scientific discovery in history! You add the final touches to your hair and smooth the wrinkles out of your clothes with your hands. You study yourself in the bathroom mirror. Staring back at you is a kid, a kid like Authura, you hope to make a difference in the world like she did.
You take a final look at yourself in the green tinted glass of the mirror. You've always found the color weird and a bit suspicious.You start to make your way out of the bathroom, reaching for the doorknob. You're about to turn it, when an incredibly bright flash of light tinted with a million shades of blue pulses from the strange colored mirror.
A scream escapes your lungs, scared, you stumble back, not believing what you just saw "did d-d-did light just s-shoot out of the m-m-mirror?!" you stutter in disbelief. The mirror is normal green-ish, looks innocent. Your Brain begins thinking of reasons why this happened: A light bomb secretly hidden behind it? Millions of LEDs hidden as a prank? Maybe bioluminescent bacteria were hidden away by the previous owner of the house as an experiment? Or does it have something to do with the Universal Aligning? Your brain starts to wander on more possibilities, while you're still thinking.
A dull green light forces itself out of the mirror heading towards you. You don't have time to think or react, the light catches you off guard, wrapping around you tightly in less than a second. You feel yourself getting pulled into the mirror. Once you're in, the mirror closes behind you.
You can not believe anything that just happened! You just got sucked into a portal between universes!You discovered the inter-universal opening! On earth! You look around expecting to be in the middle of outer space with no oxygen to breathe. Instead, the only thing you can see is black and surprisingly you can breathe! You float around, the tingle from the green light still on your skin. Suddenly a pang of fear hits you. What if you're stuck here without food or water for the rest of your life?
All of a sudden you see a small shape in the distance in a second it's tripled in size. You start becoming aware of the incredible speed you're going at. You stare at the figure that's getting closer by the jiffy. Suddenly it zooms past you. You realize that figure is you, you from another universe!
You see a dull green light up ahead, you get closer and closer until your skin feels the prickly warmth of the green light. You open your eyes. There you are laying sprawled out on the bathroom floor. You blink your eyes, as if it would help fill the gap of missing memories you feel in your head. You can't remember a thing, why are you on the floor? You feel a strange sensation in the pit of your stomach, the same sensation you get when you wake up in a hotel bed after a long trip to another country. The feeling you get when you wake up on your bedroom floor after falling off your bed. The sickening feeling that you're SOMEWHERE ELSE.
This is a story that happened to you, so listen closely.
This is a story that happened to
you, so use your imagination and yours only.
This is a story that happened to you.
You don't remember so you won't believe it. I know you won't, but trust me it happened.
I'm only going to tell you about this since you deserve to know, but you may just forget.
...............................................................
You don't remember what happened except that you are lying on the floor of your bathroom and you have this weird feeling that it isn't your bathroom, you're SOMEWHERE ELSE.
It's a scorching summer day, you watch as a single drop of sweat that has rolled down your forehead, drops off your nose landing on the strap of your backpack. You sigh wondering why the bus has no AC, even though the bus was as hot as an oven. You would choose riding it home over walking the mile and a half in the 99 degree heat any day. It seemed like a good idea at the time, -not taking the bus- but that was before the rented E-scoter ran out of battery after the first few miles.
The moment you arrive at your house you collapse on the ground, waiting until the cool air makes its way through your clothes. You never want to go outside again. While you lay there, you remember. You can not believe you forgot! You get on your feet as quickly as you can. Today is the day of the Universal Aligning! A Theory proposed by your favorite scientist, Authura Oceano, she explained that the multiple universes buzz around like bees, sometimes bumping into each other creating a single, bigger universe, but sometimes (every few billion years) the tips of the universe-bee-wings meet for around an earth day creating a portal. Apparently your favorite scientist has found a way to capture the Universal Aligning and she will be showing it today live on TV! It's always been your lifelong dream to witness any type of inter-dimensional travel at all and now that dream would become a reality.
"Almost done" you say, you spent a little while in the bathroom getting ready. You combed your hair and put on your fancy clothes. Almost ready to go watch the incredible event unfold on your TV and witness the greatest scientific discovery in history! You add the final touches to your hair and smooth the wrinkles out of your clothes with your hands. You study yourself in the bathroom mirror. Staring back at you is a kid, a kid like Authura, you hope to make a difference in the world like she did.
You take a final look at yourself in the green tinted glass of the mirror. You've always found the color weird and a bit suspicious.You start to make your way out of the bathroom, reaching for the doorknob. You're about to turn it, when an incredibly bright flash of light tinted with a million shades of blue pulses from the strange colored mirror.
A scream escapes your lungs, scared, you stumble back, not believing what you just saw "did d-d-did light just s-shoot out of the m-m-mirror?!" you stutter in disbelief. The mirror is normal green-ish, looks innocent. Your Brain begins thinking of reasons why this happened: A light bomb secretly hidden behind it? Millions of LEDs hidden as a prank? Maybe bioluminescent bacteria were hidden away by the previous owner of the house as an experiment? Or does it have something to do with the Universal Aligning? Your brain starts to wander on more possibilities, while you're still thinking.
A dull green light forces itself out of the mirror heading towards you. You don't have time to think or react, the light catches you off guard, wrapping around you tightly in less than a second. You feel yourself getting pulled into the mirror. Once you're in, the mirror closes behind you.
You can not believe anything that just happened! You just got sucked into a portal between universes!You discovered the inter-universal opening! On earth! You look around expecting to be in the middle of outer space with no oxygen to breathe. Instead, the only thing you can see is black and surprisingly you can breathe! You float around, the tingle from the green light still on your skin. Suddenly a pang of fear hits you. What if you're stuck here without food or water for the rest of your life?
All of a sudden you see a small shape in the distance in a second it's tripled in size. You start becoming aware of the incredible speed you're going at. You stare at the figure that's getting closer by the jiffy. Suddenly it zooms past you. You realize that figure is you, you from another universe!
You see a dull green light up ahead, you get closer and closer until your skin feels the prickly warmth of the green light. You open your eyes. There you are laying sprawled out on the bathroom floor. You blink your eyes, as if it would help fill the gap of missing memories you feel in your head. You can't remember a thing, why are you on the floor? You feel a strange sensation in the pit of your stomach, the same sensation you get when you wake up in a hotel bed after a long trip to another country. The feeling you get when you wake up on your bedroom floor after falling off your bed. The sickening feeling that you're SOMEWHERE ELSE.
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