Prompt
I fell asleep in my own bed last night, and I’ve woken up in a stranger’s.
Botner
As I blink and slowly adjust my eyes to the ceiling of the attic room of my
new home, I see the bed I’ve been sleeping in isn’t just the bed of my past,
but the bed of my future. And I can see that in the corner of the room I’ve
been sleeping on for the last two days. “What the hell do you think you’re
doing, you dirty rat?”
I open my eyes and recognize the voice coming from my left. I look to the
floor, then quickly look up. Shocked, I sit up straight, my jaw gaping.
Standing at the edge of the bed is a man in a blood-stained white suit, his
black shoes stomping the wood floors of the room, his hands stuffed in his
pockets. His black hair hung loose, partially covering his dark eyes, his
rough and scuffed shoes seemingly out of place on the soft floors. “I
thought you were my husband,” I try to scream, but my mouth has gone dry. My
head is dizzy. I can barely see the man standing over me. “Who are you?”
He doesn’t answer. Instead he stares back. I jump to my feet, realizing
the...
Conclusion
...immense danger that I’m in. I’m not supposed to be here. He knows it, I
know it, and now he knows I know it, and now he knows I’m going to have to
do everything I can to get the hell out of here. But first, I must break
free. My ankles are chained to the bed post, and since I’m no Houdini, my
only hope is to talk my way out of it. I don’t know what this guy wants with
me—I never wronged him, as far as I remember, and that’s going to make it
much harder. He might not want an apology, but he sure as hell will be
pissed off if I can’t acknowledge his pain. Think, I think to myself. Think
about the last time you saw him, and try to remember what went down. It was
my dog. She pooped on his lawn, and even though I cleaned it up right away,
he wasn’t happy. This can’t be what caused him to abduct me, though, is it?
That’s an insane overreaction, even if I hadn’t picked it up. No, it has to
be something else. That was probably just the proverbial back-breaking
straw. What happened before? What is he so upset about? Oh, you know what,
maybe he knows. Maybe he’s finally figured out that I’m the one who called
the cops on him for having a huge party with strangers in the middle of a pandemic. Yeah, that’s
probably it.
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