Okay, since Sage and Detective Diva want me to post it.... Yes, it.... I'll go ahead, lol.
I must warn you first that it's about 1500 words long... A little more.... So yeah. If you don't have the time to read it, you might not even want to start.
[Kitty's POV]
My life is pretty normal. Of course, that's what pretty much everyone says.
"Kitty!!!!"
I know better than that.
"What?!"
Even so, my usual everyday life, in the typical point of view, is normal.
"Don't answer with that tone! Come down here!!!"
Even though everyone says everything's the same, day after day, I disagree... I always want to believe there's something more out there.
"Whatever!"
Yet the more and more I continue in this way, the more I think they're right.
"Kitty!"
"Gosh, I'm coming!!!!"
[end POV]
"What in the world do-"
As she nears the end of the stairs, she sees a younger man standing in the middle of the living room.
"Ah, hello there! You're Mother said that she thought you'd be interested in buying these-"
She goes off into La-La land staring at him with starry eyes. She then shakes herself, noticing he was only here for business.
[Kitty's POV]
Okay, STOP IT! He would totally not be interested in me. I'm, what, fourteen?
[end POV]
"-and these are actually pretty rare. I'm a friend of your Father's, so I thought I would sell them to you for a discount. Especially since it's your birthday tomorrow."
"?! How'd you know THAT?!"
"Oh, well-"
"Your Father told him so."
"Oh..."
Her head drooped a little, noticing for the second time that he was only there for business.
"..." sweat dripped down his forehead as he could not quite make out what to do next.
"...Sorry about this. I'm sure she'll-" she took him off into the kitchen for coffee.
[Kitty's POV]
Great... I don't even know what he was trying to sell me now! ...Maybe Mom will try to keep him here until I see.......
[end POV]
She stopped thinking for a moment, mid-thought, and stared at a leather bag. It wasn't shaped exactly like a purse, but it wasn't far from it.
Glancing at either side of her beforehand, she unzipped the bag carefully, opened it slightly, then gasped and shut it immediately.
"Oh my!!!" she was in so much surprise, she couldn't do much more than a whisper.
She zipped it shut, not so carefully this time, and ran out into the kitchen.
"Hey, what's in that bag?!" she said, excitement starting to well up inside her.
"Well... It's some ancient sort of sphere for games, I think. Several, actually. I don't know how much they're worth, but I did some research on them."
He guestered for her to sit down in the dining room as he also did so. He put down the coffee cup, leaned his lower arms on the edge of the table, and put his chin on the top of his hands.
"You see... These things are ancient, and there are many legends about them. As far as I could find, they were used in some sort of magic practice."
Kitty's eyebrows arched at this.
[Kitty's POV]
What the heck's he trying to sell me? Some witchcraft junk?!
[end POV]
"Sorry, I'm not into witchcraft. If those things have some sort of spell on them, I don't even want them in here!"
"No no no! It's not like that." he took his arms off the table and leaned back.
"?"
"...I don't know exactly how to put this without offending..." he leaned forward again slowly and half-whispered to her from then on. "Only certain people could use these things. I believe it's probably the posterity of the people that made them."
He traced his finger on the table until he reached a napkin. He pulled out a pen that had no point and started to sketch on it as he spoke.
"There was a specific family that made one of each of these things." he pointed out to where he estimated the hallway, as well as the leather bag, should be. She nodded slowly, urging him to go on. He then started to doodle a few things onto the napkin.
"Each of those families had their own sphere, and they could use it for what they wanted." he smiled, noting her disbelief and yet sudden curiosity.
He then continued as he drew several dots for people and larger circles for spheres. "What they were used for was up to them, essentially."
She brought her face closer to the napkin to try to make out what he wrote when he jerked his pen and scratched off most of the dots that represented families.
"Ah! ....What'd you do that for?! You startled me half to death!"
She paused, noticing for the first time that he zig-zagged his way through most of the families but two.
"Now... This may be a little hard to understand, but...."
Her face was now nearly on the napkin, and she hardly paid attention to what he was saying. He soon dropped the pen, then put his hand on her forehead.
"Wait, wha...?" she blushed and pulled herself up from the paper as he let his hand glide softly down her forehead to her left cheek then jawbone.
"You're one of the people in this family." he then pointed at the group at the top of the page with his free hand. "And I.... I am...." he pointed at another group at the very bottom of the page, farthest away from the other groups.
"...." she jerked his hand off her cheek, though she somewhat wished she hadn't. "Okay, I don't get what kind of hokey stuff you're trying to jam down my throat, but-"
"Stop!"
Silence followed as her father slowly stepped in.
"I do believe that's enough of this." he grabbed Kitty by the arm and jostled her out of her seat. At this, the man stood up, shoving the chair backwards.
"Ow!" she cringed as her arm turned red.
"I don't want you telling my daughter any more of that, you little-"
"Honey!" Kitty's Mother stood in the doorway. "I thought she should know now, and since it is nearing her birthday... She'll know anyway!"
Kitty stared incredulously at the three that stood before her.
"What the heck are you guys doing?!" after that unexpected exclamation, she started speaking again. "Okay. It's my birthday tomorrow, so you" she pointed at the man "get out and let me enjoy my birthday! I don't care about your crappy marbles! Take 'em and go!"
He closed his eyes and sighed.
"If that's what you want." he turned around, then faced her once again. "I will be nothing compared to my Father; you will have wished yours did not interfere."
With that, he took off out the door, straightening his jacket at the left shoulder.
[Kitty's POV]
What the heck was that supposed to mean? I want to know what he was getting at! ....But first, I'll have to wait until Mom and Dad start talking to me.
[end POV]
After almost fifteen minutes of silence, she finally eased her father's grip off her arm.
"What....in the world...just happened? I mean, other than the fact some cute guy came in here and told me some garbage...."
Her father and mother did not respond. They didn't even look at her.
She waited for almost a minute, until the silence finally snapped the little string of patience she had left in her.
"You know what? Fine!!! Keep your cruddy stories to yourself! I don't even want to hear...." her hand brushed against something in the air.
She stopped, noticing that her father's hand was still in the same position she had left it in, and his chest was not moving. The same was with her mother. She eyed them both for a minute, then laughed.
"All right. That's not funny."
She walked away, leaving her parents frozen in time.
"I hate stupid dreams like this. I'm probably talking in my sleep right now." she smiled almost happily at the thought.
She walked out the door. There was no difference. There were the same trees, the same houses, the same people.... All were just as still and as cold as stone.
"Man, I'll probably never forget this one!"
She laughed, thinking of how her parents would react to her dream.
"They'll think I'm hooked on something! Probably LSD or PCP..."
She stopped laughing, noticing that she could now think clearly with no interference. That was something she didn't normally have the possibility of doing. She would usually think of her frustrations and how to respond to them, or do the same with some other feeling. This time, she just stood there blankly. No wind, no noise... Just the sound of the ringing in her ears.
At this point, she knew she couldn't have been on any drug.
[Kitty's POV]
What in the world is that noise?! Gah!
[end POV]
She reached up and grabbed at her throbbing ears and head.
[Kitty's POV]
I guess I've never been silent enough to notice that...
....
Wait.... It stopped....
[end POV]
She stared out into blank space; faces of people she knew were stone-cold.
"....Why in the world is this happening to me?! What have I done?!"
She threw herself onto the unmoving grass, which tore through her clothes and beautiful skin. She cried at the pain she had not expected. The whole left side of her body and her face was now smeared with at least some blood.
She quickly picked herself up and rubbed at her wounded cheek. She brushed it lightly with her right jacket-sleeve, knowing that the other sleeve would just leave her more bloodied.
"Why don't you think before you act? Please do!"
The man she had seen earlier was behind her, gently lifting up her right arm over his left shoulder.
"...What are you doing? Who are you? Huh....Aren't you...?"
She soon started seeing spots, felt his gentle embrace, then blacked out, consciousness slowly ebbing away from her being.
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Yeah ^-^" Like I said, it's long....
If you could read all of it, I would like you to tell me what you think.
Oh, I took the quiz on Sage's site!!!! (yes, I am a bad theif *sniff* )
Too much junk >.>
